Abdullatif AlOmar

1 posts, joined 2008-08-6

Adil Nurmakov

1 posts, joined 2009-03-19

I am a 29-year-old researcher from Almaty, Kazakhstan. I hold Ph.D. in Political Science, run an NGO, a neweurasia.net's Kazakhstan section and a personal blog.

Ahmed Al-Omran

1 posts, joined 2009-08-28

In 1984, I was born in a big town called Hassa, east of Saudi Arabia. In 2002, I moved to the capital Riyadh to study at King Saud University. Currently, my life is divided between those two cities. My main motivation to do this is because I want to give a better view to the world about what's really happening in my country and the Middle East in general. I maintain two blogs: Saudi Jeans in English, and Yawmyat in Arabic. Recently, I co-founded Saudi Blogs, the first serious attempt to build the Saudi bloggers community.

Ali Abdulemam

2 posts, joined 2008-08-29

Ali Abdulemam (Bahrain) since 1999, has created, managed and maintained www.bahrainonline.org, the #1 website in Bahrain with over 100,000 daily hits. In collaboration, Mr. Abdulemam started www.al-manama.net, the first online media outlet registered in Bahrain. Just this year, Ali developed a new source of information online, www.bahrainportal.org. He has been active in international workshops and conferences discussing on the topics of freedom of expression and the Bahraini media environment.

Ali S. Novruzov

2 posts, joined 2009-07-19

I am an ordinary blogger from the Republic of Azerbaijan - a tiny country between the East and the West. I have a personal blog titled In Mutatione Fortitudo and write regular posts for UK-based Frontline Club. You can also follow my tweets here.

alNaser

2 posts, joined 2009-04-18

Amira Al Hussaini

11 posts, joined 2007-11-9

was an editor of an English language daily in Bahrain. Journalist. Columnist. Blogger. Educated and raised in Bahrain. Currently living in Ontario, Canada. Interests include writing, the arts and human rights.

Anders Pedersen

1 posts, joined 2009-09-7

Antony Loewenstein

2 posts, joined 2008-07-2

Antony is a Sydney-based freelance journalist, author and blogger. He has written for the Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, Washington Post, Haaretz, The Nation and many others. His best-selling book on the Israel/Palestine conflict, My Israel Question, was released by Melbourne University Publishing in 2007. His second book, The Blogging Revolution, on the internet in repressive regimes, will be released in September 2008 by Melbourne University Publishing. He is a board member of Macquarie University's Centre for Middle East and North African Studies and an Honorary Associate at Macquarie University's Department of Politics and International Relations. He is the co-founder of advocacy group Independent Australian Jewish Voices and works for Amnesty International Australia's 2008 campaign about Chinese internet repression and the Beijing Olympic Games. Antony appears regularly on radio, TV, in public and at universities discussing current affairs and politics.

Awab Alvi

3 posts, joined 2009-01-3

Teeth Maestro aka Dr. Awab Alvi has been an active blogger since July 2004 blogging at Teeth Maestro where he shares his concerns about politics and other such issues that may bug him from time to time. Dr. Awab Alvi is a Dentist by profession with a specialty in Orthodontics (Saint Louis Univ, MO, USA) and Root Canal (Univ of Penn, PA, USA), he maintains a full time practice at Alvi Dental Hospital in Karachi (website) at Sindhi Muslim Society.

Ben Wagner

1 posts, joined 2009-06-24

Graduate student in Political Science, Law, Statistics and International and Development Administration at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Universiteit Leiden. Ben has previously worked for the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, the european mediterranean youth bridge and the Munich Center on Governance, Communication, Public Policy and Law.

Bhumika Ghimire

9 posts, joined 2009-07-4

Bhumika Ghimire is a freelance reporter. Her articles have been published at OhMyNews, NepalNews, Toward Freedom, Telegraph Nepal, Himal South Asian and ACM Ubiquity. She is also a regular contributor for News UPI Asia Online and writes for Associated Content.

Carolina Rumuat

1 posts, joined 2009-06-2

Carolina is an Indonesian freelance feature writer and Lingua Bahasa Indonesia translator, based in Casablanca, Morocco.

