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My Most Popular Tweets of this Week

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I have not been active in social media much this week, having spent most of my time updating my web 1.0 personal site now that I am no longer with NITLE.  I thought I had finished, but I’ve discovered a few things I still want to fix:  Typos, a misplaced section divider, and other things of that nature.  If you have a chance, look at it and send your comments.  I welcome them all, whether it’s about a typo or the whole design.

Still, I did tweet a bit.  The most popular ones this week were, most to least popular:
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Academic Freedom Media Review

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Academic Freedom Media Review
January 23 – 29, 2010
Compiled by Scholars at Risk

Censorship Charges at Los Angeles City College
Inside Higher Ed, 1/28

Guns on Campus (for Professors Only)
Inside Higher Ed, 1/27

Israeli Students Protest Exam That Equates Homosexuality With a ‘Defect’
The Chronicle for Higher Education, 1/27

New Online Journal From AAUP Will Focus on Academic Freedom
Jennifer Howard, The Chronicle for Higher Education, 1/26
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US Lifts Bans on Two Controversial Scholars

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Tariq Ramadan

There’s been a major development in a story I’ve commented on many times in this blog and its predecessor, the refusal of entry to Tariq Ramadan, one of Europe’s leading scholars on Islam, and particularly it’s evolution due to the influence of Muslims in the West.

Six years after using the Patriot Act to revoke the visa of a prominent Muslim academic, the United States State Department reversed itself and said Wednesday that it would no longer bar the scholar from entering the United States.

The decision came in the form of an order signed by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.  —January 20, 2010, The New York Times

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Scholars at Risk Academic Freedom Review

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January 8 – 15, 2010
Compiled by Scholars at Risk

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Iran arrests father of U.S. think tank scholar
Laura Rozen, Politico, 1/14

When Tenure Means Nothing
Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed, 1/14

Academy’s freedoms threatened as libel law lands scholars in dock
Zoe Corbyn, Times Higher Education, 1/14

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Three Interesting Links from Morocco

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This post is simply to pass on a few links, all relating to Morocco.

The first is to the site for the Maroc Blog Awards. The title is slightly misleading because you don’t just vote on blogs. There is an award for the photo, Facebook group, and Twitterer of the year, among others. Morocco and Moroccans don’t have a huge online presence. It’s a small country. But they took to the internet relatively early in the global scheme of things. I attended a conference about the internet in Morocco in the mid 1990s and it was packed. It is also a pretty well wired country and lots of Moroccans who are active in online media outside of Morocco still prominently identify their online selves as Moroccan, so there is some good stuff for voters to choose from. It will be interesting to see, however, if any of the recently arrested bloggers. The latest was on December 8.

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Scholars at Risk Academic Freedom Media Review

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November 20 – December 3, 2009
Compiled by Scholars at Risk
Writers at Risk
Corydon Ireland, Harvard Gazette, 12/3

Iranian Given 9-Year Sentence for Protesting
Nazila Fathi, The New York Times, 12/2

Iranian American Faces New Spying Charge
Nazila Fathi, The New York Times, 11/25

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Avoid Black Friday Traffic and Crowds: Celebrate Buy Nothing Day

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November 27 is Buy Nothing Day, a day to escape the consumerist madness of the holiday season by simply pledging to not take part in it. Avoid the holiday madness. Don’t get up at 4 am to make it the “After Thanksgiving Sale” at the local superstore. Read a book, take a bike ride, play a game, shoot some hoops, call old friends, meditate, do volunteer work or find some other activity that doesn’t add to the waste in our garbage dumps, exploit workers in the developing world or contribute further to the mountains of consumer debt so many struggle with.

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Scholars at Risk Academic Freedom Media Review

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Academic Freedom Media Review
November 6 – 13, 2009
Compiled by Scholars at Risk
Student Activist Held in Tunisia at Risk of Torture
NEAR, 11/13

Norwegian University’s Board Rejects Academic Boycott of Israel
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 11/13

Courage on campus
The Baltimore Sun, 11/13

Convicted Terrorist Won’t Speak at UMass-Amherst After All
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