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May 2nd, 2008

Global: The price of food, the cost of despair

John Liebhardt · 22:09

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The crisis of skyrocketing food prices is affecting all economic groups in every corner of the world. Every day, it seems, high-priced food sends another country lurching through some crisis: demonstrations, riots, rumors of hoarding, falling governments, even deaths. Global Voices is well positioned to follow the nuances of this complex ... 14 comments · »»

April 18th, 2008

AIDS - A Taboo in the Arab World

Amira Al Hussaini · 15:56

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AIDS, the deadly acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is a taboo word in the Arab world. But the scary word has managed to crop up in many blog posts this week - from Jordan, Iraq, Palestine, Bahrain and Yemen. 4 comments · »»

April 16th, 2008

Maghreb netizens respond to 8 year-old Yemeni girl's petition for divorce

Lydia Beyoud · 19:44

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Tunisian blogger Stupeur!! Un nouveu depart!! (Stupor!! A New Beginning!!) responds to a Yemen Times article about an 8 year-old girl who is trying to file for divorce from a 30 year-old man she says her father forced her to marry. 3 comments · »»

April 5th, 2008

Free Speech Roundup: Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Yemen

Sami Ben Gharbia · 16:15

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The Indonesian government has ordered the country’s internet service providers to block YouTube over “Fitna” the movie. In Saudi Arabia, the blog of the detained Saudi blogger Fouad Alfarhan was blocked, along with the Free Fouad website, which is dedicated to Alfarhan's case. In Turkey, a Turkish court banned access to Slide, the maker of social networking widgets, for “harboring pictures and articles that are considered to be insulting to Ataturk.”. And Yemen blocks Maktoob blogging platform cutting off Yemeni Internet users from the more than 46,960 blogs the service hosts. 9 comments · »»

March 28th, 2008

Middle East and North Africa: Client Number Nine

Amira Al Hussaini · 21:01

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Eliot Spitzer's fall from grace grabbed the headlines as soon as newsmen caught wind of the scandal. Bloggers followed closely on their heel, including those from the Middle East and North Africa, whose attention was turned to the humiliation his wife must have suffered from and indignation of having her to stand by him as he announced his resignation. 2 comments · »»

March 11th, 2008

Arabeyes: Rising Cost of Living

Amira Al Hussaini · 21:14

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Prices of commodities ranging from grocery to building material and rent are going up, up, up and being the true mirrors of their societies, bloggers from Yemen, Egypt, Kuwait and Qatar are speaking up. 6 comments · »»

February 26th, 2008

Yemen: Gaza, My Grandmother and Candles

Amira Al Hussaini · 16:41

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Yemeni blogger Maysaa Shuja has written a profoundly thoughtful post about candles, electricity, and the possible introduction of nuclear energy to her native country - a country which cannot supply a steady stream of electricity. And while the outpour of sympathy for Gaza and its electricity problems continue, Maysaa Shuja talks about how her enterprising grandmother, may Allah rest her soul in peace, taught them the value of candles at their greatest hours of need. 4 comments · »»

February 13th, 2008

Egypt: On Winning the African cup of Nation, Ghana 2008

Lasto Adri · 02:17

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Ask any Egyptian, he’d tell you that last Sunday night, February the 10th, wasn’t like any night.. a night like “thousand nights”.. Egypt won the African Cup of Nations in Ghana 2008 after a fierce match with Cameron 1-0. A marvelous score in a beautiful ditto between Abu Tarika and Zeidan. Egypt won.. Celebrations was almost every where on each and every street in Egypt, as well as in many other Arab countries. 7 comments · »»

Links about Yemen

July 19th, 2008

“The Socotra Archipelago finally got UNESCO's recognition and seal of approval and is now on its World Heritage List; it becomes Yemen's fourth site on the List,” writes Omar Barsawad, from Yemen.

June 2nd, 2008

“No dinosaur tracks had ever been found in the Arabian Peninsula before; but just about 30 kilometers from Sana'a, the capital of Yemen, fossils now reveal that a herd of 11 gigantic dinosaurs — sauropods - about 150 million years ago, left deep tracks into the earth,” reports Omar Barsawad from Yemen.

Omar Barsawad writes about Yemen's HIV Aids challenge in this post.

April 24th, 2008

“What can/could be the greatest achievement in life? With time and age, I can not think of any other achievement that is as great and as fulfilling as that achieved in marriage,” admits Omar Barsawad in this post.

April 9th, 2008

Omar Barsawad, from Yemen, introduces us to the highlands of Hadhramout in a series of breath-taking pictures.

April 8th, 2008

“Walid al-Saqaf, the creator of YemenPortal.net, whose ban in Yemen we are actively campaigning against, informed us that we have just been banned in Yemen. This is because Walid launched a circumventing software that would allow people in Yemen to access the site despite the ban,” announced Esra'a at Mideast Youth.

April 3rd, 2008

“The anti-website censorship website freeyemenportal.org was officially launched today by Mideast Youth and YemenPortal.net as part of an ongoing campaign to free yemenportal.net from a two-month long ban imposed by the Yemeni government,” reports Mideast Youth. Global Voices Advocacy has previously reported on the block here.

March 28th, 2008

Yemeni Omar Barsawad spends his morning with the seagulls and shares his experience in this post - with pictures!