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Literature · December, 2007
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Stories about Literature from December, 2007

31 December 2007

New Bloggers Use Poetry to Describe Their Communities, Feelings, Friends

The new bloggers of Rising Voices outreach projects in Colombia, Bolivia, and Bangladesh are more than just up-and-coming citizen journalists. They have also discovered the power of prose to reveal...

Egypt: Arabic Books

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Quick Reads · Middle East & North Africa

30 December 2007

Ethiopia: Queen of Sheba, Now Available in French

Written by Jennifer Brea · Caribbean

Francophone music blog Roots and Culture interviews Samuel Malher, a religious scholar from Strasbourg who has written the first unabridged French translation of the Kebra Negast, a sacred Ethiopian text....

Ethiopia: French Translation of the Kebra Nagast

Written by Jennifer Brea · Quick Reads · Sub-Saharan Africa

27 December 2007

West Africa: The four Cameroonian historical myths

Written by Oluniyi D. Ajao · Middle East & North Africa

Today, we are taking a tour of the West African blogosphere. Bloggers from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and Nigeria are discussing children's books, historical myths, the military and politics.

26 December 2007

Romania: Dracula

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Quick Reads · Eastern & Central Europe

25 December 2007

The Baltics: “Borderlands (V)”

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Quick Reads · Eastern & Central Europe

24 December 2007

Uzbekistan: New Book of the Former BBC Reporter

Written by Adil Nurmakov · Quick Reads · Central Asia & Caucasus

23 December 2007

Russia: Dostoyevsky's Mock Execution Anniversary

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Quick Reads · Eastern & Central Europe

20 December 2007

Armenia: Robinson Crusoe in Kurdish

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Quick Reads · Central Asia & Caucasus

Russia: Lyudmila Ulitskaya

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Quick Reads · Eastern & Central Europe

19 December 2007

Russia: “Don Putin”

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Quick Reads · Eastern & Central Europe

15 December 2007

Bahrain: A tenfold increase in population?!

Written by Ayesha Saldanha · Middle East & North Africa

This time the roundup from Bahrain covers three weeks. We have frustration on every front, unfortunately: frustration with being surrounded by apathy and ignorance, with being a teenager, and with...