December 20th, 2012 
Rowan El Shimi The radical media collective starts an online campaign to raise $40,000 for projects and activities centered around revolution coverage, archiving and filmmaking over the next year and a half. Originally published in Ahram Online. —————– This month, Mosireen Film Collective – an initiative born out of the Egyptian revolution with the purpose to film, archive [...]
Posted in Ahram Online, Published Articles 
Tags: Citizen Journalism, Film, Mosireen, Online Activism, Street Journalism 
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October 21st, 2011 Rowan El Shimi Muhammad Radwan has been detained by the Syrian regime since Friday March 25th and made to “confess” a story that makes no sense on Syrian TV. He is Egyptian/American and is innocent of the spying accusations they are pinning on him. His friends, family and supporters of the cause protested in front of the Syrian [...]
Posted in Photography, Photojournalism Tags: Bashar, Citizen Journalism, Muhammad Radwan, Syria, Torture No Comments »
June 3rd, 2011 Rowan El Shimi Most people know the micro-celebrity Tarek Shalaby as the blogger, and activist who was among the first to camp out in Tarir as early as Jan 30th vowing to leave when Mubarak was ousted. His tent, named Bansyon El Horeyya, became a meeting point for some revolutionaries, and soon enough emerged versions 2, 3, 4, [...]
Posted in Blog, Local & Global Affairs Tags: Citizen Journalism, Egypt, Intifada, Israel, Protesting, SCAF 3 Comments » March 31st, 2011 Rowan El Shimi We’ve all seen from recent events around the Arab world that authoritarian regimes tend to cave to pressure (unless they are Gaddafi, but he is a madman not just a dictator). This is just what Radwan’s family and friends are doing to free him. With a successful social media campaign, many Egyptian activists on their [...]
Posted in Blog, Local & Global Affairs Tags: Citizen Journalism, Detained Illegally, Human Rights, Muhammad Radwan, Syria, Uprising 2 Comments »
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