Egypt

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You know there are sometimes things that you hear or see and you just never forget. Things that immediately make it into your permanent memory and pop out as flying-by thoughts every now and then. They don’t [...]

An article about the Climate Action Day that took place on the 24th of October all over the world. Egyptian activists did their part with this brilliant night of short films, Sci-fi Documentary screenings, stand up comedy acts, and a discussion led by three of the most recognized professionals in Environmental issues in Egypt.

We’ve broadcast today a new Arabicast episode on MEYArabic; an interview with Dr Sahar Al Mougy.
The interview was recorded during Ana Al-Hekaya (I’m the Tale) workshop, that has taken place at the AUC from 27 to 29th of December 2009.
The workshop, which is held annually since 1998, focuses on rewriting and renarrating the Egyptian folkloric [...]

Meklit Hadero, an Ethiopian-born musician and 2009 TEDGlobal Fellow, sings a very moving song in support of Kareem:

Thank you so much Meklit! If you’re on Twitter, please take a moment to send a personal shout out to Meklit @meklithadero for joining the struggle to free Kareem Amer.

Most of the time, I leave the cinema hall feeling disappointed, offended and ripped-off. Here I am, after wasting nearly two hours of my precious life, feeling slightly older and bitter that my intellect wasn’t stimulated in any way.
The question we need to ask here is not why such pathetic attempts at film-making are still being made, it’s simply: why is the public still interested in such films?

Last May, a professor of mine told me about an upcoming project, a book on refugees in Cairo. I was an undergraduate student and May is the worst month of the year for me. I didn’t ask a lot of information about the book, my mind was bogged down with deadlines, endless papers and [...]

Kareem is a young Egyptian blogger who was only 22 years old when he was sentenced to 4 years in prison by the Egyptian government for criticizing Islam and the President of Egypt on a personal blog. Kareem was threatened and harassed consistently for his writing, and was previously arrested prior to his sentence, all [...]

A few months ago, we wrote about the Bitfilm Festival, whom we are a partner with, to give attention to some digital mash-ups that we have done in the past few years. This morning, they just started accepting votes. Four of our videos are currently competing for an award for the “Politicool” category.
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The U.S President needs to make clear where he stands on promoting democracy.
President Barack Obama’s decision to address the ‘Muslim world’ from Egypt has provoked a great deal of head-scratching from observers, myself included. I had hoped that the President would pick a location outside of the ‘Arab world’, to emphasize the diversity existent [...]

Ever since American talk show host Oprah Winfrey announced that her website www.oprah.com would be giving away coupons for free chicken dinners, KFC restaurants around America have been literally inundated with people coming with coupons in hand for a free chicken dinner, including two side dishes and a farm biscuit.
The situation has gotten so [...]