Obama: The Religion Question
Is he a Muslim or an atheist? Did he take his oath for office on a Bible or a Quran? Is he sympathetic towards Arabs and Muslims? These are some of the questions being murmured by bloggers across the Middle East about presidential hopeful Barack Obama. Tunisian blogger Mohamed Marwen Meddah discusses the relationship between...
Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters
Normally, I’m not very much in favor of contributing to an already over-dosed blogosphere of the US presidential campaign, but I can’t spare you this item. It’s a well-written essay by Andrew Sullivan about what Barack Obama could be the just the essential man for: first and foremost, bridging the widening gap of the cultural...
Fresh new theme
These days I’m playing around with some different new themes to clean up my cluttered blog. The current one - Sandpress - is just a step on the way to go. I love the cleanliness and the simplicity. Thanks to Arpit Jacob (Clazh.com) . It will take some days before all is up and running again, customized and...
Who will be the Person of the Year 2007?
OneWorld.net provides its own selection of people who made the difference in 2007 in the field of international co-operation, human rights, environment, development or justice. Along them are brights minds such as Rajendra Pachaury/ the IPCC, The Burmese Monks, the $100 laptop designers and Vandana Shiva. Here’s the finalist overview…Â You can even cast your...
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto
Given the volume of commentary from bloggers throughout the world about the assassination of ex-prime minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, earlier today in Rawalpindi, Global Voices has set up a Special Coverage page aggregating some of the reactions from Pakistan and other parts of south Asia, as well as their own coverage on Global Voices....
2007 – An Overview off the paved paths
In line with the traditions of most magazines and newspapers, I have compiled my own ‘great moments’, photographs, lovely magazines, music, big trends, iconic people, etc. 2007 was the year of the Sustainable Breakthrough, of Al Gore, the IPCC and their Nobel Peace Prize, of Sarkozy, Chávez and Ahmadinejad, of weather extremes (again), of droughts...
No more charity, please!
Charity is in. Bill Clinton has written a bestseller about it and rock stars are organizing concerts. But Moniek Zegers, co-founder of the recently launched Dutch Comité tegen Goede Doelen Gekte (“Committee against good-cause lunacy”) says we shouldn’t be giving more but taking less. Read more in Ode Magazine… Global Info (in Dutch) published a...
Off to exams…
Due to preparing 3 exams for next week, I’ll be off the blog activity for a while. Keep visiting my site, as new discussions and issues are continually evolving in the blogosphere about climate change, development, sustainability, international relations and other issues of specific interest for other world citizens… Will be back soon! People who...
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The Big Challenge
Currently, I’m working on an article where I try to identify the big challenges of our time, as they become more and more visibible last years and politicians seem to be more and more upset with them. Main inspirational source is Chris Abbott’s article and book ‘Beyond terrorism: towards sustainable security‘ at OpenDemocacry.org. In the...
Turn Good Into Gold
As part of their Lustrum Week, the Rotterdam STAR Study Association, organized a splashy conference at the Erasmus University, with prominent speakers giving their view on socially responsible entrepreneurship, and how to make profit out of ‘good things’. Among the speakers, were: Wouter Bos (Dutch Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of Finance); Dr. Ibrahim Abouleish (Founder...
The ‘Double Dividend’ of Gender Equality
Gender Equality Produces a ‘Double Dividend’ that Benefits Both Women and Children, UNICEF Reports NEW YORK/GENEVA, 11 December 2006 – Eliminating gender discrimination and empowering women will have a profound and positive impact on the survival and well-being of children, according to a new UNICEF report issued on UNICEF’s 60th anniversary.Gender equality produces the “double...
