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LE CAIRE ENVOYÉ SPÉCIAL
C‘est une vidéo qui retourne le coeur. Un jeune homme de 21 ans pleure comme un enfant. Il va bientôt hurler sa douleur. Courte barbe noire, cheveux courts frisés, belle gueule, Imad El-Kebir est plié en deux sur un sol [...]

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62% of Egyptian men admit to having sexually harassed women. And who is to blame for the maltreatment? 53% of men say women. 83% of Egyptian women reported having been sexually harassed. Nearly half of them said the abuse occurred daily. Only 2.4 percent of Egyptian women [...]

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Bloggers behind bars
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/features/2008/0520/1211123115071.html 
Irish times on 20 May
MARY FITZGERALD
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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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“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 [...]

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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 [...]

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