دليل المواطن لمراقبة الإنتخابات على خفيف (بإستخدام الإعلام الإجتماعي)
كلنا هانروح ننتخب إن شاء الله و نعطي صوتنا لمن يستحقه. اللي هم مش فلول. و اللي هم ما باعوناش في الميدان. :) موظف بلجنة إنتخابية في منظقة ريفية في السودان يقرأ الرقم [...]
November 2011
October 2011
Aaaah! A giant poster of Ben Ali on the streets of Tunisia!
Earlier tonight the first Tunisian voter, based in Canberra, Australia, has cast his/her vote for the Tunisian Constituent Assembly. As I were on January 14th - I am both extremely happy for Tunisian, in complete [...]
The Anna Lindh Journalism Awards (I, umm, won!)
[Entry crossposted at eldahshan.com and at travellerwithin.com – hoping to consolidate both into one website. Promise! Apologies if that has caused any confusion to new readers.] I was already ecstatic when I received [...]
L’Accident
I still can't believe I was in there during the crash. No near death experience here. No "life flashing in front of my eyes" film roll. Sorry. In fact, as I lost control [...]
September 2011
Nominated for an Anna Lindh Journalism award
The following are a series of article I’ve written over the past months, and for which I was nominated for an Anna Lindh journalism award. (woohoo! :) ) The first articles were written during the [...]
“Profoundly We Feel the Brotherhood of Our Fate” – in Poland this week
Last time I was in Poland was in 2004. I spent my birthday week on a visit to the Auschwitz and Birkenau death camps. The weather was fantastic, to the grief of our tour guide [...]
July 2011
Egyptian Youth Sidelined From Their Own Revolution
My article in Yale Global Magazine is out! One line abstract: with all the developments on the Egyptian political scene, the young people who led the revolution are struggling for relevance, while juggling to hold [...]
Meeting the French “Subversive Elements” That Israel Fears So Much
A national security threat? Paris, France. They are armed with colourful balloons and high spirits. There's a rainbow flag in the midst. But according to the Israeli government and the airlines that seem to take [...]
Egypt must embrace independent South Sudan
Having attended the referendum for Self-determination 6 months ago in South Sudan (and written that article back then), I would've loved to be there tonight as well! I will however content myself by sending my [...]
June 2011
Revolution. Again.
I won't write a narrative for yesterday's events - check out Dima El Khatib's blog for that. But I just want to share a couple of photos I took on the night of June 28th-29th. [...]