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Today is the DAY! Here is my the result of my quest in random order:
- 1. From Mauritian: The Carine's Page, Life of a Mauritian girl residing in Singapore.
- 2. From South Africa: Cherryflava pics, a blog edited and photographed by Jonathan Cherry. Shot mainly on location in Cape Town.
- 3. From American Samoa: Stuck in a Moment, a blog by Nicole Ashley, where she document all the randomness in her life.
- 4. From Argentina: A Handicapped Bitch in Recovery! he says: "Yes, I�M Out Of Rehab, Just Divorced, And Full Of Strength To Face This New Beginning.., Do You Wanna Walk Beside Me?"
- 5. From Mongolia: Mongolian Matters – Mens in Mongoli�, Life in the Land of the Blue Heaven – Belevenissen in het land van de Blauwe Hemel
Bonus:
From Tunisia: The lovely couple, Subzeroblue and Aquacool
From Papua New Guinea: ISLANDBABY
From Pakistan: daMomma Blog
From Palestine: Raising Yousuf: a diary of a mother under occupation
From Israel: Bloghead
Update! BlogDay2005 contributions by some bloggers I tagged (or I didn't, thanks everyone):
01. Abu Sinan
02. Mohamed, from Cairo
03. Ethan
04. Farid Zadi
05. thecutter of peacepalestine
06. Jeff Ooi
07. Neha (more here)
08. Paul Frankenstein (more here)
09. Rachel Barenblat the Velveteen Rabbi
10. Jewaira's Boudoir
11. Karim2k
12. UmQusai
13. umkahlil
14. Abu Aardvark
15. Farid Pouya
16. Paradoxic Pages
17. A Kuwaiti Online
18. Sugar Cubes
19. And Far Away
20. Subzero Blue
21. AquaCool
22. OceanCreep
23. Desert Island Boy
24. Israeli Watch
25. Rebecca
26. David
I'm extremely happy to see the result… Will keep updating the above list whenever another blogger posts her/his list.
01/09/05 – 1130 GMT – On http://technorati.com/tag/BlogDay2005, the tag search gives 305 posts, while searching Google for BlogDay2005 returned 22,800 result… Wow
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Hey there.. glad to be able to celebrate with you guys! You might want to add this blog:
http://illogicist.blogspot.com/
To your list as Z participated.
Liked your list, thanks for spreading the idea of celebrating Blog Day, it's fun and very interesting.
This is my blog day celebration :) http://aquacool.blogspot.com/2005/08/celebrating-blog-day-2005.html
Because of this event I decided to feature a blogger every week on my blogs.
You're the first blogger and I present a Palestinian dish that is identical to an Algerian one.
Enjoy!
I appreciate that, Farid.
All the best :-)
Not having a voice in the mainstream media is a form of erasure for North Africans and Middle Easterners.
In researching food history and the current foodwriting contemporary scene in English I was shocked to discover how under represented Arab writers are even when writing about our cuisines!
According to the eminent food historian Charles Perry historically there are more Arabic cookbooks then the rest of the world combined. But the English speaking world writes that Israeli couscous is wholly indpendent of Maghrebi berkukis or what the rest of the Middle East has known as Maghrebiyya for centuries.
Centuries ago Middle Eastern scholars made reference to North African berkukis calling them Maghrebiyya or Maghrebian, but the American public is duped by marketing into beliveing that it was invented in Tel Aviv in the 1950's just like falafel (I'm rolling my eyes).
I'm looking for Palestinian food writers to contribute to Ya Rayi Our Rai. There are two published authors that I am trying to get in touch with. If anyone knows someone please refer them to me. My blogs have a very wide and mainstream audience including many famous food writers and food journalists who refer to them for accurate information.
Maybe we can start a forum for both Maghrebi and Mashriqui bloggers. There is a mostly French language for Maghrebis http://www.magrheblog.net that I like very much.
(as a side note I know Israel most famous food writer through a forum, he agrees that falafel is a dish of the land well before the State of_________________)
Wallahe I like the idea, Farid.
Unfortunately I don't know cooking, but if I come across any, I'll send him you side.
On the other hand, the Maghreb and Mashriq forum sound great too. Maybe it is better we discuss this more and set the objectives right so that when starting such a project, it will make a difference.
I don't know much about computers and I am very new to blogging, about 1 1/2 months into the scene.
I've noticed there are blog networks for specific topics or areas of interest like http://slashfood.com/page/2/ and http://fbl.ismyblogburning.com/ we could start something like that. Of course it would be multi-lingual, most of probably speak at least 2 languages though and translations can be provided fairly easily I would think. There are also members of language forums who provide translations services for free.
As for a forum. I know what you mean. The members would have to clearly agree that the purpose is to further dialogue. I used the term Mashriq.
Do you think I should set up a private yahoo group so that we can discuss the project privately?
I will invite as many bloggers as i can.
Count me in. I'll be happy to help in anything I can :-D
Great.
Give me a few days to write up a something in English and French, I'll have it translated into Arabic and we can discuss the objectives in the Yahoo group.
As a side note I am planning on starting an annual event to promote Maghrebi and Mashriqui foods. Perhaps it can be in different locations every year. The first year in Los Angeles, than Detroit, New York, Paris, etc… So we share our food that has roots in ancient civilizations and in this way we are humanized to outsiders who mostly only know us through media reports as fanatics…
Food as a medium for political and social change! I like it.
A bientot inshAllah
Farid
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