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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 [...]

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 [...]

Interview with Eman AbdElRahman

Eman AbdElRahman or “Lasto Adri” covers Egypt for Global Voices Online and is very active in the project Kolena Laila (in English here). The project devotes an annual day to raise awareness about the problems “facing oppressed women in the Arab region.”
She also posts on her personal blogs Lasto Adri [ar] and On My Own [...]

Interview with Jillian York

Jillian York describes herself as “a writer, activist, Internet censorship combatant, and blogger.” She is based in Boston where she works at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society on the OpenNet Initiative and Herdict, a crowdsourcing project to identify blocked websites.
She has a personal blog, writes frequently for the Huffington Post, and is an [...]

Interview with Manal Hassan

Manal Hassan co-founded the Egyptian GNU/Linux Users Group in 2004. The next year she won awards from Reporters Without Borders and Deutsche Welle’s Best of Blogs contest for her writing at Manalaa.net along with her husband, Alaa Abd El Fattah. Together they founded the first and largest aggregator of Egyptian blogs. These days Manal is [...]