Editor's note: This article is adapted from a paper that first appeared in Arab Media and Society, an online journal published by the American University in Cairo's Center for Electronic Journalism.

Arab political blogging is changing and becoming more politically relevant. Arab blogs remain a very small, if rapidly growing, phenomenon -- there are perhaps a few thousand political blogs across the region. Still, Internet use and blogging are growing fast, and Internet access seems nearly universal among politically mobilized youth in certain Arab countries. ...