News stories by Emad Mekay*

  1. OP-ED: The Real I-Revolt Apps of the Arab Spring

    - Inter Press Service

    A story from Inter Press Service, an international news agency

    So here I am, an Arab journalist in Silicon Valley, where four out of every four people I meet believe Facebook invented the Arab Spring. Three more weeks here and I may start to hallucinate that Mark Zuckerberg was a Cairo-slums native named Hassouna El-Fatatri, who rotted in a Mubarak prison for advocating personal privacy rights.

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