Confronting Arab Old Men with Guns By Rami G. Khouri Released: 9 Feb 2011 BOSTON — The historic developments on the streets of Egypt in the past two weeks appeared in the last few days to reflect the modern Arab tradition of the enduring incumbency of men with guns. In the face of unprecedented challenges …
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Feb 05 2011
Pray for Egypt
John Sagherian, Regional Director for YFCI/MENA, sent an email from Beirut night before last. Attached was an earlier version of the report that follows, from his friend Nabeel Jabbour. Dr. Jabbour has just sent me an update, along with his permission to share it here on “Blues for Levantium Lost.” Regardless of the particulars (and …
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Feb 05 2011
Why we do what we do
We all helped suppress the Egyptians. So how do we change? By Johann Hari, Friday, 4 February 2011 The old slogan from the 1960s has come true: the revolution has been televised. The world is watching the Bastille fall on 24/7 rolling news. An elderly thug is trying to buy and beat and tear-gas himself enough …
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Feb 05 2011
Plan for the future?
Exhausted, scared and trapped, protesters put forward plan for future By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 5 February 2011 Caged yesterday inside a new army cordon of riot-visored troops and coils of barbed wire – the very protection which Washington had demanded for the protesters of Tahrir Square – the tens of thousands of young Egyptians demanding Hosni …
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Feb 02 2011
Chaos!
By Sadhbh Walshe, Wednesday 2 February 2011 16.05 GMT … Earlier on his own programme (view clip here), Glenn Beck had so many devils dancing around in his brain as a result of the chaos in Egypt that he was at a total loss as to who to support, who to oppose or, indeed, what …
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Feb 02 2011
Egypt parade
Secular and devout. Rich and poor. They marched together with one goal By Robert Fisk, Wednesday, 2 February 2011… It was a victory parade – without the victory. They came in their hundreds of thousands, joyful, singing, praying, a great packed mass of Egypt, suburb by suburb, village by village, waiting patiently to pass through …
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Jan 17 2011
Good vibrations
Mona Eltahawy, in the Guardian: Tunisia: the first Arab revolution http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/16/tunisia-first-arab-revolution-ben-ali Also in the Guardian: Tunisia’s Jasmine revolution: A flower that could be crushed http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/17/tunisia-jasmine-revolution-editorial Lamis Andoni, in Al Jazeera: To the tyrants of the Arab world http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/01/2011115135046129936.html Note that this ends in poetry by Abul-Qasim al-Shabi in his poem To the Tyrants of the …
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