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News and stories from the Arab world, the Mediterranean and Europe, from the point of view of 20 women who met for the first time in November 2007, in Alexandria, Egypt

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Bloggers behind bars

May 31st, 2008 · 2 Comments

Bloggers behind bars
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/features/2008/0520/1211123115071.html 
Irish times on 20 May
MARY FITZGERALD
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Tags: Human Rights · Politics

From the last message i got from detained Egyptian blogger

May 31st, 2008 · No Comments

i am living here some good days i know they would not last ,i have with me the activists that was detained during
the 6 avril strike in Egypt ,they are people like me they are educated and believers for some values and they are figthing for these
values ,some of them are out now and the […]

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Tags: Human Rights

Appel à la grève en Egypte: manifestation de solidarité au Liban

May 4th, 2008 · No Comments

AFP
Plusieurs dizaines de Libanais ont manifesté dimanche contre le régime du président égyptien Hosni Moubarak pour marquer leur solidarité avec le mot d’ordre de grève générale lancé par des militants égyptiens.
Près de 80 personnes, la plupart des jeunes vêtus de noir, se sont rassemblées devant l’ambassade d’Egypte à Beyrouth, selon un photographe de l’AFP.
Certains portaient […]

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Tags: Economics · Human Rights · Photo · Politics · War & Conflict

Facebook activist detained ‘indefinitely’

April 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Facebook activist detained ‘indefinitely’
By Yasmine Saleh
First Published: April 17, 2008
CAIRO: Twenty-seven-year-old Esraa Abdel Fattah, who was taken into custody by security forces for allegedly masterminding the April 6 general strike, received a detainment order from the Interior Ministry for an unspecified period of time, Amir Salem, Abdel Fattah’s lawyer told Daily News Egypt.
According to […]

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Tags: Community Development · Human Rights · Politics

Proud to be veiled!

March 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

A new blog was created with the name of “Proud to wear hijab (veil)”
The blog is created, by a group of girls (or one girl, but the subject speaks on behalf of “we”), in order to defend veiled girls and women and at the same time to share success stories between girls after being veiled […]

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Tags: Fashion · Gender · Religion · Society · women

Egyptian proverbs

March 4th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Many Egyptians think of proverbs as words of wisdom. Below are few ones that I find funny and somehow true! For more, please check out this link

<tammakhada al gamala wa walada fa’aran>
Literal translation: The camel went through labor only
to give birth to a mouse!
Hidden meaning: Looks are deceiving
Applicability: To express disappointment when […]

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Tags: Humour · Personal · Society

Nelly, un visage Suisse de tolérance

February 29th, 2008 · 4 Comments

“Je respecte l’autre dans sa différence, mais je suis tout à fait contre les excès”, m’explique Nelly Revaz, âgée de 68 ans, une Suisse de passage au Caire et mère de trois fils. Il y a deux ans, Nelly décide avec ses fils, physicien, ingénieur et juriste, de monter la fondation “Anne Rahn” pour échanges […]

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Tags: Profile · Religion · Society

Buenos Aires 1977 same Story

February 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

the Same story ,and the same dirty ways of prosecution and torture used by the dictatorships in Argentine or,in Egypt .
Buenos Aires 1977 ,or Chronicle of an Escape , a movie tell the story of torture and prosecution during the Dictatorship in Argentine ,a true story of a football soccer Claudio […]

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Tags: Human Rights · Politics

Les milles minarets du Caire

February 8th, 2008 · No Comments

L’Egypte, ce pays de plus de 5000 ans d’histoire, connaît depuis plusieurs années une rénovation et restauration de plusieurs sites du Caire historique. Parmi les plus belles restaurantions, celle de la mosquée d’Ibn Toulon connue par son minaret unique et cylindrique. Pour lire davantage sur la restauration de l’une des plus anciennes mosquées du Caire, […]

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Tags: Arts & Culture · History · Religion · Travel

Censure a la foire du Livre au Caire…

January 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Des livres, dont ceux du Franco-Tchèque Milan Kundera ou du Marocain Mohamed Choukri, ont été interdits d’entrée en Egypte à l’occasion de la Foire du Livre du Caire 2008, a appris lundi l’AFP auprès des éditeurs.
Alors que les stands de cette manifestation, la plus importante du monde arabe, sont submergés par les ouvrages islamiques, y […]

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Tags: Arts & Culture · Politics · Society