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27 September 2009

Daily archive · 4 posts

Stories from 27 September 2009

Israel: “Ajami” Reveals Nuanced Look at Israeli Society

Written by Maya Norton · Middle East & North Africa

The film "Ajami" was the big winner at last night's Ophir Prizes and will continue on to international audiences as Israel's foreign film nominee for the 2010 Academy Awards. Israeli bloggers comment on the film, which touches on coexistence between people of different religions.

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Philippines: Worst Flooding in 40 Years

Written by Mong Palatino · East Asia

Tropical Storm "Ondoy" hit the Philippines last Saturday triggering the worst flooding in 40 years which left 50 people dead and 280,000 residents displaced. Social media sites were maximized to share updates about the storm and to assist flood victims

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Israel: Leonard Cohen Performs to Rave Reviews

Written by Maya Norton · Middle East & North Africa, North America

Songmaster Leonard Cohen visited Israel this week, performing to a sold out crowd of 47,000 fans. Israeli bloggers who were lucky enough to attend gave rave reviews.

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Japan: Training for disaster prevention

Written by Scilla Alecci · East Asia

The first week of September in Japan is the Disaster Prevention Week [ja]. During this week schools, organizations, offices and so on come together to organize disaster prevention training.

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Updates from 27 September 2009

Hungary

Marietta Le of Remainder of Budapest posts photos and video from a rally in support of Budapest's nightlife and from a graffiti and extreme sports competition held inside a metro station whose construction had been halted due to financial difficulties.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Hungary

GV Author Marietta Le of Remainder of Budapest and Eva S. Balogh of Hungarian Spectrum write about Nap-kelte, a morning political TV talk show that was taken off air last week, some 20 years after its launch in 1989.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Hungary

Hungarian Spectrum writes about healthcare in Hungary.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Saudi Arabia

Wael Alwani said on his blog [ar] that Syrian Students at King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST) are forbidden from using Shaheen, a US made supercomputer, due to technology export sanctions imposed by the US against Syria.

• Anas Qtiesh

Japan

Blogger APEESCAPE translated a 2ch post that measured the buzz of celebrity stories by counting the number of threads on 2ch from 2004 to 2009.

• Tomomi Sasaki

Japan

Inspired by this American video explaining ‘Why We Need Government-Run Universal Socialized Health Insurance‘, Media Sabor suggests using some of the budget from the canceled National Center for Media Arts to have animators create understandable animations to explain new policies to the public [ja].

• Tomomi Sasaki

Egypt

Moroccan blogger Mounir writes on Des maux à dire [Fr] about artificial hymens, made in China, apparently much appreciated by a growing base of Arab customers. “In the Arab region, Syrians have seen this revolutionary ‘product' invade the black market. In Egypt, investors are seriously considering its introduction,” alleges the blogger.

• Hisham Almiraat