Facebook in Middle East

arabnews.com, Facebook frenzy beats out newspapers in ME, 1 June 2010 "The Middle East has more Facebook users than newspaper readers, a new study has found. Spot On Public Relations, a Middle Eastern PR agency specializing in social media, found that as of May 2010, Facebook has more than 15 million users in the Middle East and North Africa, easily surpassing for the first time the region’s newspaper sales of just under 14 million."

ME/Africa net traffic growth

bi-me.com, Middle East and Africa region to top global mobile data traffic growth at 133 % CAGR, reveals Cisco forecast, 3 June 2010

"• IP traffic in the Middle East and Africa will reach 1 exabyte per month by 2014 at a rate of 45%. Monthly Internet traffic in the Middle East and Africa will generate 182 million DVDs worth of traffic, or 727 petabytes per month.

• "The Middle East and Africa will have the strongest mobile data traffic growth of any region at 133 % CAGR, followed by Asia Pacific at 119% and North America at 117%."

Number crunching: MuslimWestFacts

I attended an interesting lecture by Dalia Mogahed today in London, relating the findings of the Gallup/Coexist Foundation World Poll. It reminded me that there's a great deal of useful data available on MuslimWestFacts associated with perceptions, opinions and trends. The findings are also available in Arabic, and appear to be regularly updated. It's a great resource, especially for students/researchers, and was effectively summarised by Mogahed in her presentation. You can read more in John L. Esposito and Dalia Mogahed, Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think (Gallup, 2008).