It's movingly dismal. We couldn't have done better if we'd designed it ourselves.

The proceedings opened, movingly and appropriately, with a statement read by Global Voices members calling for the release of jailed online media workers and activists.

Across the Islamic world from North Africa to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan we see fragile relationships, unhappy transitions, unresolved conflicts, and outright attacks on the United States, despite Obama s case for a new beginning, movingly articulated in his June 2009 speech in Cairo.