Chris Salzberg

4 posts, joined 2007-12-16

Writer/translator and researcher living in Tokyo, Japan. I am the Japanese language editor for Global Voices (with Scilla Alecci). I blog in English and in Japanese, and Twitter in both. From a research perspective, I am interested in the intersection of translation and participatory media, the potential of community translation, and the contrasts of openness and difference. From a social perspective, I have written about changes in the local media landscape in Japan and what these changes mean for the future of news. I am also one of the few people covering issues of net regulation in Japan for an international audience. I'm always interested in talking about any of the above topics, if you have a venue and an audience, please contact me. クリス・サルツバーグはライター・翻訳家・研究員、東京在住。（共同編集者と一緒に）グローバル・ボイス(Global Voices)の日本語エディターをしている。ブログは英語と日本語の両方で書いている。グローバル・ボイスは日本語で朝日のコミミの記事で紹介された。 記事の中の引用や翻訳が問題がある場合は、お知らせください。場合によっては、引用部の削除を検討いたします。 メール： japanese AT globalvoicesonline DOT org

CJ Hinke

5 posts, joined 2008-05-17

CJ Hinke is a translator, book publisher and bibliographer of numerous children's books in Latin and Thai.  He has lived in Thailand since 1989 where he founded Freedom Against Censorship Thailand (FACT) in 2006 to campaign against pervasive censorship in Thai society.  As a Quaker, he became an organiser in the pacifist movement opposing the war in Vietnam and was arrested more than 35 times in demonstrations of civil disobedience.  After moving to Canada, in 1976, he became the last American arrested for the Vietnam draft, pardoned by Jimmy Carter's first official act as US President.  CJ formed the Society Protecting Intact Kinetic Ecosystems (SPIKE) which supported the tree-spiking of one of the world's last intact temperate rainforests in Clayoquot Sound off the west coast of Vancouver Island.  FACT's campaign is active internationally in resisting Internet, book, film and self-censorship.  "Freedom of opinions, freedom of thought, freedom of ideas, every one of us deserves a voice."

Daniel Chandranayagam

30 posts, joined 2008-08-15

Daniel Chandranayagam is a freelance writer and researcher, who also offers occasional consultation on legal matters and business development. With a background in law and legal editing, Daniel has been writing and researching for close to ten years. His blog is at http://pottedplot.com/, and he contributes to http://csrdigest.com/

Daniel Duende

1 posts, joined 2009-02-14

Daniel Duende is a storyteller, a brazilian, a writer and, some say (and some disagree), a blogger. He lives in Brasilia, Brazil.

David Sasaki

1 posts, joined 2008-07-2

Blogger since 2003, I have lived, worked, and traveled throughout most of Latin America. I blog in both Spanish and English with two other friends at El Oso, El Moreno, and El Abogado.

Deborah Dilley

1 posts, joined 2008-06-24

As well as being the author for the Turkish and Kurdish blogosphere coverage on Global Voices, I am also the Digest Editor and the author-elected representative on the Stichting Global Voices board. Currently I am finishing my masters in Applied Linguistics at the University of Utah.

Deng Bolun

1 posts, joined 2009-10-15

An American journalism student and Chinese translator, interested in urbanization, reform, and socio-economic change in China and Asia.

Diego Casaes

1 posts, joined 2009-06-11

Tourism graduated, wannabe Journalist. One can easily find me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/diegocasaes

Eduardo Avila

1 posts, joined 2007-10-2

I am a Bolivian-American who maintains the blog Barrio Flores, while living in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Currently, I am the Regional Editor for Latin America and the Spanish language editor for Global Voices. I am the founder and director of the Voces Bolivianas project, which teaches the use of citizen media to underrepresented groups throughout Bolivia, with the help of a network of national bloggers.

Eman AbdElRahman

3 posts, joined 2009-02-8

Egyptian blogger, GVO author, GVO lingua translator, Meedan content producer, and an Engineer in the mornings.

Gaurav Mishra

8 posts, joined 2009-03-1

Gaurav Mishra is the 2008-09 Yahoo! Fellow in International Values, Communications, Technology, and Global Internet at Georgetown University. As the Yahoo! Fellow, Gaurav is leading research on how social media is being used in BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China). Gaurav is also teaching a graduate course at Georgetown University on Social Media in Business, Development and Government.

