25 Arab Authors who Tweet from All Over the Mideast

It seems that the innovation of Arab writers is not limited to the pages of fiction. It expands to the fine art of tweeting. For the naysayers, it takes more creativity than you think in the ADD-driven world of the Internet. Here are 25 Arab authors who showed their stuff on Twitter.

"I have tried to focus not on important authors who’ve registered a Twitter handle, but on those who make interesting use of the medium. In no particular order…"

Everyone loves a good fiasco, but not when it's your country's presidential election. This Egyptian blogger comments on the presidential candidate registration a couple of days ago. It was not a dignified affair.

As expected, the Oscar win for the Iranian film "A Separation" gets lost in politics.

"Alas, habits being hard to break, even this marvelous opportunity was used instead as a platform for media on both sides to go ballistic. No sooner had Farhadi held the golden statue in his hand than Haaretz led with the inflammatory AP/Reuters generated headline 'Iranian film beats Israel's 'Footnote' at Academy Awards.' This set the tone for all Western media that followed."

If you are a single lady of a certain age in the Middle East, you surely would have gotten a comment or two about your not-so-coveted marital status. Condescending, unnecessary pity on singles is not only found in the West unfortunately. Well, guess what? This Jordanian blogger is declaring that being single is a choice, not a curse.

"But I don’t blame them, this is how girls are collectively raised in this society, they grew up with ideas that have seeped in too deep that became almost sacred so don’t you dare argue with them. Ideas that criss-cross individual differences and throw them out the window, leaving us with a free-size unisex “shirt” that’s supposed to fit everyone."