I admit to being torn about the treatment of what's been reported on Amina Abdalla's blog. I first heard about this through Liz Henry, who has a long post here: http://bookmaniac.org/painful-doubts-about-amina/ , and I don't think she was wrong to have noticed, as she went looking for information to try and help, the limited sources that, at this point, seem to have shaken out to include no in-person contact at all. And I think Liz's post is pretty careful about the horrible awkwardness of asking these questions and about cautioning that, if Amina Abdalla's online identity is partly obfuscated for safety reasons, then she may still be in danger, and if was fictionalized for other reasons, it's unquestionable that many other people in Syria still need support.
But that kind of nuance easily gets lost for just the reasons you say, especially as things get picked up by major Western media outlets.
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Date: 2011-06-09 05:45 pm (UTC)But that kind of nuance easily gets lost for just the reasons you say, especially as things get picked up by major Western media outlets.