Showing posts with label demonstrations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label demonstrations. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Insights into the Repressive Character of the Government in Egypt

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The response of the Egyptian government to the investigative report   "All According to Plan"  [ حسب الخطة   Arabic link ] by Hum...
Sunday, July 07, 2013

Walter Armbrust, who knows Egypt quite well, offers a thoughtful essay on the strategy of rope-a-dope strategy of the Egyptian generals.

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The essay was published in al-Jazeera English . It is noteworthy that the satellite TV station al-Fara'ayn, which figures importantly...
Thursday, December 08, 2011

Islam in the West: a good selection of essays in the new Harvard Review

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The essays are, for the most part, conference papers that have been nicely edited for publication. Pieces by Richard Bulliet on Islamic refo...
Thursday, November 24, 2011

Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry: Implicit repudiation of Bahraini government's narrative

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Commission website  ( in Arabic ) and link to the full report in  English .
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Rosa Parks would approve

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Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Alain Gresh on the Palestine Spring

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Thursday, June 02, 2011

Human Rights Watch on Crimes against Humanity in Syria

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The report may be downloaded in full (for free) in English .  The Summary and Conclusions are available in Arabic . [Added: Hamza Ali el-K...
Monday, April 18, 2011

Syria

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My comment from April 15: Bashar al-Asad and many Syria watchers share a fixed notion : Syrians prefer order to chaos and the strong arm ...
Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Bahrain Center for Human Rights Debunks Government Claims

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[Added: Doctors without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières   calls upon the Bahraini government to stop using medical facilities as instrumen...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

119 Arab civil society organizations condemn the suppression of peaceful demonstrations

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Also see the March 17, 2011 condemnation of military intervention in Bahrain.
Friday, February 18, 2011

Too little, too late and too often

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Crown Prince Salman has offered a dialogue once calm is restored to Bahrain.  This is a familiar tune, unfortunately.   Several major ques...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

Police attack the behaved Pearl Roundabout Sit-in, Manama, Feb. 17, 2011: amateur video

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Demonstrators held a “Day of Wrath” in Bahrain on February 14th. After initial clashes with police, including two deaths of civilians, the protests were allowed to continue

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Then in the bleak hours of the morning, on Feb. 17, the police moved in with batons, truncheons and tear gas to roust the sleeping demonstra...
Saturday, February 12, 2011

The faces of those Egyptians who paid the highest price, some known by no more than their first names..

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Monday, February 07, 2011

Wael Ghonim Interview with English subtitles

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Ghonim reputedly played an important role in organizing protests on Facebook.
Wednesday, February 02, 2011

A close Egyptian observer's report--Important

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"The Mubarak regime shows no intention of stepping down, reforming, or even returning to the status quo ante. It has unleashed thousand...
Tuesday, February 01, 2011

Exceptional photos from Cairo (warning! some are brutal)

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Friday, Jan. 28, 2011
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Saturday, January 29, 2011

Egypt's thirty year wait for a vice president ends, but then what?

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“My analysis is, the government will leave them until they reach a level of exhaustion--- Abdel Moneim Said , who heads the state publishin...
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Thursday, January 27, 2011

Egypt's Yaum al-Ghadib: Speaking Truth to Power.

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Thanks to J.  Overview (in Turkish) of the reverberations of Tunisia's revolution in the Arab world. Read Yasmine al-Rashidi's es...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Compelling photographs by Timothy Kaldas from Tahrir during the January 25 demontrations

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Thanks to JN