Latest posts by Eman AbdElRahman from April, 2008
Egypt: Boycotting the Official Newspapers
Egyptian Blogger Zeinobia writes about a new campaign adopted by a new Facebook group, calling for Boycotting the Official Newspapers for a week, starting from the 11th of April 2008,...
Egypt: The Story of Sounilla
Little did American student Sounilla know what he was walking into when he saw two students from his university standing in the middle of a Cairo Square and decided to walk towards them, pointing his camera in their direction. Out of nowhere, the security forces pounces on them, snatching them from the square, into a car and the threat of possible jail.
Egypt: The Media Coverage for the Strike
Egyptian blogger Zeinobia covers the media coverage of yesterday's strike, either in main newspaper headlines or TV shows – highlighting the bloggers’ effort to closely follow the event.
Egypt: A Wake Up Strike
Around 500 people were arrested in Egypt Sunday as police quashed a general strike, in protest against the increasing cost of living and calling for better wages. And just as word about the strike was spread via massive text-messaging, email, and popular social networking platform Facebook, bloggers and online activists kept the world abreast with arrests and developments on the ground minute by minute throughout the day. Eman AbdElRahman brings us the story.
