What Is the Arab Third Estate?
For two long centuries, the Arab Middle East has struggled to meet the challenge of modernity, a task exacerbated by the lingering, and increasing, dissonance between the glorious past and the shameful present.
For two long centuries, the Arab Middle East has struggled to meet the challenge of modernity, a task exacerbated by the lingering, and increasing, dissonance between the glorious past and the shameful present.
Monroe Price | Posted 03.23.2011 | Politics
There's now an incipient tradition: an annual Clinton Internet-celebrating speech. Mobilization, demonstration, action -- these, Secretary Clinton seems to conclude -- are the consequence of a system of approaches.
New York Times | JAMES GLANZ and JOHN MARKOFF | Posted 03.23.2011 | World
Epitaphs for the Mubarak government all note that the mobilizing power of the Internet was one of the Egyptian opposition's most potent weapons. But q...
Aron Cramer | Posted 03.23.2011 | Technology
The recent developments in Egypt have provided hope for all of us who believe in democracy, human rights and the rule of law, as well as new material for the "cyber-optimists" versus "cyber-skeptics" debate.
Bill Lichtenstein | Posted 03.23.2011 | Media
Proof there's hope. Nick Kristof walked the streets of Cairo for days, and writes of the needed paradigm shift in the attitudes of Americans regarding the Middle East.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 03.23.2011 | World
In response to Mubarak stepping down, President Obama delivered a pitch perfect speech calling for "nothing less than genuine democracy," not just a government aligned with U.S. interests. There will be many foreign policy takeaways from Egypt, but here's an obvious one: invading a country, toppling its regime, destroying civil society, and then trying to put all the pieces back together with a ten-year occupation and a few trillion dollars turns out not to be the only way to increase the spread of democracy in the Middle East. Wired was more effective than warred. People can now connect to each other faster than any government can connect with its people. And while governments may be able to shut down the hardware, they can't shut off the social effects of digital networks. Any leader who doesn't understand this dynamic should book a room next to wherever Mubarak is heading.
Marwan Bishara | Posted 03.23.2011 | World
Over the last few days, I have watched and spoke to many community organizers taking center-stage in Tahrir Square. One of these coalition builders is George Ishak.
Charles M. Firestone | Posted 03.23.2011 | Technology
While the radio of the 1930's was the stammering George VI's proving ground, today we see new media amplifying the "king's speech" in Egypt. Except this time, the people are "king."
Frederick Thomas | Posted 03.23.2011 | Media
In an age when most of America recognizes the need to better understand this interconnected world, our media's greatest shortcoming may be its lack of consistent international reporting.
Mohamed Abdel Dayem | Posted 03.23.2011 | Media
The wave of defiance against entrenched censorship and interference by the state in Egypt is likely to reach a crescendo tomorrow, when journalists are calling for a massive demonstration by media practitioners.
Jim Cowie | Posted 03.23.2011 | Technology
The Egyptian "kill switch" was simultaneously a technical success and a mystifying strategic blunder. Could other governments implement such a kill switch?
Joseph Nye | Posted 03.23.2011 | World
An information world will require new policies that combine hard and soft power resources into smart power strategies. This is proving a difficult task as the administration tries to walk a tightrope in the Middle East today.
wired.com | Posted 03.23.2011 | Technology
When Hosni Mubarak shut down Egypt's internet and cellphone communications, it seemed that all U.S. officials could do was ask him politely to change ...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 03.23.2011 | World
With chaos still roiling Egypt, it's hard to tell if this uprising is Iran 1979, China 1989, or East Germany 1989. We'll have to wait and watch before we can know. But it's not too early to know that if America had done more to nurture a moderate opposition for the last 30 years, instead of choosing a strongman who sided with us over uncertain democracy, we might have some better choices right now. More importantly, so would the Egyptian people. Social media is once again playing an integral role in a popular uprising. Mubarak and his saber-wielding thugs have desperately tried to shut down the Internet and the press in a frantic attempt to keep the whole world from watching. But that's so much harder to do in the age of Twitter, Facebook, cell phone cameras, and YouTube uploads. These new media tools will play a key role in determining whether Tahrir Square 2011 is more Berlin Wall or more Tiananmen Square.
Claude Salhani | Posted 03.23.2011 | World
When Mubarak went before Egypt to talk, he made a point of stating that he was in favor of freedom of expression. Perhaps he meant it was alright so long as it is his speech and views being expressed.
Rep. Howard L. Berman | Posted 03.23.2011 | Technology
In response to the Egyptian government's actions, Google and Twitter launched a new service called Speak-to-Tweet.
Stephen Balkam | Posted 03.23.2011 | Technology
We in the West and those of us laying the foundational stones for this emerging concept of digital citizenship have much to learn from our Arab friends.
The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 03.23.2011 | Technology
As the crisis in Egypt continues to provoke a flurry of web conversation, the talk on Twitter has been predominantly negative about the Obama administ...
AP | Posted 03.23.2011 | Technology
PARIS — A top Western think tank says Egypt's unprecedented clampdown on Internet and cell phone networks during the anti-government protests li...
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 04.04.2011 | World
The Arab youth of today are connected and determined to take part in deciding their own future. Understanding them and giving them an opportunity to share in power is the only logical way to help find solutions.
The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 04.04.2011 | Technology
Use of Facebook by users from Egypt has surged following the restoration of Internet service to the country. Egypt was plunged into an Internet bla...
Larry Magid | Posted 04.04.2011 | Technology
A graphic from Renesys says it all, but the net tracking firm also spelled it out: "Egyptian Internet providers returned to the Internet at 09:29:31 UTC (11:29am Cairo time)."
Jim Cowie | Posted 04.04.2011 | Technology
All major Egyptian ISPs appear to have readvertised routes to their domestic customer networks in the global routing table. We can also confirm that Facebook and Twitter are up and available.
Posted 04.04.2011 | Technology
Internet access has resumed in the Egyptian cities of Cairo and Alexandria after five days of cut connections, Internet users reported on Wednesday....
Jim Cowie | Posted 04.03.2011 | Technology
We put together these images, which use a Hilbert curve representation of the Internet. Look closely and you can see Egypt's Internet presence embedded in Africa and Europe's address space.
Uriel Abulof | Posted 03.23.2011 | World