I’ll be talking about my latest pieces and upcoming ones at the University of Texas at Austin next Monday.
Here is what the text in the center says:
“From Aleppo to Beirut, digital activism is providing new sources of news and new opportunities for influence over public opinion. This includes an unprecedented surge in local and hyper local news organizations now operating across Syria as well as the mushrooming of activist media in Beirut that has brought intense pressure on public officials. At the same time, the influx of news coming out of the region has also spawned intense mainstream media interest and with it portrayals and analysis that bring forward problematic Orientalist, Islamophobic and vaguely defined sectarian narratives both among the Western and local press.”
Please stop by if you are in the neighborhood.
