Syria - Syria’s crackdown on the Internet and political dissidents has intensified. Blogger Wael Ghonim reported that Facebook has been blocked for many people in Syria and tweeted a graphic video of Bashar’s thugs attacking civilians. Syrian dissident Haitham Maleh has gone into hiding. He reported via Twitter that military is flooding the streets, and that civilians are fearing that their...

Bahrain: More than a month after the pro-democracy protests led by the Shiite majority were quelled by the government, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights reports that more than 1,000 Shia employees have been fired and 817 have been detained for allegedly participating in the protests. 10 Shiite mosques have also been burned down. Bloggers have been speaking out about the issue since it began,...

The following is a post from the blog Qusay Today; to access the original, click here. Five months ago, Ahmed wrote a post about the Top Ten Twitter Users In Saudi Arabia, of course that was before the “Arab Spring” when news sites started quoting twitter users. I was interested in seeing how the list might have changed, and here are my findings, and while I did use a couple of sites...

The following article appeared in Wired. To access the original, click here. Days after being named to Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world, Wael Ghonim, the young Google executive who became a symbol for the Egyptian revolution, announced he is leaving the search giant to a start a non-governmental organization in Egypt. “Decided to take a long term...

This article first appeared in the Daily Beast. To access the original, click here.  Britain, France, Germany and Portugal Monday asked the U.N. Security Council to condemn the Syrian government’s attacks against protesters, which have killed hundreds over the past few weeks. The four countries also called for the fifteen-nation council to endorse Secretary-General Ban...