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Syrian voted “Best Arabic Blogger”

on May 2, 2010, 3:04 pm / in Social Media Monitor

SMN 1, May 2, 2010 He mixes literary expression with politics. The stories he posts resemble old-style Arabic literature but with underlying references to politics in his home country, Syria. Nathan Joseph, a 29-year-old Australian of Syrian origin who works as a network security engineer in Perth, Australia, started blogging at the end of 2006 to strengthen his bond with […]

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Looking for the Disappeared

on May 2, 2010, 3:02 pm / in Social Media Monitor

SMN 1, May 2, 2010 A Facebook group is seeking to expose the highly sensitive issue of dissidents who went missing in the 1970s and 1980s in Syria. The group said it wanted to break the silence about all those who disappeared following their arrests or were seized by authorities between 1970 and 1989, a period it referred to by […]

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