Stories about Egypt from May, 2007
Egypt: The Bahma Clashes
Egyptian blogger Zeinobia updates us with the latest in a sectarian strife between Muslims and Christians in the Egyptian town of Bahma. More than 500 people were reported to have...
Egypt: Last Chance for Kareem in Court
“Kareem’s pro bono lawyers have submitted a cassation file for Kareem Amer: Revocation of Karim Amer’s verdict: Last chance for justice,” announced the Free Kareem site, set up by supporters...
Egypt: War on Bloggers Exposed
Egyptian blogger Nora Younis explains in detail the escalating war on her country's bloggers here. “I had posted earlier that bloggers are now under gunfire in Egypt. Several people here...
Egypt: Sharm for Sale?
Frederik Richter, writing for The Arabist, notes that property worth up to $250million has been snatched up by foreigners over the past three years in Sharm Al Sheikh, Egypt –...
Free Monem Podcast
Free Monem campaign member Mary Joyce was interviewed yesterday, on May 8, by the activist-blogger and podjournalist at CitizenReporter.org, Mark Fonseca Rendeiro. They talked about Monem and his work, the...
Egypt: Monem sends SOS
‘Today, blogger Monem was ordered 15 days extended detention in Torah Mahkoum prison under conditions he described as “unbearable by any human being”. Monem sends SOS to Rights and Civil...
Egypt: War on Bloggers
Egyptian blogger Nora Younis reports about a full-fledged war against bloggers in her country. “The war on bloggers started in Egypt and every morning brings a new episode. While we...
Egypt: open war on bloggers
“The war on bloggers started in Egypt and every morning brings a new episode” wrote Nora Younis on her blog today. Nora linked to a SMS/Twitter alert sent to her...
Egypt: Ahmadinejad Busted
Egyptian blogger Zeinobia posts photographs featuring Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad kissing the hand of his former school teacher. “A 70-year-something old lady wearing black from top to down except the...
Egypt: Royal Wedding Gossip
Egyptian blogger Zeinobia brings us up-to-date with the latest gossip surrounding the extravagant wedding of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's son Gamal. The ‘juicy’ bits include the venue, menu, dress and...
Egypt: Free Prisoners of Conscience
“An international campaign to free Monem was launched by a group of activist bloggers from several countries. Reporters Without Borders released a petition calling for the release of bloggers Abdel...
Iraq: Why a Saudi-Egypt Bridge Would Worry Israel
Iraqi blogger Ladybird puts one and one together to explain why the construction of a bridge connecting Egypt to Saudi Arabia would get the Israelis worried.
Jailed blogger Abdel-Monem went on open hunger strike
Jailed blogger Abdel-Monem Mahmoud along with 23 other jailed students from the Institute of Agricultural Engineering threatened to begin a hunger strike on Tuesday May 8 in protest of their...
Egypt: Blogger Summoned for Criticising Gaddafi
Libyan-Egyptian relations took a new turn over the weekend, with an Egyptian blogger summoned for questioning after writing an article criticising Colonel Muammer Gaddafi. “Eman found herself requested to go...
Egypt: Ambassadors Need Training
“Ambassadors should have to get training to restrain from heaping free praise to regimes that don’t deserve it,” writes Egypt-based blogger Issandr El Amrani, who links to a New York...
Egypt: Bloggers in the Headlines
Egyptian blogger Ibn Al Dunya links to articles about blogger Sandmonkey, who has announced he was giving up blogging, and Abdulmonem Mahmood, who has been arrested for his blogging activities.
Egypt: Article on Bloggers Published
Egyptian blogger Issandr El Amrani links to an article he published in The Guardian's Comment is Free site “about Arab and Egyptian bloggers and how they might face the ongoing...
RSF: petition to free Kareem and Monem
Reporters Without Borders has launched today a petition calling the Egyptian regime to free the tow Egyptian bloggers Kareem Amer and Abdel-Monem Mahmoud. RSF is urging Internet-users to sign this...
Egypt: Female Journalist Jailed
“The Nuzha Misdemeanours Court in Cairo issued it´s verdict against Huwaida Taha today. Taha, who produced the al Jazeera documentary on torture in Egypt, ‘behind the sun’ (Wará ash Shams...
Abdel-Monem Mahmoud: the Egyptian totalitarian regime is the problem
As I promised in my last article “Online Freedom for All: Some cases worth supporting”, I’m publishing here the translation of the interview I did with the jailed Egyptian blogger...
Free Monem Campaign
As the world celebrates World Press Freedom Day, the Egyptian journalist and blogger, Abdel Monem Mahmoud, sits in jail after reporting on torture and condemning the transferring of civilians to...