The following is an abbreviated translation from some Arabic-language blogs. It was initially published at Global Voices!

From Egypt... Malek who was scheduled to be free few days ago is now officially free. He just made his first post, titled: Free Morning. Malek writes:

Speaking of Egyptian bloggers and the recent reaction of mainstream media, Al Jazeera Network yesterday aired a documentary program about bloggers in the Arab world and focused on Egyptian bloggers. Malek, Alaa and many other bloggers stories were covered. Viewers of the documentary said it was great and will be aired again twice tomorrow.

Bent Mesreya asked her parents to watch the documentary. She wrote about their reaction. She said:

Along the same line of support for the detained bloggers, few Egyptian bloggers are organizing a live music concert; "Sing, Baheya":

The Ghanne Ya Baheya (Sing, Baheya), bloggers (organizers) are welcoming any help. Among these bloggers are, 30 February, Taranim, Seeking Freedom, Ayoub El Masry, Bent Masreya, Tagreba and Shaimaa.

In Kuwait... Following last couple of weeks parliamentary unrest and following the conflict between the Government and large portion of the parliament member regarding the "election zones" law; Kuwait Emir dissolved the Parliament and called for new parliamentary elections by end of June 2006.

The new elections campaign started immediately after the Emir announcement, so did the local newspapers start reporting events and public meetings around the Emirate. However, some bloggers are critical about what pro-government newspapers are showing on their pages.

Jandeef, cut and pasted and then abrogated some photos to prove them fake. The photos that were published by Al-Watan newspaper shows the "Blue-Ribbon" gathering. They are the supporters of the Government proposal for the new "election zones" law. The opponent group is the "Orange-Ribbon" group, which Jandeef seems to be supporting.

Jandeef then writes:

In Lebanon... It was the week of celebrating the anniversary of liberation from the Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon.

Watani, in support for the "resistance" (a term usually used to describe the Lebanese Hezbollah fighters) writes:

To Saudi Arabia... On reading and censorship... Tech2click asks, "With the internet betweens our hands, do we still don’t read?" While Saad writes about the brutality of the media censorship.

So, Tech2Click writes about reading online:

Saad has another type of problem with reading. He is complaining about the Media's official type of censorship. He goes far into calling them ignorant. He writes: