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Egypt identifies the new face of politics

Posted 6 January 2009 23:49 GMT

Written byMarwa Rakha

Countries	Egypt, Israel, Palestine
Topics	Technology, War & Conflict, International Relations, Politics, Media & Journalism, Digital Activism
Languages	English

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From Egypt, Perwin Ali came across an article mentioning Israel's first press conference on Twitter and she commented saying: “Hold the freakin' presses! A full-fledged press conference in 140-character conversations? And not just any press conference, a global-issue press conference. You have to hand it to them, if nothing else these people are smart.”

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