Interview with Lina Ben Mhenni

Lina Ben Mhenni is a Tunisian blogger [ar] and activist, and has been writing about the Tunisian blogosphere for Global Voices since October 2008.

Through the creation of a Facebook group and a blog [fe], she has led awareness campaigns about the recent case of a Tunisian student, Mohamed Soudani, who has been jailed for giving media interview.

حوار حول المشاع الإبداعي في العالم العربي

Interview with Wissam of Ethiopian Suicides

Wissam is the founder of Ethiopian Suicides, a migrants rights blog focused on Lebanon which has been featured in CNN, CNN Arabic, the L.A. Times, the Guardian, El Mundo (Spanish), Angry Arab News Service, The Daily Star (Lebanon), and Now Lebanon. Wissam is also a contributing writer at Migrant Rights.

Interview with Jacob Appelbaum from Tor

Jacob Appelbaum is a computer security consultant and developer and advocate for the Tor Project, a tool and privacy network which protects internet users’ privacy and security. At the Arab Bloggers Workshop he gave a presentation about circumvention, online security, and anonymity. He is @ioerror on Twitter.

Interview with Rebecca Saab Saade

Rebecca Saab Saade is a social media trainer for the Beirut-based Social Media Exchange. She also works on LGBT rights advocacy work with Meem, “a community of lesbian, bisexual, queer & questioning women and transgender persons in Lebanon.” She helped subtitle the movie 10 Tactics into Arabic.