The Arabic category ran from 2004 to 2016 and chronicled the rise of the Arab blogosphere through the Arab Spring.
Notable winners in the Arabic category
- Moodless.net (2004, Jury)
- Manal and Alaa’s Bit Bucket (2005, Reporters Without Borders Award) — Egypt’s best known activist blogging couple
- Nora Younis (2007, RSF User award)
- Osama Romoh (2009/2010) — also the overall Best Weblog public vote winner
- We are all Khaled Said (2011, Best Social Activism Campaign) — the page that helped spark Egypt’s January 25 revolution
- Harassmap (2012, Best Use of Technology for Social Good)
- Mosa’ab Elshamy — overall Best Blog 2014, the Egyptian photoblogger
The original edition pages are preserved in the Internet Archive.
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