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Octavia Nasr

Octavia Nasr

Multi-award-winning journalist Octavia Nasr served as CNN’s senior editor of Middle Eastern affairs, and is regarded as one of the pioneers of the use of social media in traditional media. She moved to CNN in 1990, but was dismissed in 2010 after tweeting her sorrow at the death of Hezbollah’s Mohammed Fadlallah. Nasr now runs her own firm, Bridges Media Consulting, whose main aim is to help companies better leverage the use of social networks.

Syria and the new regional borders of influence

Four years of war, 220,000 people killed, 4 million refugees and 7.6 estimated displaced...

 Nepal tragedy shows we are all equal

Let Nepal’s earthquake remind us that we are equal in doom...

 Russia reaps early benefits of Iran nuclear deal

Russia has announced that it is lifting its ban on missile system deliveries to Iran...

 Iran nuclear deal: The region’s latest pacifier

The Iran nuclear deal tells us that one of the bullies in the region has partially won...

 The Middle East beyond ‘Decisive Storm’

The Houthis are not a new problem for the region nor for Yemen, their threat dates back to more than a decade...

 Netanyahu’s racism won him the Israeli elections

Netanyahu was able to turn the elections around to his advantage by simply playing the racism card...

 In Lebanon, March 14 is now just another date

The memory of that day a decade ago still conjures up images of elation...

 In March we remember the sweet taste of freedom

What was dubbed the “Cedar Revolution” was only the beginning of the later popular uprising all over the Arab world...