http://www.sudanesethinker.com Thinking Aloud, Thinking Allowed Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:55:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A few days ago, I had the pleasure of being on the orange couch of The Stream on Al Jazeera. It was my second time in the studio, and I was a lot more comfortable compared to the first. Plus, the fact that the topic was Sudan definitely helped, since ... http://www.sudanesethinker.com/2012/02/04/appearance-aljazeera-stream/ It’s been over a month since I've updated this blog. That's what tends to happen when you're busy focusing on your upcoming book, doing video interviews with renowned scholars, and taking care of other priorities. Nonetheless, it's definitely time for a quick update. Firstly, check out my recent round up for Global ... http://www.sudanesethinker.com/2012/01/26/quick-update/ A close friend once told me, "in life, you sometimes meet people whom you only know for a short while, but then have an impact on you that not even many of those you've known your whole life can ever match." Alaa Abdel Fattah, Razan Ghazzawi and Ali Abdulemam are such ... http://www.sudanesethinker.com/2011/12/05/freealaa-razan-ali/ To truly begin to understand the significance of the 3rd Arab Bloggers Meeting that just took place in Tunisia, you first have to make yourself familiar with what happened two years ago in December 2009 during the 2nd Arab Bloggers Meeting in Beirut. Back then, in the words of the late ... http://www.sudanesethinker.com/2011/10/09/heart-of-tunisia-ab11/ Some background... When I began blogging in 2006, it was primarily and initially because of my frustration towards the Western media's coverage of Darfur and Sudan. I wanted to do something rather than just bitch and whine. I saw how the Egyptian and Iraqi blogospheres were influential and how they became a ... http://www.sudanesethinker.com/2011/07/10/speak-for-ourselves-influence/ Two days ago I had the privilege of being featured on the Al Jazeera English show, The Stream, where I got the chance to critique the simplistic and biased media narrative on Sudan, something I've been blogging about right here for the last five years, especially in the early days ... http://www.sudanesethinker.com/2011/06/30/sudan-media-narrative/ It's now been a few days since I arrived back home from Oslo, Norway, where I attended and spoke at the Oslo Freedom Forum alongside Libyan blogger, Ghazi Gheblawi, Tunisian digital activist, Lina Ben Mhenni and the courageous Bahraini human rights activist, Maryam al-Khawaja. The four of us were on a ... http://www.sudanesethinker.com/2011/05/18/reflections-oslo-freedom-forum/ Stepping from behind the curtain after five years of anonymous blogging My name is Ahmad. Amir Ahmad, known to you for the last five years as Drima, and I am the blogger behind The Sudanese Thinker. Yes, that's me in the picture below addressing the UN General Assembly back in 2006 when I ... http://www.sudanesethinker.com/2011/05/09/special-announcement/ The following is the raw and unedited draft of the prologue from my upcoming book, Islam: A Love Story – How Fundamentalism Stole My Mind, Broke My Heart, and Blogging Freed My Mystic Soul. He smacked her across the face—a violent thundering slap. The television seemed to reverberate with the impact. ... http://www.sudanesethinker.com/2011/05/09/the-prologue/ Yes, yes, I know I've been awfully quiet. Major events happened recently, and I haven't blogged about them here (mainly because I've been busy tweeting about them instead). Damn, so where shall I start? As you can recall, I was mightily pissed off a few months back when Biden refused to acknowledge ... http://www.sudanesethinker.com/2011/05/08/thoughts-on-recent-events/