MideastPosts.com is an attempt to link the very best bloggers in the Middle East together, in a format that will do justice to the compelling copy they write. has the Huffington Post, the Middle East has no common platform to put the best and most influential bloggers of the region together. But why put together a site for bloggers at all? Simple, the copy they write is often far more insightful,
honest, passionate and relevant than copy you will find in a newspaper. We know – we’re journalists. This is not simply because of the greater demands to navigate ‘the line’ of censorship in print. Yes, that’s a real issue , but as big we believe is that the majority of newspapers you will pick up today, or the news sites that you scan each morning will be filled with wire copy from AP, AFP and Reuters – stifling any uniquely Middle East voice. It’s not necessarily a newspaper’s fault – the days of having hundreds of journalist on staff have gone. Accountants rule, and editors have to fill their pages with something. Neither do these agencies do a bad job, but importantly they write for an international audience, repeat platitudes and generalizations of the region repeatedly for U.S. consumption, and certainly do not have a Middle East audience in mind. There is one other fascinating thing about bloggers. They write because they want to, not because it is their job. For journalists that means they’re dismissed as amateurs; we believe it means that when they write they do so because they truly care what they are writing about, not just because they have been told or commissioned to. We’re just at the start of our journey. This site is barely a few weeks old so we’re very much looking for your feedback. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please do not hesitate to get in contact with us at [email protected]. We look forward to talking to you…
NOTE: We have updated the permissions on the site so that if you register, you will automatically be given the permission to add stories to the site. These will not be made live until they have been passed by an editor, and naturally we reserve the right to not publish. We also reserve the right to edit articles that are posted directly in this way.
