The Stream is AJE’s current events show that draws on social media to define its programming content. I guest hosted the show this week. We discussed the debate over proposed new domestic violence laws in Lebanon, as well as Femisting’s response when #reasonstobeatyourgirlfriend started trending on twitter last weekend. You can watch the show here.
Archives for 2011
East Village & overcoming the bystander effect
August 5, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Not the usual fare for this blog, but a little vignette I wrote up for my local paper – quite a change from my usual subject matter. As one comment writer noted, “The most interesting part is that a number of people will stop to help once one person does.” I think that is true […]
Atrocities Prevention Taskforce: my hopes & fears
August 4, 2011 by 1 Comment
I’m sharing here a graf from the conclusion of Fighting for Darfur that I feel much more hopeful about now than when I wrote it, with today’s fantastic announcement by the Obama administration of an Atrocities Prevention Taskforce which, according to the NYT, will “be assigned with coming up with a range of American responses […]
Democratizing the media
August 2, 2011 by 2 Comments
I just had the thoroughly enjoyable experience of “guest hosting” (which really just means throwing in a couple of lines here and there) The Stream, an Al Jazeera English show on serious current events that are being discussed in the social media, but are under-covered in the traditional media. I may do a separate post […]
U.S government cannot confirm mass graves in Sudan
July 21, 2011 by Leave a Comment
[With MARY BETH SHERIDAN] U.S. officials say satellite imagery provides no clear evidence of mass graves in an area of Sudan that has recently erupted in war, contradicting claims by a humanitarian group. The Satellite Sentinel Project, co-founded by actor George Clooney, said last week that it had detected what appeared to be three mass […]
Must-watch video on Southern Kordofan
July 16, 2011 by Leave a Comment
As many of you know, the Sudanese government has blocked journalists from entering Southern Kordofan, making verifiable information difficult to come by. But a pair of Al Jazeera journalists managed to get in illegally last week, and have produced what is by far the most comprehensive first-hand documentation to date of the impact of the […]
PBS NewsHour
July 14, 2011 by Leave a Comment
In South Sudan, a nation is born – but with troubles. Judy Woodruff discusses the challenges the young country faces with Rebecca Hamilton.
NPR: South Sudanese rejoice on eve of independence
July 12, 2011 by Leave a Comment
TELL ME MORE’s Michel Martin discusses the secession with Ofeibea Quist-Arcton, West Africa correspondent for NPR, and Rebecca Hamilton, author of Fighting for Darfur. Listen here.
Clooneyization of the South Sudan story
July 9, 2011 by 4 Comments
The New York Times, which has two correspondents in Sudan right now, chose – on South Sudan’s independence – to run a story from there that starts and ends with George Clooney, who is not in Sudan right now. JUBA, Sudan — On the desk in his office in Juba, the capital of what will […]
#LoveFromSudan
July 9, 2011 by Leave a Comment
I write this, five hours into the life of the Republic of South Sudan, not from the new nation’s capital Juba, but from – New York. Not being in Juba was a conscious choice. Being in New York was not. I decided a while back not to put myself in Juba for the celebrations. My […]
