Who to follow on Egypt
If, like me, you are obsessively following the unfolding drama in Egypt, there’s no better medium than Twitter, where you can get 140-character dispatches from foreign journalists and Egyptians on the ground (at least, those that still somehow have Internet access), as well as curators and analysts watching the action from afar. Here are some, ...
If, like me, you are obsessively following the unfolding drama in Egypt, there's no better medium than Twitter, where you can get 140-character dispatches from foreign journalists and Egyptians on the ground (at least, those that still somehow have Internet access), as well as curators and analysts watching the action from afar. Here are some, but by no means all, of my proven providers (it's also light on Egyptians right now since few seem to have Internet access at the moment):
If, like me, you are obsessively following the unfolding drama in Egypt, there’s no better medium than Twitter, where you can get 140-character dispatches from foreign journalists and Egyptians on the ground (at least, those that still somehow have Internet access), as well as curators and analysts watching the action from afar. Here are some, but by no means all, of my proven providers (it’s also light on Egyptians right now since few seem to have Internet access at the moment):
Egyptians:
Abeer Allam – Egyptian-born FT correspondent in Riyadh
Sandmonkey – Foul-mouthed Egyptian blogger
Hossam El-Hamalawy – Blogger and labor activist
Alaa Abd Al Fattah – Blogger and tech activist based in South Africa
Gamal Eid – Human rights activist
Khaled Abol Naga – Egyptian actor
Sharif Kouddous – Egyptian-American producer for Democracy Now
Ramy Raoof – Human rights activist and blogger
Gigi Ibrahim – Socialist activist
Amr El Beleidy – Travel writer cum activist
Mo-ha-med – Economic consultant
Zeinobia – Egyptian blogger
Journos on the ground:
Al Arabiya – Breaking news from the Arab satellite network
Ashraf Khalil – top-notch senior journalist for Al-Masry Al-Youm
Issandr Amrani – dean of the Cairo press corps
Ben Wedemann – veteran Middle East correspondent for CNN
Nic Robertson – CNN reporter in Alexandria
Frederick Pleitgen – CNN reporter in Cairo
Ayman Mohyeldin, Evan C. Hill, Gregg Carlstrom, Abdurahman Warsame, Dan Nolan, Sherine Tadros – Al Jazeera journalists
Steven Farrell, Anthony Shadid, Nick Kristof – New York Times correspondents currently in Egypt
Jan25voices – phoned-in tweets from Egypt
Curators and analysts:
Sultan al-Qassemi – columnist for Abu Dhabi’s the National
Brian Whitaker – Guardian editor
Katherine Maher – tech and civil society expert with the National Democratic Institute
Dan Murphy – Christian Science Monitor journalist, former Cairo correspondent
Michael Wahid Hanna – Century Foundation analyst
Steve Cook – CFR analyst
Pomed Wire – Project on Middle East Democracy
Marc Lynch – FP blogger, GW professor
Daniel Serwer – Middle East expert at the U.S. Institute of Peace
Max Fisher – Atlantic editor
Andy Carvin – Senior strategist at NPR
Tom Gara – Quick-witted financial journalist living in Dubai, Egypt experience
Joshua Stacher – Professor at Kent State University with extensive knowledge of the Muslim Brotherhood
Nasser Weddady – Mauritanian activist living in Boston
Ammar Abdulhamid – Syrian activist living in Washington
Jacob Appelbaum – Cyberactivist monitoring the Egyptian Internet
Kim Ghatttas – BBC State Department correspondent
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