Saatchi Gallery unveils 'vibrant' Middle East art scene in controversial...
Read original in Times Online here. Article translated by Wesam Abd El Nasser. كشف النقاب: فن جديد من الشرق الأوسط يُعرض في جاليري سآتشي يكشف الجاليري الثاني لسآتشي عن الشرق الأوسط وعن مجده المثير...
View ArticleTED Global 09: Are social media tools for liberation or repression?
We asked Meedan adviser and TED fellow 2009, Dr Shereen El Feki, to blog TED Global 2009 from Oxford, UK. Here, in her first post, she describes how internet expert Evgeny Morozov posed challenging...
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Crafting a moderation policy for cross-cultural dialogue online
What are the ingredients needed to craft an appropriate moderation policy for a cross-cultural forum? That’s a question we’ve been trying to answer for some time. In many ways, it’s a question we’ll...
View ArticleWARNING: Social media is dangerous. Here's how you can reduce the risks.
Social Media in Repressive States: The Risks Egyptians could never have removed Hosni Mubarak, or even made the case for deep reform, without reclaiming the streets. Much of the struggle of the...
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Cairo violence shows citizens need corroboration tools
Were they clashes? That’s the word swirling through the web already. Clashes suggests two parties fighting each other. It suggests an equivalence. But there is a lot of evidence to suggest that there...
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Online Censorship, Surveilance, and Crime: Keeping Yourself Safe
Intro If you’re reading this article on a screen instead of paper, then you should be concerned about your privacy and freedom of speech online. Image by paul.klintworth on Flicker. CC BY-NC Whether...
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Global Censorship: Case Studies from Syria and Egypt
“The ubiquity of the Internet has added an additional layer of complexity to issues of government censorship. It is both an unrivaled tool for speech and an incredible tool for monitoring and...
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Pop-up newsrooms spring to life in Cairo for #EgyPresElex
by @Gr33nData The candidates have been named, symbols have been assigned (Will Moussa’s sun leave Shafiq on a ladder to nowhere?) and ballot boxes are being prepared across Egypt for the country’s...
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Meedan wins multi-year Arab Partnerships grant to support citizen journalists...
Hot on the heels of success in the IPI News Innovation Contest, Meedan has won a multi-year grant through the UK’s Arab Partnerships fund towards the development of a fact checking workbench and...
View ArticleMeedan 2011 Annual Report
We are delighted to present the Meedan annual report for 2011, published today on Issuu. You can view this below, download or share. The report covers Meedan’s partnerships, technology development and...
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