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Religious Tolerance, Youth Journalists and Lebanon March 9, 2011 Lebanon’s myriad confessional and religious divisions have long been a factor preventing the country from achieving social and political stability. In recent months, political events contributed to increasing tensions in Lebanon and the region as a whole.	Participant Profile: Mokhtar Nuur – Uniting Communities Through Media in Somalia February 24, 2011 by Said Mohamed Mokhtar, a budding media professional, aspires to run his own media outlet one day. Mokhtar studies at East Africa University in Bosaso with a focus on community development while also serving as Deputy Director at Somali Development Trust, an IREX partner for the Uniting Communities to Mitigate Conflict program (UCMC).
Social Media Skills for the Next Generation of Iraqi Journalists February 24, 2011 by Namo Abdulla IREX’s efforts to enhance new media literacy among journalists and civil society in Iraq coincides with a wave of demonstrations for democracy across the Arab World that has shown the power of social networking sites, leading authorities in Egypt, then later Libya to cut Internet and mobile phone services in an attempt to disrupt demonstrations.	Egypt: Facebook, Twitter, and Old-fashioned Organizing February 16, 2011 by Suzi McClear At church on the morning of January 28, 2011 the pastor joked that “Thanks to the Egyptian government we will not be interrupted by cell phones.” But on that Friday despite the cutoff of Internet, cell phones and SMS messages feeding into Twitter, the largest demonstrations blocked downtown Cairo causing the police to close the square.
Azerbaijani Women Land Jobs After Gaining New Media Skills February 9, 2011 by Oksana Zarukayeva and Shahin Abbasov Sheki, a city of 63,000 two hundred miles north of Baku in the Caucasus mountains, hosts one of IREX’s f.y.i. Community Information Centers that provides provides local residents with IT skills, citizen journalism training, and access to the Internet. Seven young women who took advantage of the center’s trainings this past autumn used the skills they developed to land jobs.	Iraq and Egypt – Virtual New Media Training for Iraqis Continues Amidst Protests February 7, 2011 by Namo Abdulla As protests escalated in Cairo and across Egypt the last week of January, with phone and internet soon to be cut off, a Cairo-based blogger changed plans and reverted to his cell phone to present a long-planned webinar to over a dozen Iraqi journalists gathered in Irbil.
Promoting Freedom of Expression in Liberia January 28, 2011 With Liberia's first-ever freedom of information law signed in October, IREX is helping citizens and journalists learn how to use it to their advantage.	IREX Launches New Media Project in Azerbaijan January 28, 2011 by Shahin Abbasov IREX recently launched the Azerbaijan New Media Project, supporting professional and citizen journalists and promoting access to and the use of the internet for news, information, and education.
Bombing in Moscow: The Internet and the Death of Russian TV? January 26, 2011 by Michael Mirny News coverage in the immediate aftermath of the bombing at Domodedovo airport came not from the television, but from blogs and tweets. Television news was slow to react to the terrorist attack. However, it did eventually switch to live coverage which dependended heavily on using YouTube footage and twitter feeds as primary source material.	Rebirth of a Salesman? January 19, 2011 by Ali Al-Mutlbi The story of a newspaper salesman in Najaf, Iraq.