Bits from the media war on Algeria

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Readers have much to learn from Gladwell the journalist and essayist. But when it comes to Gladwell the social scientist, they should watch out for those igon values.

Iron build up damaging vessels?

أرأيتم أشباه المطربين المصريين الذين ظهروا أول أمس يبكون كالنساء، مع احترامي للنساء طبعا، في فضائيات العهر الإعلامي؟ أرأيتم ذاك البدين المدعو محمد فؤاد، الذي بدا من هيأته البشعة وكأنه حمال في ميناء وليس كمطرب؟

Supports donors in Egypt.

Closed mental Asylums in US and UK.

What’s interesting about Algeria and Egypt is that these are two very similar countries in terms of social identity, religion, economic status, oppression, etc. Which means that the Us vs The Unknown Other – the bogey man - element which is so often a theme in the Egyptian media has been more difficult to manufacture this time. The emphasis has been on the violent history of Egypt vs. Algeria encounters and on the suggestion that “our Algerian brothers” have somehow betrayed their Arab identity.

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The uncertainty in the magnitude of a measured quantity is more important as the value itself.

“Thousands of Egypt’s poor are trapped by poverty and neglect that could ultimately end in their deaths,” Malcolm Smart, director of Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa program, said in a press statement issued yesterday.

A woman in the fifth phase of the development contacted authorities and claimed that rocks had fallen and injured her. The local council countered her claim stating that she had made the complaint in an effort to be relocated and that she was injured during an altercation with a neighbor.

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Scientists from around the world gather in Alexandria to discuss evolution – but is religion getting in the way?

Comic based on the artist's life about depression.

Sharqawy was eventually released on Oct. 29, after signing a written pledge not to hold religious ceremonies or Christian meetings in his house.

A highly informative article about the case from A-Z.

In accurate but it's on state media now.

A collaborative mapping project to build a database of bloggers who have been threatened, arrested or killed for speaking out online and to draw attention to the campaigns to free them.

The bastards want to enslave African migrants in concentration camps because they are too cheap to pay them minimum wage and can boldly claim that they "will spread diseases".

CAIRO: An NGO has drawn attention to the experiences of Sudanese nationals held in Egypt’s El-Qanater Prison after a group of Sudanese detainees allegedly organized a protest in the prison last month.El-Qanater, approximately an hour from central Cairo, holds non-Egyptian detainees and prisoners.

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Hawas: If you don't restore your history, you have no future.

Buses sometimes disturb you because some of the drivers are killers.