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28 Dec 09

الأخبار - عربي - سياج مصري مكهرب حول رفح

  • وألمحت تلك المصادر إلى أن سلسلة حواجز أمنية ستقام بين مدينتي العريش ورفح المصرية على غرار الحواجز العسكرية التي أقامتها سلطات الاحتلال الإسرائيلي في الضفة الغربية عقب عملية "السور الواقي" العسكرية.
27 Dec 09

Sacked textile workers protest for reinstatement | Al-Masry Al-Youm

  • At the height of its performance, Ahmoseto, in the Tenth of Ramadan City, employed nearly 4,000 workers. Well over a thousand of these workers quit the company when production ceased, while around 500 others succeeded in continuing production - using a unique system of workers’ self-management - at one of the company’s nine factories. This experiment in workers’ self-management is only the second of its kind in Egypt’s labor history. A light-bulb factory, also in the Tenth of Ramadan City, was self-managed by its workers from 2001-2005 when its owner, former MP Ramy Lakkah, fled the country.     
26 Dec 09

The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: The collaborators are "determined and impressive"

  • "Sources in the IDF lauded Saturday the Palestinian security establishment for its conduct following the shooting ambush Thursday, in which Meir Avshalom Hai was killed, calling it "determined and impressive.""

Daily News Egypt - Arab gov’ts can’t stop the internet, says rights group report

  • The report estimates that there are some 58 million internet users in the Arab world, of which 15 million are in Egypt, the country with the largest number of internet users in the region.
23 Dec 09

The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: For reliable reporting on Iran, I alwasy turn to the new York Times

  • "and a Web site in Iran reported that “many” of the protesters had been injured." And I know a website which claims that Bin Laden is hiding in the US under US government protection. Another website blames UFOs for the assassination of JFK.
14 Dec 09

Maan News Agency: Egyptians find tunnels, Americans tour border

  • Meanwhile, an American military delegation visited the border area on Thursday, among them three military figures including Walid Naser, a Lebanese-American officer who during his monthly visit supervised the network of tunnel sensors.
07 Dec 09

The N.Y. Times and the Jewish Nationalism Question. Bring Your Own Elephant. – J.J. Goldberg – Forward.com

  • The Times correspondent who wrote that article, Isabel Kershner, immigrated to Israel from her native England as a young woman and spent a couple of decades in Israeli journalism and Jewish education before joining the Times a few years ago. By now she’s thoroughly Israeli (and, for full disclosure, a friend).
05 Dec 09

Ted Lapidus - Telegraph

  • In 1969 Lapidus pulled off a remarkable deal with the Israeli government
    whereby (in return for half his business) he took artistic control of
    Israel's entire fashion industry, including uniforms for the Israeli women's
    army. The contract meant that by the end of 1970 the whole of Israel's
    ready-to-wear industry was stamped with the Ted Lapidus trademark.
04 Dec 09

The Laughing Cow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is often jokingly referred to as 'La Vache qui Rit' because of his supposed resemblance to the cheese's logo
30 Nov 09

Denmark approves new police powers ahead of Copenhagen | Environment | guardian.co.uk

  • The Danish ministry of justice said that the new powers of "pre-emptive" detention would increase from 6 to 12 hours and apply to international activists. If protesters are charged with hindering the police, the penalty will increase from a fine to 40 days in prison. Protesters can also be fined an increased amount of 5,000 krona (671 Euros) for breach of the peace, disorderly behaviour and remaining after the police have broken up a demonstration.
25 Nov 09

Al-Masry Al-Youm - Football row: A civilized reaction

  • “We're suffering from a national hallucination. Is our national history to be written in a football stadium?”
24 Nov 09

The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Lawmakers in Egyptian parliament

  • "Lawmakers applauded Mubarak's comments Saturday." What is the job of Egyptian lawmakers except to applaud the comments of the president. Some of the lawmakers were friends of my father, and they applauded for Nasser, and then applauded for Sadat, and then applauded for Mubarak. Do you know that the Mustafa Khalil, who led Egypt's peace with Israel process was a staunch Nasserist, under Nasser?
16 Nov 09

How Google Wave could transform journalism | Technology | Los Angeles Times

  • Collaborative reporting: You may notice that double bylines aren't very common. That's because trying to co-author a news story stinks.
  • The process usually involves one reporter talking to and researching a few things and another following a different set of sources and finally combining their findings toward the end. This can result in a mess of incompatible and unrelated research that gets either thrown out or somewhat-awkwardly wiggled in.
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15 Nov 09

Knuth versus Email

  • Newly coined nonce words of English are often spelled with a hyphen, but the
    hyphen disappears when the words become widely used
13 Nov 09

Leninism 2.0: Gramsci on Web 2.0

  • For Gramsci the act of writing about struggle by the participants is central to the formation of class consciousness.
  • This has implications for the role of the revolutionary publication. It means that a publication is not just vital as a propagandist, agitator and organiser (as Lenin describes in What is to be done?) but actually plays a central role in the formation of the class "for itself".
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12 Nov 09

Azerbaijani bloggers receive jail sentences - Committee to Protect Journalists

  • Milli and Hajizade had posted political and socially
    satirical video sketches that criticized government policies and social issues
    in the weeks prior to their initial arrest in July. They had interviewed local
    residents and posted their opinions online, sharing them through networking
    sites such as YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. Among the issues discussed on
    their blogs were education, corruption, and the poor infrastructure in Azerbaijan.

Egyptian Chronicles: Loud Lost Screams

  • It is very sad because it will be much better if I had heard those football fans screaming “We Want better education , We Want better health care system, We Want clean water and clean streets, We Want better salaries and better food , We Want democracy , We want our rights backs “ but unfortunately all what I heard was “We Want tickets” !!! It was just loud lost scream !!

Egypt's neoliberal reforms have benefited only a lucky few | Jack Shenker | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

  • Then 2004 brought a new cabinet which swiftly cut the top rate of tax from 42% to 20%, leaving multimillionaires paying exactly the same proportion of their income into government coffers as those on an annual salary of less than £500. Special economic zones were created, foreign investment reached dizzying heights ($13bn in 2008) and, in the past three years, economic growth has clocked in at a consistently high 7%. The minimum wage, incidentally, has remained fixed at less than £4 a month throughout. The global business community applauded Mubarak's rule as "bold", "impressive" and "prudent".
  • The conference was entitled "Just for you". Whom that "you" was wasn't specified, but it can't have been any of the 90% shut out of Cairo's miraculous economic boom. As the eminent Egyptian economics professor Galal Amin argues, "Those who continue to preach the trickle-down theory are likely to be the ones who do not really care whether anything trickles down at all."
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