Palestine: Workshops Inspire Bloggers in Gaza and West Bank · Global Voices
Mays Dagher

Recently the director of Global Voices Advocacy, Sami Ben Gharbia, gave a series of blogging workshops in Gaza and the West Bank. The workshops were organised by the Arabic Media Internet Network (AMIN), which is aiming to increase the number of bloggers in Palestinian society.
Dozens of Palestinian bloggers and other people interested in blogging issues met every day for a week in Gaza, and for another week in the West Bank, to learn as much as they could about the ways that new web techniques can help people make their voices heard.
Topics covered included: using internet tools for advocacy and free speech, with  examples of that from around the world, security and privacy while blogging and using the internet, and cross-posting.
Bloggers Nour El Khoudary and Nazek AbuRahma wrote a joint post on AlJazeeraTalk about one of Sami’s workshops in Gaza :
Workshop by Sami Ben Gharbia
Abu El Sharif, another blogger from Gaza, wrote on his blog :
After the workshops ended, a video conference was set up between bloggers in Gaza and the West Bank. Ola Anan was one of the bloggers who took part in Gaza, and later she wrote:
الحوار كان ثريا وممتعا.. اختلفنا احيانا واتفقنا احيانا اخرى
تحدثنا عن تجاربنا مع التدوين.. وقارنا بيننا وبين من سبقونا في المدونين العرب
Ola ended by saying: