A Look At The Lebanese Blogosphere

The Daily Star has a neat article on the growing Lebanese blogosphere and the change it underwent after the March 14, movement.The DS quotes a lebanese expatriate blogger who said "the chief irony of the Lebanese blogosphere: The majority of bloggers do not live in Lebanon but rather in the West."

Generally politically-oriented, the lebanese blogosphere is now engaging in political activism. The same blogger quoted by the DS,

says he hopes his blog will have real political impact. He and Badran are also organizing a meeting with other members of the Lebanese blogsphere in Washington later this year, to determine "what we can do from our positions here that can actually make a difference," he explains. They hope to draft a set of policy prescriptions to present to the Lebanese government.