Gilad Lotan

4 posts, joined 2008-01-18

Hamid Tehrani

34 posts, joined 2008-01-24

I am a Europe based journalist,blogger and researcher.

Heather Ford

1 posts, joined 2009-01-14

Imran Jamal

2 posts, joined 2008-11-11

Ivan Sigal

1 posts, joined 2008-11-2

I've recently joined Global Voices as executive director. I've spent 10 years working in media development in the former Soviet Union and Asia, supporting and training journalists and working on media co-productions. Most of that time I was with Internews. I'm also a photographer, and have worked and traveled in more than 60 countries. I speak Russian, manage in German, have forgotten Slovak and Czech, and can make it home in Thai.

J. Nambiza Tungaraza

1 posts, joined 2009-06-4

J. Nambiza Tungaraza is Adelaide-based Swahili blogger, radio presenter, community worker and an artist. In Radio he presents the AFROWORLD program at 101.5fm Radio Adelaide and coordinates/mentor young broadcasters. As an artist (painter and computer graphics designer), he has done exhibitions in Asia, Europe and in Australia. He still paints occasionally. Nambiza also works in various refugees-related projects.

Janine Mendes-Franco

1 posts, joined 2008-03-27

I am a media producer based in Trinidad and Tobago. I blog at Francomenz.

Jeremy Clarke

1 posts, joined 2008-04-21

Jeremy is the Developper/Designer/Coder for Global Voices. He isn't an author on the Advocacy site, so his user page should 404. To get in touch with him use the contact form on the main Global Voices site (choose 'webmaster' from the dropdown of recipients).

Jillian York

13 posts, joined 2008-01-16

I am a writer, blogger, and activist based in Boston. I am the Project Coordinator for OpenNet Initiative and cover Morocco for Global Voices Online. I blog here.

John Kennedy

39 posts, joined 2007-07-20

John Liebhardt

1 posts, joined 2008-07-12

I am a freelance writer currently residing in the Pacific.

Joshua Foust

2 posts, joined 2008-07-10

I study international security. I've spent some time spent in Kazakhstan, and retained an obsession about the region. In addition to English, I speak French, and I am learning Russian at an abysmal pace when I’m not consumed with my day job. I currently live in or around Washington, DC. In 2006 I was named, among others, Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. I also blog at Registan.net, a blog devoted to Central Asia and the Caucasus.

Juan Arellano

1 posts, joined 2009-06-12

I'm a peruvian blogger, and responsable of Blogsperu.com the website of peruvian bloggers. My personal weblog is Globalizado.

Kristina Dolgih

1 posts, joined 2008-05-27

Laura Vidal

1 posts, joined 2008-07-15

I am a Venezuelan researcher in languages and literature, as well as a Translator and writer/editor living the savage urban life of Caracas. I blog at Sacando la Lengua [es] about languages, literature and cultural interaction. I'm happy to be also a volunteer translator for Lingua (Global Voices in Spanish). I deeply believe in the uniqueness and importance of every culture and in the study of them as a mirror to our own.

Lina Ben Mhenni

4 posts, joined 2008-09-24

Lova Rakotomalala

1 posts, joined 2009-07-21

Raised in Madagascar, Foko-Madagascar coordinator, Princeton Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs and Public Policy fellow, digital media for developing countries enthusiast.

Markus Beckedahl

1 posts, joined 2009-06-16

Mary Joyce

2 posts, joined 2008-07-2

Mary Joyce is the co-founder of DigiActive, an organization dedicated to helping the world's grassroots activists better use technology. She ran her first digital activism web site, Demologue.com, from 2005 to 2007 while living in Morocco and Chile. She later became a digital activism consultant, working for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Her previous political experience includes the United States Congress, United Nations Association, and National Democratic Institute. Mary recently took a leave of absence from DigiActive to act as New Media Operations Manager at Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

Mialy Andriamananjara

2 posts, joined 2009-04-1

Mialy was born in Madagascar, attended college in France and is now living in the Washington DC area. Her interests include litterature, ICT for Development, women rights and immigration issues. She has graduate degrees in Telecommunications and Business.

