Interview with Egyptian Blogger Ahmad Gharbeia

Ahmad Gharbeia is an advocate of open source software and open content based in Cairo, Egypt. He frequently trains bloggers how to publish information securely and anonymously, and was part of the team that translated Tactical Technology Collective’s Security in-a-Box toolkit into Arabic. He is @agharbeia on Twitter.
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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 [...]

Tweets from Beirut: Day Two of the Arab Bloggers Workshop

The second day of the Arab Bloggers Workshop kicked off with a presentation about Herdict Web, a site which uses crowdsourcing to gather reports of Internet filtering from users around the world. Qatari workshop participant Muhammad Basheer tweeted a photo from the presentation:

Muhammad Basheer tweets about Herdict

Following the first presentation, Egyptian blogger Manal discussed [...]

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 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 [...]