Tweets You Should Be Following In The Middle East

I haven't written in a while, mostly because the world this year started out as un-funny and now has moved to downright scary and sad. I also joined Twitter, a thing I swore I'd never do, since until Tunisia, Twitter was just a mindless social network of people being self indulgent. Egypt, not Tunisia, changed that for me. I've been writing political satire and commentary for nine years more or less, but for the first time, I had a way to listen to what the citizens of the Middle East were saying...their thoughts, hopes and beliefs...unfiltered by the BBC, NPR, CNN, CBC or any other government and/or news agency (which is a redundant statement, I know). Plus, it's real time- amazing to hear people calling others to gather at this place or that and whether or not they're getting shot at while they're doing it. Anyway, if your on Twitter, these are the people I'm following: