I recently stumbled across an old post which contained a recommendation, long forgotten, that I look into a woman named Esra'a Al-Shafei. This link, and the following three, have some great info about this brave woman and her efforts to forge new chains of communication in struggling parts of the world. I don't have a twitter, but I encourage people to follow her on there.
http://www.mideastyouth.com/about-us/
http://fellows.ted.com/profiles/esra-a-al-shafei
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYOA6mjqeKo
I'm in love with the entire concept of the MideastYouth project. This is what the internet is for. It's supposed to be one giant conversation between the peoples of the earth, and with all these relatively new channels of communication (blogs, YouTube, the ability to webcam and live stream important events as they are happening), projects like MideastYouth are so important and affect numerous aspects of our cultural (r)evolution.
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