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"I know lots of great journalists who enjoy reading blogs about their subject matter. While they may be (rightfully) frightened about the future of their industry, they don’t see blogs as their primary threat. But then there are others, like the people I mention above, who have this really weird competitive mindset about blogs versus newspapers that makes me think they would be best served by sitting down and actually reading some blogs instead of talking to me."
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Brave way to challenged ingrained sexist assumptions…
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"Dubai: A 790-word opinion article by a female Saudi writer, Nadine Al Bdair, might start a fierce legal and social confrontation between traditionalists and reformists. In her weekly article published on December 11 in the Egyptian newspaper Al Masri Al Youm, Nadine cynically urged religious scholars to issue a verdict allowing women to marry four men simultaneously to equate them with men in the Sharia, a move that was considered by many Muslims as blasphemous and a blunt call to wreck the foundations of the religion.
"Her argument was that women could now marry more than one man thanks to scientific developments.
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Intriguing use of low-end mobile media to serve a local community.