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Pro-Mubarak Chants Heard at Abbasiya SCAF Rally
For very first time, slogans in support of ousted president are heard at pro-SCAF rally, eyewitnesses claim. According to some eyewitnesses and press reports, protesters at a Friday rally held in...
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Brotherhood's FJP Wins Ten Out of Ten Seats in Sharqiya
Freedom and Justice Party crushes independent, Salafist rivals in runnoff races in Nile Delta's populous Sharqiya governorate. President of Zagazig’s Court of First Instance Mohamed Amer on Friday...
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A New Phase? Syria Roundup [Updated]
[This post, originally started earlier this week, will be updated as matters develop after today's bombing. Last Update: 4:00 PM, Washington DC time] Two car bombings rocked the greater city of...
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Egyptian Elections: Preliminary Results [UPDATED]
[This entry will be regularly updated. Last update: 2:55 am, Saturday, December 24, Egypt time] The table below summarizes the most recent seat breakdown by party/coalition based on results of stages...
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2011, A Memory From Lebanon
When the revolutions began in March of 2011, I was envious. It is not easy to admit this. Back then, before the revolutions turned bloody, before Libya and Bahrain and Syria and before the...
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Field Marshal Tantawi Orders Military Prosecutors to Investigate 'Brutality'
Amid accusations of human rights violations, Egypt's de facto ruler directs army to look into "media allegations"; calls upon citizens to report any incidents to military prosecutors. Field Marshal...
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April 6 Movement Denies Being Part of 'Friday Unity' Rally
Friday Unity rally intended to unite pro- and anti- SCAF protesters; April 6 calls initiative "suspicious." The April 6 Youth Movement denies being involved in an initiative calling for a Friday...
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إغلاق منظمات حقوق الإنسان: محاولة يائسة لإسكات صوت المقموعين
بيان مركز النديم لحقوق الإنسان في مصر استمرارا لمسلسل القمع الذي انتهجه المجلس العسكري الحاكم منذ تولى زمام أمور البلاد في فبراير من هذا العام قامت قوات من الصاعقة والشرطة ومعهم بعض أفراد من القضاء...
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A Year in the Life of Egypt's Media: A 2011 Timeline [Updated]
[This timeline is part of a series entitled "Free at Last? Charting Egypt's Media Post-Mubarak." Click here to read Part 1.] DECEMBER 30: One year after the Alexandria church bombing, SCAF releases a...
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هل تخبرنا التجربة الرومانية بما سيحدث في مصر؟
1-في البدء كانت ثورة خرجت الجماهير الرومانية في ديسمبر من سنة 1989 في كبريات المدن هاتفة ضد الديكتاتور المتداعي نيقولاي تشاوتشيسكو الذي كان قابضا على زمام الحكم منذ 1964. وبعد حوالي أسبوع من المواجهات...
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My Lonely and Beautiful Country: Recent Work on the Cinema of Turkey (Part Two)
Gönül Dönmez-Colin, Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance, and Belonging. London: Reaktion Books and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Asuman Suner, New Turkish Cinema: Belonging, Identity, and...
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30 December 2008: The Hamdan Family
[The following is narrative four, within a series of twenty-three narratives, to mark the third anniversary of "Operation Cast Lead." A new post will be released each day, marking the incident that...
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Human Rights Organizations Condemn Mass Raids of NGOs in Egypt
Twenty-seven human rights organizations describe raid of seventeen NGOs by public prosecution office, police and military personnel as an 'unprecedented campaign' against political activists and...
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Martyrs' Families Respond to Acquittal of Officers
Activists and martyrs' families respond to innocent verdict in case of officers accused of killing protesters on 'Friday of Rage' with call for protest outside the country's highest judicial...
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Copts Protest Church's Christmas Invitation to SCAF and Islamists
Dissent erupts among Coptic activists enraged over the Church inviting the military council and Salafist leaders to Christmas celebrations. Tens of Coptic activists staged a demonstration inside the...
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Public Film-Screenings of Army Abuses Attacked in Alexandria and Cairo
Kazeboon initiatives to screen footage of violations by security forces and the army against protesters gains momentum, and is met with resistance from the military rulers and its supporters. Two...
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علمنة "الفضاء السلفي" فى مصر
ثمة زوايا عديدة يمكن النظر من خلالها إلى ما يسمّيه البعض بالصعود السلفي فى مصر والتي اختصرها البعض في زاوتين إما انتخابية (تتعلق بالوزن البرلماني للسلفيين) أو سياسية (تتعلق بوزنهم التفاوضي حول شكل...
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"Operational Accidents": On the Turkish State and Kurdish Deaths
Reading the press release issued by the Turkish Armed Forces on Thursday, 29 December 2011, it is impossible to get the sense that during the previous night, its warplanes struck and killed...
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Sargon Boulus: News About No One
["Akhbar `an la ahad" was published in Sargon Boulus' posthumous collection "`Azma Ukhra li-Kalb al-Qabila" (Another Bone for the Tribe's Dog) (Baghdad and Beirut: Dar al-Jamal, 2008) News About No...
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