Meedan at #4MCairo conference, talking about Checkdesk and participatory journalism
Meedani Dina Hawary will today be at CFI’s 4M conference in Cairo to discuss the intersection of new media and journalism, in particular to present the work we’re doing on Checkdesk and approaches to participatory journalism. Below are the slides for Dina’s presentation, and the livestream (in Arabic) for those who want to follow. تْشِك دِسْك – الإعلام الاجتماعي إلى غرف الأخبار from Tom Trewinnard [View the story "4M Cairo 2013 - Day 1 | Journalism and new media : new working experiences, new tools, new ways of organizing" on... Read The Rest →
New Media and Translation: Cairo House of Translation lectures and workshops postponed
My talks and seminar in Cairo next week have been canceled – all thoughts and prayers to friends in #egypt for peace and progress — ed bice (@edbice) December 6, 2012 We’re sad to announce that the next House of Translation event – in collaboration with the AUC’s Center for Translation Studies and Egypt’s National Center for Translation – has been postponed following recent events in Cairo. We’ll post more information when it’s available, and in the meantime we’ll be translating tweets from #Egypt on our Twitter feed. Tweets by... Read The Rest →
*POSTPONED* New media and translation – public lectures by Meedan CEO Ed Bice
Note: due to recent unrest in Cairo, the House of Translation lecture and workshop series has been postponed until further notice. We will post new dates and details of the rearranged events in due course. As part of his upcoming visit to Cairo to lead the next “House of Translation” series of workshops, Meedan CEO Ed Bice will be giving two public lectures, hosted by the American University in Cairo’s Center for Translation Studies and the National Center for Translation: Social Media Translation: Real-Time Media, Network Culture and the Translator... Read The Rest →
Cairo journalist and Twitter supremo Lilian Wagdy trains budding citizen reporters at Tahrir Lounge
Last week I took part in the first of a series of workshops organized by Meedan and the Birmingham City University Centre for Media and Cultural Research that aim to train citizen journalists in verification techniques for social media, such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. The ultimate goal of these workshops is to introduce trainees to a reporting platform developed by Meedan and adopted by one of Egypt’s best-known independent newspapers, Al-Masry Al-Youm. The platform, http://liveblog.almasryalyoum.com, is designed to support citizen journalists to verify and disseminate important citizen reporting, and... Read The Rest →
Egypt’s revolution is in turmoil but its social media activism points to a bright future
“Same book, different cover.” That was how a well-connected social media manager described Egypt’s post-revolution transition when the Meedan team met him last week in Cairo. Working in a pristine air conditioned office located in the rapidly expanding hinterland of the Egyptian capital, our contact nevertheless expected 2012 to be a year of dramatic growth and vitality in the Egyptian web publishing market. In the city centre, heavily armed soldiers still surround the crumbling Maspero television building, long the propagandistic power base of the Mubarak regime, now circled with barbed... Read The Rest →
What will Middle East make of Obama speech?
Barack Obama has a pretty daunting task ahead of him if he is to win over the Muslim world in one speech. But Time‘s reporting his approval ratings are sky high. So how will his all-crucial speech in Cairo on Thursday be received by the people of the region? We are looking for new volunteer translators and citizen reporters (in addition to any existing Meedanis) to help report and translate reactions to Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo on Thursday 4 June. This is going to be a massive event, and... Read The Rest →
'Bloggers scream: We are searching for a real outlet for our thoughts, away from surveillance!'
Read the original Arabic article in Al Raya here. Translated by Randa. Cairo- Al-Rayah Newspaper – Raymaa Abdel-Ghafoor: One of the events at the Cairo International Book Fair was a provocative symposium about “Blogs’ literature: Is it just a number of screams or scattered papers?” The symposium was run by the novelist, Youssef Al-Qaeed, in the presence of Shaban Youssef, the poet, and the young bloggers, Ghada Abdel-Aal, Mai Khaled, and Shady Asslan. Al-Qaeed mentioned that the subject of the symposium considers the ideology behind blogs, of which the new... Read The Rest →
'The renaissance has ended, only the police remain' – Al Akhbar review of 41st Cairo Book Fair in English
Read the original in Al Akhbar here. Translated into English by Asma. “The Cairo International Book Fair” didn’t retain anything of the golden age except some superlatives. While waiting for a real revival of the cultural institution to happen, and for what it needs of diverse intellectual and political conditions to take place, the 41st edition of the book fair witnessed some changes that deserve some reflection: Political and intellectual works have declined, leaving more space for various trends and generations of literary works. Mohammed Khir Pages of thousands of... Read The Rest →
Egyptian culture comes in for criticism at Cairo Book Fair – Islam Today translated to English
Read the Arabic original on Islam Today here. Translated into English by Mariam. Thinkers and intellectuals have criticized the level of the Egyptian culture and its current situation. During the conference on “Cultural services, between service and profit” which was held at the Cairo International Book Fair, participants considered the Egyptian culture to be in a bad shape. Dr. Said Allawandi (international relations expert at Al-Ahram Foundation) says that the Egyptian culture is currently suffering from a severe “malaise”, and that it no longer holds the position is used to.... Read The Rest →