Added on 21/07/2011
Common Ground News Service
Activist , Boston College , Editor-in-Chief , emergency services , Facebook , John L. Esposito , Maha , Manal Al Sharif , Natana J. DeLong-Bas , Riyadh , Royal Court , Saudi Arabia , Shoura Council , SMS , The [Oxford] Encyclopedia , Twitter , Women , Women's issues , YouTube
NATANA J.DeLONG-BAS, CGNEWS: The campaign to improve women’s rights in the Kingdom has focused on the issue of driving but progress is being quietly made in other areas of Saudi life.
Added on 19/07/2011
M.-Lynx-Qualey
Al-Hayat , Beirut , Cairo , Facebook , Hanan al-Shaykh , Ibrahim Aslan , Journalist , Kindle , Lebanon , Literature , London , Middle East , Morocco , Muslim Brotherhood , Peter Theroux , Raja Alem , Riyadh , School of Oriental and African Studies , Social Media , The Maghreb , The Yacoubian Building , Twitter
M. LYNX-QUALEY: In a wide-ranging discussion at the Shubbak festival Hassan Daoud, the Lebanese novelist and journalist, had much to say…
Added on 15/07/2011
Alexander McNabb
Facebook , Geekfest , Google+ , Oil , Public Relations , Social Media , Social networking , Twitter
ALEXANDER MCNABB: With “too many streams of information to be comfortable” , could Google+ assault on Facebook be too much, too late?
Added on 10/07/2011
American Bedu
Facebook , Imam University , Saudi Arabia , Social Media , Twitter
AMERICAN BEDU: Unfettered by the restrictions applying to mainstream Saudi media the ultra-conservative community are going online.
Added on 17/06/2011
Alexander McNabb
Abu Dhabi , Dubai , Media , MP , the Daily Mail , Twitter , United Arab Emirates , United Kingdom
ALEXANDER MCNABB: This distortion of expressed opinion coming, let us not forget, from those who purport to give us ‘context and analysis’…
Added on 13/06/2011
David Roberts
Assad , Bahrain , Blogging , Damascus , Edinburgh , Gay Girl , Iran , Libya , Media , Official spokesperson , Security services , Twitter
DAVID ROBERTS: While blogging is good and all, it doen’t come remotely close to the rigour of a good newspaper…
Added on 11/06/2011
Sarah Grebowski
Al-Ahram Center , American University , American University in Cairo , Center for Political and Strategic Studies , Democracy , Egypt , Facebook , Media outlets , Mohamed elBaradei , Mubarak , Sinai , Supreme Council of Armed Forces , Tahrir Square , Twitter , U.S. Institute of Peace
SARAH GREBOWSKI: A spontaneous, youth-led uprising that brought instant democracy via Facebook and Twitter? I’m afraid not.
Added on 04/06/2011
David Roberts
Barcelona , Cairo , Egypt , Europe , Islam , London , Twitter , Women , Women's issues
DAVID ROBERTS: How does it feel when you forsake the hijab and go public for the first time in many years? One woman writes movingly about the experience.
Added on 30/05/2011
M.-Lynx-Qualey
Al-Hayat , Egypt , Facebook , Journalist , Literature , Middle East , Poet , Sinan Antoon , Syria , Tunisia , Twitter , Youssef Rakha
M.LYNX-QUALEY: Poets have traditionally held a central role in reflecting the life of Arabs. Is that role, however, being usurped by other, more modern means of communication?
Added on 28/05/2011
Alexander McNabb
Culture Secretary , DOJ , G8 , Internet , Microsoft , MP , Nicolas Sarkozy , President , Twitter
ALEXANDER MCNABB: Regulating the Internet in the name of privacy and responsibility is all very well, but we also have to be wary of regulating discourse.
