Blogs we like: Muslim Women In Beijing Olympics

From Muslimah Media Watch:

http://muslimahmediawatch.org/2008/08/14/muslimahs-at-the-beijing-olympics/

Why?

You’ve stumbled upon AMANA’s blog and can’t work out why we have it – we already have a website.

There are a few reasons, and these may change as we go along, but off the top of my head:

- Our website is being developed at the moment, so there are things that a blog can do that our website can’t. Eventually I’m hoping that there’ll be some cooler features on the website.

- We want to build a community of blogs and this will be one of them.

- We want a more fun, personal side to AMANA.

- We want to link in with social networking and a blog is one way to do this. This one automatically updates our Facebook page.

Still not sure? Here is a good article on the beauty of social networking for a site like ours:

http://www.seacem.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=58&Itemid=148

Blogs We Like: Muslim women in comics

http://brokenmystic.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/female-muslim-and-mutant-a-critique-of-muslim-women-in-comic-books-%E2%80%93-part-1-of-2/

Editor’s Pick: AMANA Magazine Vol 2 Iss 3

Don’t Look West: The Arab and Asian media would benefit greatly from less reliance on Western media sources for their portrayal of issues in each region, writes Dr Chandra Muzzafhar.

Read full article here.

Editor’s Pick: Amana News Online 30 July 2008

Hidden Beyond the Mekong: Yoginder Sikand reports on a small but vibrant Muslim community in Laos.

Read the full article here.

Blogging Amana

With an already great magazine, website and online news service, AMANA Media Initiative has decided to branch out into new media and technology. In the next few months we are hoping to bring you a range of new resources to the AMANA website including good resources, videos?, blogs and other websites which the AMANA community might like to use. This blog is to tell you about the process of expanding and highlight the best bits about what the media project is doing.

Part of this bold new experiment is to blog about AMANA and what we are doing behind the scenes. Some of you may have met us in person, some of you may know nothing about us at all.

Amana Media Initiative is tucked away in a modest office in the Asian Resource Foundation, in Nonthaburi, Bangkok. At the moment, we have an editor (me) and an editorial assistant, Fariya. You can learn more (and see us) here.

Coming up on the AMANA blog: Editor’s pick from the last edition and the website. Also – our intrepid editorial assistant Fariya is away at a peace conference at the moment, so she will hopefully tell us all about it when she returns.

Please stay in touch and let us know what you think about these changes, what you would like to see more of, and any other comments you might have.