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This weekend in alexandria, Egypt developers, designers, marketers, product managers, and startup enthusiasts will come together in Alexandria to share ideas, form teams, build products, and launch startups.

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Google tells Arab youth to 'get their hands dirty'

Google tells Arab youth to 'get their hands dirty'
By   Reem Abdellatif / Daily News Egypt July 26, 2011, 5:49 pm

CAIRO: An enthusiastic Wael Fakhrany, Google’s regional manager of Egypt and North Africa, had one message for what he calls the “brilliant” youth of the Arab world: “Push yourself.”
“The field is growing at a phenomenal speed, the internet in this region is on fire,” Fakhrany told Daily News Egypt.
At the inauguration of Google’s Student Ambassador Training program on Monday, which included 73 handpicked college students from all over the region to represent Google in universities across the region, Google highlighted their confidence in the region’s youth.

Media & Mass Communications: Coverage of popular uprisings in Arab world under spotlight as never before

Saturday, 30 April 2011  By MUSTAPHA AJBAILI  Al Arabiya
Media coverage of the popular uprisings sweeping the Arab world has revived debate about what role should the Fourth Estate—in its print, broadcast and electronic iterations—play in Arab society.
While print media’s role as a credible source of information and insightful analysis has dwindled over the years—due mainly to continuing government control in most countries of the 22-member Arab League—broadcast and electronic media have emerged in the “Arab Spring” not only as sources of information but, sometimes more, as conduits or vehicles of social change.

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