• General,  Post

    Egypt: I was assaulted by an activist

    For Arabic click here! It has been a while since I last wrote here, but really I can’t take it any longer. For a long time I witnessed and supported (at least virtual support) many human rights cases where people were hit and tortured by the Egyptian Police, till recently, when I faced a strange situation. What will you do when someone who is supposed to be a human rights defender hit a blogger just because he hates him? What is the difference between this act, and how the Egyptian police attack Egyptian citizens and torture them? What will you do when a human rights defender commit an act which…

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    A Tag and a hundred truth…

    It has been a long time here, been busy with my new Arabic blog, some volunteering activities and my graduation procedures (wish me luck with my exams results)   My dear friend Rasha tagged me an interesting tag, a hundred questions about me. Will try to answer it truthfully :)   WHAT WAS YOUR: 1. Last beverage = Mango Juice 2. Last phone call = My best college friend 3. Last text message = Shosho :) 4. Last song you listened to = Mother’s Journey – Yann Tiersen (Instrumental) 5. Last time you cried = Tonight, remembering my late Grandma. HAVE YOU EVER: 6. Dated someone twice = no 7.…

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    Blogging for a cause – GlobalVoices Advocacy

    This blog post is part of Zemanta's "Blogging For a Cause" campaign to raise awareness and funds for worthy causes that bloggers care about.     Global Voices Advocacy is really an awesome network for defending bloggers and online activists around the globe against censorship and physical/virtual harassment of all kinds. It also provides all kinds of support, technical and tactical, to bloggers and activists to optimize their performance. Follow it to find out how you can help defending bloggers around the world.

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    I vote for Global Voices Advocacy

    This blog post is part of Zemanta's "Blogging For a Cause" campaign to raise awareness and funds for worthy causes that bloggers care about.     Global Voices Advocacy is really an awesome network for defending blogges and online activists around the globe against cencorship and phyiscal/virtual harrasments of all kinds. It also provides all kinds of support, technical and tactical, to bloggers and activists to optimize their performance. Follow it to find out how you can help defending bloggers around the world.

  • Murad,  Post

    Murad is back – War on bloggers continue

    Murad is still persisting on his war with bloggers. For more information you can go here , here , here , here and here. via HMLC (Hesham Mubarak Law Center) The High Administrative Court, first circuit, is going to hear the appeal presented by AbdelFattah Murad on the Administrative Court Sentence of refusing the lawsuit presented by him to block Human Rights Organisations’ websites. The court will be held at Saturday 4 April. The HMLC report about the case (in Arabic) The report translation

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    Being free and alive

    Being free, and alive… Freedom of a person is so precious, to the extent that in a society like ours, people are so envious of the full meaning of life while expressing your freedom that they try to insult and humiliate your freedom in every time they could. The person with this sense of freedom, with this sense of life, feeling all these crimes directed towards him but trying to to go on and enjoy every instant of life without regret, without being forced to follow a certain tradition, a certain rule, a certain society chain applied against his will, his imagination, his feelings, his passion, his music, his painting,…

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    Going home (Change the Channel)

    This is the Change the Channel initiative by Tarek Amr I mainly live in Cairo for Studying in Winter or working in Summer with occasional visits to my family at Mansoura. Mansoura is one of the quietest places you can live in. Walking by the Nile in Mansoura is one of the best experiences you can have :) Here are some photos I took from my usual walking. More here http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=476932&l=d98ed&id=507547314

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    The Brave One – 2007

    I fell in love with this quote from "The Brave One" movie, this quote is by Judie Foster (Damn that short hair in that movie was not romantic at all, but was scary enough as a vigilante. New York, the safest big city in the world. But it is horrible to fear the place you once loved and to see a street corner you knew so well and be afraid of its shadow. To see familiar steps, be unable to climb them. I never understood how people lived with fear. Women afraid to walk home alone people afraid of white powder in their mailbox darkness and night. People afraid of…