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Verdict leaves supporters cheering and opponents gnashing their teeth in frustration. Make no mistake: Egypt’s oppressive “deep state” is back. 
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Since 2011, from the Arab Spring and Spanish Revolution to Occupy, waves of global uprisings have been erupting as never before. The crisis of representation helped spawn decentralized movements as a manifestation of people’s aspiration to take the reins of their own destinies. For many, the presumption of legitimacy of their governments has been crumbling. What triggered this widespread global crisis?
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The Arab Bloggers Meeting has been a gathering point for bloggers in the Arab world since 2008 (Beirut 2008 and 2009, Tunis 2011). It is a space for peer learning where we can not only hear about each other’s experiences and provide support, but also to give feedback and share strategy. The Arab world is in particular need for these kinds of conversations, where many countries share uncertain futures. Among the topics discussed are digital security, storytelling, and internet governance structure in the Arab region.
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Learn more about how tech-savvy rebellious Muslims are hacking religion, culture and politics here: http://www.MyIslamBook.com/ -----------------------------...
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It came at the end of a decade. A decade where we had witnessed, all along the coast, new chic beach resorts popping up like mushrooms, with swimming pools and jacuzzis right on the sea, bars and bartenders serving cocktails from inside the pool to the loud beats of techno music.
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As an early career researcher, I got involved in the SMKE project to develop my skills. There were really two key areas where I wanted to build my experience, and which the SMKE provided for me. The first was building a network with other early career researchers, from various backgrounds to expand my knowledge of social media usage beyond my own personal discipline of Egyptian political Islam. The second season for my involvement in the project was based around the one of the key objectives that the SMKE aimed to achieve – that of reaching beyond academia towards an understanding into non-academic practitioners’ use of social media.
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The sharing economy movement is taking a new stride in the Arab World. Here a review of the most prominent initiatives in the area.
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A growing number of entrepreneurs and investors are determined that innovation is the way out of the countrys mess and they're creating apps to help...
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The Arab Spring is now going through a frustrating period of setbacks. From this perspective, the fact that the next World Social Forum will again take place in Tunis, from 24 - 28 March 2015, proves particularly important. “This forum is a necessary one in order to, among other things, raise citizens' level of consciousness in order to better mobilise to confront injustice and inequality, and support peoples’ liberty and dignity,” emphasises Mimoun Rahmani, researcher on economics, active member of the North African Social Forum. Rahmani is also an indispensable political and social analyst in the region, an ATTAC-Maroc activist and member of the coordinating group of CADTM Africa (Committee for the Cancellation of Third World Debt). Interview.
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After the Tunisia’s Twitter revolution and the social media-fueled protests in Egypt that toppled both their presidents, the social media revolution is spreading to other areas of North Africa and the Middle East.
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On January 25, 2011, Egyptians shocked the world and themselves when tens of thousands besieged Tahrir (Liberation) Square in Cairo until Hosni Mubarak astonishingly resigned his 30-year rule on February 11. Nonplused, the demonstrators did not know how to follow through.
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Amir Ahmad Nasr is a young Muslim man with something explosive in his hands: a computer connected to the Internet. And it has the power to help ignite a revolution and blow apart the structures of ignorance and politicized indoctrination that too often still imprison the Muslim mind. Part memoir, part passionate call for liberty, reason and doing work that matters, My Isl@m tells the tale of how the internet opened the eyes and heart of a once fearful young Muslim to a world beyond the dogmatism of his upbringing, and recounts his transformation into a defiant digital activist. In his honest, provocative, and courageous debut, Nasr-a popular Afro-Arab Sudanese blogger-steps out from behind the curtain of anonymity and emerges as a voice of a new generation of tech-savvy liberal Muslims. Set in war-ravaged Sudan, oil-rich Qatar, multi-cultural Malaysia, the United States, Turkey and the new frontiers of cyberspace, My Isl@m is a fascinating prelude to the Arab Spring and a disarming and uplifting tale of doubt, soul-searching, and finding freedom. A poignant, honest, and uplifting memoir of how blogging and the internet opened the eyes and heart of one young Muslim man to a world beyond his religious fundamentalist upbringing
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The sharing economy movement is taking a new stride in the Arab World. Here a review of the most prominent initiatives in the area.
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The sharing economy may have led to several multibillion dollar successes like AirBnb and Kickstarter, and brought community back into fashion in Europe, but it definitely has its share of critics. Many today wonder whether the sharing economy makes sense for the Arab world, and if it can solve any of the region’s problems.
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The sharing economy movement is taking a new stride in the Arab World. Here a review of the most prominent initiatives in the area.
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The existing literature on the recent global wave of social protest ranges from theories that regard new media as ‘game-changers’, to those that stress the centrality of global communication networks or of online/offline articulations in the occupied squares, to those that seek explanations not in new media but in the protracted crisis of financial capitalism. This article proposes an alternative theory of the new protest movements centred on the growing convergence of the global movement for digital freedom with local forms of social unrest.
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