http://globalvoicesonline.org/2005/07/27/podcast-from-amman-with-ahmad-humein/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Thu, 24 May 2012 16:14:55 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://globalvoicesonline.org/2005/07/27/podcast-from-amman-with-ahmad-humein/comment-page-1/#comment-3357 …My heart’s in Accra » Mitt said it, not me. Fri, 16 Sep 2005 17:21:24 +0000 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices/2005/07/27/podcast-from-amman-with-ahmad-humein/#comment-3357 [...] In the course of writing this paper, I found myself thinking a great deal about blogging communities that explicitly try to reach audiences in other countries. It’s pretty clear to me that many of the middle eastern bloggers I read regularly are self-consciously writing for audiences in North America and Europe, hoping to challenge stereotypes about their nations, the Arab world, and Muslims as a whole. Ahmad Humeid of 60east says as much in an interview we did for Global Voices. My friend Haitham Sabbah builds projects like NoToTerrorism.com to demonstrate that the majority of Arabs are as horrified by terrorism as most Americans are. And Mahmood Al-Yousif, on the “about” page of his blog, Mahmood’s Den, says the following: Now I try to dispel the image that Muslims and Arabs suffer from - mostly by our own doing I have to say - in the rest of the world. I am no missionary and don’t want to be. I run several internet websites that are geared to do just that, create a better understanding that we’re not all nuts hell-bent on world destruction. [...] [...] In the course of writing this paper, I found myself thinking a great deal about blogging communities that explicitly try to reach audiences in other countries. It’s pretty clear to me that many of the middle eastern bloggers I read regularly are self-consciously writing for audiences in North America and Europe, hoping to challenge stereotypes about their nations, the Arab world, and Muslims as a whole. Ahmad Humeid of 60east says as much in an interview we did for Global Voices. My friend Haitham Sabbah builds projects like NoToTerrorism.com to demonstrate that the majority of Arabs are as horrified by terrorism as most Americans are. And Mahmood Al-Yousif, on the “about” page of his blog, Mahmood’s Den, says the following: Now I try to dispel the image that Muslims and Arabs suffer from – mostly by our own doing I have to say – in the rest of the world. I am no missionary and don’t want to be. I run several internet websites that are geared to do just that, create a better understanding that we’re not all nuts hell-bent on world destruction. [...]

]]> http://globalvoicesonline.org/2005/07/27/podcast-from-amman-with-ahmad-humein/comment-page-1/#comment-2439 …My heart’s in Accra » Badly overdue note on my trip to Amman Thu, 04 Aug 2005 22:08:04 +0000 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices/2005/07/27/podcast-from-amman-with-ahmad-humein/#comment-2439 [...] Turns out they’re also all blogging in English. This isn’t entirely surprising, given past British influence in Transjordan, and the fact that Jordan’s bloggers are - by their own admission - a highly educated and wealthy elite. What’s really interesting to me is the extent to which Jordanian bloggers seem to be committed to the idea that they’re blogging for an international audience. Talking about this the day before the meetup with Ahmad Humeid (on a podcast we posted on Global Voices), Ahmad made the point that Jordan’s a small nation, with few people online, and that Jordanians want to be heard by a wider audience… which means blogging in English, the current default language of the web. [...] [...] Turns out they’re also all blogging in English. This isn’t entirely surprising, given past British influence in Transjordan, and the fact that Jordan’s bloggers are – by their own admission – a highly educated and wealthy elite. What’s really interesting to me is the extent to which Jordanian bloggers seem to be committed to the idea that they’re blogging for an international audience. Talking about this the day before the meetup with Ahmad Humeid (on a podcast we posted on Global Voices), Ahmad made the point that Jordan’s a small nation, with few people online, and that Jordanians want to be heard by a wider audience… which means blogging in English, the current default language of the web. [...]

]]> http://globalvoicesonline.org/2005/07/27/podcast-from-amman-with-ahmad-humein/comment-page-1/#comment-2202 360east | Ahmad Humeid’s blog and podcast » Blog Archive » My interview on GlobalVoices with Ethan Zuckerman Wed, 27 Jul 2005 18:49:02 +0000 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices/2005/07/27/podcast-from-amman-with-ahmad-humein/#comment-2202 [...] Earlier today I had a great chat with Ethan Zuckerman, who’s here in Amman for the Open Source Opportunities seminar. Both of us were ’showing off’ our Apple gear (Powerbooks, iPods in the lobby of the Jordan Intercontinental. We talked about blogging, podcasting, media, technology, youth and self expression. Ethan just posted this podcast of our talk on the GlobalVoices online site. [...] [...] Earlier today I had a great chat with Ethan Zuckerman, who’s here in Amman for the Open Source Opportunities seminar. Both of us were ’showing off’ our Apple gear (Powerbooks, iPods in the lobby of the Jordan Intercontinental. We talked about blogging, podcasting, media, technology, youth and self expression. Ethan just posted this podcast of our talk on the GlobalVoices online site. [...]

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