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Demonstrating like an Egyptian: Connectivity as a tool against autocracy
Life & Style

Demonstrating like an Egyptian: Connectivity as a tool against autocracy

Social media has allowed people to cross red lines and break taboos in autocratic regimes, but its creators do not…
Literature in the age of social media
Books

Literature in the age of social media

Last March, the New York based OR Books published the first Twitter book ever, Tweets from Tahrir: Egypt’s revolution as…
Al Jazeera TV makes waves with Tunisia coverage
Egypt

Al Jazeera TV makes waves with Tunisia coverage

When street protests ousted the Tunisian president, 26-year-old Egyptian Sabah first heard about it in a call from a friend…
Campaigning online: A thriving alternative?
Egypt

Campaigning online: A thriving alternative?

Many candidates running for the 28 November parliamentary elections have sought to add electronic campaigning to their tactics in the…
Follow the leader: Social media at the Sawy Culture Wheel
Archaeology

Follow the leader: Social media at the Sawy Culture Wheel

On Friday, Cairo has its first Young Leaders Social Media CafĂ©, a meeting of the leaders of the new digital…
Q&A with Waleed Saad, creator of EgyptFacebook
Egypt

Q&A with Waleed Saad, creator of EgyptFacebook

An interview with Waleed Saad, an Egyptian communications engineer who has created an Egyptian social networking website similar to Facebook.…
Egyptian Facebook mimic site threatened with lawsuit
Egypt

Egyptian Facebook mimic site threatened with lawsuit

Social-networking website Facebook has fought hard to preserve its intellectual property rights against all competitors using the words “face” or…
Cyber wars
Egypt

Cyber wars

When American journalist James Buck was arrested in April 2008 while covering the Mahalla labor protest in the Delta of…
Wasla: Bringing the blogosphere down to earth
Egypt

Wasla: Bringing the blogosphere down to earth

A quick glance at its front page is all it takes to let the reader know that Wasla is not…
Facebook mania
Egypt

Facebook mania

As of November, the number of Egyptians using Facebook is estimated at just under 1.9 million, a figure that seems…
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