Middle East Social Media News

U.S. concerned by case of jailed Kuwaiti blogger (Reuters)

The U.S. State Department said on Thursday it had concerns about the case of a Kuwaiti blogger on trial for allegedly insulting Kuwait's head of state...

MENA Facebook users top copies of newspapers (Arabianbusiness.com)

Virtual voting (Al-Ahram Weekly)

BBC funds Arab internet series (Variety)

A firehose of Saudi users are joining Facebook (InteractiveME)

Middle East hotels climb aboard social networking boat (Gulf News)

Kuwait deports 17 pro-ElBaradei Egyptians (Washington Post)

Lebanon: First Threatened Voice (Global Voices)

Arab bloggers seek wider readership with print newspaper (Earth Times)

Barasti bar scraps concert after Twitter outrage (Arabian Business)