The Arabist

The Arabist

By Issandr El Amrani and friends.

What would you like to see on this site?

I'm thinking, sometimes early next year, of restructuring and redesigning the site a little, and would love readers' feedback on what they'd like to see. Let me know what you think of the following ideas:

  • Separating the core blog to a contributors' blog that would be open to a wider range of people (including, I hope, readers!)
  • Creating a forum — which I would only do if there are volunteers to moderate them.
  • Maintaining a news page, collating links to news stories about the region.
  • Doing weekly roundups of Egypt political news.
  • More translations from the Arabic press.
  • Creating an Arabic-language blog.
  • Closing the comments section (which is a pain to maintain spam-free) but allowing direct feedback by email, which I would curate and occasionally post (what Andrew Sullivan and TPM do, for instance.)
If anyone has strong feelings for or against this, do let me know in the comments or at issandr [AT] arabist.net.