Global Voices Digest

Arabeyes: Pictorial Tour of the Middle East

Let’s start the day with Amira Al Hussaini’s guided pictorial tour of the Middle East. This week we’re introduced to some of the architectural marvels of the United Arab Emirates; followed by a desert adventure in Saudi Arabia; then to Kuwait for some bumpersticker misogyny; and finally, Bahrain where blogger Mahmood Al Yousif acquaints us with his fragrant garden. If only the internet had smells. Or maybe it’s better that it doesn’t?

Swahili Blogosphere: Blogging against Freedom of Information Bill, African unity, and How many other dictators are out there?

The Swahili blogosphere had its many eyes and monitors focused on Zimbabwe this past week, where government suppression of opposition protests continue while ever-controversial President Mugabe visited Tanzania for the summit of the Southern African Development Community.

Panama: Bocas Dolphins Under Threat, and Non-Lethal Personal Security Devices in Panama.

$5.2 billion has been invested to expand one of the world’s most famous waterways. But who is going to do all the work and collect the money? Find out in Melissa De León’s latest look into Panama’s blogspace. Also: patacones, Panama’s education system, and more.

Bloggers in India Mourn the Untimely Death of Shakti Bhatt

Gaurav Mishra begins his Global Voices career as Indian Lit 2.0 critic on a somber note as Indian bloggers mourn the young death of Shakti Bhatt, editor of the newly launched Bracket Books and wife of poet Jeet Thayil.

India and its various avatars

We stay in India for our last post of the day in which Kamla Bhatt and fellow Indian bloggers portray the many of faces of what is frequently referred to as “the many Indias.”

Roundups

Kickboxing Geishas, escaping the ethnic literature genre, describing the “appeal of cricket” from Sri Lanka, and much more can be found in today’s Global Roundups.