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Solomon and Cameran Ashraf, an adjunct faculty member at California State University, Pomona, discussed how Twitter updates were able to increase communication...
...Ashraf mentioned the example of demonstrators involved with Iran’s Green Movement, which sought last summer to overturn election results that many viewed as potentially fraudulent...
According to Ashraf, after people began protesting the election results, the government drastically limited Internet speeds...
...eight years on the ground there in Pakistan and feel very disillusioned and extremely bitter that when American taxpayers and the public thought they were helping, their money was not put to good use. It did not reach the people - I saw it with my own eyes," says Nasim Ashraf, a Pakistani American who directs the Middle East Institute's Pakistan Studies Center in Washington. While living temporarily in Pakistan, Ashraf ran the National Commission for Human Development, a Cabinet-level post charged with raising key educational and health metrics; he gives higher marks to the World Bank's education...
...quits on Karzai, the results could be disastrous. "It will be dog-eat-dog here," says Ashraf Ghani, a U.S.-educated presidential contender. In the vacuum created by a U.S. pullout, he argues, the Taliban would retake Kabul while millions of Afghans who embraced Western promises of girls' education, democracy and a place for Afghanistan in the 21st century would flee the country...