Posts Tagged ‘middle east’
#iranelection: the revolution will b twtrd.
99% of the time twitter is TWOTer (Total Waste of Time). Then comes #cairospeech or #iranelection.
The Daily Dish reports that the Iraninan regime has locked down all other communications, but Twitter is live.
Follow the events on #iranelection
And on http://iran.twazzup.com/
renjie has a list of Twitterers posting from inside Iran (via Reddit)
follow them. show them that they are not alone.
How do you use a website to bring people together?
By letting them build it:
Nada Saif from Yemen is collaborating with Itamar Elharar from Israel, with the help of Najwan Odeh from Palestine, to assure technical support. In charge of textual content development are Shireen Farrag from Egypt and Samir Essousi from Morocco, making effective use of the Community Website [http://mytecc.ning.com/] managed by Joana Barbosa from Portugal, Quality-Assured by Yakot Khateeb, an Arab Palestinian in Israel; statistics are processed by Mahmoud Abdou from Egypt on worldwide developed Open Source platforms, under the supervision of Roi Shillo from Israel. Senior managers are Sima Yazdani and Fred Mednick from Teachers Without Borders, supported by Justin Ball and David Wiley, UNDP/ICTDAR team: Ziad Haddara from Lebanon and Najat Rochdi from Morocco, and Cisco team, represented by Zika Abzuk and Orgad Lootski.
If it wasn’t my kid, I would laugh too
Actually, I did laugh. Even when the joke was on me.
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Alia and Yamina kindly invited me to a preview of their new show. I’m not the comedy type, I usually get my laughs from the 10 o’clock news. But these girls hit the nail, and hit it hard. If you’re around Thursday night, come see them at the goodenough.
Disclosure: Alia’s an old friend, so obviously I’m biassed, but hey – what’s the point of having a blog if you can’t promote your friends? |
Alia Alzougbi and Yamina Bakiri would like to invite you to a night of quirky comedy. It’s Nothing Personal will explore at least 1001 ways of stereotyping “the Middle East” In this magic carpet ride, we will address the following:
- Is west of the Middle East still east?
- What are the political and health benefits of olive oil?
- Is female emancipation down to shaving hair?
- Would the Big Bad Wolf discriminate on the basis of religion?
- Does it make sense to marry a brain surgeon when your father is diabetic?
- What do the Koran and The Communist Manifesto have in common?
Unfortunately the accuracy of the answers is not guaranteed with the ticket price (£5); as such, we cannot promise you an educative night, but you might just have a chuckle (or two). It’s Nothing Personal will take place on Thursday the 19th of June at 8:30pm in Goodenough College, London House Large Common Room, WC1N 2AB. All proceeds go to SOS children http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/children-charity.htm
