When you’re just dropping into a country, whether as a tourist or for work, it’s often difficult to get a sense of local realities and even more difficult to get to know locals. That’s why, in the city of Kampala, Uganda, I’m feeling incredibly lucky to have been invited to the local bloggers’ meetup thanks […]
This morning, I learned that a friend, Creative Commoner, and colleague–in the most congenial sense of the word–has been detained in Syria since March 15. From freebassel.org: On March 15, 2012, Bassel Khartabil was detained in a wave of arrests in the Mazzeh district of Damascus. Since then, his family has received no official explanation […]
On June 18, Foreign Policy Magazine (to which I subscribe) issued its annual list of the ‘Top 100 Twitterati‘. The list was good, if predictable, certainly a helpful way for foreign policy wonks new to Twitter to find some conversation partners. What this year’s list was seriously lacking, however, was women. Though I did not […]