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The Dream of Martin Luther King Become True

November 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Nasim Fekrat
Already i wrote this here
Today, early morning when I opened the news pages on Internet, I read “Obama became the next president of USA” I became excited and suddenly stood and shouted. I couldn’t control myself and I said “Greeting Obama! Oh great man in which the dream of Martin Luther King became true [...]

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Tags: Sneak In

Back to Kabul

August 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment

By Nasim Fekrat
I am in Kabul now. Over the last few weeks I was in Hamburg, Germany, for a Summer school on freedom and responsibilities in media. What a wonderful occasion and what wonderful people from 18 countries who I’ve met there. I miss all of them now and the only thing that remains with [...]

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When bloggers talk to bloggers

July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

It seems that bloggers always looking for bloggers. It happened for me when I heard about Stefen Niggemeier, a famous media journalist and blogger. I was very interested to meet a successful German blogger. His blog is called BILDblog, it observes and takes the role of a watchdog in regard to the largest newspaper in [...]

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Tags: Newsroom Diary

We share points and pains

July 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

The Summer Academy started with a brainstorming on ‘Why did I become a journalist?’, a question probably many of the participants don’t really think much about in their everyday life. One thing that all the answers provided by the participants had in common was that they wanted to be the voice of the voiceless and [...]

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Tags: Media Ethics