The flow of current news events supports todays topic about arabic hackerspaces. This interview is with Bassel Safadi and Jon Philips the two founders of the first Syrian Hackerspace/cultural center Aikilab. We talk about their projects, their space and the current situation in Syria, especially when it comes to censorship. This is only the first part of the interview, the other part will be published when Talking Anthropology comes up in the Signal Schedule in february.

Links:

* Hackerspace Aikilab* Bassels Safadis Blog* Jon Philips Blog* Their project fabricatorz* Transmediale art conference in Berlin* Book Sprint project* the fedora linux distribution