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Reuters Twitter account hacked in Syrian tug-of-war
Reuters has been scrambling to tighten its Internet security since Friday, when one of its blogs started spontaneously featuring "inaccurate and unauthorized" reports of rebel forces gaining ground in...
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An ugly food fight in Tunisia
A fight between hardline Salafists at a Tunisian mosque on Tuesday was hardly big news. A brief story by AFP on the incident was buried by reports from Aleppo and coverage of the attack in Sinai....
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Lebanon’s former information minister arrested for bomb plot
Lebanese security forces arrested the former information minister of Lebanon and close ally of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on Thursday. Michel Samaha, who served as minister of information under...
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Make tweet, not war
Lebanese political figures have become notorious for taking their rather unseemly catfights to Twitter and Facebook, leading some to wonder whether tweeting their spats is the only thing keeping these...
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Moroccan newspaper editor threatened for opposing premarital sex ban
A cleric has issued a fatwa calling for the death of the editor of Morocco's Al-Ahdath Al-Maghribia daily newspaper, Moktar el-Ghzioui, after he went on television proclaiming his opposition to...
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What a Russian minister didn't say about Assad
On Tuesday, Al-Watan, a Saudi newspaper, quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov saying that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had agreed to step down after months of trying to quash...
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Syrian cyberwar rages on
They're at it again. The BBC reported on Monday that Al Jazeera was the latest media outlet to feel the wrath of the Syrian Electronic Army, a group of pro-Assad hackers who have recently been running...
View ArticleNYC anti-Islam subway ads lead to pink spray paint showdown
Prominent Egyptian-American journalist and activist Mona Eltahawy, author of FP's May/June cover story, was arrested on Tuesday in New York City and jailed overnight following a scuffle over American...
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NYC’s transit authority changes advertising standards in wake of anti-Islam ads
The New York Timesreported today that New York City's Metropolitan Transit Authority voted 8-0 to change its rules on what advertising it will accept after the furor created by Pamela Geller's...
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9 and 10-year-old arrested for blasphemy in Egypt
The Egypt Independentreported on Wednesday that two children, aged nine and ten, were arrested and charged with blasphemy in the Upper Egyptian city of Beni Suef after being accused of urinating on...
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Why did Facebook censor this photograph?
The Uprising of Women in the Arab World is not pleased with Facebook. The group, which advocates for women's rights in the Middle East, issued a press statement on Nov. 7 claiming that Facebook, once...
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Paris Hilton takes Mecca
Paris Hilton, darling of tabloid papers and the star of a notorious sex tape, has opened a new store in the most bizarre of locales: the Islamic holy city of Mecca. What could go wrong? "Loving my...
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IDF social media director criticized for 'Obama-style' blackface photo
In another cautionary Facebook tale, Sacha Dratwa, the social media director for the Israeli Defense Forces, came under fire this week for posting a picture of himself on the site with his face...
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Anonymous threatens Morsy with cyberwarfare
Members of the amorphous hacker collective known as "Anonymous" released a video on YouTube Tuesday warning Egyptian president Mohamed Morsy that he risks cyberwarfare unless he relinquishes his claim...
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