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Stories about West Asia & North Africa from May, 2006
Iraq: News From Ramadi
Brian posts first hand accounts of the ongoing war in the Iraqi city of Ramadi.
Iran: Terrorist Attack!
Sibestan writes about gunmen who have shot dead 12 people on a road in a remote part of south-eastern Iran. Blogger says these groups started to use same methods in...
France & Francophonia Commemorate Slavery Amidst Curriculum Controversy
Image courtesy of oliviermr2 A Day of Remembrance France commemorated slavery for the first time on May 10, reports Haiti's Alterpresse: Le président francais qualifie d’infamie, la traite négrière et...
Iran: Feminist or Crazy?
Kalashnikov Digital has taken & published in his blog incredible photos of a woman without hijab or Islamic veil in Tehran. According to law it is forbidden to walk with...
Flying Over the Iraqi Blogodrome…
…almost literally. I am completing this post in an airplane somewhere over Turkey and Iran. If I look out of my window I can point to an area of the...
Palestine: IDF Shoot Peace Activists in The Head
The International Solidarity Movement in Palestine reports that Israeli soldiers shot two International Peace Activists in the head at Bil'in. The two activists were shot with rubber bullets along with...
Iraq: Shot for being Gay!
14-year-old Ahmed Khalil has been shot, according to witnesses, by Iraqi police officers for being gay. According to his neighbours in the al-Dura area of Baghdad, Khalil was shot at...
Morocco: Eyewitness of a Tragedy at the University of Rabat
Aissam was an eyewitness of a terrible tragedy of police brutality at the university campus of Rabat. The incident has left many students injured and parts of the dormitory destroyed....
Egypt: Alaa blogging from his Prison
Alaa wrote the post by hand, and his friends got it out and posted it for him, so yeah. He seems in high spirits, and they seem to have left...
Israel: Bogus Math
A significant part of the national-religious community is feeling alienated from the IDF and Israeli society in general. And there is no question that the national-religious sector is important to...
Egypt: Blogging Behind Bars
On May 10, Alaa Ahmed Seif al-Islam, the award-winning blogger detained three days earlier for participating in peaceful protests in Cairo, became one of the first people to blog from...
DRC: Free Alaa
Le Blog du Congolais joins in (Fr) the campaign to free Egyptian blogger Alaa.
Iran: Surprising Silence!
Bavar writes the most surprising thing concerning Ramin Jahanbegloo , jailed scholar & journalist, is the silence of Iranian intellectuals and organizations in country. He adds Iranian reformists do not...
Iran: Football & Politics
Faryadnameh says a few deputies in European Parliament have proposed not to let Iran participate in World Cup in Germany. According the blogger nuclear crisis is one of their reasons...
Iran: Command Economy!
Ali Mazroi, reformist politician & blogger, says Iranian economy is a command economy where government controls 80% of it. Blogger adds according to statistics 20 percent of Iranian households receives...
Iran: One Government, One Media
According to IraneFarda, Iranian government tries to put all three major news agencies, (ISNA, ILNA & IRNA), on the same political path to back government. Blogger says many journalists have...
The week that was, in the Moroccan blogosphere
Once again, an Egyptian blogger is detained. I'll start today by urging the Egyptian Government to release Alaa and the other activists detained for having expressed their political opinion. I...
Iran: Books & Iranians
Abtahi, cleric blogger, says in International Tehran Book Fair, he talked with several editors and writers. Blogger writes, it seems previous years psychological books were the best sellers. This year,...
Bloggers Bomb for Blogger
Not the life-threatening variety of course. I'm talking about a campaign to bring attention to the situation of detained Egyptian blogger Alaa Ahmed Seif al-Islam, as well as the more...
Jahanbegloo, a Scholar in Jail & Islamic Dress
Several bloggers talked about why and how Dr.Ramin Jahanbegloo, a Canadian- Iranian scholar & journalist, was arrested. Some bloggers have started different activities to help him out or at least,...
Iran: No journal for Reformists!
Boye Khak says Mosharekat, country's major reformist party, did not get permission to publish its new journal, Iranian (Persian).
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