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Stories about West Asia & North Africa from July, 2007
Egypt: Water Problems
Egyptian Baheyya writes about water shortages and the problems they cause in Giza, Egypt.
Bahrain: Congratulations Iraq
Bahraini Mahmood Al Yousif congratulates Iraq on winning the Asian Cup Championship (football).
Kuwait: Pictures, Sights and Events
Kuwaiti bloggers are leaping into action, discovering their surroundings, attending events and covering them, keeping tabs on the latest developments on the arrest of the Monster of Hawali and looking for racial slurs on the shelves of supermarkets. Read this post by Abdullatif Al Omar to see what else is happening.
Palestine: The Plight of Women
Instead of the usual political banter, this week's view into the Palestinian blogosphere will focus on women - join Jillian York for a glimpse into what female bloggers (or those blogging about females) are thinking.
Morocco: The Intellectual Capabilities of Sheep
With temperatures reaching 45 degrees and hardly any big news, what on earth are Moroccan bloggers talking about? Well, for one - sheep!
Bahrain: The Return of the British ‘Butcher of Bahrain’
Politics and human rights are, as ever, the chief topics of discussion on Bahrain’s blogs this week, but we also hear about things that aid and interrupt sleep, creatures that won’t buzz off, and stories of both loneliness and new friendship.
Touring Libyan Blogs: Health Sector, Old Ladies, Confrontating a Racist Bully, Globetrotting and Another Libyan Writer
The case of the Bulgarian nurses (and the Palestinian doctor) is already fading into history - while speculation rages if they have been bought off, whether they were guilty or not, if they were hostage to a political settlement in the New World Order or who is it exactly that defused the situation? One thing is sure on this side of the world is that their innocence or the lack of it has not been proven 100 per cent. However, in the interest of self preservation Libyans are moving on, writes Fozia Mohamed.
Iraq: Goooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaal !!!!!
... or Kicking off at the Iraqi Blogodrome. It's a football special today. With Iraq through to the finals of the Asian Cup bloggers are alight with comment on the national team. And there's more, read about how one Iraqi blogger has had enough of blogging; how to survive a trip through Baghdad International Airport; what it is like to have the Iraqi army move in next door; Why Iraqi oil is so critical to the world and much,much more. And, if you read to the end, why one blogger got banned from YouTube. Today's side quotes are from Iraqi poet and blogger April Girl.
Israel: No Fun for Palestinian Children
Israeli Desert Peace mocks summer jobs available to Palestinian youngsters from Jenin.
Palestine: Hillary Apology?
Palestinian Haitham Sabbah suggests that Hillary Clinton apologises to the UN for the death of a peace-keeper in Lebanon, after approving the sale of cluster bombs to Israel.
Kuwait: Day 25
Kuwaiti Zeena continues to update us on her weight loss regime here.
Kuwait: One Year
It's been a year since someone broke Desert Girl‘s heart, who expresses her feelings in this intense post.
Kuwait: Shadowman Puzzle
“I understand why cleavage or nudity is usually covered with a black marker, but covering this man completely from head to toe I don’t understand…” writes Lebanese Mark, who lives...
Libya: No Help for Iraqi Children
Highlander from Libya is enraged that while there is a helpline for Harry Potter fans, Iraqi children are left alone to deal with the atrocities and horrors of war.
Jordan: New Developments at Airport
Naseem Al Tarawnah from Jordan writes about new ‘developments’ at Jordan's Queen Alia's Airport.
Jordan: Picture Stories
Ohoud from Jordan explains to us why a picture tells a thousand tales here.
Egypt: Present for Tunisians
Egyptian Zeinobia has a present for her Tunisian readers here.
Israel: New Textbook
Issandr El Amrani, who is based in Egypt, suggests that Israel is an apartheid state because its Arab citizens have separate schools and textbooks.
Bahrain: Call for Justice
Bahraini Mahmood Al Yousif writes about the launch of a new campaign to bring former secret service head Ian Henderson to justice.
Bahrain: Housing Crisis
Bahraini emoodz writes about his country's mounting housing crisis here.
Jordan: Call for Help for Iraqi Refuguees
Jordan and Syria are calling for international help to deal with the escalating crisis with the influx of Iraqi refugees, writes Natasha Tynes from Jordan.
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