Gender in the Politics of Uprisings

Ahmed Al Rawi’s publishing, “Framing the online women’s movements in the Arab world”, was brilliantly written. While it was a research paper, and those are expected to be objective, I truly appreciated the manner in which it was written in. Like Maya Mikdashi’s articles highlighted, most studies pertaining to feminism are done so in a …

Media for Action

I decided to read David Faris’ contribution “We Are All Revolutionaries Now: Social Media Networks and the Egyptian Revolution” first to somewhat preface my delving into the actual media objects of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. I felt that the overarching theme, as foreshadowed by the article’s title, was that Social Media Networks are highly democratic, …