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VJ Um Amel Remixes Egypt

Written by jessica. Posted on January 31, 2011. Filed under Campaigns & Case Studies, For Participants, News. Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . 2 Comments.
Still image from vj um amel's egypt remix
Egyptian-American VJ Um Amel (VJ Mother of Hope), one of the participants in last year’s Arab Techies Women meeting in Lebanon, made this video remix in support of a free Egypt to help spread the word. Please watch and repost or circulate! #JAN25 #video remix by @vj_um_amel (MUST WATCH 4 #EGYPT) from VJ Um Amel [...]

What a Difference a Year Makes

Written by jessica. Posted on April 30, 2010. Filed under News. Tagged , , , , , , . 4 Comments.
A pair of hands sign a form.
For Lebanon’s parliamentary elections in June 2009, citizen media hadn’t quite achieved the critical mass it needed to mobilize. True, the Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections (LADE) mobilized more than 2,000 SMS-enabled monitors and Sharek961 implemented the first instance of the crowdsourced crisis-mapping application Ushahidi, but beyond these interventions and a handful of existing bloggers, [...]

Shankaboot Premieres on the Web

Written by jessica. Posted on March 13, 2010. Filed under News. Tagged , , , , , . No comments.
USB key from Shankaboot
Last night, the new Arabic-language web drama Shankaboot, directed by Amin Dora and produced by Katia Saleh, premiered at Art Lounge. The series belongs to a new genre and is one of the first of its kind in the Arab world (Flying Kebab is another but it’s not in Arabic), intends to portray a lesser-known, [...]