2.54% or approximately three-quarters of a million people are enslaved in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Saudi Arabia Decides To Ban Social Media | The News Tribe - 0 views
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This article describes a more recent incident with banning social media that happened in Saudi Arabia. It talks about how the government did this in order to "curb the spread of violence" but there are still violent actions being taken because of the ban.
Mia Khalifa Is Getting Death Threats From Her Home Country - 0 views
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Mia Khalifa is getting threatened over Twitter by Lebanese natives. She is coming under fire in the Arab world.
Impact of Social Media on Global Awareness - 0 views
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In today's globalizing world, we are increasingly bombarded with a myriad of social media tools: Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Weibo, Tumblr, Google Plus, Instagram, blogs, forums, to name but a few. Social media has indeed made a profound impact on our personal lives that enables us to be closely interconnected in a "global village". From the use of chemical weapons in Syria to the launch of iPhone 5s , we can always keep abreast with up to the minute news from around the world via different kinds of social media
Social Media Sparked, Accelerated Egypt's Revolutionary Fire - 0 views
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If three decades of violent repression and despotic rule were kindling for the Egyptian revolution, social media was both a spark and an accelerant for the movement. Did social media like Facebook and Twitter cause the revolution? No. But these tools did speed up the process by helping to organize the revolutionaries, transmit their message...
Sex, Lies and Crime: Human Trafficking in the Middle East - 1 views
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With estimates of $34 billion to $150 billion in revenues generated, profit and greed are the motives for the transnational crime of human trafficking.
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kafala, brings workers into the country and puts all the power into the hands of the employer
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Almost 3% of people in the Middle East are enslaved. Typically the people are trapped by falling for a "work trap." They leave their homes and families because they are promised employment. Upon arriving to work, the employers take everything from them and enslave them. -
ABOUT THE AUTHORSharon Buchbinder, RN, Ph.D., is an award-winning professor at Stevenson University and novelist who recently published Obsession, which deals with human trafficking and international kidnapping. Follow her on Twitter at @sbuchbinder. MORE BY THIS AUTHOR In a previous issue of The Islamic Monthly, I examined the pervasiveness of human trafficking in Southeast Asia.
How terrorists are using social media - 0 views
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Isis has proved fluent in YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, internet memes and other social media. Its posting activity has ramped up during a recent offensive, reaching an all-time high of almost 40,000 tweets in one day as they marched into the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
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