Interview with Saed Karzoun

Saed Karzoud is a Palestinian journalist and blogger, who conducted a workshop at the 2nd Arab Bloggers Meeting on the use of music in media analysis. He takes pride in showing the positive aspects of daily life in Palestine on his personal blog.

Interview with Nasser Weddady

Nasser Weddady is a native of Mauritania and is the Civil Rights Outreach Director of the American Islamic Council based in Boston, Massachusetts. One of the Council’s initiatives is the Hands Across the Middle East Support Alliance.

One of the workshops he led during the 2nd Arab Bloggers Meeting dealt with the subject of funding sources for bloggers and other members of civil society, and the issues surrounding the perception of different types of funding.

Nasser can be followed on Twitter at @weddady.

Interview with Noha Atef

Noha Atef is the founder of Torture in Egypt (“Al-Tatheeb fi Masr”), a web-based campaign to document and spread awareness about human rights abuses in Egypt. Egypt Today profiled her work in March of last year. Atef is also a contributing author on Global Voices Advocacy where she documents cases of Egyptian bloggers who have been censored, arrested, and harassed. She is @NohaAtef on Twitter.

Open Street Maps in Egypt

Abdelrahman Hassan is leading contributor to Open Street Map, a Wikipedia-like alternative to Google Maps, based in Cairo, Egypt. (Until recently GPS devices were banned in Egypt.) In this video he describes the importance of creating and sharing open licensed maps, their use for humanitarian organizations, and what he hopes to get out of the 2nd Arab Bloggers Meeting.

A video of his presentation from the State of the Map conference, which took place in Amsterdam in June, is available on Vimeo.

Interview with Hisham

“Hisham” (Hisham Khribchi) is one of the founding members of the site Talk Morocco, which aims to be forum to “encourage intelligent, open, and honest debate on issues relating to Morocco and the diaspora.”

In addition to writing in his own personal blog The Mirror, Hisham contributes to Global Voices Online where he has written about Morocco since April 2009. He can also be found on Twitter at @Hisham_G