Washington Prism is a “weekly on-line journal of culture, politics and public affairs in Persian [and English], dedicated to bringing the news and views of concern from the United States and beyond to the Persian speaking countries and communities in an accurate, comprehensive and analytical manner.” I was interviewed recently by Hamid Tehrani about my…
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Online Journalism Blog on The Blogging Revolution
Online Journalism Blog is one of the world’s leading spaces for discussing new media and citizen journalism. One of its key players, Paul Bradshaw, who lectures in the UK, has written the following piece about my book, The Blogging Revolution: From the Baghdad Blogger to Twittering the Chinese Earthquake, plenty has been written about the…
The Holocaust is over
The recently released book, A Time to Speak Out, in which I have a chapter about the role of Jewish dissent, is an important contribution to the ever-growing literature about Israel’s human rights abuses from a Jewish perspective. One of the co-editors of the collection writes in the Guardian about the disturbing use by so-called…
Mideast Youth on blogging
Mideast Youth is an essential Bahrain-based portal for news, views and activism about online freedom in the Muslim world. I was interviewed this week about my book, The Blogging Revolution, and what online players can do to highlight ever-tightening censorship.
From Iraq to Washington
Barack Obama appears to have personally benefited from funds originating in Saddam Hussein’s regime. What, you didn’t know this gem (courtesy of an increasingly frightened neo-con fringe)?
A price too far
The devastating face of militant Islam, courtesy of Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper: Parents of 18-year-old Tasleem Solangi, who was killed in an extremely inhumane manner allegedly by some elders of her tribe, have appealed to President Asif Ali Zardari and Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah to provide them protection as the killers are still at…
A fragmented Islam
How is blogging affecting the narrative and public image of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt?
Helping terrorists everywhere
What is the Jewish state doing here? Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has said the security forces have arrested a group of alleged Islamist militants linked to Israeli intelligence. Mr Saleh did not say what evidence had been found to show the group’s links with Israel, a regional enemy of Yemen. The arrests were connected…