Mong Palatino

1 posts, joined 2009-03-8

I'm a Filipino activist. I write for UPI-Asia Online. I blog at www.mongpalatino.motime.com. I am currently in California.

Nasser Weddady

1 posts, joined 2009-06-20

HAMSA-AIC Civil Rights Outreach Director. A native of Mauritania, Nasser grew up in Libya and Syria, traveling extensively through the Middle East, before coming to the US as a refugee in 2000. A long-time activist in the struggle to end slavery in his homeland and dictatorship, Nasser has organized conferences for young activists across the Middle East; published in the International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and Baltimore Sun; appeared on Fox’s Hannity & Colmes, BBC World Service, Al Jazeera, and Radio Liberty; and testified to Congress’ Human Rights Caucus. Fluent in five languages, Nasser has lectured at the US Institute of Peace, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and diverse interfaith settings.

Ndesanjo Macha

1 posts, joined 2009-04-7

I am a Tanzanian blogger, journalist, lawyer, and digital activist. I am interested in finding ways to amplify voices from non-English speaking parts of the world. Global voices, I believe, ought to be multicultural and multilingual. I am also interested in the relationship between ICT and development in the developing world, particularly Africa. I am the Sub-Saharan Africa Editor at Global Voices. I mostly blog in Kiswahili at Jikomboe. But you can also find me at Digital Africa.

Noha Atef

31 posts, joined 2008-09-8

An Egyptian journalist and editor of Tortureinegypt.net blog, I'm interested in human rights causes. My joy is to learn something new and to help others. I love Egypt and have been living in it, but i fell that my home country is the whole world!

Oiwan Lam

43 posts, joined 2007-10-4

Am now a free lance researcher, translator and editor, while my full time work (voluntary work) is with inmediahk.net (a Chinese citizen journalism website) , interlocals.net (a multi-lingual border-crossing citizen journalism website) and Hong Kong In-Media (citizen media center). I worked as journalist on political news (the handover of Hong Kong to China) from 1994-97; then joined an Asian NGO (Asian regional exchange for new alternatives) for their alternative education programme; later worked in Taiwan as managing editor for Inter-Asia cultural studies journal and then studied in Beijing for three year; now am more or less settled in Hong Kong.

Onnik Krikorian

4 posts, joined 2008-03-8

Onnik Krikorian is a journalist and photojournalist of Armenian and English descent who has been resident in the Republic of Armenia since 1998. He also works extensively in the Republic of Georgia and until moving to Armenia worked on the Kurds in Turkey and the conflict in Nagorno Karabakh. His articles and photographs have been published by The Los Angeles Times, New Internationalist, The Scotsman, Transitions Online, Middle East Insight, Oneworld.net, EurasiaNet, The Institute for War & Peace Reporting, New York University Press, UNICEF, and Amnesty International, among others. Krikorian has also worked as a fixer for Al Jazeera English, the BBC and The Wall Street Journal. He maintains a blog from Armenia and the South Caucasus at http://blog.oneworld.am and also posts for the London-based Frontline Club at http://frontlineclub.com/blogs/onnikkrikorian.

Paula Góes

8 posts, joined 2008-04-13

Brazilian journalist and translator living in London. I blog about translation and Brazilian literature and poetry available in English [pt] and also keep a blog about our GVO coverage of the Lusosphere [pt]. I am also proud to be a volunteer translator for the Global Voices Lingua project in Portuguese.

Pendar

4 posts, joined 2009-09-30

I'm a blogger who is considering about Iran's issue.

Preetam Rai

1 posts, joined 2007-09-29

I am always traveling in South East and East Asia. I work with education, commercial and non-profits helping them implement social technologies. I share my travel stories and observations at preetamrai.com .

Ramy Raoof

10 posts, joined 2009-07-13

I work and blog for human rights. Interested in electronic media, digital activism and digital security. And the editor of Egyptian Blog for Human Rights http://ebfhr.blogspot.com/

Razan

4 posts, joined 2008-01-9

I refer to myself as a person from Syria, not a "Syrian citizen." I am currently doing my MA's thesis on Iraqi Jews' literature in my beautiful city, Beirut. I blog at Razanisms and I like to take photos. I am a vegetarian and a proud socialist.

