I’ve been paying attention to the BOBs (Best of Blog Awards) since 2007, when I wrote this Global Voices post summing up the winners. Considered the most prestigious of the blogosphere’s many awards, the BOBs are sponsored by Deutsche Welle, and past winners include worthy projects Alive in Baghdad, Generacion Y, and of course, Global […]
I wrote this on March 21 of last year: Omidreza was you. He was me. He was each one of us who dares speak our minds. He simply was born in the wrong country, at the wrong time, and chose the wrong day to write about something he believed in. The world has lost one […]
Over at The Arabist, Issandr El Amrani ruminates on Facebook’s role in Middle Eastern politics, a subject I’ve had my eye on for quite some time. Drawing on the recent example of Egyptian reformer El Baradei and his enormous Facebook following, El Amrani marvels at the level of Facebook use for activism in the region. […]