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Nasim Fekrat نسیم فکرت is a freelance journalist, photographer and blogger who is a winner of awards from Reporters Sans Frontieres and Information Safety and Freedom, is the editor of the Afghan Lord blog and a political science student at Dickinson College. He is also the director of the Association of Afghan Blog Writers (AABW). Nasim’s work has appeared on BBC Persian^[1], CNN ^[2], Foreign Policy Magazine^[3], his own news sites, and publications run by both NATO and the United Nations. As the leader of a small movement of young journalists advocating for free press in Afghanistan.

Developing Blogging and Online Journalism

Nasim has developed Blogging in Afghanistan. Since 2006, he has been running blogging workshops for Kabul University students and journalists all around Afghanistan. In summer 2009, he ran several blogging and online journalism workshops with the help of U.S embassy in Kabul and Association of Afghan Blog Writers in Helmand, Herat, Bamiyan, Jalalabad and Kunduz. see the source here

Education

Currently, Nasim is studying at Dickinson College in Carlisle Pennsylvania.

Photo Story

Personal Websites

The World Through My Eyes - Photography
Afghan Lord- Blog Diary
Notes from Kabul یادداشت هایی از کابل in Persian
Flickr Photos Photo gallery

References

External links

Afghanistan: First blogging workshop in Kabul
Blogging for a freer Afghanistan - Global Voice Online
Eager to Learn About the World, Tech Savvy Afghans Turn to Blogs Afghan blogger teaches others his craft- America.gov
Meet Afghanistan's Biggest Blogger on Foreign Policy Magazine
Meet Afghanistan's Most Fearless Blogger on Slate Magazine
Blogging for Afghanistan on Guardian Weekly
Afghan student in U.S.: 'Finish the job' but not so hastily - on CNN
Der Blogger vom Hindukusch on Der Tagesspiegel - Deutsch
Nasim Fekrat on National Constitution Center
Reflecting on global initiatives About Clinton Global summit in 2009 - NYC

[BBC_Persian-1] BBC Persian Online

[CNN-2] Afghanistan Crossroads - CNN

[FP-3] Foreign Policy Magazine

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+'''Nasim Fekrat''' [[:fa:نسیم فکرت|نسیم فکرت]] is a freelance journalist, photographer and blogger who is a winner of awards from Reporters Sans Frontieres and Information Safety and Freedom, is the editor of the [http://www.afghanlord.org Afghan Lord blog] and a political science student at Dickinson College. He is also the director of the [http://www.afghanpenlog-en.blogspot.com/ Association of Afghan Blog Writers (AABW)]. Nasim’s work has appeared on [[BBC Persian]]<ref name="BBC Persian">[http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/institutional/blog.shtml BBC Persian Online ]</ref>, [[CNN]] <ref name="CNN">[http://afghanistan.blogs.cnn.com/tag/nasim-fekrat/ Afghanistan Crossroads - CNN ]</ref>, [[Foreign Policy Magazine]]<ref name="FP">[http://afpak.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/07/07/afghanistans_not_so_free_press Foreign Policy Magazine ]</ref>, his own news sites, and publications run by both [[NATO]] and the [[United Nations]]. As the leader of a small movement of young journalists advocating for free press in Afghanistan.
+==Developing Blogging and Online Journalism==
-'''Nasim Fekrat''' [[:fa:نسیم فکرت|نسیم فکرت]] is an Afghan self taught journalist and photographer <ref name="National Constitution Center">[http://constitutioncenter.org/jennings/bios/Fekrat_N.html/ National Constitution Center ]، NCC</ref> and the [http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/08/12/meet_afghanistans_biggest_blogger/ first and famous Afghan blogger] and the director of several news reporting and training organizations he has founded to help bring Afghan journalism into the internet age. Publishing in English and [[Persian language|Persian]], Nasim’s work has appeared on [[BBC Persian]]<ref name="BBC Persian">[http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/institutional/blog.shtml BBC Persian Online ]</ref>, [[CNN]] <ref name="CNN">[http://afghanistan.blogs.cnn.com/tag/nasim-fekrat/ Afghanistan Crossroads - CNN ]</ref>, [[Foreign Policy Magazine]]<ref name="FP">[http://afpak.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/07/07/afghanistans_not_so_free_press Foreign Policy Magazine ]</ref>, his own news sites, and publications run by both [[NATO]] and the [[United Nations]]. As the leader of a small movement of young journalists advocating for free press in Afghanistan.
-<br />Nasim has been threatened, had his hacked, been forced to write using a pseudonym (Sohrab Kabuli), and driven into exile. For his writing and media training efforts, [[Reporters Without Borders]] awarded Nasim the freedom of expression award in 2005,<ref name="Global Voice Online">[http://globalvoicesonline.org/2005/07/05/sohrab-kabuli-afghan-blogger/ Interview with Sohrab Kabuli (Nasim Fekrat) ] ، By Rebecca MacKinnon</ref> and in 2008, Nasim accepted the Freedom of Expression award given by Italian organization ISF (Information Safety and Freedom)<ref name="Information Safety and Freedom">[http://www.isfreedom.org/home1110.htm Information Safety and Freedom ]، ISF</ref> on behalf of himself and [[Sayed Pervez Kambaksh]], a journalist placed on death row in Northern Afghanistan for allegedly distributing materials critical of Islam. <br />Last year, Nasim was placed in charge of the communication and information committee for the Human Rights and Democracy Center in Kabul. He also serves as the director of Afghan Press (afghanpress.org, afghanpress.af), an online newspaper in two languages dedicated to bringing scholars together to discuss and distribute news in Afghanistan’s more remote villages, which are rarely represented in the international media. He also writes for [http://www.kabuli.org Notes from Kabul] and serves as the director of the [http://afghanpenlog-en.blogspot.com Association of Afghan Blog Writers] and in [http://www.afghanpenlog.com Persian].
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-The spring 2009, Nasim came to the [[United States]] for the first time, on the invitation of [[Joe Torsella]], then the chief executive of the [[National Constitution Center]] in [[Philadelphia]]. Fekrat ended up staying in the United States to learn more about digital media and culture on a three-month fellowship at the [http://dewitt.sanford.duke.edu DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy] at [[Duke University]]
-==Developing Blogging and Online Journalism in Afghanistan==
 Nasim has developed [[Blogging]] in Afghanistan. Since 2006, he has been running [http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/04/09/afghanistan-first-blogging-workshop-in-kabul/several blogging workshops] for [[Kabul University]] students and journalists all around [[Afghanistan]]. In summer 2009, he ran several blogging and online journalism workshops with the help of U.S embassy in Kabul and [http://afghanpenlog-en.blogspot.com Association of Afghan Blog Writers] in [[Helmand]], [[Herat]], [[Bamiyan]], [[Jalalabad]] and [[Kunduz]]. see the source [http://blogs.america.gov/bythepeople/2009/07/31/learning-online-journalism-and-writing-blogs-in-helmand-province/ here]