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What happens to a country when its population grows by more than 10% in three years? In Syria, which has absorbed more than a million Iraqi refugees, you can see cosmetic transformations. Iraqi-accented Arabic is heard constantly in the cafés and streets of Damascus. Real estate prices have...
Viacom, which recently yanked its programs from YouTube, has signed a deal to supply Joost with movies from Paramount and programming from MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and other stations. TIME has learned that Joost will soon announce another big deal--with JumpTV, the world's largest distributor of international TV...
Kareem's blog posts would not have been that different. For example, he wrote about how he wanted to become a human rights lawyer working for the betterment of "Muslim and Arabic women." But his blog also condemned sacred Muslim rituals like fasting during the holy month of Ramadan. He...
The sentence surprised Gamal Eid, the Executive Director of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information. The most blog-repressive regimes had been Tunisia, followed by Saudi Arabia, Syria and Libya, which have blocked sites and limited internet access. Eid had written earlier in the year that "the Egyptian bloggers...
Remarkably, despite the profound imbalance in political power and the legacy of repression, many individual Iraqis forged business, social and personal relationships between the sects. In Baghdad and other cities, most neighborhoods built in the modern era were mixed. Residents of Adhamiya and Khadamiya were able to reach across the...