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Thursday, April 12, 2007

"Voice of a Silent Majority"

"Muslim journalists and bloggers across the Arab world are speaking out to promote civil society and women's rights in Islamic societies. But it is a hard struggle at times, with societal pressure and even fines to contend with," writes Spiegle in this piece that profiles three Arab journalists and bloggers.

Rana Husseini, who wrote the piece I posted earlier today about honor killing, is the first one profiled. The article forgets to mention Abdel Kareem Soleiman, the Egyptian blogger who was recently sentenced to 4 years in jail.

The title of this post, which is also the subtitle of the article, is how one of the bloggers, Bahraini Mahmoud al Yousif describes himself.

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