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Featured stories about 2008-04

Rising Voices Seeks Micro-Grant Proposals for Health-Related New Media Outreach

David Sasaki · 15:11, April 30th, 2008 · Announcements

lingua → ru · pt · mk · bn · fr

Rising Voices, the outreach arm of Global Voices, in collaboration with the Open Society Institute Public Health Program’s Health Media Initiative, is now accepting project proposals for the third round of microgrant funding of up to $5,000 for new media outreach projects focused especially on public health issues involving marginalized populations. 5 comments · read »

Caribbean: Food Shortages

Janine Mendes-Franco · 01:26, April 30th, 2008 · Americas

lingua → es

"If music be the food of love, play on", wrote Shakespeare, who could not possibly have anticipated the global food crisis the world is facing today. Rising food prices are a hot topic with bloggers the world over - and the Caribbean is no different. The "music" coming ... 4 comments · read »

Stories

April 30th, 2008

Egypt: Facebooking the Struggle

Sami Ben Gharbia · 21:16 · Middle East & North Africa

After little less than a month following the April 6 strike, during which a number of prominent Egyptian bloggers and internet activists were arrested, preparations for the next round of a planned general strike to mark the 80th birthday of President Mubarak, on May 4, 2008, are currently spreading all over the blogosphere and the Internet. Blogger and activist Nora Younis shares some of her ideas with us about the role of Internet in Egypt as a platform for political activism. 3 comments · read »

Qatar: Online Community Comes to the Aid of Workers

Mohamed Nanabhay · 16:32 · Middle East & North Africa

lingua → ar

Qatar Living members are rallying to help an offline community of 600 workers who have lost all their belongings after a devastating fire broke out in their labour camp, writes Mohamed Nanabhay, from Doha, Qatar. 1 comment · read »

Cuba: Las Damas de Blanco

Janine Mendes-Franco · 15:01 · Americas

lingua → pt · es

It has been the most discussed topic in the Cuban blogosphere over the last week: the arrest of Las Damas de Blanco as they staged a peaceful demonstration for the release of their husbands, jailed by the Castro regime. 1 comment · read »

Kazakhstan: Bloggers Discuss Elites and Economics

Adil Nurmakov · 09:23 · Central Asia & Caucasus

lingua → es

Plitical intra-elite battles and anti-corruption crusades both remain hot topics on the agenda of Kazakhstani blogosphere, but speculations over the looming global food crisis and its implications for Central Asia made the bloggers cover this issue in their discussions. Ehot wonders, what will Kazakhstan be looking like if the food ... 0 comments · read »

Kyrgyzstan: An Anxious April

Elena Skochilo · 07:08 · Central Asia & Caucasus

lingua → mk · sq · es

A next to last week of April started from the unexpected fall of temperature. A lot of bloggers posted the photographs of the frozen greenery and the trees under snow. Yanagi presented the beautiful photos of the leaves under snow in her blog. red_ptero called [ru] this fall of temperature ... 0 comments · read »

Links for 2008-04

Middle East & North Africa

yawWAR, from Kuwait, (Ar) writes about No Pants Day, being celebrated on May 2. He hopes that day won't find it's way to Kuwait any time soon.

Eastern & Central Europe

Window on Eurasia writes about the 40th anniversary of the launch of the Soviet samizdat publication, the Chronicle of Current Events.

Middle East & North Africa

Why are adult sites popular in the Middle East, asks Bahraini Esra'a, who posts a video opinion from Lebanon.

Eastern & Central Europe

Vilhelm Konnander posts an extensive analysis of the issues surrounding the first anniversary of the Estonian Bronze Soldier crisis.

Eastern & Central Europe

Polandian reports on Prince Charles' visit to Poland.

Eastern & Central Europe

Hungarian Spectrum writes about the new Hungarian cabinet.

Middle East & North Africa

Jordanian Lulu shares one of the stupidest things she has ever uttered in this post. She recalls: ‘Me: “I saw a cool car today.”
Brother (15 at the time):”Really? What model?”
Me: “I am not sure. I think it's a Toyota Ferrari”‘

Middle East & North Africa

Describing a recent sandstorm, Mark from Kuwait writes: “The dust went from maroon to orange to yellow to white and then decided to leave altogether.. Apparently it rained, which in turn brought the dust down.”

Middle East & North Africa

“The Mufti (religious leader) of Mount Lebanon is a foul-mouthed demagogue who needs to be demoted as soon as possible,” writes Beirut Spring from Lebanon.