Update Jan 6: Please check page 9 on flickr photo set. I’ve just got it today from Khalil at Rafah crossing, who in turn got it from Palestinian ICU doctors, and was trying to get it priced at local pharmacies.
Today also a group of Egyptian doctors gathered at Rafah crossing to enter Gaza supported by [...]
As clock was ticking towards midnight 31 December, me on Egypt side of Rafah border, I got this SMS from my friends in Khan Yunis, Jabalia, Rafah…:
Look outside
F-16 SMILING for you
MESSILES dancing for you
ZANNANA singing for you
because I requested them ALL to wish you a *HAPPY NEW YEAR*
لم يكن ليشد الرحال الى القاهرة قبل ثلاثة سنوات لولا استحالة الحياة في دارفور.. لم يأت الى القاهرة لينهل من عطايا السلطان او كرم الشعب او وفرة العمل.. وانما جاء مع عائلته الصغيرة لأن القاهرة تحتضن – او تنوء بمكتب المفوضية العليا للأمم المتحدة لشئون اللاجئين.
خذلته المفوضية، ومنظمة كاريتاس بجنيهاتها القليلة المتأخرة دائما، وخذله المصريون.
يقولون [...]
The impressive flickr account of blogger and friend Hossam el-Hamalawy is facing censorship by flickr themselves! First they disabled pro-palestine photos he had taken in Ireland, then they started searching their old drawers for reasons to un-list his account from public search.
Shame!
I was just awarded Human Rights First 2008 award. I am quoting HRF here: “One [...]
