Islamic Hip-Hop group Native Deen performs at the Al Hussein Cultural Center in Amman

The Arab Spring has a dope beat

by Michael May on March 30, 2012


Fight the Power? That's what Khaled M, Omar Offendum and other artists do via their hip hop-fueled protest songs. Don't believe the hype? Have a listen....
School bus monitors in Cairo, who have become computer savvy, thanks to Rana el Kaliouby.

Bus monitors in Cairo empowered as computer whizzes

by Magdi Abdelhadi on March 27, 2012


It was their own Arab Spring. Several women in Cairo unhappy with their low wages as bus monitors made the bold move of complaining to the school board. They were lucky that Rana el Kaliouby was there to hear them -- and to do something about it....
Comedian Daniyal Malik (Eleanor Wason Kahn)

In Pakistan, improv comedy is a form of protest

by Eleanor Wason Khan on March 5, 2012


It’s open-mic night at a cultural center in the Pakistani city of Lahore. A group of young comedians takes the stage and asks the audience to suggest figures for them to poke fun at, using the tag-line “the world’s worst…” Somebody shouts out “terrorist!”...
Syrian Americans demonstrate outside the United Nations in New York. (Reuters/Mike Segar)

Syrian Americans join the revolution at home

by Michael May on February 17, 2012


Here are the stories of two Syrian Americans turned activists: An immunologist in Chicago who spent 12 years being tortured by the Assad regime and is just now speaking out. And a poet in Arkansas who decided to take a risk and boarded a plane ...
Army defectors join an anti-Assad protest in the town of Hula, near Homs, several days ago. (Reuters)

Russia says “nyet” to Damascus Spring

by Nicholas Nehamas on February 7, 2012


Syria burns and the West squirms as Russia takes its turn during talks in Damascus. The Russians called for "peace and harmony." That seems to involve a lot of shelling. Syrians are hoping to avoid a repeat of the Hama massacre. ...
Twitter's CEO Dick Costolo gestures during a conference at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

World to Twitter: New policy is twaddle

by Michael Fitzgerald on January 31, 2012


Twitter, the darling of protest movements, now faces the ire of activists angry about its new censorship rules. There are smiles in the Queen's palace in Bangkok, but frowns in a lot of other places....
Young people demonstrate on the fences surrounding the parliament in Cairo (Magdi Abdelhadi)

Shaking the patriarchal cage in Egypt

by Magdi Abdelhadi on January 25, 2012


The Islamists won the elections in a landslide. The military are still in control. And the young revolutionaries who sparked the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak? They're still protesting and they're using the media to channel their discontent ...
Hanan

Christmas in Egypt with checkpoints and protests

by Magdi Abdelhadi on January 7, 2012


The Coptic Christmas celebrations this weekend come at a time of unprecedented political upheaval. What will the Islamist victory at Egypt's elections mean for the Middle East's largest Christian community? Two Copts tell us what they are going to do. ...

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