I should clarify that the suggestion articulated in my previous post that the regime may have had some hand in yesterday’s bombing is total conjecture, suspicious though it is that it falls on the same day that one of Cairo’s newest dailies, El-Shorouk carried the (perhaps-premature) headline “Repeal of Emergency …
Links for February 21st through February 22nd
These are my links for February 21st through February 22nd: Explosion in Al-Azhar area at 3arabawy – Explosion at Hussein Mosque in Cairo—إنفجار عند جامع الحسين بالقاهرة « Grey Wool Knickers – Ed Vulliamy and Helena Smith join frontline activists in Athens | World news | The Observer – Ben …
Explosion at Hussein Mosque in Cairo—إنفجار عند جامع الحسين بالقاهرة
Photo from AP As several people have noted, this comes at a very suspicious time, considering that the extension of the State of Emergency (in place since the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, with a brief break during Sadat’s presidency) was just about to be considered once again. Mubarak’s government has been …
Links for February 21st from 14:18 to 16:22
These are my links for February 21st from 14:18 to 16:22: Free the Prisoners for Gaza – Website for the remaining Gaza solidarity prisoners Al-Haraka Critiques the US Arabic Teaching System « – Energy Security Challenges for Israel Following the Gaza War – A review of the geological and political …
Links for February 17th through February 21st
These are my links for February 17th through February 21st: Recession grows interest in seeds, vegetable gardening – USATODAY.com – Fix-It Nation: In Tough Times, Tailors and Cobblers Thrive – TIME – Don't throw all your shoes at your nearest available statesman! Some of those still have some life in …
Links for February 14th through February 17th
These are my links for February 14th through February 17th: New Orleans Laborers Become Robbers’ Prey – NYTimes.com – "The ruined homes they sometimes squat in, doubling- or quadrupling-up at night, are broken into, and they have been made to lie face down while being robbed." 2009 satellite collision – …
Links for February 10th through February 13th
These are my links for February 10th through February 13th: How the left elevated Lieberman – Haaretz – Israel News – An interesting analysis of the growth of fascism—neither left nor right—in Israel. It is also notable for being one of the few articles to mention (if only obliquely) that …
Demonstration at AUC to Free Philip Rizk—مظاهر في الجامعة الأمريكية لإطلاق سراح فيليب رزق
This afternoon, AUC students—not generally a very politically-active lot—and a number of faculty came out in support of one of their own.
The Kidnapping of Philip Rizk—إختطاف فيليب رزق
Sarah Carr has written an excellent eyewitness account and brief analysis of the kidapping of Philip Rizk, a German-Egyptian AUC graduate student in the Middle East Studies program. He was abducted by state security forces (أمن الدولة) coming home from a march to Qalubiyya. I generally would have just added …
Links for February 5th through February 7th
These are my links for February 5th through February 7th
Economic Sustainability
This post actually started as a comment on a friend’s blog, but it turned into a bit of a diatribe that seemed to deserve its own post. My apologies to those of you for whom the references to day-old bagels, cement boats and opportunivores will make no sense. And I …
Links for February 1st through February 3rd
These are my links for February 1st through February 3rd
A conversation about this image—مناقشة عن هذه الصورة
What follows is a conversation about the above image, which I’ve been using as my profile picture on Facebook. The other party agreed to have his/her words reproduced here without her/his name attached:
Links for January 29th
These are my links for January 29th
Trip to Upper Egypt & Sudan—رحلة إلى الصعيد و السودان
This is coming a bit late, but I wanted to get some photos up from our recent trip to Upper Egypt and the Sudan. Adrienne has a more of the story here.