Kristin

Kristin Deasy is a blogger with Future Challenges. Before joining the Future Challenges team, she worked as an international correspondent for the Prague-based Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a US-funded organization that broadcasts into countries that lack a fully free press. Her work has also appeared in World Affairs magazine, the Prague Post, the European online magazine Cafe Babel, and others. She currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Twitter: twitter.com/kristindeasy
Country: DEU

The Net Effect: For Wired Migrants, It’s Often Home “Tweet” Home

Carl Rana, like many only children, is pointedly self-assured. “My mother would not know how to use a computer if I didn’t, like, tell her all how to use it,” [...]

Saturday, 5 May 2012. No comments

Three faces of the Occupy Wall Street movement

As the Occupy Wall Street movement called for worldwide protests demanding more social equality to mark Labor Day, Future Challenges spoke with three prominent members of the anti-greed movement that [...]

Friday, 4 May 2012. No comments

Swimsuits and Sexual Revolutions

When I first met her in Cairo, Samira Ibrahim was wearing a swimsuit. Under her clothes. All the time. Ibrahim had regularly joined the 2011 demonstrations in Egypt’s Tahrir Square [...]

Monday, 19 March 2012. 1 comment

Syrian Opposition, Buoyed By UN Vote, Charts New Future

Opposition parties that effectively ousted decades-old regimes are now battling their way toward self-governance. Despite throwback by Assad’s regime, Syrian opposition parties are also thinking ahead. Ausama Monajed, senior advisor [...]

Sunday, 26 February 2012. No comments

Kristin

Latest posts

The Net Effect: For Wired Migrants, It’s Often Home “Tweet” Home

Three faces of the Occupy Wall Street movement

Swimsuits and Sexual Revolutions

Syrian Opposition, Buoyed By UN Vote, Charts New Future