July 2012
2 posts
Week 6: Beshr, Syrian blogger (Since 2009) & a...
This week’s (27 July -> 3 August) curator is Beshr, a Syrian blogger (Since 2009) & a photographer. Tweets under: @beshroffline.
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(If you would like to nominate someone to become the curator for TweetWeekSyria, or if you’d like to nominate yourself, please visit: http://tweetweeksyria.tumblr.com/nominate)
Week 5: Woroud, an Architecture graduate living in...
This week’s (20 July -> 27 July) curator is Woroud, an Architecture graduate and a Social Media addict that believes in Art & Science
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(If you would like to nominate someone to become the curator for TweetWeekSyria, or if you’d like to nominate yourself, please visit: http://tweetweeksyria.tumblr.com/nominate)
June 2012
3 posts
Week 4: Ouais, CS Student living in Damascus
This week’s (22 June -> 28 June) curator is Ouais, a Computer Science student living in Damascus.
A little bit about Ouais in his own words:
Let’s see, there isn’t much, almost done studying CS, wrote a short book about computers for children, relatively liberal, amateur guitar playing skills.
I develop experimental AI software, have been doing so for the past two years....
Week 3: Anas Qtiesh, Program Manager at @meedan,...
This week’s (14 June -> 20 June) curator is Anas (@anasqtiesh on Twitter). Anas is a Syrian human rights and anti-censorship activist and a blogger currently based in San Francisco. He’s also a Program Manager at Meedan and has worked as a freelance translator and a research assistant at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He’s a Google Map Maker Advocate and...
Week 2: Ahmad, Information Technology Student,...
This week’s (8 June -> 14 June) curator is Ahmad (@ahmadabou on Twitter), a 22 years old student, blogger and activist from Jarablous (north of Aleppo). He was forced to leave Syria to avoid being arrested. His blog: ahmadalabou.wordpress.com/.
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May 2012
3 posts
Week 1: Leila Nachawati, Spanish-Syrian human...
Please join me in welcoming Leila Nachawati who will be the curator for the first week (1 June -> 7 June) of this project.
Leila (@leila_na on Twitter) is a Spanish-Syrian human rights activist and communication strategist. She teaches at Carlos III University in Madrid and contributes to several media outlets. Her blog: leilanachawati.com.
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Leila wrote a blog post on her blog...
Syrians: #RotationCuration and Why You Should Get...
#RotationCuration is not just a model the TweetWeekSyria is based on, it’s a ground-breaking movement in the world of social media specifically and social change in general.
Why Social Media?
Social media has given us a great new way of communicating with each other and is continuously allowing us to form powerful networks that can be harnessed in different ways for the benefit of...
Welcome to TweetWeek Syria!
Thank you for visiting Tweet Week Syria!
TweetWeek Syria is a localization of the Swedish Curators of Sweden and TweetWeekUSA projects and the concept behind it is based on the #RotationCuration model. You can read more about it on Wikipedia.
Different curators will have full control over the TweetWeekSyria account on Twitter every week, allowing them to share their visions, perspectives or...
