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Shaimaa Khalil Shaimaa Khalil | 09:10 UK time, Wednesday, 10 March 2010

Guest post from Hafsa Nizar.

Some blogs are about pure politics, poetry or even funny aspects of life. I literally write about anything and everything. Hence the name of my blog :

The video features a glimpse of Cairo.

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I think blogging will remain vital and important even with the presence of Facebook and Twitter. Facebook remains very limited. Yes, it is faster interaction, but still limited compared to blogging , and tweetting is too brief. I only follow Facebook and Twiter closely if a fellow blogger hes been arrested or if a blogger is somewhere and updating us about a real live scene, but I don't think it can replace blogging at all.

In general, blogging has created a wave of openness between people living in the same country, also towards different cultures and countries. I am quite confident that blogging is a strong pillar of non official media . I think it's even more effective than conventional journalism sometimes.

Listen to Hafsa's audio below. She tells us who inspired her to blog, what she wants to see happen with Arab blogs in the future and why she doesn't think about the readers when she writes.

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