It looks like people in the Middle East wonder whether President Barack Obama, who is visiting their country later this week to make what is being billed as a historic address to the world's Muslims, is himself a Muslim. A lot more than Americans do, at the moment. Check out what happens if you start searching on Google for "Obama" after telling the search engine that your "region" is Egypt...

The anonymous Egyptian youth activist with the Shabab 6 April movement at today's Alliance for Youth Movements Summit at Columbia University law school had a bone to pick with Facebook, but reserved his ire for the American government. It's bad enough that Facebook's group restrictions -- limits on how active members can be, restrictions on booting troublemakers out -- make organizing tricky. But he had far harsher words for the United States government's support of the reign of Hosni Mubarak. Why, he asked, was the U.S. so committed to perpetuating a repressive government against the wishes of that country's citizenry?

It wasn't just a rhetorical question. In the audience was James Glassman, U.S. Under Secretary of State, and Washington's self-appointed point person on Public Diplomacy 2.0.