Almost exactly 11 months ago, Mohamed Bouazizi, the street vendor in Tunisia whose name spread like wildfire across the Middle East set himself on fire in protest of the corruption and humiliation that he had suffered his entire life. Since then, …
Posted in Bahrain, Current Events, Demonstrations, Morocco, Syria, Yemen | Tagged Arab Spring, Bahrain, Morocco, Syria, Yemen | 1 CommentOn the 3rd of June 2011 the now-illegitimate President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen was injured in an RPG attack on his presidential palace, in the mist of 6 months of popular protest against his rule. The following day he …
Posted in Yemen | Leave a commentHosni Mubarak, the ousted president of Egypt who ruled for 30 years, is said to have accumulated $70 billion from corruption and Egypt has been under Emergency Law as long. Under the law, the police power was extended, constitutional rights …
Posted in Activism, Arabs, Awareness, Bahrain, Censorship, Civil Rights, Current Events, Democracy, Demonstrations, Education, Egypt, Events, Freedom of Speech, Iraq, Jordan, Kurdistan, Kurds, Libya, Media, Middle East, Morocco, Politics, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen | Leave a commentJudge This Book by its Cover: Mass Perception & Revolution Many spectators of Egypt’s political play this winter believe that they witnessed a revolution. Perhaps so; depending on the definition of “revolution” in your book. It is laughable to think …
Posted in Activism, Bahrain, Culture and Society, Egypt, Events, Iran, Media, Middle East, Society, Tunisia, Yemen, Youth | Leave a commentYemen Portal, a partner of MEY, which is blocked in Yemen, launched today a special Arabic-language section, called Revolt Window, on its website in an attempt to cope with the rapid moving cyber activities on Facebook to coordinate and trigger …
Posted in Activism, Announcements, Current Events, Demonstrations, Yemen | 1 CommentHashtag Tahrir, hashtag revolution, Lotus revolution, among many other names given to describe the ongoing protests in Egypt.
The last 12 days have seen a lot of twists and turning points since the very beginning, when we’ve expected here that Egypt was on the verge of several successive days of rage, following the first Day of Rage which has jolted the regime on Tuesday 25th of January 2011. Accordingly, the regime has had to step closer to a real democratic reform, but on the other side the protesters kept their pressure up, their hands high, and their fingers crossed.
Posted in Activism, Arabs, Civil Rights, Culture and Society, Current Events, Democracy, Demonstrations, Egypt, Freedom of Speech, Jordan, News and Politics, Podcasts, Society, Tunisia, Yemen | Tagged Day of Rage Egypt, Day of Wrath, Egypt's demonstrations 2011, Egypt's protests 2011, Friday of Departure | 10 CommentsJust recently, we at CrowdVoice.org partnered with prominent Yemeni news aggregator YemenPortal.net to collect the constant coverage of the protests in Yemen. We received a notification from Walid al-Saqaf (founder of alkasir.com and YemenPortal.net) today that CrowdVoice.org has been censored …
Posted in Yemen | 3 CommentsNews aggregator YemenPortal.net and user-powered content curator CrowdVoice.org teamed up to collect the constant coverage of tomorrow’s protests in Yemen. It can be accessed here: http://crowdvoice.org/yemen or https://yemenportal.net/protests. To embed the page’s content in your blog post or sidebar, simply …
Posted in Current Events, Demonstrations, Yemen | 2 CommentsSince human rights activist and journalist Ms. Tawakkol Karman was kidnapped by security forces in Sana’a yesterday evening, the Yemeni capital has witnessed the beating and detention of dozens of demonstrators who were calling for Tawakkol’s release. Reporters Without Borders …
Posted in Bad news, Civil Rights, Current Events, Human Rights, News and Politics, Yemen | Tagged Tawakkol Karman, Yemen | 1 CommentA Yemeni software developer and activist was among this year’s batch of new TED fellows, according to a press statement by TED. Walid al-Saqaf, the founder of Yemen Portal (https://yemenportal.net) and alkasir circumvention software (https://alkasir.com), along with 22 other persons …
Posted in Announcements, Censorship, Freedom of Speech, Yemen | 4 Comments