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shahed

@khanserai glad to know this incident will be useful about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone from Arlington, VA in reply to khanserai
"The truest denominator of a life searingly well lived is love" - words of wisdom from @umairh at @HarvardBiz: bit.ly/xVPUb8 about 9 hours ago via TweetDeck
@khanserai you got a tweet through! about 11 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone from Arlington, VA in reply to khanserai
@HindMakki it will make their aim worse, perhaps about 12 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone from Arlington, VA in reply to HindMakki
@AlexCrawfordSky thanks, though I'm not Pakistani, just an American observer :) about 12 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone from Arlington, VA in reply to AlexCrawfordSky
@ChristinaHebert you're welcome! about 12 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone from Arlington, VA in reply to ChristinaHebert
@nettra there may be in the future - will let you know! about 14 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone from Arlington, VA in reply to nettra
Pakistanis are smart enough to make their own online content decisions and shouldn't be treated like digital infants (re: Twitter, FB bans) about 15 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone from Arlington, VA
@Sandmonkey say the Mac Shahada: "There is no computer but Apple, and Steve Jobs is its messenger" about 15 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone from Arlington, VA in reply to Sandmonkey
“I asked a doctor about Red Bull,” the Taliban commander said after he had finished the can. “He told me it was halal" thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/… about 16 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone from Arlington, VA
First Facebook, now this: Twitter banned in Pakistan dawn.com/2012/05/20/twi… about 16 hours ago via Flipboard
"The researchers found an association between tweeting about oneself and high narcissism scores" well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/doe… 11:11 PM May 18th via Safari on iOS from Arlington, VA
@SarahAWildman @zeenat pick a time and place and I am there 2:02 PM May 18th via web in reply to SarahAWildman
@SarahAWildman @zeenat so glad I got in on this industry early :) 1:45 PM May 18th via web in reply to SarahAWildman
BorowitzReport Worldwide, people use #Facebook to protest their governments; in the US, we use Facebook to protest changes to Facebook. 12:19 PM May 18th via web Retweeted by shahed and 200 others
Perhaps you knew that there was a TEDxMogadishu today, and it was live-streamed: tedxmogadishu.com 1:17 PM May 17th via TweetDeck
@PITAConsumer @pitapolicy @stephanieDahle @AlecJRoss Social media rewards provocative dialogue more than it punishes moderation 7:29 AM May 17th via web in reply to PITAConsumer
@pitapolicy wish I was there! take good notes! 6:24 AM May 17th via web in reply to pitapolicy
Spent part of today laying the groundwork for a @GenerationChg chapter in Morocco 9:18 AM May 16th via TweetDeck
Just met with a delegation of human rights workers fighting traficking of persons; the scope of the problem is sobering 2:29 PM May 15th via TweetDeck

Name Shahed Amanullah
Location Washington, DC
Web http://www.shahed...
Bio Senior Advisor at @StateDept working on digital diplomacy. Founded @halalfire, created @altmuslim & @zabihah. Tweets do not represent US gov't.