Posts Tagged ‘Rizk’
Friday, March 13th, 2009
These are my links for March 9th through March 13th:
Tags: 'merica, AUC, CIA, Egypt, Gaza, humor, NDP, Obama, Palestine, Rizk, security, theEconomy, white_man's_burden, بلطجية, صمود
Posted in links | No Comments »
Sunday, March 8th, 2009
These are my links for March 4th through March 8th:
- March 3 1979 in Iran: Stop the Bomb – “Already in 1978 the Iranian woman, Atoussa H., wrote to Michel Foucault, a fan of Khomeini: ‘It seems that for the leftist movement in the West, which lacks humanism, Islam is desirable… for other peoples.’” Annotated link
- Police Officer Who Shoved a Bicyclist Is Off the Job – NYTimes.com -
- On the Greek Riots › My Kuneva – A poetic expression of the roots of class rage
- the veil of normalization « tabulagaza – “I realized today that i too had forgotten Gaza. In these past days in the elation of freedom i forgot why i had marched, i forgot why i am- to live for the other. That other is still as is, kept from life and the gatekeeper retains her position at the gate and the world looks on.” Annotated link
- For many, doomed ferry symbolizes Egypt’s corruption – Los Angeles Times – “The ferry case is a grim glimpse into Egypt’s starkly different worlds: one of migrants who work in Saudi Arabia and return home on rickety boats with money for their families, the other of elusive millionaires and billionaires with ties to the judicial system and ruling National Democratic Party, which sit atop a nation racked by inflation, labor unrest and poor healthcare and education.” Annotated link
Tags: activism, bikes, blockade, Critical_Mass, detainees, Egypt, feminism, ferry, Gaza, Greece, Iran, Khomeini, Konstantina_Kuneva, labor, Mamdouh_Ismail, NDP, NYC, police, Rizk, security, Talat_Mustafa, فساد
Posted in links | No Comments »
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
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 promising for years to come forth with an anti-terrorism law to replace martial law, which would at least give citizens some protection under Egypt’s constitution. The regime is currently able to invoke the Emergency Law to do whatever it wants, which is what readers here will recognize in the abuction of Philip Rizk and Diaa Gad, among many others. With the changes afoot in US and Israeli administrations—along with increasingly vocal, powerful and interconnected resistance groups, domestically and across the border in Gaza—it seems the aging Mubarak regime is getting nervous and finds little option to maintain its grip on power but to resort to a strategy of tension. I think the recent release of celebrated political prisoner Ayman Nour should be considered as evidence of the panic roiling the upper echelons of this dictatorship. For developing news on this event, check this delicious feed.
Tags: Egypt, El-HusseinExplosion, EmergencyLaw, Rizk
Posted in Masr —مصر | 10 Comments »
Friday, February 13th, 2009
These are my links for February 10th through February 13th:
Tags: 6FebProGazaMarch, detainees, Egypt, Facebook, fascism, Gaza, Google, Israel, Lieberman, NewYorkTimes, Obama, rendition, Rizk, SocialNetworking, surveillance, torture, web2.0, YisraelBeiteinu
Posted in links | 3 Comments »
Sunday, February 8th, 2009
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 this link to my usual Delicious feed, but I think this article deserves special attention for its effectiveness in pointing out the sickness of the Egyptian state. At the same time, I want to be careful not to overstate the importance of the lack in the myriad Egyptian security forces of what has come to be know as “professionalism”. I remain unconvinced that a “professional” police or military force, operating under “the rule of law” is a substantial improvement over an “unprofessional” one. At least in the case of the latter, we can more easily discern the true face of power without the mask of a civilized demeanor. It is for the same reason that Arab members of Israel’s Knesset have in some sense looked optimistically at the swing to the right in the legislative body, saying “the mask will fall and the real face [of Israeli democracy] will be revealed”.
If you are one of those people with the right connections (وسطة), please feel free to bring them to bear to help secure Philip’s release.
To stay abreast of news on Philip’s case, you can follow Hossam ElHamalawy’s Delicious feed on the subject.
Tags: Egypt, Gaza, Palestine, police, Rizk
Posted in Masr —مصر | 4 Comments »
Saturday, February 7th, 2009
These are my links for February 5th through February 7th:
- Petition on Tuition: There’s a Party and We’re Not Invited – AUC's inauguration, coming months late, was indeed quite a scene, though I wouldn't have been welcome to see it for myself. I heard it was awful, predictably enough.
- A market of the living amidst the tombs of the dead: Inside Souq el-Gomma – I just visited the Souq el-Gomma last Friday and had a great time. I'm somewhat glad I didn't get a chance to write down my observations, as this article by one of my favorite local journalists encapsulates much of what I would have had to say, except maybe for the mention of the bald dude in a Liberace fur jacket openly trying to sell a high-powered rifle (scope included) around the toilet plumbing section.
- Rizk’s family file case against Banha police, faculty to demand AUC intervention | AUC Caravan –
- Egypt police detain Egyptian-German activist | World | Reuters – "Rizk, who blogs at Tabula Gaza (http://tabulagaza.blogspot.com) is "passionate" about Gaza and had recently completed most of the work on a short documentary about non-violent resistance to Israeli occupation"
- Defense and the National Interest » On War #290: Blowback Revisited – Not coming from my perspective, really, but an interesting analysis of what we might expect from returning vets who may have been learning lessons from all the wrong models (in my opinion) of life in a stateless society.
Tags: AUC, blowback, Egypt, Gaza, InformalEconomy, interstices, Iraq, Palestine, police, recycling, Rizk, statelessness, students, veterans, war, WasteManagement
Posted in links | No Comments »
