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Now That I Have Your Attention…
Two days in and The Closing of American Academia is still the most trafficked article on Al Jazeera, with over 5000 Facebook shares and 1000 tweets. It has prompted an overwhelmingly positive and passionate response and some interesting blog posts, … Continue reading
On American Academia
Yesterday I published an article, The Closing of American Academia, which went viral and is currently the most-read and most-shared article on Al Jazeera’s website. It has generated a lot of discussion about exploitation, elitism and academic culture, as well … Continue reading
Pussy Riot Are Manic Pixie Dream Dissidents
In case you don’t have enough Pussy Riot coverage in your life (or coverage of Pussy Riot coverage), I have added to the over-saturation with my latest for Registan: In 2005, film critic Nathan Rabin coined the phrase Manic Pixie Dream … Continue reading
Why I Censored Myself
I got an email last week from a woman from Uzbekistan who is now living outside the country. She had read my Atlantic article about Gulnara Karimova, liked it, and decided to post it on her Facebook page. She then … Continue reading
Keeping Up With the Karimovs
I have a new article about Gulnara Karimova, the 40-year-old daughter of the dictator of Uzbekistan. Gulnara is a businesswoman known for her ties to organized crime and usurping of Uzbek enterprise, but she also likes to record breathy dance … Continue reading
Internet and Social Control in Uzbekistan
The NetProphet blog at Transitions Online did a nice review of my new report for the New America Foundation on internet freedom and social control in Uzbekistan: The study, by American anthropologist Sarah Kendzior is the most comprehensive on this … Continue reading
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Understanding the Violence in Tajikistan
A lot of people have been asking me about the outbreak of violence in Tajikistan so I decided to put together a list of sources and coverage. The best writer on Tajikistan, in my view, is Christian Bleuer, a Central … Continue reading
Digital Freedom of Expression in Uzbekistan
Today the Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation published my report, “Digital Freedom of Expression in Uzbekistan: An example of social control, and censorship, in the 21st Century”. You can download it here. This report has been in … Continue reading
On the FPWomeratti
Every year Foreign Policy magazine unleashes its annual experiment in ego-trolling known as the Twitterati 100, in which it lists the 100 foreign policy experts who you should follow on Twitter. The list always inspires debate, but this year it … Continue reading
Law, Corruption and the Internet in Uzbekistan
What happens when citizens of corrupt states start acting like laws have meaning? For Al Jazeera, I wrote about the Uzbek legal website Adolat.net, which educates Uzbek citizens on their legal rights: Adolat’s founders are adamant that they are not … Continue reading
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