Strategic move indeed, Facebook rolls out plans for a new messaging service via SMS mobile phone services. You might be wondering how antiquated, right? I would be as well if I hadn’t spent a few months following the “backend” of the story about social media and its use during revolutions in the Middle East, inContinue reading “Facebook Wants a Piece of the Twitter (SMS) Revolution Pie”
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“Argo”- lacking the right kind of #MuslimRage
Argo is a movie about how the CIA took out a group of Americans who hid in a Canadian diplomats house after the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis in Tehran. Que up angry bearded men, yelling- no chanting- “death to America” and “America is Great Satan”, militants brandishing AK-47’s and all the other crazy that goesContinue reading ““Argo”- lacking the right kind of #MuslimRage”
The Arab Spring Between a Ballot and the Bullet
Black History Month- a lens of analysis for the Arab Spring February is Black History Month here in the US. Its an opportunity for Americans to give special attention to the contributions of Black Americans to our country. You might wonder whats the purpose of it? I will leave the answer for another post, here I want toContinue reading “The Arab Spring Between a Ballot and the Bullet”
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