Global Voices · Citizen media stories about Middle East & North Africa from August 2006

31 August 2006

30 August 2006

Kurdistance…

The most horrible of things has just happened to me….my RSS feed for the Kurdish blogs, well for lack of a better term..hiccupped…and all of my feeds are gone. So...

Iranian Women's campaign demands changes to discriminatory laws

Written by Fred Petrossian · Iran

Iranian women continue their struggle for equal rights beyond all governmental obstacles. A few days ago, a group of tireless Iranian women activists launched another campaign against discrimination entitled “One...

29 August 2006

Russian-Language Blogs: Miscellanea (3)

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

Israeli blogger pilka writes (RUS) about a surreal experience of eating next to three clowns at a hospital in the wartime Haifa: […] I had breakfast with clowns today. I...

27 August 2006

Iran: Iranian second- rate citizens & Lebanon

Written by Fred Petrossian · Quick Reads · Iran

Iraq: Wearing t-shirt with Arabic script, in America, means you are a suspected terrorist

Written by Haitham Sabbah · Quick Reads · North America

26 August 2006

Iran: Nuclear Crisis, Broken Satellite Dishes & Jailed Students

Written by Fred Petrossian · Iran

According to the media, Iran has delivered its formal response to the demand by world powers that it suspend uranium enrichment in exchange for a package of incentives. World media...