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		<title>Introducing AltCity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We&#8217;ve never seen something like this,&#8220; states Munir Nabti, co-founder of AltCity, a nascent but innovative event space overlooking bustling Hamra Street in Beirut. That&#8217;s not hard to believe for anyone who has visited the space, which promises to be everything from a media café for citizen journalism to an alternative conference venue for high-end [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Better Lebanon&#8217; Concept Has New Virtual Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past March, a pair of idealistic Beirutis installed the &#8216;Lebanon Would Be Better If&#8217; Wall on Rue Bliss, just past the American University of Beirut&#8217;s main gate. The wall invites passers-by to respond to the prompt, &#8220;Lebanon would be better if&#8221; by filling in the blank at the end of each line with whatever idea, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>يهدف الإتحاد العراقي إلى الدفاع عن حقوق المدونين</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[هذا الفيديو مقابلة مع حيدر حمزوز، نائب رئيس إتحاد المدونين العراقيين، من  العراق الآن، برنامج خاص على قناة الآن.  تحدث حمزوز عن ولادة الإتحاد إضافة إلى دوره في تعزيز حرية التعبير وحقوق الإنسان في البلد. حمزوز مدون وناشط مشهور في العراق ومشارك صوتي في المظاهرات الآخيرة التي تعتبّر جزء من &#8220;الربيع العربي&#8221; في هذا العام. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Broadband in Lebanon: No Longer a &#8220;Pipe&#8221; Dream?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lebanon&#8217;s woefully inadequate Internet connectivity has long been a subject of national frustration, but a recent announcement by the Lebanese Telecommunications Ministry has given Lebanese Internet users some cause for optimism. The Ministry announced on Tuesday that the IMEWE (India-Middle East-Western Europe) submarine cable, which has been operational since 2009, has finally been activated, opening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lebanon Tweets, Too</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to our last blog post about Forbes Middle East&#8216;s list of the top 100 Arab Twitter presences, we thought we&#8217;d share the Twitter Grader ranking of Lebanon&#8217;s highest graded tweeters, brought to our attention by @williamchoukrei in a recent tweet. Lebanon was conspicuously absent from Forbes&#8217; top 100 list, despite having one of the largest [...]]]></description>
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