Posts Tagged ‘Human Rights’

Life of an Iraqi blogger

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

This post is contributed by Wamith Al-Kassab, a blogger at Iraqi Streets and Mideast Youth.
In the summer of 2008, I survived an assassination attempt in Iraq. My “crime” was that I am “an enemy of God,” a promoter of…

Guest Post: Who are we? Individuals, citizens, journalists or all three?

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

-Hisham Wyne-
“Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign”
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859.

But sovereign are we, over our blogs and the contents and comments therein?

We are bloggers. We want freedom. But…