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Interview with Antony Loewenstein about “The Blogging Revolution”

 
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I can’t imagine any readers of this site not being interested in the content of Antony Loewenstein’s “The Blogging Revolution,” a book about bloggers who live and blog under authoritarian regimes.

It’s relevant to many of us blogging at this site. Antony has long been one of my favorite bloggers, mostly because he has guts. […]

Interview with Mira about culture, materialistic globalization, technology and life in the UAE

 
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When we conducted our previous podcast, where several American high students asked us questions in order to learn more about the Middle East for their Global Studies class, some students didn’t have a chance to ask their questions. So I’m now giving others the opportunity to answer these questions as a continuation of that series.
Even […]

My podcast for Digital Natives

 
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Digital Natives, a project by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, asked us to share our experiences through a podcast:
Continuing its exploration of digital activism from last week, the Digital Natives Reporters in the Field series turns its microphone over to Esra’a Al Shafei of Bahrain, the 21-year-old director of […]

Interview with the editor of Voices Without Votes

 
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For this podcast I interviewed Amira Al Hussaini, the Middle East and North Africa editor for Global Voices Online and also the editor of Voices Without Votes, which this podcast revolves around. You can read about the project here.
You might remember her from our previous podcast here.

Interview with GVO Editor: Is technology helping us, or endangering us?

 
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I conducted this podcast with Silly Bahraini Girl, who is way more geeky than she looks and sounds. She (Amira) currently works as the editor of the Middle East and North Africa region on Global Voices Online, doing daily round-ups of the regional blogosphere. In the past, she served as a news editor for the […]