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What else is #Israel to do?
May 31st
We were on a mission this weekend to raise global twitter awareness about the Freedom Flotilla heading towards Gaza with tons of aid supplies. The organizers were doing an amazing job with social media, tweeting live from the boats, video live streaming, as well as Google-mapping their locations in the sea on the hour. We wanted to amplify those efforts.
Before the AttackWe tweeted and tweeted and #flotilla did not trend, although it was technically ahead of many trending topics over 24 hours. Even the Jerusalem Post recognized the phenomenal effort we put. I flipped through the TV channels and found More >
This is What a Feminist Meeting Looks Like
Apr 28th
Today, a bunch of us arrived in Cairo, Egypt in preparation for our meeting to design and launch a network of peer support for young feminists in the Arab world. Exciting!
I have big hopes set for this meeting (organized and led by women under 30) and for a new wave of young feminism that is of and for our region. The first thing I want to share with you is that we set out from the beginning to be a network that depends very little on money. Indeed, you can see it reflected in our choice of venue for the More >
On the Emergence of Feminist Organizing in the MENA
Mar 19th
The radical feminist organizing in the MENA region emerged 20, 30, 40 years after the similar movements in the West. In Turkey, for example, it didn’t start until the late 1980s. This is not because the women in our region were stupid or were not politically engaged or did not have demands. It is rather because we were under autocratic regimes or in the middle of wars and post-colonial struggles that there was no space for any of these movements to rise. The moment a small space became available, you immediately saw these initiatives taking form. The problem is that More >
Pictures from some CSW NGO sessions
Mar 2nd
Most of the 54th CSW sessions were packed, and I mean PACKED. They were filling up 30 minutes before the sessions started. So I couldn’t blog much from inside the sessions (believe it or not, I couldn’t take my laptop out because the rooms were so packed). I will sum up my notes later tonight. In the meantime, here are some pictures I took today.
@naeema’s workshop
Feb 20th
Some pics taken by the awesome @69mirs from @naeema‘s fantastic workshop on optimizing images for the web at Nasawiya happening live right now. Special thanks to @monajem and @smexbeirut for lending us the projector.
@naeema is very funny when giving workshops
participants learning how to optimize images
me laughing so hard at @naeema's workshop jokes
Shorty Awards Finale!
Feb 2nd
The Shorty Awards finale is here! We’ve got until 7pm (Beirut time) on Friday, February 5 to vote for Ali Abunimah al molakkab bi @avinunu on twitter. I don’t need to go into the details of why this is important, but to recap: it raises awareness, it fights back the slander (and since last week Ali has been getting TONS of online slander by zionist propagandists), it brings activists for Palestine together, it gives us hope that small actions on our part can fight the seemingly all-powerful zionist machine. And all it takes is really a couple of minutes.
Ali is leading More >
Questions on Mr & Miss Beirut
Jan 8th
For those of you who missed my live tweeting entertainment last night, here they are: the questions asked by the jury on Mr & Miss Beirut 2009 on Future TV. They have NOT been altered in any way to make them more comic (or tragic). My comments in red.
- Would you become a singer if you had a bad voice? Or would you not?
- Would you rather win the title or win the lottery?
- How does beauty serve our great city, Beirut?
- Beirut is world book capital – how will you build on that if you win tonight? Perhaps you will write a book? More >
How We Trended #Gaza on Twitter
Dec 27th
I made some edits (in red) on December 28.
We did it! We trended #Gaza on twitter on the day that commemorated the start of the brutal 22-day Israeli war and siege on Gaza. It was an incredible day. #Gaza trended into the Top 10 for a good 9 hours at least (at the time of writing this post). Wow. So a quick recap of how it went:
- By Sunday morning, we had 74 people signed up to tweet for Gaza between 5pm and 9pm.
- I got online around noon and saw that Gaza had already risen to 0.4% Many tweeps were already More >
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