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Arabeyes: A Closer Look at Readers

Posted by Amira Al Hussaini on 01/05/2008

Over the past month, several Arab bloggers have been taking a closer look at who follows their blogs and what keywords bring readers. Here's a review of what bloggers from Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Egypt had to say.

Arts & Culture Bahrain Egypt English Gender Internet & Telecoms Lebanon Middle East & North Africa Saudi Arabia Software & Tools Weblog

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Israel: Soaring Grain Prices Pain

Posted by Amira Al Hussaini on 01/05/2008

From Israel, Stephanie complains about increasing food prices in this post. “We here in the Promised Land are also feeling the pain of soaring grain prices. According to Hebrew press reports, flour & cooking oil prices went up by 25%, pasta increased by 12.5%, chocolate by 10% and rice we ...

Economics English Food Israel Middle East & North Africa Roundups

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Pakistan: Missing Libraries

Posted by Rezwan on 01/05/2008

Adil Najam raises concerns in All Things Pakistan Blog that Pakistanis read less. He finds out a cause that there is a shortage of functional libraries in Pakistan: “We have no public libraries, beyond what the British left us”.

Arts & Culture English History Literature Pakistan Roundups South Asia

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China: The Green Olympics and an Actress as UN Eco Ambassador.

Posted by Kelly on 30/04/2008

Dan Beekman at “Blogging Beijing” gives a roundup of Beijing's environmental problems and its hopes. He interviews NGO and student leaders about the Green Olympics, one of the three themes of this year's Games. He 's also recently interviewed Mr. Wu Dengming, an environmental ...

China East Asia English Entertainment Environment Weblog

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Kyrgyzstan: An Anxious April

Posted by Elena Skochilo on 30/04/2008

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 grimaces ...

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