Published Works

A selection of published works.

Facebook at eight, Al Jazeera English (February 2012)

Twitter’s growing pains, Al Jazeera English (January 2012)

SOPA-PIPA: Serving U.S. Corporate Giants, Al Akhbar English (January 2012)

Censorship in the world’s largest democracy, Al Jazeera English (January 2012)

Dangerous social media games, Al Jazeera English (January 2012)

Hushing Twitter: The Danger of Double Standards, Al Akhbar English (January 2012)

MENA: 2011, a Year of Struggle and Triumphs for Bloggers, Global Voices Online (January 2012) (in Deutsch)

Introduction, Global Information Society Watch 2011

A year of blogging, threats, and silence, Al Jazeera English (December 2011) (en Francais)

Bin Talal Stake in Twitter: You Can Still Tweet Easy, Al Akhbar English (December 2011)

The year of the protester, Al Jazeera English (December 2011)

Why Syria’s arrested blogger, Razan Ghazzawi, is one of my heroes, The Guardian (December 2011)

When sanctions make things worse, Al Jazeera English (November 2011)

Net Effects, Survival: Global Politics and Strategy (vol. 52, no. 6, December 2011-January 2012)

Free Speech in the Age of Twitter, The Cairo Review of Global Affairs (3/Fall 2011)

Internet freedom initiative mere lip service?, Al Jazeera English (October 2011)

Debating human rights in the ICT industry, Al Jazeera English (October 2011)

Hacktivism for Syria, Al Jazeera English, (September 2011)

Should tech companies do business in China?, Al Jazeera English (September 2011)

Account Deactivation and Content Removal: Guiding Principles and Practices for Companies and Users (co-author), Berkman Center for Internet & Society and The Center for Democracy and Technology (September 2011)

The Revolutionary Force of Facebook and Twitter, Nieman Reports (Fall 2011)

Beyond Streetbook, Technology Review (September 2011)

Manipulating social networks, Al Jazeera English (August 2011)

International Bloggers and Internet Control (co-author), Berkman Center for Internet & Society (August 2011)

The Evolving Landscape of Internet Control (co-author), Berkman Center for Internet & Society (August 2011)

A Case for Pseudonyms, Boston Review (August 2011)

Democracies learn from Mubarak’s example, Al Jazeera English (August 2011)

Syria’s electronic army, Al Jazeera English (August 2011)

Lieber anonym als verfolgt, Die Zeit (August 2011)

Pakistan escalates its Internet censorship, Al Jazeera English (July 2011)

‘We are Google’s products, not its customers’, Al Jazeera English (July 2011)

Online censorship: now trending, The World Bank blog (July 2011)

Web censorship moves West, Al Jazeera English (June 2011)

Despite hoaxes, anonymity remains important, Al Jazeera English (June 2011)

When Social Networks Become Tools of Oppression, Bloomberg Views (June 2011)

Online free speech vs private ownership, Al Jazeera English (June 2011)

The Dark Side of the Syrian Internet, Index on Censorship (June 2011)

Morocco’s uphill struggle for media reform, Al Jazeera English (May 2011)

Turks stand up to Internet censorship, Al Jazeera English (May 2011)

Africa’s cascade of Internet censorship, Al Jazeera English (May 2011)

Freedom #Fail, Foreign Policy (May 2011)

Wikileaks and ‘Net Freedom’, The New Everyday (April 2011)

Syria’s Twitter Spambots, The Guardian CiF (April 2011)

Policing Content on Social Media Sites, Al Jazeera English (April 2011)

US Centcom Targets Online Violent Propaganda, Al Jazeera English (April 2011)

The booming business of Internet censorship, Al Jazeera English (March 2011)

West Censoring East: The Use of Western Technologies by Middle Eastern Censors, 2010-2011, OpenNet Initiative (co-authored with Helmi Noman) (March 2011)

Arabs blogging in defiance, Al Jazeera English (March 2011)

Tools of Resistance, Index on Censorship (March 2011)

The dangers of social media revolt, Al Jazeera English (March 2011)

Grasping the new online reality, Al Jazeera English (February 2011)

Morocco Moves for Dignity, Index on Censorship (February 2011)

Unblocking Syria’s social media, Al Jazeera English (February 2011)

Help Bring Al Jazeera to U.S. Airwaves, Mondoweiss (February 2011)

The Future of Egypt’s Internet, Al Jazeera English (February 2011)

Blut, Schweiß und Tränengas or Blood Sweat and Tear Gas, The European (January 2011)

In Defense of Al Jazeera: A Response to Marc Ginsberg, Huffington Post (January 2011)

Tunisia’s Taste of Internet Freedom, Al Jazeera English (January 2011)

Tunisia Hits the Headlines, Index on Censorship (January 2011)

Activist Crackdown: Tunisia vs. Iran, Al Jazeera English (January 2011)

Harvard Study Reveals Hacker Power, Al Jazeera English (December 2010)

TIME picks ‘wrong person’ this year, Al Jazeera English (December 2010)

Net freedom ‘at stake’ on WikiLeaks, Al Jazeera English (December 2010)

WikiLeaks and the Hazards of Intermediary Censorship, Index on Censorship (December 2010)

Online privacy: digitally exposed, Al Jazeera English (October 2010)

The Peace Prize in the digital age, Al Jazeera English (October 2010)

Morocco: Another Magazine Bites the Dust, Global Voices Online (October 2010)

Policing Content in the Quasi-Public Sphere, OpenNet Initiative paper (September 2010)

Taxi Driver: Fear and loathing in New York, Guardian Comment is Free (August 2010)

Wikileaks Breaks Down the Door, Index on Censorship (July 2010)

Paranoid Politics: The Denial of Islamophobia, Huffington Post (July 2010)

US gives Iran more net freedom — but what about Syria?, Guardian Comment is Free (June 2010)

Facebook facing a backlash, Al Jazeera English (May 2010)

Do web filters hinder free speech?, by Jillian York and Robert Faris, Al Jazeera English (April 2010)

UK study on Islamic blogs ‘flawed’, Al Jazeera English (April 2010)

USA: In Census, Only Some Races Count, Global Voices Online (March 2010)

Making history out of footnotes, InTheFray (February 2010)

Tweeting for Gaza, Al Jazeera English (December 2009)

Leaving Meknes, InTheFray (December 2009)

Morocco silences the pens of its journalists, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Blog (December 2009)

Morocco: Four Perspectives on Sexual Harassment, UNFPA’s Conversations for a Better World (December 2009)

Helping unwed mothers in Morocco through entrepreneurship, UNFPA’s Conversations for a Better World (November 2009)

In Morocco, 91% isn’t Good Enough, Huffington Post (August 2009)

Contributing Editor, Fodor’s Morocco, 4th Edition (April 2009)

In Memory of Omidreza Mirsayafi, The Huffington Post (March 2009)

Ridding the Internet of Child Porn: Filtering Isn’t the Answer, The Huffington Post (February 2009)

Morocco: Disappearing the Amazigh, The Huffington Post (January 2009)

Human rights organizations in Latin America welcome anonymous browsing, Knight Pulse (January 2009)

Blogging in Iran: A Dangerous Prospect, The Huffington Post (December 2008)

Why Browse the Internet anonymously?, Knight Pulse (November 2008)

The World is Not Undecided, The Huffington Post (November 2008)

First Look: Spot.Us For Crowd-Funded Journalism, WeMedia (November 2008)

Culture Smart! Morocco: A Guide to Customs and Culture (Random House, 2006)