Renata Avila

4 posts, joined 2007-07-11

International Lawyer, Lead of Creative Commons Guatemala, directing an independent magazine & publishing house Primer Palabra http://primerpalabra.com, to discuss politics and culture.

Rezwan

6 posts, joined 2007-10-4

I am from Dhaka, Bangladesh and currently located in Berlin, Germany. I blog at The 3rd world view since 2003. I have been bridgeblogging the Bangladeshi and South Asian Blogosphere in Global Voices since 2005. I am also the translator coordinator for the Global Voices Bangla Lingua and love translating selected Global Voices posts into my mother tongue Bangla. I also like to follow the groundbreaking outreach projects of Rising Voices and write about them.

Sami Ben Gharbia

210 posts, joined 2008-04-22

My personal blog is at [fikra] فكرة (which means idea in Arabic). I'm the co-founder of nawaat.org (which means the core in Arabic), a Tunisian collective blog about news and politics. I'm also the Advocacy Director at Global Voices.

Sokari Ekine

1 posts, joined 2009-06-25

Solana Larsen

2 posts, joined 2008-04-21

Hello, I am the managing editor of Global Voices Online.

Steve Sharra

1 posts, joined 2008-07-2

I am a Malawian who studies and writes about Pan-Afrikanism, Afrikan epistemology (uMunthu), the Afrikan Renaissance, and peace and social justice. I am also a student of autobiography, critical pedagogy, and critical literacy research. I am a former school teacher, freelance journalist, and educational editor. I write poetry, fiction, radio plays, and features. My blog, Afrika Aphukira (http://www.mlauzi.blogspot.com), is an optimistic expression of the theme of the African rebirth. I also follow Malawian blogs at Mlauzi' s Bloglines (http://www.bloglines.com/blog/mlauzi).

SudaneseDrima

1 posts, joined 2008-08-5

Hi, I'm Drima, an Afro-Arab, freedom-loving Muslim political junkie. Visit my blog over at this link: sudanesethinker.com

Tal Pavel

7 posts, joined 2009-04-9

Dr. Tal Pavel is an expert in Middle Eastern and Islamic World usage of the internet. He holds a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Studies from Bar Ilan University. His thesis examined the governmental restrictions and changes concerning internet usage in Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates between the years 2002 and 2005. Dr. Pavel’s background also includes an in-depth knowledge of Information Systems Development. He occupied various key positions as a Software Project Manager and Software Systems Analyst in various major financial and other business institutions in Israel. Dr. Pavel is a fellow researcher at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies and at Netvision Institute for Internet Studies (Both in Tel Aviv University).

Tharum Bun

1 posts, joined 2009-02-1

Tharum is a writer, photographer and computer nerd.

Tolkun

1 posts, joined 2008-06-25

Veronica Khokhlova

3 posts, joined 2008-07-15

I'm a Kyiv native; have lived in Moscow and St. Petersburg on and off since 2001. I blog at Neeka's Backlog; my current photos are at Flickr; nearly 4,600 photos from Kyiv, Moscow, St. Petersburg and Istanbul are at Neeka's FotoPage; my Global Voices translations are stored on Work Log; some of my pre-blog/non-blog work has been Filed Away.

Vojcech Sakłovič

2 posts, joined 2009-02-23

Walid Al-Saqaf

4 posts, joined 2008-09-23

Walid Al-Saqaf is a print/online journalist turned cyber activist. He is the founder and administrator of Yemen Portal (yemenportal.net), a news and multi-content aggregator focused on content on his country (Yemen). His website got banned from access in Yemen by the authorities presumably for content the government considered harmful to 'the national interest'. In response, he started an anti-censorship campaign (through blocked.arabiaportal.net) that resonated internationally. He currently stands as one of a few Arab cyber activists working on censorship circumventing technologies, the latest being the "Access YemenPortal" Firefox plug-in that was inspired by Iranian Hamed Saber's "Access Flickr!" extension. Walid holds a Master in Global Journalism and is currently pursuing his PhD at Örebro University in Sweden. He can be reached on admin [at] yemenportal [dot] net.