Waving Catie goodbye I strode towards the departure gate feeling excited, revelling in the first real “I’m on my way” moment. Denying myself that priviledge until now made it twice as enjoyable. Most of the flight I spent poring over …
Posted in Egypt | Tagged Egypt | 1 CommentDear Friends of Kurdistan, I have set up an e-petition urging the British Government to recognize the Genocide inflicted upon the Kurdish population by the former regime of Saddam Hussein. If we get 100,000 signatures than they will debate this …
Posted in Activism, Awareness, Current Events, Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Iran, Iraq, Kurds, Middle East | Tagged Alliance for Kurdish Rights, Arab, Arabs, Barack Obama, Egypt, Environment, Green Prophet, help, Human Rights, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Jews, Jordan, Kurdish Human Rights, kurdish rights, Kurdish Youth, kurdish youth festival, Kurdistan, Kurds, Lebanon, Maikel Nabil, Maikel Nabil trial, Palestine, peace, petition, Politics, Religion, revolution, Saudi Arabia, Women | 1 Comment(Fragments of letters from imprisoned Egyptian blogger Maikel Nabil.) – Half of the period of Kareem Whenever I think of the length of my sentence (2 years), I remember that Kareem Amer was imprisoned for 4 years and he was …
Posted in Activism, Censorship, Civil Rights, Egypt, Freedom of Speech | Tagged Egypt, jan25, Maikel Nabil | Leave a commentMarch 15-May 31, 2012 – Cairo, Egypt The Artellewa Arab Collaboration Project will bring together six artists and writers from countries of the Arab uprisings in Cairo to collaboratively develop a creative project over a ten-week residency, from March 15 …
Posted in Art, Creative Media, Egypt, Middle East | Tagged Art, Artellewa, creativity, Egypt | 1 Comment(Fragments of letters from imprisoned Egyptian blogger Maikel Nabil) – Vegetarian I seriously think of becoming vegetarian and stop eating any animal foods, but I feel that I need to read to read more in this subject… The point which …
Posted in Egypt, Human Rights | Tagged Egypt, jan25, Maikel Nabil | Leave a commentThanks to Nariman Youssef for the translation. At a press conference last week, SCAF’s Mukhtar Al-Mullah issued a number of statements that revealed the hidden intentions of the military to kill the nascent democracy in Egypt. When towards the end …
Posted in Civil Rights, Egypt, Philosophy | Tagged Egypt, jan25, Maikel Nabil | 1 CommentFor the third day now, protesters in Egypt have been subjected to another round of horrifying violence by the counterrevolutionary forces of the Supreme Council of Armed Forces. Protester have staged a completely peaceful sit-in in front of Egyptian cabinet …
Posted in Civil Rights, Current Events, Democracy, Demonstrations, Egypt | Tagged Egypt | Leave a commentSome of the strongmen of the Middle East are no longer in the picture, but who, and what, will come to replace them? Yesterday’s parliamentary elections in Egypt is a case in point. Certainly, there was a sense of hope …
Posted in Activism, Current Events, Democracy, Demonstrations, Economy, Freedom of Speech, Middle East, Politics, Regional Issues | Tagged Egypt, Middle East | 2 CommentsOf course this movement won’t succeed in achieving its goals by the effort of the small active group in it. We need all the possible help to be able to change the laws which regulate conscription in Egypt. These are …
Posted in Activism, Awareness, Egypt | Tagged Egypt, Maikel Nabil | Leave a commentI liked that we write our demands clearly and explicitly, so that it would be understood what do we want. Primarily we want a law having the following specifications 1- A law which doesn’t discriminate between the boy and the …
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