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Wael Ghonim: Creating a revolution 2.0 in Egypt
The protests that led to the Egyptian revolution last year were organized in part by an anonymous Facebook page administrator. When the police found out who he was, they arrested and interrogated him. After his release, Wael Ghonim became the public face of the Egyptian revolution… Read more
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Interrupters: Keeping peace on the streets
For 11 years, former gang members in Chicago have entered dangerous neighborhoods in the city and staged group interventions for at-risk youth, in an effort to try to stop the cycle of retaliatory gang violence that plagues the city’s western and southern neighborhoods… Read more
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Clooney on acting, fame & cellphone camera
George Clooney is nominated for two Oscars this year — for his lead role in The Descendants and for co-writing the adapted screenplay for The Ides Of March, which he also directed. He speaks to Robert Siegel on today’s All Things Considered about film, but also about the life he lives as one of Hollywood’s most famous men… Read more
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A year after Mubarak, where does Egypt stand?
A year ago today, tens of thousands of Egyptians gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and celebrated a previously unimaginable achievement: the toppling of Hosni Mubarak… Read more
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The Week’s Best Longreads
From the game of chicken between Israel and Iran to the memos that reveal Obama’s intimate decision making, The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the Web this week… Read more
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The graveyard shift: Parkour in a Gaza cemetery
Mohammed al-Jakhbeer and Abed Allah Enshasy sprint along narrow walls. They somersault off concrete pillars and land in the deep sand… Read more
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The 100 Most Influential Arabs on Twitter
Twitter is one of the hottest social networks around, a place where you go to engage with thought leaders, top officials and celebrities. I once read that “Facebook is for people you went to school with. Twitter is for people you wish you went to school with.” Read more
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Expo Notes: iFlashDrive USB drive works on both iPad and Mac
When Wi-Fi’s not available, it’d be nice if there were a simple and easy way to share files between your iPad and Mac without using a physical connection between the two… Read more
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THE IECONOMY: How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work
Apple once bragged that its products were made in America. But it has since shifted its immense manufacturing work overseas, posing questions about what corporate America owes Americans… Read more
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Revolution between hard covers
THE Middle East has a bad reputation when it comes to books; nowhere else do so few people read them. But that might change as censorship rules are relaxed and new books begin to dissect the popular uprisings that felled despots in Egypt and Tunisia—along with other delicate subjects. Eye-witness accounts, jeremiads and self-congratulatory memoirs jostle for space at the Cairo book fair, which coincides this month with the first anniversary of the revolutions… View site
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Why Every Entrepreneur Should Self-Publish a Book
I’ve published eight books in the past seven years, five with traditional publishers (Wiley, Penguin, HarperCollins), one comic book, and the last two I’ve self-published… View site
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New York Review Books
New York Review Books publishes NYRB Classics, NYRB Collections, and The New York Review Children’s Collection… View site
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Project Argo is a collection of tools and best practices for building topic-focused sites in WordPress
On this site you’ll find tools and best practices developed by our team of bloggers, editors and technologists over more than a year of daily, full-time blogging on twelve websites… Read more
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Syria polarised by Bashar Al Assad’s defiance – The National
DAMASCUS // Supporters of the Syrian president hailed it as a masterful display, outlining a clear vision of the future for a crisis-hit land. But Bashar Al Assad’s critics, and even the few remaining moderates, saw his fourth national address as a final nail in the coffin of hopes for a peaceful settlement… Read more
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Mary Raftery, 54, Dies; Irish Journalist Documented Child Abuse
Ms. Raftery’s documentary “States of Fear” detailed a Dickensian network of reformatories and residential schools for poor, neglected and abandoned children… Read more
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Top Ten New Yorker Stories of 2011
Top Ten New Yorker Stories of 2011… View list
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The 11 Best Innovation Essays We Published In 2011
When company executives talk strategy, the question, whether spoken or implicit, invariably is, How can we be more like Apple? How do we develop those radical products that disrupt what people thought was possible? Read more
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5 Books to Look Forward to in 2012
Toni Morrison tackles race in post-Korean War America. A young literary star shows what happens when two people who’ve never met in person and have only spoken on the Internet get married. Anne Lamott describes the joy of being a grandmother. The sequel to The Passage finally arrives. Michael Chabon releases his first novel in four years… Read more
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A Poverty Solution That Starts With a Hug
perhaps the most widespread peril children face isn’t guns, swimming pools or speeding cars. Rather, scientists are suggesting that it may be “toxic stress” early in life, or even before birth… Read more
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New Gallup data on the emotional lives of Iraqis
New Gallup data on the emotional lives of Iraqis. Sharply rising anger, stress and sadness… View chart
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The Noise of Cairo (Trailer)
Documentary about the art scene in Cairo after the revolution… View trailer
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Melinda Gates Answers Questions
Melinda Gates, just back from a trip to Bangladesh, along with Nicholas Kristof, answer readers’ questions about maternal health and other women’s issues… Read more
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Nick Kristof On Journalism In A Digital World And The Age Of Activism
Nicholas Kristof has been writing for The New York Times for more than a quarter century and has appeared on that paper’s op-ed page since 2001, often penning articles about the struggles of people in distant parts of the world… Read more
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Harvard’s Nieman Foundation Offers E-book on “Writing the Book”
Dovetailing nicely with our story today about a publisher which re-puroposes journalists’ blogs into books, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University has published a free report entitled “Writing the Book” (PDF download), which offers more than 30 essays that examine different aspects of e-publishing… Read more
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Syria: Secrets from the city under siege
Eyes smeared with kohl, a young boy stares intently at the camera. Dozens gather for a funeral under a brooding sky. And in downtown Homs, the devastated city fighting a agonising rebellion against Syria’s President Assad, an old man closes his eyes and raises his hands in desperate prayer… Read more
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