Bursting onto the social media scene is Sowt, a new Jordanian online platform that allows people the ability to share their thoughts and ideas and to interact with each other using short audio clips. Sowt, which is Arabic for “voice,” founded by the Zureiqat siblings, Hazem, Tarek, and Dana,...

Internet users in the Middle East have been very active on Social Networks. Arab spring has acted as a catalyst to increased adoption of Social Networks in the region. Substantial growth of information infrastructure; stable growth of the number of active Internet users and lack of regional social projects...