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Stories about West Asia & North Africa from January, 2006

Iran: BBC & Abtahi

Abtahi (Persian), cleric blogger and former vice president, says filtering BBC is a weird action, because people get information from BBC radio broadcasting. He adds filtering political sites is similar...

Written by Fred Petrossian
25 January 2006

Yemen: Al Mukalla

A new blogger from Yemen, in fact one of the very few. Omar Barsawad started Moments in Words from Hadhramout blog (more about Hadhramout here). If you haven't seen/heard anything...

Written by Haitham Sabbah
24 January 2006

Iran: Hoder in Israel

The Iranian blogger, and GVO member, Hoder, is going to Israel in a peaceful mission which he describes as breaking a major taboo. Luckily, another GVO member, Lisa, will be...

Written by Haitham Sabbah
24 January 2006

Iran: National Confidence Party

Teste democracy (Democracy Test in English!) says other political parties can learn a lot from new National Confidence Party. Blogger adds ” this new party has a site, a news...

Written by Fred Petrossian
23 January 2006

Iraq: Backroom Dealing

Nibras Kazimi of Talisman Gate has heard rumours that a secret deal has been struck between Ayad Allawi and Nadim Al-Jabiri of the Fadhila Party under American auspices. This could...

Written by Salam Adil
23 January 2006

Iraq: Bush should apology

Raed Jarrar jotted a sample email and asked his reader to send it to White House, which should be quick to apologize for its mistakes, such as bombing of civilians...

Written by Haitham Sabbah
23 January 2006

Kuwait: Roll Back

In my humble opinion.. the far more worrying aspect about the current Al-Sabah family feud is not who will finally be named Emir of Kuwait, but that the reforms that...

Written by Haitham Sabbah
23 January 2006

Iran: Last Gamble!

Hasan Agha, says by inviting Moqtada Sadr to Iran, Iranian rulers clearly show their role in making troubles in Iraq to whole world(Persian). According to blogger, it seems Iranian rulers...

Written by Fred Petrossian
23 January 2006

Turkey is Typing….

Two weeks and no “talking Turkey”, I apologise dear readers. Let's just jump in shall we? The best thing to come out of the Turkish blogs in the last two...

Written by Deborah Ann Dilley
22 January 2006

Palestine: Countdown to crunch time

Laila el-Haddad (Blogger of Raising Yousuf) writes her third post in a series of five parts to Guardian Unlimited about elections in Gaza, Palestine. She updates on the situation saying:...

Written by Shaden Abdulrahman
21 January 2006

Iran: BBC Filtered!

According to Hoder, BBC Persian which is very popular in Iran and Entekhab a conservative site, have been filtered. It seems Iranian government is filtering more & more.

Written by Fred Petrossian
21 January 2006

Egypt: Visit Nefertari

A special fund raising tour for Theban Mapping Project will cost you $5,000 not including flights plus a donation of $500, Tour Egypt said. The tour promise to take you...

Written by Haitham Sabbah
20 January 2006
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