AXIS OF EMAIL: Hoder Derakhshan offers his services to Iraqis, especially those who want to blog in Arabic. This guy is already there, apparently, though I can’t make his blog show up as anything but a series of boxes and random weird (non-Arabic) characters.

Looking for Iraqis online? Go here. Some people on the list also have personal webpages. Almost all of these people live outside Iraq, as far as I can tell–unsurprisingly.

Meanwhile, among non-Arabic blogs, G. in Baghdad has a lot of interesting stuff up; Oxblog on Iranian machinations in Europe (and elsewhere); BBC “talk back” site where lots of Iranians are writing their firsthand impressions of the protests–this is a completely fascinating read; my less-fascinating but still-relevant article about blogging in the Middle East.

(Yeah, sorry about the title, had to get it out of my system.)