Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2008 May 12

12 May 2008

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Stories from 12 May 2008

Moroccan Student in Lebanon Chronicles Life in the Middle of Political Crisis

Written by Lydia Beyoud · Middle East & North Africa

Manal, a Moroccan student at the American University of Beirut, blogs firsthand accounts of life in the middle of Lebanon's political crisis.

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Kuwait: Elections Getting Closer

Written by Abdullatif AlOmar · Middle East & North Africa

Kuwait is gearing up for another round of Parliamentary elections on Saturday (May 17), allowing women to cast votes and nominate themselves for the second time in the country's history. Abdullatif AlOmar brings us the latest reactions from Kuwaiti blogs in this post, including a call for women to use their votes wisely to safeguard the future of their children.

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Sri Lanka: Government Wins Eastern Polls

Written by Nishadha Silva · South Asia

The much hyped Eastern Provincial council elections were held last Saturday ( 10, May ) with the government winning 20 of the of the allocated 37 seats.United National Party won...

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Global Voices partners with NewsTrust

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

Today marks the first day of a week-long 'news hunt' between Global Voices and NewsTrust, in search of good journalism on the Middle East. The timing of this partnership is particularly important as this week marks the 60th anniversary of Israel's founding, or what many Arabs refer to as 'Al-Nakba, or 'the catastrophe.' Iraq and Lebanon are also facing new escalations in their security situations as the region continues to make headlines around the world. Join us in rating our coverage on NewsTrust.

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China: Quake damage rising; witness in affected cities

Written by Bob Chen · East Asia

Death tolls: 22069 (official statistic,23pm,05.16). The number is estimated to rise up to 50000 in following days. The update in this post will be stopped. So hard to see the...

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China: 7.8 scale earthquake felt across most of China

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

At 2:28 pm Monday Beijing time, an earthquake registering 7.8 on the Richter scale struck in southwestern China's Sichuan province, centered in Wenchuan county, and with tremors felt as far away as Beijing and Hong Kong. China's Seismological Bureau has warned that aftershocks ranging in scale from 2 to 6 will take place later in the evening.

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Uzbekistan: Unwanted Changes

Written by Tolkun · Central Asia & Caucasus

After the disintegration of the USSR, the Soviet communist identity and ideology ceased to exist and the new countries confronted the vital problems of defining new identities and ideologies. Most...

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PangeaDay: an event lived worldwide

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Middle East & North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

Pangea Day took place Saturday, and people from different parts of the world got together to watch movies and be a part of the worldwide event where movies, speakers and music showed us a bit of life on the other side of the globe, uniting people from all walks of life to believe that we aren't as different as we would believe. It also included a mobile video contest, with an international lineup of winners.

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Saudi Arabia: Why Are There No Cinemas?

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

"Why are there no cinemas in Saudi Arabia?" asks Saudi blogger Hayfa [Ar], who offers us her ideas of a workable plan to make cineplexes and movie screenings compliant with her country's traditional and religious outlook.

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Updates from 12 May 2008

Estonia

Itching for Eestimaa writes about the Estonian garbage clean-up campaign.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Estonia

Itching for Eestimaa finds it “somewhat amusing that major news outlets, like The New York Times, [send] their Moscow correspondents to cover the situation in Tallinn“: “Wouldn't it make sense to send someone from Stockholm, considering most of Estonia's financial sector is seamlessly integrated with Scandinavia?”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Estonia

AnTyx reviews two films that explain “the nature of Estonia's independence.”

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Russia

Wu Wei writes about “musical life in the Soviet Union.”

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Russia

Robert Mackey writes on the New York Times' The Lede about “the ‘Voice of Russia Today'” - as well as the voice of president Dmitry Medvedev during the inauguration broadcast: “[…] George Watts, a Canadian-born announcer who emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1952 with his parents. Before the fall of communism, Mr. Watts worked for Radio Moscow’s Foreign Broadcasting Service and did some simultaneous-translation work, according to his official Russia Today biography, including serving as the English-language voice of Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev at official party congresses.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Serbia

Belgrade 2.0 writes on the Serbian main character of a video game: “killer, thug, wifebeater, childhater, beerdrinker weapons and trafficking expert and drugdealer.”

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Serbia

A comment to A Fistful of Euros‘ Serbian election post: “Nobody expected this result but I think the message here from a Serbian viewpoint is that the electorate didn’t buy the view that further EU integration means recognition of Kosovo by default.” BBC's Mark Mardell is following the election at Euroblog - here, here and here. Eric Gordy is following the election at East Ethnia - here, here, here and here. Gray Falcon writes that “the only way the Democrats will have won this election is if they can somehow defeat the math that says they do not have a majority to form a government.” Greater Surbiton blogs on the Serbian Radical Party - and on the preliminary election results: “[…] This election represents a watershed; despite the recognition of Kosova, the danger of a Serbian backslide into popular extreme nationalism has been averted. […]”

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