Stories about Egypt from March, 2007
Part Two: Inside the school of the Egyptian blogosphere
Source: original image from Baheyya (photoshopped), text in Arabic from Misr Digital This post is the second in a two-part series on Egypt's blogosphere in 2007. Read part one here. In order to better understand today's highly organized Egyptian blogosphere and how bloggers perceive their role in this new, turbulent phase...
Part One: Inside the school of the Egyptian blogosphere
Source: original image from Baheyya (photoshopped), text in Arabic from Misr Digital It is clearer each day that the dynamism of Egyptian bloggers isn’t just online: the country's activist bloggers are also highly engaged on the street. They've been playing an active part in the pro-democracy reform movement contesting...
More Egyptian Bloggers Arrested
Egyptian blogger MaLeK (aka MaLcoLM X) has been kidnapped today as he was in his way to attend a sit-in in front of the People's Assembly in Cairo. According to blogger Amr Gharbeia, Malek has asked a Ghad party activist to report the arrest to Hisham Mubarak Law Center. It...
Free Kareem Action
Watch the video – labeled “Free Kareem Action”- of the demonstration held yesterday by Reporters Without Borders in front of the Tunisia, Egypt and Cuba, stands at the tourism trade fair in Paris in protest against the dreadful record on freedom of speech in these countries.
