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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.

The true meaning of Christmas in the Middle East

Centuries of conflicts that started with the biblical myths of Abraham, Sarah, Hagar, Ishmael and Isaac culminate around this time of year...

 Between the CIA and ISIS: Is torture a basic human trait?

Have you read the CIA torture report in some of its most gruesome details?...

 I survived their Lebanon

We need new leaders, new visions and new modes of operation...

 Underneath all the bad news lies even worse news

Media outlets bury the truth of scarier issues plaguing our societies and in need of our immediate attention...

 ‘Jihadi John,’ a bad case of Western-fed narcissism

We learn that some humans are extremely violent and sick in their heads and in their hearts...

 Standing up to the lethal volcano of fundamentalism

The little freedom that is afforded to us outside of our nations and homelands is now threatened to disappear...

 We're singing our failures and indulging in our defeats

The problem is that the “real” you - in its ethical, conceptual, human contexts – does not exist in the public domain...

 The Kurdish way of fighting ISIS

Kurds know too well the importance of taking matters into their own hands...