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Ed Webb

NGOs and the News » Nieman Journalism Lab - 0 views

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  • NGOs and the News:
    Exploring a Changing
    Communication Landscape
  • essay series
Tom Trewinnard

Daily News Egypt - Full Article - 0 views

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    Tom Trewinnard on 17 Nov 09
     
    From the article: "Egypt's legitimacy to host such a meeting is questionable as it has repeatedly been guilty of violations of online free expression," Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said in a statement issued last week.
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    Tom Trewinnard on 17 Nov 09
     
    "Egypt's legitimacy to host such a meeting is questionable as it has repeatedly been guilty of violations of online free expression," Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said in a statement issued last week.
Nergiz Kern

Religious Leaders Gather to Discuss Faith in Virtual Worlds - Pixels and Policy - 1 views

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    Nergiz Kern on 14 Nov 09
     
    Religious Leaders Gather to Discuss Faith in Virtual Worlds
Ed Webb

MEI - Middle East International - Inside MEI - 0 views

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    Ed Webb on 09 Nov 09
     
    Relaunched.
Ed Webb

A New Mosque in Nicaragua Fires Up the Rumor Mill - WSJ.com - 0 views

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Nicaragua Islam mosque Iran Honduras rumors

shared by Ed Webb on 09 Nov 09 - Snapshot
  • "All the Taliban," declares William Martinez, a 24-year-old barber at Le Moustache, a hair salon across the street.
  • "There are two types of people who use the mosque," she says, matter-of-factly. "The Arabs and the Iranians."

  • Many here refer to all Muslims or Middle Easterners as Turks, and seem to know next to nothing about their religious beliefs.


    "They pray to the god of the moon so they only gather at night," says Ms. Melendez.

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    Ed Webb on 09 Nov 09
     
    Largely a non-story, except for what it reveals of public attitudes and knowledge, or lack thereof.
Ed Webb

NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how 'citizen journalists' can't handle the truth - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 09 Nov 09 - Snapshot
  • For all of our talk about “the world watching”, what good did social media actually do for the people of Iran? Did the footage out of the country actually change the outcome of the elections? No. Despite a slew of YouTube videos and a couple of thousand foreign Twitter users turning their avatar green and pretending to be in Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is still in power. It’s astonishing, really. Despite how successful ten million actual voters marching through Washington, London and other major cities in 2003 were in stopping the invasion of Iraq, a bit of entirely virtual cyber-posturing by foreigners didn’t lead to real change in Iran.
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    Ed Webb on 09 Nov 09
     
    Mostly not about Iran, but about citizen journalism. I think Carr is all kinds of wrong here, but it's an interesting and probably important debate.
Tom Trewinnard

On U.S Middle East Policy and Amateurism | TPMCafe - 0 views

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shared by Tom Trewinnard on 07 Nov 09 - Snapshot
  • This was not a good week for the Obama administration's Middle East peace efforts. Speaking alongside Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in Jerusalem last Saturday, Secretary Clinton seemed to be praising the distinctively partial limitations that Israel was willing to implement on settlement non-expansion. During the following days in Morocco and Cairo, she walked those remarks back, but the damage had been done.
  • On the positive side, I think the administration folks are themselves aware that this is not going swimmingly. The overall administration scorecard on Middle East peace is slipping into the red.
  • My own preference would have been for option two, and indeed, the administration could reasonably be perceived to have laid the ground deftly for such a pivot. Unfortunately, they went for option three, and it all came crashing down around their feet this week.
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  • The Obama team is perfectly capable of charting a course from a bad week to a game-changing success, but more of the same won't get them there.
Ed Webb

Fears over education's gender gap - The National Newspaper - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 06 Nov 09 - Snapshot
  • Emirati boys are posting lower examination scores and dropping out of high school at a much greater rate than Emirati girls, newly released research shows.

    It also found that among pupils who complete secondary schooling, many fewer boys go on to a university education.
  • although 70 per cent of Emirati girls enrol at university after high school, the figure for boys is only 27 per cent.

  • The drop-out rates are highest in Grade 10, the first non-compulsory year of school, when many boys abandon their education to pursue jobs in the public sector.

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  • “By no means does this study imply that girls have an outstanding quality of education either,” she said. “I would say that neither boys nor girls are receiving the best education that they could in government schools.”
  • Dr Ridge recommended that the Ministry of Education should look at improving the quality of its expatriate teaching force, getting more Emirati men to become teachers, and making schools more attractive to pupils.
  • The Armed Forces and police were a “very attractive” career choice for some because they required minimal education
  • Emiratis make up only one per cent of the UAE’s private sector workforce. The public workforce is 85 per cent Emirati.
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    Ed Webb on 06 Nov 09
     
    What are the implications of an undereducated population for media and governance?
Ed Webb

Student stuns Iran by criticizing supreme leader - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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    Ed Webb on 06 Nov 09
     
    Interesting to see the doubts about this - staged? real? how did he get away with it? It shows the debased media climate in Iran, but also the genuine uncertainty about where the (moving) boundaries of acceptable behaviour are.
Jim Franklin

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Jewish-Arab crime film captures tensions - 1 views

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Israel Ajami film

shared by Jim Franklin on 04 Nov 09 - Snapshot
  • Next year, the gritty tale about mafia-style murders will become the first Arabic language film to represent Israel at the Oscars.
  • Impoverished Israeli Arabs shooting one another in the shadow of the gleaming towers of Tel Aviv is far from Israel's preferred international image.
  • dark underside to the ideal of coexistence sometimes touted in mixed Jewish-Arab areas like Jaffa.
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  • "It's nothing but shooting and drugs, shooting and drugs - it's true, but it will ruin our reputation," says one youth.
  • Until the war which led to Israel being founded broke out in 1948, Jaffa was the considered the cultural capital of what was then British Mandate Palestine.
  • A young man in Ajami "doesn't know if he's Palestinian or Israeli, he's confused, he doesn't know what he is, what he wants to do," says Ms Rihan.
  • "I'm shocked that Jews like the film more than Arabs, even though it shows that we are like this because of them!", she adds.
  • The actors were not given the script, just thrown into scenarios and told to react.
  • Over seven years, Mr Shani learnt Arabic and says he spent more time in Ajami with Mr Copti than with his own wife, immersing himself in "a totally different world".
Ed Webb

Abdullah endorses project to spread human rights culture - 0 views

www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=127974&d=2&m=11&y=2009

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  • the project’s mission is to spread the culture of human rights in an atmosphere of brotherhood, tolerance and forgiveness.

    It also aims to enable both government and nongovernmental sectors to effectively implement relevant policies in line with Islamic values and international treaties and agreements.

    The project aims to introduce regulations, laws and procedures in the Kingdom that protect human rights.

  • It will organize workshops, activities and campaigns, and publish a magazine about human rights.

    The HRC will also work with the educational sector to introduce human rights in school curriculums.

Ed Webb

El Koshary Today | Egypt's Most Reliable News Source - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 02 Nov 09 - Snapshot
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    Ed Webb on 02 Nov 09
     
    Mmmm, Koshary!
Ed Webb

Rare footage from inside the Ka'bah, Mecca Video, Video clips, Featured videos: Rediff Vide... - 1 views

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    Ed Webb on 02 Nov 09
     
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