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Ed Webb

BBC News - Israel denies US academic Chomsky West Bank entry - 1 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 17 May 10 - Cached
  • "I asked them if they could find any government in the world that likes the things I say."
gweyman

The first Arab Bloggers Meeting was private and low key. Not this year's | Yazan Badran... - 1 views

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shared by gweyman on 08 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • gweyman on 08 Oct 11
     
    Excellent piece from Yazan Badran
Ed Webb

ONI Releases 2009 Middle East & North Africa Research | OpenNet Initiative - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 12 Aug 09 - Cached
  • While not all countries in the Middle East and North Africa filter the Internet, censorship across the region is on the rise, and the scope and depth of filtering are increasing. Testing has revealed political filtering to be the common denominator across the region; however, social filtering is on the rise.
  • Based on ONI testing results, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, and the West Bank do not currently filter any material; however, none of those are without regulations.
  • Bahrain, Iran, Syria and Tunisia have the strictest political filtering practices in the region.
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  • Although increased filtering is the rule and unblocking the exception, there are a few instances of the latter since our last report. Syria has restored access to Arabic-language Wikipedia, Morocco has lifted a ban on a number of pro-Western Sahara independence Web sites, and Libya has begun to allow access to previously banned political sites. Additionally, Sudanese filtering of sites containing LGBT, dating, and health-related content has lessened since the last round of ONI testing.
  • Iran is among the strictest filtering regimes in the world, pervasively filtering political and social content, as well as Internet tools and proxies, and substantially filtering content related to conflict and security.
  • In the Middle East and North Africa, the filtering of social media and social networking sites has become relatively commonplace. For example, YouTube and Facebook are currently filtered Syria and Tunisia, and Orkut and Flickr are blocked in Iran and the UAE. Iran also filters a local social networking site, Balatarin.com, and the UAE and Saudi Arabia filter certain YouTube videos, though not the entire site.
  • Blocking Web sites in a local language is approximately twice as likely as blocking sites only available in English or other international languages.
Ed Webb

NMIT Working Papers - 0 views

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nmit media analysis middle_east

shared by Ed Webb on 05 Aug 09 - Cached
  • NMIT, a selection of “working” papers on new media and information technologies in the Middle East
Ed Webb

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iran accused of 'Zionist' tactics - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 25 Jul 09 - Cached
  • One of the defeated moderate candidates in Iran's presidential election, Mehdi Karroubi, has accused security forces of using harsher methods than Israel."The behaviour of Iran's security agents is worse than those of the Zionist in occupied Palestine,"
Ed Webb

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Row over 'standard' Hebrew signs - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 13 Jul 09 - Cached
  • I will not allow that on our signs. This government, and certainly this minister, will not allow anyone to turn Jewish Jerusalem to Palestinian al-Quds
  • Ed Webb on 13 Jul 09
     
    What's in a name?
gweyman

EMAJ 2009: EMAJ 2009 Participants - 0 views

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shared by gweyman on 07 Sep 09 - Cached
  • gweyman on 07 Sep 09
     
    Abousamra, Hanan | Egypt Abusrour, Rawan | Palestinian Authority Alloui, Soumia | Algeria Aoussar, Abdellah | Morocco Bacher, Marion | Austria Di Maio, Alessandro | Italy Halfon Ovadia Adi | Israel Helmink, Alwin | The Netherlands Kayi, Elif | France Manhalter, Dániel | Hungary Melkonian, Elsy | Syria Nordberg, Kim Michael | Sweden Pfisterer, Sophia | Germany Rojo, Cristina | Spain Shaker, Issa | Palestinian Authority Soliman, Hossameldin | Egypt Spriņģe, Inga | Latvia Stanciu, Larisa | Romania Thebian, Assaad | Lebanon Yazan, Aylin | Turkey
Ed Webb

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iraq's academy of peace and politeness - 0 views

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Iraq music beauty aesthetics education

shared by Ed Webb on 03 Sep 09 - Cached
  • the Academy of Peace through Art, a school created under the umbrella of Iraq's national Symphony Orchestra.
  • dozens of teenagers with different backgrounds learn that boys should open doors for girls and the art of dinner party conversation.
  • "To some people it may seem irrelevant now, because there are so many problems - but we need people who care about beauty, and I am convinced that the day will come when everyone will realise it,"
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  • Their next class is civil interaction, in other words, how to have a conversation without turning it into a confrontation.
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