Tag Archives: egypt

Where’s All the English-Language Coverage about Wael?

Written by jessica. Posted on January 29, 2010. Filed under Reflections. Tagged , , , , , , , . 5 Comments.
Egyptian blogger and filmmaker Wael Abbas
UPDATE March 12, 2010: Wael is convicted again on a different charge and sentenced to 6 months in prison. Neither he nor his attorney were notified of the new accusation. They will appeal. Read the full reports from the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Arab Network for Human Rights Information, and the BBC. UPDATE Feb. 18, [...]

Jordan, Egypt, and Lebanon, Oh My! Digital and Social Media Training in the Arab World

Written by jessica. Posted on May 18, 2009. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , , , , , . 1 Comment.
We can’t keep up. It seems like every time we open our inbox, another digital media training is taking place in the Arab world, in Jordan or Egypt (update May 19: we learned about another training in Egypt from ifikra)—or, of course, at the end of this month in Lebanon, as we initiate our own [...]

Numbers: An accounting of the Egyptian blogosphere

Written by jessica. Posted on August 5, 2008. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , , . No comments.
Our good friend Magda Abu-Fadil, the director of the Journalism Training Program at the American University of Beirut, shares a link from startuparabia to a recently released report called “Egyptian Blogs: New Social Space.” The report, issued by the Egyptian Cabinet’s Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC), is available in Arabic. I’m wondering how the release [...]

Global Voices Summit 2008

Written by jessica. Posted on June 27, 2008. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , , , , . No comments.
You can access the live webcast to see what’s being talked about in Budapest. The day started with Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca MacKinnon, cofounders of Global Voices, talking a bit about the history of GV and the many offshoots that have followed, including Lingua for tanslation, Rising Voices to bring blogging to beyond the Internet [...]