The Rapid Spread of Blogging in Lebanon

In the article “I Tweet, Therefore I Am,” author Peggy Orenstein criticizes the problems associated to the distractions of social media sites such as Twitter. The author introduces her article by describing her relaxing Sunday morning with her daughter. The author then quickly recounts her sense of urge to compress her beautiful day into a tweet, acknowledging that her “consciousness had spin off and was observing the scene from the outside… [her] perfect oppurtunity to tweet.” Living in a fast-paced world like today, many people can agree that what we decide to share is ultimately determined by our fantasies of what we think people should see, know and hear for the

The online platform that I feel will allow me to share my ideas, resources, questions and professional expertise with others is through blogging. Blogging is something that I have only had a very limited experience with. To be totally honest, I have only read and received great ideas from, I have never written on another’s blog or created my own. I am excited to

“I hate your Arabic!” I snarled in my broken English. My mother stared at me in confusion while I seethed about my heritage internally. For whatever reason, this toxic state of mind stuck with me through my elementary-school years. I promised myself that I would strive to become like everyone else and slowly began to erase my Lebanese culture from my mannerisms.

Without the experience a professional journalist inherits, online bloggers don't write up to their full potential which can result in bad journalistic techniques and negative criticism from traditional Journalists, such as

In The Atlantic article “Why I Blog,” Andrew Sullivan explores a relatively new and compelling medium of communication, blogging. He discusses how blogging has changed writing from a future oriented process of writing to a rather provisional sense of writing. Consequently, this makes the process of editing, revising, polishing and ultimately publishing almost non-existent in the realm of blogging. Sullivan goes on to note how the usage of blogs has created a bond between the reader and the author, and the pace at which that bond travels is seamless. Sullivan writes, “And the intimate bond this creates with readers is unlike the bond that the Times, say, develops with its readers through the same events.” Quite notably in this quote, Sullivan explains that the formal writing often associated with well known traditional newspapers, such as The New York Times, seems to lack a human quality; Whereas, blogging generates that constant flux of thoughts and paves a path of reassessment, through feedback from readers. “To blog is therefore to let go of your writing in a way, to hold it at arm’s length, open it to scrutiny, allow it to float in the ether for a while, and to let

In the essay, “ Shooting into the Blogosphere”, the author shows readers the process of the development of the blog is also the process of transiting between public and private. He suggests that people should be personal instead of limiting themselve. The author shows the process of changing. When the blog just discovered, lots of people used it to participate into political event. At that time, there is no shortage of citizens willing to participate in rampant democracy. And, almost all Political clout

By signing up, you will having your own account and it allows you to post anything you want. Most bloggers post about their creative writings such as fictional and short stories, poetry but they often post about their own life as well. They can easily post their everyday life, their shopping hauls, anything about beauty products, clothes, foods and places. We made this website mostly for those who simply wants to write or share anything they want without having the trouble of creating their own website and blog.

As an avid football fan, I enjoy watching the super bowl which is a favorite pastime of millions of Americans. The super bowl is an important piece of culture for our society. Something just as good as the super bowl is the 30-second commercial that costs about 4 million dollars to air. The super bowl is one of the biggest platforms for companies to advertise their product and ideas and that is just what Coca-cola did with their very entertaining and controversial commercial in 2014. Coca-Cola celebrates multiculturalism in their commercial. The Lebanon Daily News defended Coca-Cola an iconic American brand for its stance to air a super bowl commercial where ‘America the Beautiful’ sung in 8 different languages.

This woman has had depression for years, she has been through so many events that other teenagers her age has been through. In this particular blog, she lists six things that many people said to her when they found out she has depression. The first one she said was, "But you're too young to have depression." I strongly agree with her response to that. I have a 9 year old cousin, she has anxiety and with her anxiety comes depression. One night she messaged me and she asked, "How do you deal with it? How do you sleep at night?" At that moment I realized that even a 9 year old worries about everything I

They most often resemble a personal diary in which the creator shares their thoughts about a particular subject (or sometimes almost anything that comes to their mind) in a running commentary. Personal blogs can have many purposes such as:

If you are wondering why this coding guy started blogging and all, I might call it self-realization. Did I realize that I have an amazing writing talent? No, I realized social network is not a right place for me to put on my thoughts. I realized that sharing to me is spamming for others. I realized many are interested in trolling than giving

As we can all label ourselves as authors, by creating our own web pages and blogs, and with the direct efficiency we can collect our information at, it is questionable as to how much of the web’s content is amateur and therefore lacking in authenticity and credibility. He warns that old media is a dying medium as the new media has been replaced by mass media through the likes of informational web pages such as Wikipedia that not only breed ignorance and publish incorrect and unconfirmed information, but social media channels such as YouTube that are equally as unwarranted by creating a new meaning for ‘entertainment’. Therefore, perhaps news has been blurred and masked as information that can be accessed through a variety of mediums created and written by anyone with the means to voice it. The four purpose of writing: to entertain, to persuade, to advise and to inform should therefore be emphasised to avoid entertaining, persuasive and advisory articles being projected as informational

My blog has taken many turns before I decided to publish it. First I starting a mad dash at photographing everything I made. And then  when I started working on the graphics of the food and realized that this was my passion.

In The Language of Baklava, author, Diana Abu-Jaber’s writes a memoir exploring her identity.The excerpt is primarily an anecdote of her journey and with it she associates recipes. The excerpt created is a memoir describing her up-brining as the daughter of an Arab immigrant. Her memoir is primarily composed of stories from her childhood. The main theme in this specific excerpt is culture and family, which is being portrayed through the substance of food. Her stories, mostly revolve around, her father “Bub”. Abu-Jaber’s memoir strongly affects her reader's emotions because she uses many forms of formative language, such as metaphors, imagery, hyperbole and by logos.

Writers serve the role of being conscience of their people and at numerous occasions speak for the voiceless. Writers enlighten the trapped voices in each and every individual’s mind, making them aware of issues happening in their societies that deal with self identification. They remind us that we, as individuals, have the choice to make something out of our lives. However, for some reason, we have embraced uniqueness, difference and specialness to support our identities as individuals with thoughts and feelings that are worth others’ time, but failed in the way we live it out. In this modern Arab world, many writers have blossomed with raging talent. majority of them yearned to express their visions of their societies and of the human condition by using literary masks and creating characters that depicted major issues that were faced throughout the Arab world. Some notable writers are Naguib Mahfouz, AhlamMosteghanemi, NizarQabbani, Mahmoud Darwish, GhassanKanafani and ZakariaTamir who were able to brilliantly express their visions. They were able to make connections between their words and the actualities of human conditions; politics, societies, authorities, power, resistances and movements these are all realities that were conveyed through the spilled ink of these authors.