Via Amr Gharbeia

Income-tax authority has been bombarding Egyptian citizens with TV ads calling for barbers, cheese-sellers and mechanics to provide tax-payable receipts with every single purchase. Apparently those brilliant kids were motivated to give a lesson in Social Marketing but in a bottom-top approach. The boy buying the weekly Mickey asks for receipt, gets a […]

Global Voices Advocacy interviewed me on the role of web tools and facebook in the current struggle in Egypt. You can read it here: Egypt Facebooking the Struggle

ليلتي الأخيرة في غزة لم تكن سهلة.. شبح “المرة الأخيرة” شاب وداع الأصدقاء مع تصاعد احكام الحدود وفشل مفاوضات اعادة فتح المعابر.. الأصدقاء، الذين التقيت أغلبهم للمرة الأولي خلال الأيام القليلة الماضية، أمطروني بوابل من الهدايا.. زعتر، وزيتون، ولبنة، وبن، ومربى قراصيا، ومطرزات فلسطينية، و…
كل من عرف أني مصرية، بلا أقارب في غزة، أتيت عبر الحدود المفتوحة فقط […]

 
غزة، نهار خارجي، بعد فك الحصار قسرا.
اضغط على الصورة لمشاهدة باقي المجموعة الأولي
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Here is another story I reported from the border with Gaza published at the Washington Post two days ago.
‘Dear Palestinian Brothers . . . Please Return to Gaza’

By Nora Younis and Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, January 26, 2008; Page A11
RAFAH, Egypt, Jan. 25 — Throngs of Palestinians fought off Egyptian security forces trying to […]

I just returned to Cairo after spending 4 days covering Gaza and the fallen border. This story was published few days ago in the Washington Post.
Order Begins to Return To Breached Gaza Border
Some Israelis Want Egypt to Control Strip

By Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, January 25, 2008; Page A13
RAFAH, Gaza Strip, Jan. 24 — Egyptian […]

دعت منظمة Leadership Council for Human Rights داعمي حقوق الانسان في الولايات المتحدة وخاصة واشنطن الى مسيرة بالشموع الى البيت الأبيض على أن يتجمع النشطاء غدا الاثنين 10 ديسمبر 6 مساءا في حديقة لافايت يتوجهون بعدها الى البيت الأبيض
وقامت المنظمة بتزيع دعوة جاء فيها:
REMINDER! REMINDER! REMINDER!
ON HUMAN RIGHTS DAY, UNITE FOR […]

While in Libya I got this news

My blog is nominated for the Reporters without Borders (RSF)  award with Deutche Welle (DW) Best of Blogs (BOBs)competition
Vote for me here
and vote for Torture in Egypt (Volter in Agypten) in the Best Arabic Weblog section
Meanwhile, follow my sms updates from Libya on Twitter

Update: Press Syndicate issued a statement dated Oct. 11th protesting Tantawi’s fatwa
During a religious celebration co-memorating the eve Quran descended from heaven, Mohamed Sayid Tantawi, sheikh of Azhar mosque preached a crowd of state officials including President Mubarak, finding religious grounds for whipping rumors spreaders 80 times
This comes as editors and journalists of independent media are […]

Egyptian blogs go on strike today, October 7th, together with daily and weekly newspapers protesting crackdown on blogs, bloggers and free press. Striking blogs placed this banner at their front pages

Early on, Egyptian bloggers started a freedom of speech campaign, placing this postcard on line for e-purchase. Card reads: ‘Why should speech be taken to court?’. […]

Click on above photo to read today’s Washington Post report, with my contribution, on regime’s crackdown on Egypt’s civil society; Ikhwan, Jornalists, Saadeddin Ibrahim, Ayman Nour, Prisoner’s Support NGO, and Center for Workers Services
Above photo was taken by Ikhwan web during Monem’s detention in May 2007

Don’t miss the Washington Post editorial for today:
A ‘Dissident President’?
If President Bush really feels solidarity with Egypt’s Saad Eddin Ibrahim, he ought to act on it.
Monday, September 3, 2007; Page A14
WHEN HE met Egypt’s best known democracy advocate, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, at a conference in Prague in June, President Bush told him that he, too, […]

Blogger and friend Monem, who was just released from Torah prison in June 2007, reveals the name of officer Atef el-Hosseiny who alledgedly tortured him for 13 days in Nasr City state security HQ back in 2003.
Monem says officer el-Hosseiny, and Ahmed Moussa, the Ahram journalist with close ties to security services, are orchestrating together his re-detention. Moussa has […]

 Blogger Monem Disappears. Click here for English
رغم أنه في حوزة وزارة الداخلية المصرية، عبد المنعم اختفى
تم ترحيله أمس، 31 مايو، الساعة الثانية ظهرا من سجن طرة محكوم.. وصل محافظة البحيرة الساعة التاسعة مساءا.. استطاع تمرير رسالة لمحاميه الأستاذ اسلام لطفي بأنه موجود في ادارة ترحيلات الأسكندرية الساعة الثالثة صباح اليوم.. اتجه المحامون الى ادارة ترحيلات الأسكندرية التي […]

At a time bloggers are torn between going anonymous, self-censoring, or shutting down their blogs, Samuel Tadros decides to join the Egyptian blogsphere and starts carving on his Liberal Wall. Welcome aboard my friend I hope more and more Egyptians will stand against the bloggers’ raid  and resist simply by multiplying. If we all raise our […]

فوز مصر بمقعد في مجلس حقوق الانسان بالأمم المتحدة وان دل على شيء يدل على أنه مجلس بطيخ

Silencing Monem ? By Malek
عدة أشياء يمكنك أن تفعلها من أجل منعم - هنا
تابع أخبار منعم وحملة اطلاق سراحه - هنا

Here is the latest! Bamha victims torn between agony and hope, resort to boycotting Muslim neighbors.
Read previous updates here and here.

To those interested in the Bamha Case: Some light in the Darkness 
Hi, Here’s a last update I’ve just recieved:
1. Yesterday, the victims dropped the charges against all the attackers, without changing their statements.
2. Clashes in […]