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Highlights from Day Three of #AB11

Day two and day three of the Arab Bloggers Summit have been more relaxed open workshops where participants can propose sessions on the fly. We’ve heard about citizen media strategies (spectacle, narrative, discourse), making sense of propaganda and counter-propaganda, and how to work with videos, audios, and security software.

متابعة قراءة Highlights from Day Three of #AB11

Video: Hayder Hamzoz from Iraq

Hayder Hamzoz is a graphic designer and blogger from Baghdad, Iraq. He collaborates on the blog Iraqi Streets 4 Change, which talks about some of the current events including recent protests in the country. Hayder also is a prolific citizen and social media trainer, and has been involved with several programs teaching Iraqi women how to use technology tools. You can follow him on Twitter (@Hamzoz).

Skype Chat at Arab Bloggers Meeting with Palestinians Who Were Denied Visas

Skype chat with Palestinian bloggers
Skype chat between Palestinians bloggers at Heinrich Boel office in Ramallah and Arab Bloggers Meeting in Tunis. By @georgiap

In a few moments we will have a plenary Skype chat here in Tunis with the Palestinian bloggers who were denied visas to come to the Arab Bloggers Meeting.

Below, is a statement we have written questioning the Tunisian authorities on their decision to deny visas to Palestinians in Ramallah and Cairo.
متابعة قراءة Skype Chat at Arab Bloggers Meeting with Palestinians Who Were Denied Visas

محادثة عبر سكايب في ملتقى المدونين العرب مع المدونين الفلسطينيين الذين تم رفض تأشيراتهم

Skype chat with Palestinian bloggers
Photo by @georgiap

في دقائق معدودة سنقوم بمحادثة جماعية عبر سكايب من هنا في تونس مع المدونين الفلسطينيين الذين تم رفض منحهم تأشيرات دخول للحضور إلى الملتقى اللثالث للمدونين العرب.

فيمايلي بيان قمنا بصياغته لمسائلة الحكومة التونسية عن قرارها برفض منح تأشيرات الدخول للفلسطينيين في رام الله والقاهرة.
متابعة قراءة محادثة عبر سكايب في ملتقى المدونين العرب مع المدونين الفلسطينيين الذين تم رفض تأشيراتهم

Borders Vs. Bloggers

Re-published from Beirutiyat

By Assaad Thebian

“The difference between Arab Bloggers 2009 and Arab Bloggers 2011 is that we are no longer the 100/200 crazy people who thought change is evitable” those blogger’s words registered in the head. After two years on the last meeting in Beirut, the Arab Bloggers meet in the “free” Tunisia after three successful revolutions in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia and other in process in Bahrain, Syria and Yemen.
متابعة قراءة Borders Vs. Bloggers