Do bloggers have any influence in changing authoritarian regimes? Egyptian Blogger, Journalist, and activist Wael Abbas is a thorn in the side of the government and got month a million people read his blog. Zeinab Badawi asks; Is he just gaining celebrity status, or is he making a real difference?
RSS feed for latest statements released by the interior ministry.
أحالت الشؤون القانونية بالمجلس القومى للصحة النفسية مدير مستشفى بنى سويف للصحة النفسية إلى النيابة العامة لإعطائه جلسات علاج كهربائى لمريض بدون تخدير، وهو ما يعد انتهاكاً لحقوق المريض النفسى وفقا لقانون رعاية المريض النفسى
More photos of the underground wall construction.
Meklit Hadero, an Ethiopian-born musician and 2009 TEDGlobal Fellow, sings a very moving song in support of Kareem:
In Egypt, a private pilot programme aiming at a holistic treatment of the issues of burns patients started in 1989 in Assiut, the capital of Upper Egypt.
Since May 2009, Egyptian border guards shot and killed at least 17 migrants from countries such as Eritrea, Ethiopia and Sudan as they tried to cross into Israel at or near the Sinai border. General Muhammad Shousha, the governor of North Sinai, was quoted after the killings of four migrants in September justifying the policy of shooting at the migrants as "necessary."
An abandoned Cairo synagogue currently serves as government offices.
Egypt's parliament is due to vote on a law that would reform the treatment of hospital patients. Today thousands of patients, abandoned by their families, are interned in psychiatric hospitals.
CAIRO: Security forces arrested on Friday night Mohamed Abdel Ghaffar, son of Abdel Ghaffar Mohamed, the judge who presided over late President Anwar Sadat’s assassination case.
Bits from the media war on Algeria
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.
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.
“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.
Scientists from around the world gather in Alexandria to discuss evolution – but is religion getting in the way?
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.
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.
Hawas: If you don't restore your history, you have no future.
Buses sometimes disturb you because some of the drivers are killers.
Lack of adequate monitoring of places of detention has resulted in terrorist suspects being held incommunicado in “underground SSI cells,” putting them beyond the protection of the law, the SR says.
"I'll never set foot in Egypt again. Their approach is ridiculously over the top and it has tainted my opinion of the country forever."
Gamal Muabrak's second show in a series of online 'dialogues' with the shabab. Horrible.