Prejudice against people with different accents develops in infants before they start to speak. Very interesting post.

For sure if there was a cordon of Central Security forces around the guys dancing, no one would have joined.

The best evidence for the validity of the arguments of the three opponents of the President for rejecting the results declared by the Interior Ministry is the data the Ministry itself has issued. In the chart below, compiled based on the data released by the Ministry and announced by Iran’s national television, a perfect linear relation between the votes received by the President and Mir Hossein Mousavi has been maintained, and the President’s vote is always half of the President’s. The vertical axis (y) shows Mr. Mousavi’s votes, and the horizontal (x) the President’s. R^2 shows the correlation coefficient: the closer it is to 1.0, the more perfect is the fit, and it is 0.9995, as close to 1.0 …

Review of Karima al-Hifnawy’s Diary of a Pharmacist.

Doctors from the Ministry of “Health” come and go freely, with no masks, no gloves, nada.

أصدرت المحكمة الابتدائية بـ"العدوه" صباح أمس الخميس برئاسة المستشار" أحمد يسري" ، وبحضور "أحمد الجمل" وكيل النيابة ، وأمانة سر "رمضان علي" حكما حضوريا بمعاقبه "منير سعيد حنا مرزوق" ، الموظف بالا داره التعليمية بمغاغة بالحبس (3 سنوات) وكفاله (100 ألف جنيه) ، وذلك لإهانته رئيس الجمهورية بأن قام بكتابة بيانات شعريه مخالفه للحقيقة وتوزيعها على العاملين بمحل عمله بالإدارة التعليمية.

Plants do have rights and the government should listen. Go Bahia Absinthifolia Go!!

Farouq Hosni shouldn’t be the head of UNESCO. Not just because of his (probably entirely politically opportunistic) Israel-bashing. But mostly because he is the longest-serving minister (22 years) in an autocratic state that does not respect freedom of expression; because he presides over a corrupt and mediocre ministry and has acted in the interest of the regime rather than the interests of culture time and again; because he is generally loathed by Egyptian artists and writers of any standing. He shouldn’t be head of UNESCO not because of his disrespect for Israeli culture–but because of his much deeper, more damaging disrespect of Egyptian culture.

Dell's Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)

Al Masry journalist was a school colleague and I know people who worked in NAMRU-III. Hisham Kassem is a twitter friend. This video feels very strange.

These students are all residents of the Zamalek dormitory and as a result the dormitory has been quarantined for 24 hours. The Ministry of Health has obtained samples from all residents of the dormitory and those results are expected later today.

Don't agree on some books (Paulo Coelho & Obama) but nevertheless a useful list.

Martus is a secure information management tool that allows you to create a searchable and encrypted database and back this data up remotely to your choice of publicly available servers. The Martus software is used by organizations around the world to protect sensitive information and shield the identity of victims or witnesses who provide testimony on human rights abuses. Martus is the Greek word for witness. Learn more about Martus software.

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), in partnership with Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), has published a report documenting the scope and long-term impact of rape and other sexual violence experienced by women who fled attacks on their villages in Darfur and are now refugees in neighboring Chad. This scientific study, corroborates women’s accounts of rape and other crimes against humanity that they have experienced in Darfur, as well as rape and deprivations of basic needs in refugee camps in Chad.

Human rights workers have been physically assaulted as well as arrested. When Dr Magda Adly, of the Al-Nadeem Centre for the rehabilitation of torture victims, left a police station in Kafr el-Dawa after interviewing four detainees who said they had been tortured, she was knocked unconscious and her arm was broken.

This Transparency is a look at where, around the world, the death penalty is still used and where it has been abolished.

George Orwell's Animal farm in Arabic

This case report examines the use of clonidine to successfully treat a child suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This case shows an unintentional washout period that exemplifies a cause-effect relationship between clonidine and the inhibition of reenactment symptoms of PTSD.

Oromos were tortured more often than Somalis, whereas Oromo men and Somali women were the ethnic/gender groups most often tortured. A number of possible explanations can be posited. The very high rates in the Oromo community may reflect long-standing interethnic conflicts. Somali women were more often tortured than Somali men. Anecdotally, Somali men were either killed in their home country or able to escape unharmed, whereas women and children had a more difficult time leaving the country.

This paper will focus on some of the most traumatic factors faced by the average Palestinian child during times of war. Unlike most research, which limits the Palestinian child's experience in war to military-related traumatic events, in this paper I will attempt to illustrate the Palestinian child's internal and external experiences, using empirical studies, my own clinical experience and an analytic understanding of historical and present events, in addition to a case study. This includes the different sources of stress and trauma that face Palestinian children and which ultimately create a multi-traumatic environment. I will also compare the situation of Palestinian children during the first and the second Intifadas.

Ellen had revenge fantasies toward her husband, Max, because she held him responsible for the accidental death of their 10-year-old son, Morgan. Instead of taking Morgan to ski on an intermediate slope as planned, Max had impulsively selected an advanced slope. Morgan hit a tree and later died of a head injury.

Through this process I have discovered a deeper level of compassion. It is a compassion rooted in the real world, and it includes myself. I realized that the compassion I used to have was detached and aloof. I was at the same time disconnected from patients yet overinvested in them. My aloofness and disconnectedness also caused a degree of social ineptitude and a lack of perception that made me capable at times of being a jerk to peers and co-workers. I am more self-possessed now and more genuinely connected with other people.

Incredible photography. Magical.

أننا اذا كنا ننكر حق الدولة في إزهاق روح المحكوم عليه بالإعدام فإننا ننكر بذلك حق الدولة في العقاب بالنسبة لجميع أنواع العقوبات‏,‏ كما أن عقوبة الإعدام تتناسب في جسامتها عادة مع الجرائم التي توقع من أجلها وبالنسبة للاخطاء البشرية والتي قد ترد عمن يوقع العقاب فإن كل الأحكام القضائية تصدر عن بشر ومعظم العقوبات تخضع لتلك المشكلة‏,‏ فهل معني ذلك أن نلغي كل العقوبات‏,‏ كما أن النفع الجماعي الذي يعود علي المجتمع من عقوبة الإعدام كبير والضمانات التي وضعتها التشريعات القانونية لتلافي الاخطاء القضائية كفيلة بأن تمنع أو تقلل هذه الاخطاء البشرية‏.‏

Largest two ring-roads here are that of Beijing then London. Cairo's ring road, which was designed in the 70s and only completed in 2000s, is almost the size of Brussels'.