Archive for August, 2010

August 2, 2010 | In: Culture, Egypt, Politics

Social media in the Middle East: is it a real tool for (incremental) change, or merely cathartic self-expression?

While we are on the topic of social media and political/developmental discourse, I just read this NYT op-ed by Rami G. Khouri. Khouri makes a case for a  valid point: the rift between U.S. policy on democratization in the Middle East when it comes to...

August 1, 2010 | In: Culture, Egypt, Noteworthy

What can social media tell you about the mainstream social discourse in Egypt?

While I was working on my masters in International Development, I wrote a paper on how we can use social media to observe current social discourses on various themes, or what I specifically termed "grassroots developmental ethos". In non-academic jargon,...

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