The Washington Post has a follow-up story about a woman, Mia Fleming, who recently reconnected with Chris Astle and Emily Yanich-Fithian — friends who found her as an abandoned baby two decades ago.

An initial article on Dec. 17 describes how the then-15-year-olds found her and how Mia later found them:
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Helle C. Dale of Heritage Foundation has just written a report on the U.S. government’s use of social networking in public diplomacy. The full report can be viewed here.
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iDiplomacy will have a lighter publishing schedule this holiday season. But we’ll still be posting links to interesting articles on Twitter (@idiplomacy). Here are a few:

The Turkish Foreign Ministry held its first teleconference Thursday.

Newsweek article on Abu Dhabi’s growing arts scene, including the company Twofour54 — “(named after the emirate’s geographical coordinates) [it's] a ‘content-creation community’ that encompasses a giant high-definition film studio, a state-of-the-art television and radio broadcasting center, a media-training academy, and a division to fund new projects. The goal is to produce high-quality indigenous films, TV shows, news, and even gaming specifically for the Arab world (move over, Mario Kart, here comes Hameed Humvee).”
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