11 April 2008

Stories from 11 April 2008

Dubai: Stunning Algeria

From Dubai, Moryarti visits Algeria, and promises to provide his readers with images of the beautiful country and its ‘stunning’ capital.

11 April 2008

Bahrain: Alcohol and Islam

Bahraini blogger Mahmood Al Yousif writes about a controversial new fatwa (religious edict), by a leading Islamic scholar, which decrees that Islam allows alcohol consumption in small quantities!

11 April 2008

Russia: The Future

Eternal Remont writes about Vladimir Putin's future: “Indeed, this new order will more closely approximate the former Soviet model of federal governance, whereby the presidency is relegated to a symbolic...

11 April 2008

Latvia: Referendum

Peteris Cedrins of Marginalia is one of the 213,000 people who “signed in favor of amendments to […] Latvia's Constitution, that would make it possible for the people to initiate...

11 April 2008

Cape Verde: Ave Mayra

Virgílio Brandão [pt] is one of the many bloggers celebrating today: Cape Verdean singer Mayra Andrade, at just 23, won the best newcomer in the BBC Radio 3 World Music...

11 April 2008

Iranian bloggers write letters to Christ

It may seem surreal, but several Muslim bloggers have written letters to Jesus Christ in their blogs complaining about Western insults against Muslims, and particularly Dutch MP Geert Wilders‘ anti-Islamic...

11 April 2008

Mozambique: Cell phone and society

Sociologist Elísio Macamo [pt] is working on an interesting series of posts about cell phone use in Mozambique. There have been five articles so far, starting with this introduction to...

11 April 2008

Jamaica: Teenaged Sex

Blogging at Yardflex.com, Rootzgirl says: “Teenage sex is rampant, as is the increasing number of teenaged pregnancies…something needs to be done…before there is no hope for this generation.”

11 April 2008