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18 December 2008

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Stories from 18 December 2008

Media Re:public report released

Media Re:public, a project of the The Berkman Center for Internet and Society, today released their long-awaited report on the state of networked digital media. The report, “Media Re:public, News...

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Iran: A Long and Painful Story of Jailed Bloggers

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

Iranian blogger and journalist, Omid Reza Mirsyafi, was sentenced to two and a half years of prison this week. He stands accused of insulting religious leaders, and engaging in propaganda against the Islamic Republic. Over the past 5 years, several bloggers in Iran have faced jail and persecution because of their blogs. Some were detained for a few days while others were condemned to several years.

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Cameroon: Concern for freedom

Written by Norbert Bousigue · Sub-Saharan Africa

Though Cameroon is not the focus of world attention, some recent blog posts question the reality of freedom in this African country. On his blog [fr], Édouard Tamba worries about...

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Eman Hashim blogs against Berlitz Egypt

Written by Marwa Rakha · Middle East & North Africa

Has corruption tarnished Berlitz Egypt's reputation? Egyptian blogger Eman Hashim wrote on facebook and on her blog wondering how come her students received their grades and certificates when she never...

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Jordanian Bloggers React To Bush's Shoegate

Written by Naseem Tarawnah · Middle East & North Africa

While a week has yet to pass since US President Bush faced a shoe flying in his direction from an Iraqi journalist during a press conference, the Jordanian blogosphere is already aflutter with varying reactions. Here’s a look at how Jordanian bloggers have been reacting thus far.

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Kazakhstan: National Search Engine Debated by the Bloggers

Written by Yelena Jetpyspayeva · Central Asia & Caucasus

On December 11, 2008, Kazakhstani blogger Nurlan wrote in his blog, dedicated to IT development issues, about a possibility that so-called KazNet (a Kazakhstani segment of the world wide web)...

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Updates from 18 December 2008

Sri Lanka

Chitrangi reports that in some areas of Sri Lanka the state school final (G.C.E/O Level) examinations ran into trouble because of errors in question papers and insufficient question papers.

• Rezwan

Bhutan

Tse at Kuzu Bhutan Weblog writes about the battered wives in the Bhutanese societies.

• Rezwan

India

Über Desi comments on the news that a conglomeration of India’s leading news agencies agreed on a guideline to prevent media debacles in the future. The Indian TV media were much criticized for their role during the 60 hour Mumbai siege by terrorists.

• Rezwan

Cameroon

Dibussi Tande of Scribbles from the den writes about Father Jean Marc Ela who died in Canada on the 14th of December. He was variously been described as “the nearest Africa has come to a liberation theologian in a Latin American sense “, the “Champion of a theology under the trees “, “Africa's first liberation theologian of note outside South Africa”, and as “one of the best known and most read African theologians not only in Africa but also elsewhere”.

• Elia Varela Serra

Egypt

Abu Hadeed is Egypt's first original computer game. Zeinobia writes about the copyrights issues and the concept saying:”It is the first game to be based upon an Egyptian cinematic character. Originally it was based on Boha, the hero of comedian Mohamed Saad’s film “Boha”. It is an odd choice to me because Boha was more like an idiot butcher in the end.”

• Marwa Rakha

Egypt

Turns out that there is a list for the world's worst dictators and this year President Mubarak is not in the top ten. Zeinobia wrote: “For 2 successive years president Mubarak of Egypt was among the infamous top dictators of the world according to Parade Magazine. But this year 2008, he is no longer in the top ten. In fact he is no.17 from the worst dictators in the world. To be honest there are much worse dictators in the world than him”.

• Marwa Rakha