Global Voices · Citizen media stories about Middle East & North Africa from January 2010

Middle East & North Africa · January, 2010
RSS

Monthly archive

Stories about Middle East & North Africa from January, 2010

31 January 2010

Iran: Two Bloggers in Danger of Death

Two Iranian bloggers, who are also human rights defendants, are behind bars under serious charges. Mehrdad Rahimi and Kouhyar Goudarzi have been accused of wanting to wage “a war against...

30 January 2010

29 January 2010

Iran: Green Tune to Support Protest Movement

Written by Fred Petrossian · Iran

A ring tone for a song which motivated young Iranians to go to the front and fight during the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s is making the rounds again in...

Syria: A Short Story

Written by Anas Qtiesh · Quick Reads · Syria

28 January 2010

China: Threatened by American Internet censorship

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

Reactions from Chinese programmers to SourceForge.net's decision to follow American law and block users from several countries include suggestions for how to work around American censorship of the global Internet.

Morocco: A Charter for the Environment

Written by Hisham Almiraat · Morocco

The Moroccan government launched an ambitious project on environment involving a series of regional meetings, workshops and conferences that sparked a national debate that aims at establishing a Charter for...

MENA: Breaking the veils

Written by Katharine Ganly · Quick Reads · East Asia

Egypt: The Right to Speak Up

Written by Marwa Rakha · Egypt

Egyptian bloggers and activists held a conference on January 22 in defense of their right to speak up after more than 20 Egyptian bloggers were arrested when their train arrived...

Korea: Translating The Tweets Of Novelist Lee Oisoo

Written by Ayesha Saldanha · East Asia

Lee Oisoo is a Korean novelist and artist who has been described as "an eccentric, a genius and a lunatic". When he set up a Twitter account last year he...

27 January 2010

Palestine: The Commodification Of Gaza

Written by Ayesha Saldanha · Egypt

Exiled is a blogger who recently left Gaza - and he is in no hurry to return. In this translation of a recent post of his, we hear his opinions...

26 January 2010

Jordan: Tweeps Celebrate their Country

Written by Ebtihal Mahadeen · Jordan

In an initiative that was adopted by tweeps from other Arab countries, Jordanian users of micro-blogging site Twitter created and maintained a hashtag that celebrates the top 50 things they...

Ethiopia: Bloggers defend Ethiopian Airlines after crash

Written by Andrew Heavens · Sub-Saharan Africa

Ethiopia-based bloggers rushed to defend the safety record of the country's national airline on Monday after one of its planes crashed near Beirut, with all 90 people on board feared...

Syria: Netizens Discuss SourceForge Ban

Written by Jillian C. York · Syria

A day after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for a free and open Internet, Syrian users noticed they could no longer access open-source software community SourceForge. Bloggers react...

25 January 2010

Lebanon: 90 Presumed Dead After Ethiopian Airlines Jet Plunges into Sea

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Ethiopia

Condolences poured in on Twitter after an Ethiopian Airlines jet plunged into the Mediterranean minutes after its take off from Beirut, Lebanon. All 90 people on board are presumed dead...

Iran: Iranians commemorate Neda's birthday

Written by Fred Petrossian · Iran

Iranians inside and outside the country remembered Neda Soltan's birthday. Neda was shot dead by Basij militia on June 20, 2009, during a protest against the presidential election results that...