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Stories about West Asia & North Africa from August, 2005

Blog Day 2005

Blog Day 2005 is making waves throughout the global blogosphere. The one-day celebration, which encourages bloggers to introduce their readers to five new weblogs from other cultures or perspectives, has...

Written by David Sasaki
31 August 2005

Jordan: IbrahimOwais

Ibrahim Owais says that the Royal Film Commission (RFC) in Jordan continues its search for a script or an idea for a script to produce a Jordanian feature film of...

Written by Haitham Sabbah
31 August 2005

Labanon: APSA 2005

Abu Aardvark is on his way to to Washington for the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, where he will be presenting his “Anti-Americanisms in Arab Politics” paper.

Written by Haitham Sabbah
31 August 2005

Blogs of the World, Aggregate!

Boris Anthony, our good friend and Global Voices’ beloved graphic designer/toolsmith, recently offered this observation: “….In the last 6 months, I have not worked on a single ‘weblog': it's all...

Written by Ethan Zuckerman
31 August 2005

Lebanon: Lebanon in Pain

Mustapha says that you could almost smell the tension in Lebanon. Everyone is afraid, afraid from the unknown, from the harm yet to be caused.

Written by Haitham Sabbah
30 August 2005

Palestine: Memorable Moments

As the Israeli unilateral disengagement from Gaza draws to a close Laila from Gaza lists her top ten most memorable moments moments of the past two years.

Written by Haitham Sabbah
30 August 2005

Oman: Salalah Festival

WickeD of ‘Paradise in Me’ blog from Oman, writes a review on the annual Salalah Festival. She says that it needs more than the annually repeated concerts, poetry readings, painting...

Written by Haitham Sabbah
30 August 2005

Iran: Woman Rights

Secular Canuck-Iranic is wondering if Ayatollah Khamenei is beginning to show some moderation on women's position in Islam?

Written by Haitham Sabbah
30 August 2005

Egypt: Egypt bloggers and Mubarak

“In a country where most major newspapers are state-owned or affiliated to a party, the Internet is offering an unprecedented freedom and platform for an increasingly bold opposition to the...

Written by Haitham Sabbah
30 August 2005

Iraq: Death Toll for Journalists

In reference to the recent shooting of Waleed Khaled, a soundman for Reuters TV, by US military snipers in Iraq, Ethan writes on how dangerous the war has been not...

Written by Haitham Sabbah
29 August 2005

Iraq: Constitution Dilemma

Iraq Rising writes ‘A Dangerous Constitution’: It seems that other than the Kurdish and Hakim’s/Ja3fari alliance, everyone else in Iraq is opposed to this constitution. And the reasons are quite...

Written by Haitham Sabbah
29 August 2005

Homeless but Online in Paris

Farid Pouya at Iranian blog Webgardian points us to a story in French on Projet Internet du Rue (The Street Internet Project) about a homeless Internet user in Paris who's...

Written by Ethan Zuckerman
29 August 2005

Egypt: Only in Egypt

The Egyptian Person is following the Middle East Times, which occasionally has an article called “Only in Egypt“, which has a collection of weird and wondrous news items from Egypt....

Written by Haitham Sabbah
29 August 2005

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