1– I know that the Dutch vote’s results are not very important for the people outside Holland but being sounded by major political powers from all the sides makes it always an indicator for Europe’s political mood for.
Election results was no surprise, a major win for the left, socialists parties and a humiliating defeat for the extreme right parties.
My party didn’t won the majority but they scored good points compared to 2002 election, Femke Halsema
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2– I received an email from an Iraqi Blogger olivebranch, she is an Iraq living in Australia but she never lived in Iraq, she asked me to write about Middle Eastern culture, politics, economics and history to fight against ignorance and promote cross-culture acceptance.
This email came exactly in the same time we Iraqi Bloggers in private email discussion to write about our own culture, principles and values.
We must show the world we are not a bunch of barbarians who talk politics and wars only, show them we are a normal people enjoy life, peace, music and books as everybody else.
Write about a book you read even in Arabic, a music you like or a theater play you saw, I know not many people will be interested in this but your posts will start the first ignition and this is the main goal.
I think you will find that Olivebranch is a male Australian. I got the same email. What do you think of his idea?
Male or Female doesn’t matter, I like the idea
Art/images are always easily assimilated. Its always nice to have images of paintings/photos (not necessarily of dead babies LB).
Poetry if its possible to translate.
Proverbs.
Historical factoids?
Just don’t post cartoons!
Architecture?
Artifacts?
The less political, the more refreshing. Not that you should stop posting political ideas, just break things up once in a while.