Here are a few good English-language web logs written from outside North America:
- Beirut Calling. Excellent, informative web log by Michael Young, a columnist for Lebanon's Daily Star and an occasionally penner of Slate's International Papers column. He says to keep your eyes on Barbara Bodine, "the Bush administration's response to Gertrude Bell." The latter was apparently the female Lawrence of Arabia. Bodine might soon be taking Saddam Hussein's place.
- Pragueblog. Steve Hercher, an American expat in Prague like me, follows the news from the perspective of.... an American expat in Prague like me.
- Amiland. From Germany, often picking up on stuff in the German press that gets overlooked outside the Reich. "A look at how Germany looks at the USA. And how Amiland looks back..."
- Iberian Notes. Similar for Spain. "News, politics, culture, history, languages, all live from Barcelona by John and Antonio. Our focuses are Barcelona, Catalonia, and Spain." Ami is now a member of the nascent Europundits, which leads us to...
- The Radical, a blog by one of the many expats who choose to live in France yet despise the French. Ditto Merde in France. If you're allergic to blowhard anti-French tirades (which I am, mildly), it's best to avoid these; but unlike many others, these guys actually live there and appear to have done their homework.
- Oxblog. Informed, sensitive, and (what looks to me like) moderately hawkish political blogging from two Oxford Rhodes scholars and a Marshall scholar.
- Still not to be missed: Where is Raed? by Salam Pax in Baghdad. Posted early this morning:
"air raid sirens in baghdad but the only sounds you can here are the anti-aircraft machine guns. will go now.
:: salam 5:46 AM [+] :: "