CAIRO: While social media has been given much credit for accelerating Egypt's revolutionary fire, it has found another use in attracting attention to humanitarian causes in Egypt.
Known as the Tweetback initiative, it is Egypt's first social (...)
CAIRO: On July 14 the Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC) Convener William R. Pace held an hour-long live blogging session on the CICC blog, addressing questions from bloggers on a number of issues.
Discussions centered around (...)
An hour's drive away from the Jordanian capital, Amman, exclusive resorts line the Dead Sea coast.But the finest, and priciest, of them is the Mövenpick Resort and Spa Dead Sea, dubbed an “oasis of tranquillity” and one of the top ten best resorts (...)
CAIRO: Google recently hosted a series of workshops in Cairo on how to use YouTube for news and politics, conducted by Steve Grove, head of news and politics for YouTube at Google USA, and Samir Bahie of Public Policy and Government Relations at (...)
CAIRO: While a call for speaking out against sexual harassment online gathered a lot of attention on the blogosphere, women's rights activists agreed that more needs to be done to put an end to the problem.
On June 20, bloggers and Twitter (...)
