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A tendency to frame revolutions abroad in terms of our own "knowable" symbols of revolution? Think "Facebook revolutions" and the Guy Fawkes mask.

This article discusses the way in which the media frames the revolutions in Egypt. Its discusses the framing of the secularist vs. the Islamist, and what these terms actually mean through the lens of the media. According to this article, television channels in the Middle East have the power to define terms and names however they please.

Fatah and Hamas are on their way to war after long string of car bombings. ISIS may have planned some of these bombings in order to frame one side against another.

This article is from the point of view of an anthropologist who was brought in as a cultural consultant to mediate an issue of "watsa" for a corporation in the Middle East. The company prides itself on its lack of internal corruption, and in turn hired a man named Girgis who grew up in the Middle East but lived and received an education in the US. In Girgis's first year he hired one of his cousins, which the supervisors saw as corrupt hiring practice. The author, and hired consultant, explained to the company supervisors that watsa was an "investment and return" framework in Arab culture, and that there are economic parallels between Arab families and businesses, families existing as economic units. Girgis conveyed that anywhere else in the world he would run the office by the book, but in the Arab world he must also adhere to social norms. The result of watsa through Arab eyes leads to greater loyalty, and less likelihood for deception and theft. The article basically introduces the idea that while in the Western world this may be seen as corruption, it is an embedded part of culture in the Middle East. 

This is another cartoon from Oum Cartoon of a cartoon illustrating the current issue of censorship in Egypt. The cartoon is a reaction of how the media is now supporting the government and how it will not demean them.