Added on 22/05/2011
Alexander McNabb
California , Culture Secretary , Facebook , Google+ , Governor , International Monetary Fund , Twitter , UK government , United Kingdom
ALEXANDER MCNABB: Twitter, Google et al argue they are a medium. Suing them for the content on their networks would be like suing a telco for something someone said…
Added on 16/05/2011
Alexander McNabb
Beirut , Facebook , Google+ , Gulf News , Online media , Privacy , Social Media , Twitter
ALEXANDER MCNABB: It would do as well to be aware that you’re now essentially a public figure. And you’re leaving footprints behind all the time…
Added on 12/05/2011
Alexander McNabb
Android , Egypt , Facebook , Google+ , Gulf News , Hillary Clinton , Jordan , Morocco , Saudi Arabia , Sky News , Social Media , Twitter , United Arab Emirates , United Kingdom , White House
ALEXANDER MCNABB: Presumably GN felt it couldn’t use the word ‘Jewish’, but I do feel misled… Context and analysis? I’d rather trust Twitter…
Added on 09/05/2011
James M. Dorsey
Activist , Ali Abdullah Saleh , Bashar al-Assad , Beirut , Bin Laden , Censorship , Colonel , East Africa , Electricity , Facebook , Foreign media , Libya , Media , Media outlets , Mediterranean , Middle East , Moammar Qaddafi , North Africa , Osama Bin Laden , President , Syria , Syrian government , Syrian military , Tripoli , Twitter , Yemen
JAMES M. DORSEY: Embattled regimes have failed in their effort to choke off independent reporting to ensure that their version of events dominates the news.
Added on 16/04/2011
Rachel McArthur
Doha , Kerala , Social networking , Twitter , UAE , United Arab Emirates
RACHEL MCARTHUR: This week, Twitter announced it was expanding its local trends feature, adding 70 new countries and cities – one of which is the UAE.
Added on 16/04/2011
Rachel McArthur
Beirut , Cairo , Egypt , Facebook , future president , MBC , Poet , SAR , Tahrir Square , Twitter , YouTube
RACHEL MCARTHUR: Being part Egyptian, I’m happy to say I was the first UAE-based writer to interview the performer. Here’s what Amr Qattamesh had to say.
Added on 12/04/2011
Matt J. Duffy
Abu Dhabi , Al Ittihad , Arabic media , Bahrain , Censorship , CNN , Dubai , Dubai Crime , Dubai Laws , Dubai police , Egypt , Facebook , Gulf News , Local media , Media outlets , News media , Nichola Jones , Qatar , Qatar Peninsula , Reuters , Saudi , Social Media , The National , Twitter , UAE , United Arab Emirates , Yahoo!
MATT J. DUFFY: The question all UAE, and indeed regional, newsrooms ask is what is the responsible approach. A responsibility to reporting the facts, or to safeguard their future.
Added on 05/04/2011
Allan Biggar
Bahrain , East Africa , Facebook , Middle East , North Africa , Saudi Arabia , Social Media , Tiananmen Square , Twitter , United Arab Emirates , Yemen
ALLAN BIGGAR: The path is now open for a consumer revolution where a new generation will be more influenced by their social-network contacts than by traditional marketing messages.
Added on 03/04/2011
James M. Dorsey
2010 World Cup , Africa , African Cup of Nations , Al Ahram , Algeria , Captain , East Africa , Egypt , Egypt Elections , Egyptian Football Association , Facebook , Food prices , Football , guard , hassan , Hosni Mubarak , Islamic Republic of Iran , Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , Middle East , National Democratic Party (NDP) , North Africa , Premier League , President , qualifier , Soccer , South Africa , Twitter
JAMES M. DORSEY: The calm with which Egyptians accepted defeat, contrasts starkly with riots that erupted on two continents in late 2009 when Algeria stopped Egypt making it to the 2010 World Cup.
Added on 03/04/2011
Steve Royston
Amazon.com , Bahrain , blog site , Blogging , Egypt , Facebook , Fidel Castro , Google+ , Hosni Mubarak , Middle East , Search Engine , search engines , search results , Social Media , Tahrir Square , The Huffington Post , Twitter
STEVE ROYSTON: You could say that I’ve now entered my next career. Not a hobby – because I do earn money – but an activity entirely under my control, and in which money is not the prime motivation.