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Podcast – Interview with GVO Editor: Is technology helping us, or endangering us?

August 22nd, 2007Esra'a (Bahrain)

I conducted this podcast with Silly Bahraini Girl, who is way more geeky than she looks and sounds. She (Amira) currently works as the editor of the Middle East and North Africa region on Global Voices Online, doing daily round-ups of the regional blogosphere. In the past, she served as a news editor for the widely read Gulf Daily News in Bahrain.

If you’re interested in blogging, human rights, freedom of speech, and unnecessary sound effects then you might enjoy this.

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20 Responses to “Podcast – Interview with GVO Editor: Is technology helping us, or endangering us?”

  1. #1 sillybahrainigirl - August 22nd, 2007 at 7:51 pm

    Did you really have to add that rooster cooo cooing at the end?

    Thanks Girl. .. you will be missed once I regain full possession of my apartment ;(

    We had a blast! Oops.. we Arrrrrabs .. shouldn’t be saying that ..

  2. #2 Esra'a - August 22nd, 2007 at 8:05 pm

    I really enjoyed your super fast unfiltered wireless network. Highlight of my trip.

    ur ma bezt frend

    We had a blast! Oops.. we Arrrrrabs .. shouldn’t be saying that ..

    Shhh. I’m traveling tomorrow night. They always pull me aside to the immigration line and insist on calling me a Ma’am. I like how the questioning officers all wear camouflaged suits. Why? They’re not behind plants or anything. Do they think we don’t see them?

  3. #3 sillybahrainigirl - August 22nd, 2007 at 8:06 pm

    No dear.. it isn’t YOU they are hiding from.. It’s ME! (this is where my ego starts to act up again :)

  4. #4 Murad - August 22nd, 2007 at 8:26 pm

    Best podcast EVER! You people have a talent of taking something serious and turning it into something very amusing to listen to. Applause! (oops I shouldn’t be interrupting bwahaha)

  5. #5 Josef (Lebanon & Jordan) - August 22nd, 2007 at 8:32 pm

    Traitor!!! :O and too many sounds and sound effects!! :S

  6. #6 ::: SILLY BAHRAINI GIRL ::: - August 22nd, 2007 at 8:51 pm

    [...] have read my ramblings.. but would you really love to hear my slurry voice? Well, here’s your chance to see why I won’t attempt to save the world..Thanks Esra’a for that wonderful [...]

  7. #7 Omid - August 22nd, 2007 at 9:16 pm

    I seriously think we should do more interviews.

  8. #8 Esra'a - August 22nd, 2007 at 9:32 pm

    So far at Mideast Youth we have featured:

    An Omani student
    An Afghan activist
    A Bahraini university student
    A Saudi DJ
    A Lebanese Christian
    Two Moroccan students
    A bunch of stupid students (in the podcast entitle “when ignorance becomes funny”)

    See it all here.

    I wish people would help out with these! They’re really fun to create.

  9. #9 Salama - August 22nd, 2007 at 9:42 pm

    “I’m filthy rich bitch and you’re just jealous.”

    I’ve listed this as a favorite quote on my Facebook. You crack me up.

  10. #10 gary - August 22nd, 2007 at 10:08 pm

    I like how the questioning officers all wear camouflaged suits. Why? They’re not behind plants or anything. Do they think we don’t see them?

    Too funny!

    gary

  11. #11 Yazan Badran - August 23rd, 2007 at 2:17 am

    Seriously Amira, What about those matches exactly?!

  12. #12 sillybahrainigirl - August 26th, 2007 at 4:57 pm

    matches? Did i say matches? Ooops!

  13. #13 Deborah Ann Dilley - August 26th, 2007 at 7:48 pm

    ok, so the two of you together…a very dangerous thing. ;)
    Brilliant!

  14. #14 sillybahrainigirl - August 27th, 2007 at 8:18 am

    Thanks Deborah! She’s now gone.. phew!
    You should take up the vacancy.. before the snow :)

  15. #15 Esra'a - August 27th, 2007 at 8:40 am

    Oh shut up I’m sure you’re weeping over my departure. I’m jetlagged as hell.

  16. #16 sillybahrainigirl - August 28th, 2007 at 9:11 pm

    awwwwwwwwwwwwww…that hurt!

  17. #17 Socrates - August 29th, 2007 at 5:46 am

    I like the filthy rich – part.

  18. #18 Why Democracy? Library - October 2nd, 2007 at 1:28 pm

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