Tag: Facebook

More on the “General Strikes”—مزيد من الكلام عن الإضرابات العامة

ّI just read a few of my friend Daïkha Dridi’s articles and they made me a bit depressed.  Mostly because, even after all this time with Arabic, I could largely read them in French, even with my 17-year-old high-school French that I never practiced with actual French-speakers.  I could skim …

Facebookists for Regime Change—الفيسبوكيون لتغيير النظام

Collection of Facebook banners by Sami Ben Gharbia/Global Voices Advocacy This article was commissioned for Is Greater Than When Mark Zuckerberg, a 19-year-old Harvard drop-out, launched Facebook in 2004, he could not have imagined that one day his project would become the primary organizing tool for a vast movement of …