Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2008 November 28

28 November 2008

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Stories from 28 November 2008

Are Women making Egypt Poorer?

Written by Marwa Rakha · Middle East & North Africa

Women: Should they stay at home and raise kids or should they work and have a contribution? A controversial question that Fantasia's World tried to answer in her post: Are you making your country poorer?

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Caribbean: Watching Mumbai

Written by Nicholas Laughlin · South Asia, Caribbean

From the other side of the world, Caribbean bloggers monitor the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai, and react with anxiety and consternation.

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Mumbai and Terror: The Day After

Written by Neha Viswanathan · South Asia

An attack of this scale has surprised the entire country. While India is no stranger to bomb blasts and attacks by terrorists, a prolonged hostage situation at prominent landmarks is...

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Israel: Updates on the Chabad Home Hostage Operation in Mumbai

Written by Gilad Lotan · Middle East & North Africa

As the commando operation at the Chabad Jewish Center of Mumbai unfolded, very little was known about the state of the hostages. Chabad is one of the largest Hasidic movements in Orthodox Judaism. The most current update states that the five Jewish hostages held inside the building were found dead, writes Gilad Lotan.

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India: Who are they, and what is the Media saying?

Written by Neha Viswanathan · South Asia

Smoke Signals slams the mainstream media coverage of the event, as the television screens are filled with almost panic inducing sequences, and hurried question and answer sessions. At the time...

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India: Mistakes, Media and Mumbai

Written by Javits Rajendran · South Asia, North America

The terror attacks have brought more media attention to Mumbai. The world is now aware and cautious of the situations in India. Many countries have already issued travel advisory for...

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Thailand: Airport takeover and Twitter

Written by Mong Palatino · East Asia

Twitter has become an interesting and good source of information about what is happening in Thailand. Twitter users in Bangkok have been exchanging travel tips, news updates, and opinions about the current situation.

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Taiwanese version of Thanksgiving

Written by I-fan Lin · East Asia

Seeing Americans have Thanksgiving holidays, Arkun tries to search for similar festival in Taiwan and finds a similar counterpart, the peace ritual ceremony...

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Thailand: Protesters occupy airports

Written by Mong Palatino · East Asia

Thousands of anti-government protesters have occupied Bangkok’s two airports which paralyzed air travel in Thailand. The protesters want the elected government to be removed.

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Egypt: Locking Al Azhar students in the dark ages!

Written by Marwa Rakha · Middle East & North Africa

Al Azhar English Training Center is funded through a partnership agreement between Al Azhar University, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Global Opportunities Fund and the British Council. The Center was supposed to provide English Language courses in its first semester to 125 students from various disciplines until Ali Laban, a Muslim Brotherhood deputy, decided otherwise. One enraged instructor speaks up on Facebook.

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Updates from 28 November 2008

India

Gaelle Mann writes that Malagasy-born designer Loumia Hiridjee and her husband Mourad Amrasy were among the casualties of the attacks at the Oberoi Restaurant in Mumbai (fr). Loumia Hiridjee, 47, had a dual Indian/ French citizenship and created with her sister Shama the successful lingerie brand princesse tam-tam (fr). The couple is survived by their three children.

• Lova Rakotomalala

India

Pakistani blogger Adil Nazam declares “I, too, am a Mumbaikar today. I stand with you today. In prayer and in solidarity.”

• Rezwan

India

Veteran Indian journalist M. J. Akbar blames complacence and politics for the failure to prevent the terror attacks and writes: “I am an Indian Muslim and proud to be both. Like any Indian, today I am angry, frustrated and depressed. I am angry at the manic, rabid dogs of war who have invaded the commercial capital and fountainhead of business energy. I am frustrated by the impotence of my governments in Mumbai and Delhi, its ministers tone-deaf to the anguish of my fellow citizens. And I am depressed at the damage being done to the idea of my India.”

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Bahrain

Bahrain Taxi is disappointed at the sentence given to a man in the UAE for deliberately driving over a pedestrian in his Hummer: “The pathetic ten year sentence which probably won't be ten years sends the message that road rage is not a serious problem and that losing your temper and killing someone is not as serious as committing adultery.”

• Ayesha Saldanha

Cuba

Diaspora blogger Uncommon Sense highlights the plight of a Cuban youth activist who “was sentenced this week to 3 years in prison for ‘offenses against authority.'”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Puerto Rico (U.S.)

“Our struggle for self-determination, to be free from outside impositions, is ideological and it is not what's best for the majority of the people who live here”: Gil the Jenius answers some tough questions about Puerto Rico's status.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Venezuela

The Haitian Blogger believes that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is the driving force behind “a global change agenda that gives voice to the poor and dispossessed.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Dominica

Dominica's Speaker of the House thinks that non-consensual sex - even within marriage - should be deemed criminal and Chris at Dominica Weekly agrees: “A lot of men in Dominica believe that once a woman says ‘I Do' – that she has given up all her rights as a human being.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

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