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Ahmed Zidan

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Deputy director, audience @freedomofpress. Champion of black humor/white wine. Forever a migrant. DM for Signal. 🦋 zidan.bsky.social مُستقصٍ وقاصٍ ورحّال

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Ahmed Zidan’s Biography

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My work has been published on Mideast Youth, ArabNet, ReadWrite, the Arab American Institute, openDemocracy, MTV, Alhurra, Radio Sawa, Radio Netherlands Worldwide, Alhiwar Almutamaden, Beirut.com, The Broker, Napoli Monitor and African Writers Abroad, among many others. My work has been also translated to several languages.

I was featured on numerous websites, newspapers and magazines, including Reuters, the New York Times, CNN, Russia Today, Amnesty International (German Version), MTV, VH1, Al…

Ahmed Zidan’s Journalist Portfolio

How Turkey silences journalists online, one removal request at a time

How Turkey silences journalists online, one removal request at a time

On June 19, Abdülhamit Bilici, the last editor-in-chief of the now-shuttered Turkish paper Zaman, tweeted abo…

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From Twitter's NYC HQ: Six Winners of the Inaugural Vine Journalism Awards

From Twitter's NYC HQ: Six Winners of the Inaugural Vine Journalism Awards

If you're walking through Madison Avenue, a mile away from Times Square, you'll never be able to pinpoint Twi…

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How did Tamarrod topple the Muslim Brotherhood? | openDemocracy

How did Tamarrod topple the Muslim Brotherhood? | openDemocracy

Tamarrod didn't exclude any political faction from its mission, whether the armed forces, or National Democra…

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From #Jan25 to Tahrir: What Comes Next for the Internet Revolution?

From #Jan25 to Tahrir: What Comes Next for the Internet Revolution?

Guest author Ahmed Zidan lives in Egypt and is the editor of Mideast Youth. The Egyptian protesters have over…

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Articles

Beyond Logs: Why Observability's Next Era Is Comprehension

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By Ahmed Zidan
| DEV Community
Ask most engineers to debug a production incident and watch what they reach for first. Nine times out of ten, it's logs. grep a request ID, tail a pod, scroll through a dashboard full of raw text. Logs are comfortable. They're the first signal most of us learned, and they read like a story — one line at a time, in the order things happened. That comfort is also the problem.
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Analysis of modified second-grade fluids in thin film configurations employing the asymptotic homotopy perturbation method - Scientific Reports

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By M. Mossa Al-Sawalha, Musaad S. Aldhabani, Ahmed Zidan, Abdulkafi Mohammed Saeed, Noorullah Noori, Ahmed Shafee
| Nature Verified
Abstract This article investigates the steady, incompressible and non-isothermal thin film flow of a modified second grade fluid under both conditions that is, lifting and drainage. The governing highly non-linear ordinary differential equations with appropriate boundary conditions have been solved and achieved approximate solutions employing the Asymptotic Homotopy Perturbation Method (AHPM).
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This Week’s Cloud Native Pulse: Dec 13-19 - OTel Memory Leak Fix, K8s 1.35 GA Blitz, ArgoCD Shields Up

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By Ahmed Zidan
| DEV Community
Last week was packed with important releases across the tools many of us rely on daily: OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, ArgoCD Image Updater, Prometheus, and Grafana.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Freelance Cultural Reporter

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

On my gmail: ahmedzidaan

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

HTML, the ENPS, Wordpress, Django, Dalet, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Spreadsheet, Excel, Google Fusion Tables and Photoshop

Awards

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2011 - Special Topic Award for Human Rights for Migrant-Rights.org

Special Topic Award for Human Rights for Migrant-Rights.org - The Best of Blogs. Received it on behalf of Mideast Youth organization during the Global Media Forum 2011 in Bonn, Germany.

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