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Michael Fisher

How Iranians See Their Country - 0 views

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  • Michael Fisher on 18 Feb 09
     
    NPR discussion about Iranian attitudes toward their country. Topics included common American misperceptions about Iran, the role of Iranian youth in domestic politics, and Iran's electoral process as it prepares for presidential elections in June.
Michael Fisher

Identity Crisis Permeates Turkish Society : NPR - 0 views

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Turkey identity NPR Middle East Islam

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  • Michael Fisher on 20 Feb 09
     
    Modern Turkey was founded as a secular, Western-oriented state. But these days, Turks say the country is expressing its Muslim identity more than its secular one. And the critical question of Islam versus secularism colors just about every debate in the country.
Ed Webb

What's In Store For Egypt-Israel Relations? : NPR - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 25 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Israel is lucky that Egypt is not a democracy. The US has to bribe Egypt to the tune of billions a year to keep the "peace" treaty in force.
Ed Webb

America's Beauty Is In Its Diversity : NPR - 0 views

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  • Ed Webb on 29 Jan 09
     
    Thought-provoking on identity issues
Ed Webb

Ahmadinejad Faces Challenges From Left And Right : NPR - 0 views

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  • Those who know Khatami say he believes the council wouldn't dare disqualify him.
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      Ed Webb on 04 Feb 09
       
      That's fighting talk!
  • city vs. village in Iran — city voters being better educated and tending toward the liberal side; village voters more conservative.
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      Ed Webb on 04 Feb 09
       
      This is not simply an Iranian issue. Much of the region experiences serious cleavages of this kind. Mass migration from the country to the cities changes electoral outcomes considerably.
  • Many conservatives have come to be critical of the controversial Iranian president.
Ed Webb

Global Voices Gathers Information From Citizens All Over the Globe - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • “Our job is to curate the conversation that is happening all over the Internet with people who really understand what is going on,” said Rebecca MacKinnon, a former Tokyo bureau chief for CNN who founded Global Voices with Ethan Zuckerman, a technologist and Africa expert, while they were fellows at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. “We amplify, contextualize and translate what these conversations are and why they are relevant.”
  • “We don’t parachute in. We are there all the time. “
  • Mr. Sigal said that having editors work with volunteer bloggers brought traditional journalistic values to the operation, like checking facts and sources. “But it is less about a finished story and more about a conversation,” he said. “When we build a story, we include links back to the original sources, so you can follow the story as far down as you want to. We want you to leave our site and go find the original, find more.”
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  • “It turns out that it is much more critical than they had imagined because the other international news sources are being dismantled.”
  • 18-hour days for Ms. Hussaini, whose work is now followed closely on the site and on Twitter by journalists from traditional media organizations, including Andy Carvin of NPR, who has been regularly curating and publishing posts on Twitter, creating a news wire about the unrest in the region for weeks.
  • “The citizen media scene is small in Libya,” Ms. Hussaini said. “We find it very difficult to find voices here and in other places where there is a lot of censorship and a lot of fear from the regime. Bloggers being arrested is a fact of life in some countries.”
  • Global Voices Advocacy is run by Sami Ben Gharbia, a highly respected blogger who is a founder of Nawaat, a blog about Tunisia, and an activist who until recently lived in exile from Tunisia for 13 years.
  • “People are not always interested in knowing what is happening in Yemen,” he said. “We have been waiting for people to pay attention to this corner of the world for a long time, and now we are ready to tell their stories.”
Ed Webb

NPR at White House's service in name of social media "conversation" on Obama speech | T... - 0 views

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    Are the commenters right that this is too harsh?
Amira AlTahawi

Political Columnist William Safire Dies At 79 : NPR - 0 views

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    William Safire, the savvy speech stylist who turned phrases for President Nixon and later conjured up Pulitzer Prize-winning contrarian columns for The New York Times, died Sunday at 79.
Ed Webb

Search Engine Helps Users Connect In Arabic : NPR - 0 views

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Arabic internet online language transliteration typing

shared by Ed Webb on 16 Jul 09 - Cached
  • new technology that is revolutionizing the way Arabic-speaking people use the Internet
  • Abdullah says that of her 500 Egyptian students, 78 percent have never typed in Arabic online, a fact that greatly disturbed Habib Haddad, a Boston-based software engineer originally from Lebanon. "I mean imagine [if] 78 percent of French people don't type French," Haddad says. "Imagine how destructive that is online."
  • "The idea is, if you don't have an Arabic keyboard, you can type Arabic by spelling your words out phonetically," Jureidini says. "For example ... when you're writing the word 'falafel,' Yamli will convert that to Arabic in your Web browser. We will go and search not only the Arabic script version of that search query, but also for all the Western variations of that keyword."
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  • At a recent "new" technology forum at MIT, Yamli went on to win best of show — a development that did not escape the attention of Google, which recently developed its own search and transliteration engine. "I guess Google recognizes a good idea when it sees it," Jureidini says. He adds, "And the way we counter it is by being better. We live and breathe Yamli every day, and we're constantly in the process of improving how people can use it." Experts in Arabic Web content say that since its release a year ago, Yamli has helped increase Arabic content on the Internet just by its use. They say that bodes well for the Arabic Web and for communication between the Arab and Western worlds.
  • Ed Webb on 16 Jul 09
     
    One of our themes was language - how the domination of the web by English might affect who uses it and how.
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