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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Is he working for peace? [Our Enchanted Garden / Flickr]
As a coda to Obama's whirlwind tour of the Middle East, two Arab angles on what he offers that part of the world:
Twenty-eight-year-old Wassim, a Syrian Arab, describes himself as "awakening in a modern and bewildering world gone insane." He feels ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
[Larsz / Flickr]
Genevieve Sponsler caught this post in her daily trolling of Voices without Votes (a very cool site that tracks foreign opinion about Campaign 08). In it, a South African expat living in Ireland comments on the style and effectiveness of the three remaining candidates' websites. Highest points go ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Iraqi refugees in Syria [James Gordon / Flickr]
Iraqi Kurdish woman [James Gordon / Flickr]
Global Voices, which highlights bloggers from around the world, has developed a very cool election-08 project called Voices Without Votes. Its goal is a close cousin of ours: it focuses on citizen media created by non-Americans about ...
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