Global Voices Online

The Angry Arab News Service has a lengthy reaction to the death of Saudi King Fahd.

About Lebanon asks why wouldn't a South Africa-style reconciliation commission work in Lebanon?

Khalid Jarrar, the blogger who was arrested and then later released by the Iraqi secret police, writes about his experiences as a prisoner.

Daniel of Venezuela News and Views has a very hyperlinked post about the latest protests in Venezuela's capitol.

Juanson World has a good compilation of sources and reflections on Colombia.

Iran Hopes writes that Akbar Ganji's lawyer has been arrested.

Iran Scan reports that Masoumeh Shafie, the wife of imprisioned journalist Akbar Ganji, will be mounting a strike in front of the UN office this week in an appeal to save her husband's life.

Plan Colombia and Beyond takes a look at the Putomayo region of Colombia five years after the implementation of Plan Colombia and concludes, “the lesson of Putumayo should be that temporary surges in military activity, however ambitious, will not bring meaningful results on their own.”

To celebrate his birthday, The Brooding Persian has some birthday wishes and shares an allegory.

Jakartass on the need for the space of one's own, or, how do westerners deal with the extended in-law family?

Mora at Babalu Blog reports that some government agents tried confiscating a television with an illegal satellite dish, but that the neighborhood resisted.

Chilean super-blogger, Leo Prieto, finds his name to be the second most searched term on technorati. As I write this, he's still there, right after Jesus.

From Cairo, with love reports from the ground on the police brutality in the anti-Mubarak demonstrations in Cairo.

The Big Pharaoh asks why the opposition didn't turn out in force against terrorism, the way they did against Mubarak?

One Arab World announces that the anti-terrorism vigil will be held in early September.

Rantings of a Sandmonkey asks: “What do we actually want from the west?”

Andrew Heavens of Meskel Square has set up a tag cloud to track what Ethiopean bloggers are talking about.

Jeannette Jalil is happy that the front-runner in Chile's upcoming presidential election is a woman.

An expat in Shanghai ponders the fledgling Shanghai hip-hop scene.

Through the Lens, Trinidad and Tobago remembers the 15th anniversary of the bombing of Trinidad and Tobago's parliament and police station by a radical Islamic group.

Danwei reports that a chinese blogger has discovered–and published–the list of banned words that China's second largest blog provider maintains. There are no real surprises on the list, though the absence of swear words and sexual content is kinda interesting.

China Herald writes that Hu Yong, a CCTV producer and director of a Chinese-language blog portal, will be giving a lecture on Chinese blogging and the Chinese blogosphere in Hong Kong later this week. The interesting thing is that the talk will be given in Mandarin.

Taran Rampersad goes overintellectual property in the Caribbean and has some reflections on his excellent Caribbean blog list.

MABB says it's time for the Bolivian Congress to redraw the voting districts to give the Santa Cruz region their fair weight of the vote in the upcoming elections.

With a collection of impressive satellite and Google Maps images of Buenos Aires, line of sight, shows you were to find him.

Jeff Barry discusses his latest read, “The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas,” covering the history of Russian Jewish immigration into Argentina. The book was also made into a movie in 1975.

Beautiful Horizons has a good roundup of what's going on in Latin America.

An exhibition celebrating “60 years of ‘Sino-Japanese friendship'” opened in Tokyo over the weekend. However, Angry Chinese Blogger wonders if it wouldn't have been better to open the exhibition in Beijing…

Webbed Feet, Web Log announces that the next Cambodian Blogger Meetup will be on August 7 in Phnom Penh.

Tharum's Web outlines the Cambodian blog Big Bang.

Asiapundit has a round-up on the progress of the North Korean 6-way talks.

The travel blog Beckilina goes for an evocative ride in a Mashtuka through the Arminian countryside. (via Blogrel)

Voch Me Ban looks at the geopolitics behind Uzbekistan asking American forces to leave.

While on a trip to Bahrain, Saudi Jeans met Mahmood's Den. Or rather, the authors of those two well-read Middle Eastern blogs met…

Syrian writer and dissident Ammar Abdulhamid heads off to a conference in Venice… and almost everything that can go wrong on a trip does.

Singaporean blogger Mr.Brown spends a day doing reservist exercises. Post complete with its own flickr set.

From a Singapore Angle reponds to a newspaper negative article about blogging that appeared in Sunday's Straits Times.

New Sudanese Vice President John Garang died in a helicopter accident over the weekend, reports Black Looks. Garang had been a rebel leader and his accession to the Vice-Presidency had been considered a major milestone in the peace process.

The Zimbabwean Pundit points out that one of Mugabe's cabinet members isn't a member of Parliament, meaning that she's holding office in violation of the Zimbabwean Constitution.

Afghan Warrior writes about improvements in daily life in Afghanistan since the Taliban were driven out of power.

On the strain on resources because of urbanization, and the future of the world on Shirazi's blog.

Links to articles and a brief discussion on the challenge of terrorism in Britain on DeshCalling.

Sadiq Alam explores Sufism and its elements and links to other sources.

A look at paddy fields on Billy's Blog.

Zigzackly on redefining blogs and live commentary, having seen 1200+ comments on Prem's blog.

A dark glimpse of Delhi's red light district on Synchroni-Cities.

Atanu Dey links to an article on India being the next big player in International Relations.