MENA blogs

July 7, 2006 7:21 PM

I'm looking for great blogs about the Middle East and the Maghreb. I would like viewpoints from all over but am especially interested in Morocco and Lebanon. I would prefer intelligently written/academic material about the region.
posted by trey to computers & internet (8 comments total)

Global Voices is the place for you! Click on the region on the country that you want.
posted by k8t at 7:26 PM on July 7, 2006

Must they be in English, or is French also acceptable?
posted by Liosliath at 10:21 PM on July 7, 2006

Some blog rolls:
Moroccan Blogs and rankings.
Lebanon
Kuwait
Saudi Arabia
Bahrain
Jordan

The last 4 have a defined blogging community and have their own aggregators, so you can keep track of all the posts, and even search the archives.

Global Voices is limited since it is based on the editors choose to post.
posted by nibaq at 2:29 AM on July 8, 2006

Liosliath: French is acceptable but not preferred. English-speaking individuals with political/news inclinations are preferred.

Nibaq: That's quite a bit of material to go through, thanks.
posted by trey at 2:53 AM on July 8, 2006

maybe THE VIEW FROM FEZ
posted by zouhair at 12:54 PM on July 8, 2006

View from Fez is always great, but he normally just quotes directly from the newswire, with personal opinions occasionally offered, or anecdotes about life in Fez.

I regularly read Bloggin' the Maghreb and Moorish Girl.

Both sites have links to my blog (don't want to self-link here) - but I don't post too much political stuff.

Other sites that I enjoyed have mysteriously disappeared - I hope their authors simply closed the site and created another. All sorts of interesting "open secrets" happening in Morocco right now, like the construction of the U.S. miltary detention facility in Rabat... but would I want to blog about it? Probably not, for several reasons.
posted by Liosliath at 9:43 PM on July 8, 2006

I can hardly say "military" these days without wincing, much less spell it correctly.
posted by Liosliath at 9:45 PM on July 8, 2006

Second Moorish Girl, and I like Liosliath's blog a lot.
posted by languagehat at 5:16 PM on July 9, 2006