Global Voices Online

Sasa from the The Syria News Wire reports that the .blogspot domain has been unblocked in Syria, after many months of blocking all blogs on Blogger.com from being accessible from Syrian ISPs. It comes as good news to the blogsphere that has suffered immensely from the ban.

Collectif-Haiti-de-Provence writes about Haitian president Rene Preval's decision to compensate workers (Fr) who were illegally laid off from the state-owned telecom, Teleco Haiti. The government plans on privatizing Teleco, a move that will undoubtedly bring violent demonstrations from those who stand to lose out, Collectif writes, but that those who will benefit should also demonstrate.

Freekeyboard says[Fa] Blogger got filtered,The blogger adds it is very shameful that when people who are involved with filtering say we are just doing our job!

Mohmmad Ali Abtahi,blogger and former vice president criticised both Queen Elizabeth and Islamists for attributing titles to Salman Rushdie and Osama Bin Laden. The Queen made Salman Rushdie a Knight and some Islamists call Bin Laden, Seifallah, God's Sword.

For A Democracy on the notion of Gross Domestic Happiness, and if the ones who are really happy are the Wanghchuks.

Sampath's Mindspace has had it with pavements being used by everyone by pedestrians.

All Things Pakistan with a tragic story from 1922 as a train carried prisoners to Attock Fort.

Khadija Teri from Libya tells us about her day of confrontations - and how she stood up for her rights.

Libyan blogger Highlander announces her come back after being AWOL for a while. She also gives us a few sneak previews of what was happening on her blogosphere.

Lebanese Laila Abu Saba shares her research on St George in this post.

Lebanese Failasoof announces that civil marriages are the way forward in Lebanon.

Kuwaiti women are showing off their best shoes in these links - here, here and here.

Jordanian Naseem Tarawnah battles his Friday blues in this post.

Palestinian Haitham Sabbah posts videos produced and published by B’tselem (The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories) showing the misery Palestinians undergo.

Eman, from Tunisia, lashes out at the telecom services in her country after her land line has been dead for two months.