Thursday, 18 December 2008

My Feature: Blogging the Middle East

Cairo skyline at night. Image: Darby Sawchuk

As I am interested in what is going on in the Middle East, I thought it would be quite fitting (not to mention good practice) to focus my feature on news from the region.

One of the things which stood out most from my experiments with Google Reader, was how many news stories there actually are, which don't get written about outside of the country in question.

This particularly strikes a chord with me as much of what I read about in the West of the Middle East paints a very dark picture of a dangerous, volatile part of the world.

I can't actually recall ever reading about anything positive - or at least anything not relating to war or terrorism.

I think this feature is a good way of showing a different side of the Middle East and gives me the chance to cover something that not many bloggers are focusing on.

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