I've been thinking about leaving ever since it was acquired by Amazon, but now that there are decentralised, open and anti-corporate alternatives, I think it's time to move on.

بعد ١٥ سنة من استخدام تويتر كمنصة أساسية للتعبير عن رأيي على الأنترنت قفلت حسابي بسبب شراء البليونير إلون ماسك للموقع.

في ٢٠٠٧ سمعت عن تويتر وأشتركت فيه فوراً والحقيقة وقعت في غرام الموقع وفكرته وقدرة أن الواحد يتواصل مع أشخاص يعرفهم أو ما يعرفهمش ويعرف هما بيعملوا أيه بشكل حي، وكمان نظام متابعة المغردين وقتها كان سهل وسريع.

وقتها طبعا كان فيه المدونات وفيسبوك لكن المدونات مكانش فيه توقع أنك بتنشر التدوينات بشكل سريع …

openDemocracy, a wesbite that publishes posts by prominent academics and journalists and encourages debate about world politics and culture, has published as part of its Arab Awakening section a guide to the best blogs in the Arab world for 2011. These include very important and popular blogs such as Nawaat, Jadaliyya, Mamfakinch and the Arabist.

Nawaat was this time last year an incredibly important resource, not just for Tunisians but for everyone who wanted to …

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Today, we released a new feature for …

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Derealization is the feeling that things in one's surroundings are strange, unreal, or somehow altered.

Suddenly, today everything around me froze in time.

A few fantastic left sitting in a small circle, CSF conscripts sitting in circles eating, a friend tired and thinking, children running after each other near a dangerous short metal fence, women trying to silence their kids sitting on worn blankets on the grass, policemen with a one inch thick stripe on …

The Kiss (Auguste Rodin)

I can understand the reasoning behind censoring nudity on TV. I can swallow my discomfort. I am watching the film for free. But I shriek at totally spoiling a film by removing innocent kissing scenes while leaving bloody violence. Somehow, mbc's dull censorship policy skewed films to become more violent. Now with awkward moments were both protagonists. Male and female, blush, act shyly or approach each other affectionately and then …