You mean to tell me that my voice, effort, and rights don’t matter?
One of the most outspoken, logical, and creative Egyptian tweeters is Mahmoud Salem, aka Sandmonkey. In January of this year, I began to follow Sandmonkey, and I found his blog informative and current. He introduced me to many other sources, which I still follow until today. Today, Sandmonkey sounded the…
Ousting Mubarak, from Westwood
by Colin Kielty John Scott-Railton is a doctoral student at UCLA’s School of Public Affairs—where he spends virtually all of his spare time running a Twitter page dedicated to airing voices from the protests that broke out across Egypt on January 25th. Using a Blackberry and his laptop microphone, Railton…
Video: EIPR’s Martyrs Behind Bars [Graphic]
Martyrs Behind Bars is a 14-minute video with English subtitles produced by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) about the intentional killing and torture of prisoners by prison police during Egypt’s Jan25…
Public Opinion, Political Strategies and the New Egypt
Via El Masry El Youm, by H.A. Hellyer. Finally, someone discussing the constitution and the parliamentary elction. A sound analytical argument. There’s a new Egypt now — an Egypt where public opinion actually matters. The country has gone through a tumultuous seven months, and Ramadan provides something of a break…
ElGomhoreya.TV Is Searching For A Leader
Gomhoreya.TV (http://www.elgomhoreya.tv/) is an initiative that is using social media (Facebook, Twitter, web videos) to call for a civil democratic state in Egypt through a pluralistic (and funny) constitution. The website looks well produced…
Video: Flagman’s Ascent to Hero Status
Here’s the clearest video yet of Ahmed Al-Shahat’s (a.k.a Flagman or Egypt’s Spiderman) incredible climb up of a 24-storey building to reach the Israeli embassy in Cairo. This video was shot and edited…
Israeli Military Envoy in Town, Having to Deal with a Different Egypt
Via Ahrma Online A senior Israeli general arrived to Cairo today for talks with Egyptian officials, including senior members of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF). in an attempt to contain the crisis that erupted over the killing of five Egyptian soldiers on the border with Israel Thursday,…
Azza Sedky: The Fixation on SCAF–سابوا الحمار ومسكوا فئ البردعه
Azza Sedky writes a piece about how Egypt’s twittersphere is angry with the way the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) is handling the transitional period in Egypt but have not yet given…


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