If you follow Middle Eastern politics on Twitter, everyone knows the go-to guy is Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi. Named one of Time Magazine’s 140 best twitter-feed’s to follow, Sultan tweeted the Egyptian revolution second by second. Elan speaks to the man behind the tweet. Read more »
Reform in Arab Gulf regimes is unattainable – for now
Much has been said over the past 12 months about the need for reform and democratisation by Arab Gulf governments. While it is evident that Gulf governments have an aversion to genuine democratic reform, it is far too simplistic to put the blame for political stagnation squarely on them. For behind these governments is a network of interests so powerful and intricately woven that it acts as a resistance lever even in the rare instances where serious political reform is suggested. Read more »
لقاء حصري لبرنامج أون تيوب مع الكاتب سلطان القاسمي
.المقطع التالي هو تقرير صورنا مع الناشط والكاتب سلطان القاسمي وهو لقاء حصري لبرنامج أون تيوب Read more »
The Egyptophile!
In an interview with Campus Magazine, Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi discusses his love and optimism for Egypt, and why he’s always been “on the right side of history, even if it looked for a few days that I wasn’t.” Read more »
Independent voices of 2011: The most influential non-celebrity users of Twitter
The Independent Voices 2011 survey names Sultan Al Qassemi among the top Twitter accounts of 2011 in the World News category. Read more »
Pioneer Bloggers in the Gulf Arab States
Long before Facebook updates and 140-character tweets, a number of cyber activists defined the landscape of non-government led opinion in the Gulf Arab states. In less than a decade, a group of bloggers—many of whom have never met—has paved the way for the emergence of the “other opinion” that was and continues to be largely missing from the government controlled Gulf Arab media. The shake-up to traditional media that these blogging pioneers caused was no less significant than what Al Jazeera’s arrival did to the moribund government-controlled television channels of the Arab world. Read more »