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A salute from Orzqyat El-said!!
Submitted by servicewire on Sat, 09/04/2010 - 02:37
A background on Orzqyat El said
Orzqyat Elsaid is the blog's name for ” The women of El Minya day by day” project.May be you will have a question why we call it Orzqyat Elsaid? let me explain what is Orzqyat mean? and who are they?
Orzqyat is a slang Arabic feminine plural name, means women who are earning their living day by day.
Nomad Green: Why The Mongolian ‘Ninjas' Keep On Digging?
Submitted by servicewire on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 01:55
The Second Tale
Submitted by servicewire on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 00:22
“Stories are our way to tell that we once were here.. we once existed…”
Two years ago, I went hiking with my friend Marwa through AlNaour mountains in Jordan… she was holding her camera and capturing the elegant nature through her lens…. she turned to me and said that she was not good at writing stories… she can perfectly capture a scene through her camera but she can not tell a story.
The First Posts from the Exploring Taboos Project
Submitted by servicewire on Sun, 08/29/2010 - 10:37
The “Exploring Taboos” project conducted by the Nazra team has finally started with workshops attended by five people: two females and three males. Fatma Emam, one of the project's coordinators, said all attendees were in their mid-20s.
Group One Fellow up
Submitted by servicewire on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 03:58
After intensive training sessions that lasted for 3 days, the trainees were obliged to submit contributions about sexuality issues in Egypt .The trainees are free to choose whatever they like to tackle in the various issues of sexuality , how they want to contribute in whatever module they want and for sure they were free to keep their anonymity or not .
The follow up phase is coordinated by Fatma Emam and Ramy Raoof; we are offering the trainees technical and academic support.
Group One is here !
Submitted by servicewire on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 03:29
Nazra team is implementing phase one of the training, the training took place from 5 to 8 August 2010. The hot weather and upcoming Ramadan heated the perpetration of phase 1; we were doing our best to hold the first group of training before the holy month of Muslims.
The training was divided into three categories in the three squeezed days, day 1 was conducted by Bassam Mortda, and he offered the trainees insights about the citizen media, video blogging and how to create a visual post.
Global Citizen Media Guide Now Available in Macedonian and Albanian
Submitted by servicewire on Tue, 08/24/2010 - 18:08
Rising Voices is pleased to announce that our Introduction to Global Citizen Media Guide is now available in two more languages, thanks to the efforts of Elena Ignatova and the Metamorphosis Foundation based in Skopje in the Republic of Macedonia. Elena has been a part of the Global Voices Online community since 2008 and is the editor of Global Voices in Macedonian.
Ceasefire Liberia: Thoughts On The 163th Independence Day Of Liberia
Submitted by servicewire on Sun, 08/22/2010 - 17:01
Minya: A Visit to the Bride of Upper Egypt
Submitted by servicewire on Fri, 08/20/2010 - 15:12
The large city of Cairo is usually cooler in the mornings, so Rising Voices started its visit to the Minya Governorate, which is located 247 km south of Cairo) in the early morning hours. I was accompanied by Nevine Ebeid, the project lead of the Women of Minya Day by Day citizen media project, one of the three Rising Voices projects in Egypt, and Eddie Avila from Rising Voices.
HiperBarrio: Campus Party Colombia And Pin Hole Photography
Submitted by servicewire on Mon, 08/16/2010 - 00:36
Campus Party, one of the Spanish-speaking world's largest technology conferences came to Colombia first in 2008.
