Tag Archives: citizen journalism

Introducing AltCity

Written by mike. Posted on July 28, 2011. Filed under Communities, For Local NGOs, News, Stories. Tagged , , , , , , . No comments.
Participants at the Digital Media workshop
“We’ve never seen something like this,“ states Munir Nabti, co-founder of AltCity, a nascent but innovative event space overlooking bustling Hamra Street in Beirut. That’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 [...]

A new Arabic-language blogging guide

Written by jessica. Posted on May 26, 2011. Filed under Arabization, For Local NGOs, For Trainers, News, Resources, Training & Coaching. Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , . No comments.
cover image of the Arabic blogging guide
The Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Cairo has published a new 197-page blogging guide in Arabic عبر واتحررـ دليل التدوين (Express and Free Yourself: A Guide to Blogging). It’s released under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license. ★ Hat tip: @MagdaAbuFadil, director of the Journalism Training Program at the American University of Beirut and a blogger [...]

New Books in Our Library

Written by jessica. Posted on October 9, 2010. Filed under For Participants, For Trainers, News, Resources. Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , . No comments.
New books in the SMEX library
Note: We would love to know about Arabic-language books about media and technology. If you can recommend some, please leave a comment. Since we started SMEX, creating a library of media- and Internet-related books has been a part of the plan. Books are expensive in Lebanon, and that’s assuming you can find what you want. [...]