“As a Muslim woman, I feel it is almost a duty to watch the show, not only for entertainment purposes but to be able to discuss my opinions with other non-Muslim and non-Arab viewers of the show,” said Dahhan, who attends Pace University’s Lubin School of Business in New York and is president of the Muslim Student Association at the university.

As he played with his PlayStation Portable game in the University of Damascus auditorium, Alaa Mora pointed to a study-abroad application to Europe as his only realistic goal for studying overseas.

Microsoft pioneer Bill Gates.  Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg.  Now, TwitVid.com’s Mohamed Adham and Adil Lalani.  Working inside their dorm rooms at the University of Waterloo in Canada, Adham and Lalani developed a fast and easy technology for people all around the world to share video.