My dear CITASA colleagues, The bunch of you, most of whom I have never met in person, have been the most helpful in brainstorming and to obtaining replies to scholarly but expansive questions. I am the editor and lead author on a project to which you may want to offer your comments, or for which you may even want to review a chapter. The title will change, but the book being written by a team at Howard University, Emory, Bucknell, University of Cairo, and Hankuk University of Foreign Studies is currently being referred to by us as: Resilient Nation-States of the Emerging East, Nimble Books, LLC, 2011. Prescriptive, not predictive, the book proposes a blueprint for stable constitutional republics from Algiers to Lahore, that is to say the greater Middle East, including east and north Africa. One of the chapters will consider the role of social networking media ­ not so much as catalysts for the revolutions in Egypt, Tunisia, etc. but as digital fora for conceptualizing new governments in the former regimes undergoing restructuring. We six authors (and a dozen readers and mentors) are endeavoring collaborate through the following social-professional networking tools (in approximate order of value): www.box.net (an FTP or file transfer protocol site) where there is a folder for the book Quora listservs, such at that of CITASA ­ feel free to suggest other listservs on the Middle East and political sociology, for example blogging - I use http://adrienneredd.wordpress.com Facebook (topic subgroup) Linked In Skype possibly Ning, though it is no longer free Gotomeeting and other meeting tools possibly a Wiki, though we use the FTP site in that way (revising and re-posting chapters of the book as they evolve) Twitter My point is that if you have any interest in the project overall or one of the specific social networking tools, I'll ³invite² you to these so you can participate as much or as little as you would like to. Thank you so much. Your contribution is precious to our team. Sincerely, Adrienne Redd Adrienne Redd, Ph.D. | Fallen Walls and Fallen Towers: The Fate of the Nation in a Global World (2010) Nimble Books, LLC. www.fallenwallsfallentowers.com Forthcoming: Resilient Nation-States of the Emerging East (2011) Nimble Books, LLC. Creator of ³Understanding Global News² at Arcadia University, recognized by Foreign Affairs magazine, 2009. Blog: Justice, Race, War, Peace and Pennsylvania http://adrienneredd.wordpress.com Twitter: ³follow² on http://twitter.com/Adrienne_Redd