Bahrain: Celebrating an Arabic blogging community · Global Voices
Ayesha Saldanha

Many bloggers in the Arab world use Arabic-language blog platforms such as Jeeran and Maktoob, and these sites have developed into large communities crossing national blogospheres. One popular Bahraini blogger, Shaima Al Watani, is celebrating her first year as part of the community of Jeeran bloggers.
Shaima, whose blog is called ‘Scattered clippings‘, tells the story of how she started:
However, some problems have occurred along the way:
But overall it has been a very positive experience: