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Hackers Intervene in Syria
On the night of September 4 at 2.53 am, KheOps (the pseudonym of a politically active hacker) pushed a button, as he modestly puts it, and rerouted the Internet in Syria. Syrian Internet users were...
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Marketing a Revolution: The Arab Spring for Sale
Advertisers are having a field day with the Arab Spring, “extending the battlefield” so that they can put every possible aspect of the revolution up for sale. In Ted Swedenburg’s blog post, soberly...
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Bloggers Inspire Change Beyond Arab Spring
It is an explanation as simple as it is profound. When asked during the height of the Egyptian Revolution why people were now taking to the streets in incredible numbers to demand the ouster of...
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Telecomix Creating a Live Record of Revolution
UPDATED: The video portal can be accessed here. Arab League observers sent to Syria to investigate the situation on the ground there had nothing to report from Homs, despite it being the epicenter of...
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Irony, Satire and Humour in the Battle for Syria
On February 3, 1982, the regime of Syrian President Hafez al-Assad massacred thousands in the city of Hama, quashing the city’s Muslim Brotherhood-led uprising. Thirty years later, during the current...
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In Syria, Freedom 4566 Refuses to be Silenced
We’ll call him Abu Jaffar. For security reasons, he doesn’t want to be identified by his real name or photographed. We met on the Turkish side of the Syria/Turkey border. Between puffs of apple hookah,...
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Telecomix’s DIY Drones for Peace
This past Saturday at the Salon des Solidarités in Paris, a meeting of ‘Hackers and NGOs‘ took place. There, between a Médecin du Monde stand and a stall selling fair trade jewellery, attendees...
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Branding the Dictatorship
In March 2011, as the ground shifted beneath ruling regimes in countries experiencing an Arab Spring, Vogue magazine published a gushing portrait of Asma al-Assad, the Syrian dictator’s wife, modestly...
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Assad’s Dirty Jokes
On February 26, 2011, 15 days after the fall of Hosni Mubarak, who led Egypt since 1981, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad sends an email with the subject line “New Word Added To Dictionary”. Mubarak...
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Revolution 101
A YouTube channel under the name FSAHelp (Free Syrian Army Help) has posted over 80 videos aimed at helping the Syrian opposition to learn different skills – from hand-to-hand combat to making...
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