Omar H. Rahman
multi-platform journalist
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KONY2012: the rise and fall of an online social movement
When the KONY2012 video appeared in my Facebook newsfeed in early March of this year, I really had no idea what to expect. The only clue was the accompanying message from the friend who had posted it lauding the video’s originality and significance as a standard bearer of a new age—a grand departure from the [...]
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Bunker Diplomacy
To get to the American embassy in Amman, Jordan, one has to bypass a series of daunting obstacles, from a roadblock of thick cement barriers that line the access routes, to the security detail that regularly includes trucks mounted with heavy machine guns, and finally past the nine-foot stone wall that surrounds the immense…