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If you’re interested in becoming a featured blogger,  opinion writer or photographer for MidEastPosts.com we want to hear from you.

We’re looking for the most insightful and honest writers, and photographers, that can help provide a view of the Middle East that is not shaped by a news agency, but comes from the people living and working in the region.

At the moment we are specifically interested in new contributors from: Israel, Palestine, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE to help us better balance opinion and content on the site.

Kindly note: MidEastPosts has no agenda other than encourage debate. We do not choose contributors based on their world view, or to influence the angles of our writers, we seek only to encourage respectful opinions whatever they are.

If you are interested in contributing, please contact us in the first instance at: editor@mideastposts.com.

We look forward to hearing from you.

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From an article published in The National newspaper

Bloggers find Good Reason to Support MidEastPosts, Last Updated: Jan 2, 2011. By Ben Flanagan

Alexander McNabb, a local blogger who is also the group account director at the Spot On Public Relations, based in Dubai, says he allows his blog entries to be used on MideastPosts because it broadens his readership.“I just thought the idea of aggregating content from bloggers across the Arab world was good,” he said. “It has the potential to build readership … It could broaden your audience.”

But Mr McNabb said the low number of regional bloggers could limit the scope of the site. “I don’t think we’re going to challenge The Huffington Post in terms of readership or incisive content … There aren’t that many people blogging regularly,” he said.

Other bloggers say the site allows greater freedom of expression. “I think it’s healthy to set up a site that’s apart from the more traditional media sites. I think there’s a freedom that comes with that,” said Matt Duffy, a contributor to MideastPosts and an assistant professor at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, specialising in new media and journalism.

James M Dorsey, a writer and consultant, gave permission for MideastPosts to republish entries on his ‘(In)Coherent’ blog at incoherenci.blogspot.com.

“I liked the idea of creating a kind of regional Huffington Post, and respect the writers MideastPosts was able to attract,” he said.