About Deborah Ann Dilley
As well as being the author for the Turkish and Kurdish blogosphere coverage on Global Voices, I am also the Digest Editor and the author-elected representative on the Stichting Global Voices board.
Currently I am finishing my masters in Applied Linguistics at the University of Utah.
Latest posts by Deborah Ann Dilley
Stories
July 15th, 2009
Middle East & North Africa
“Did you know that for a couple of years now, there has been an invasion of infectious ticks in Turkey? They carry a disease that causes death after a couple of days of being bitten who’s origins have been traced back to Africa” writes Ignore Me If You Can as she shares the details of her own encounter with a tick.
July 14th, 2009
Middle East & North Africa
Turkey and My Foreign Perspectives reports that yet another lawsuit has been filed in Turkey that might result in the banning of another web service: Google sites. She adds “Do these silly courts not understand how they impair their people from becoming more educated and doing better business by blocking the very resources needed to build a better society?”
Middle East & North Africa
“In Ankawa, the Christian quarter of Arbil, there are so many alcohol shops with fake beer brands made in Turkey. There are also real beer trademarks, but that's also from Turkey (Efes). In the ‘Muslim' part of Erbil (Hawler) you can also get alcohol, but it's mostly 'sealed' off with a small wall so that other people cannot see you drinking” writes Transnational Middle-East Observer in this photo post on alcohol in Iraqi Kurdistan.
June 2nd, 2009
Kurdistance: Launching the Arab Association for Kurdish Rights
February 2nd, 2009
Turkey: Prime Minister Storms out of Davos Hearing
December 29th, 2008
Palestine: French Blogger Weighs In On Gaza
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