Why not in Egypt?
Rob asks why popular Islamic Egyptian preacher Amr Khaled announced from Amman the start of his campaign of blood donation to Gaza, and not from Egypt.
Egyptian bloggers visit injured Palestinians
Several groups of injured Palestinians crossed into the Egyptian territory via the Rafah Crossing and blogger Ahmed Al Sabbagh organized a morale-boosting visit to the Red Crescent Hospital.
The young blogger wrote upon his return: read more »
Egypt: Bloggers on the Fence
Sitting on the fence requires objectivity, tolerance, and integrity. Mona Eltahawy chose to sit on the fence and Amr Gharbeia asks people to choose a solution.
In her post: “On Fence Toughtest Stance in Mideast“, Mona Eltahawy stated that:
it’s too easy to take sides in the Middle East conflict. Few other parts of the world inspire such passion or leave such little room for doubt. For many, choosing sides is just an afterthought to their birthright: If you’re an Arab, go join the Free Palestine demonstrations; and if you’re Jewish, go join the Save Israel marches. read more »
Egyptian Bloggers Ask: WHY?
It seems that most posts from the Egyptian blogosphere are attempts at finding answers to the many whys and hows in their heads.
Sandmonkey asked why blame Egypt and answered:
Blame Egypt: All the cool kids are doing it read more »
Egypt identifies the new face of politics
From Egypt, Perwin Ali came across an article mentioning Israel's first press conference on Twitter and she commented saying: “Hold the freakin' presses! A full-fledged press conference in 140-character conversations? And not just any press conference, a global-issue press conference. You have to hand it to them, if nothing else these people are smart.”
An Egyptian Blogger's take on Robert Fisk's Piece
Perwin Ali's take on Robert Fisk's piece for The Independent: The Rotten State of Egypt is too Powerless and Corrupt to Act. The Egyptian blogger wrote:
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Egypt: Give Gaza to Egypt
Sandmonkey justifies his reasons in a reply to Drima's suggested solution for the current crisis by giving Gaza to Egypt and the West Bank to Jordon.
Egypt: Shake and Bake
Does Israel use illegal phosphorus shells in Gaza? Do both parties should end military activities? And how about Arab countries canceling new years parties?.. Egy Diva asks.
Egypt: US coverage of Gaza War
From Egypt, the Arabist writes about the New York Times and Washington Post's coverage of the Gaza War. He observes that what was reported was largely a one-sided coverage of the conflict, in which they claim that the invasion was “justified” but also highly “risky.”
Egypt: Would Hamas come out stronger?
MrEgypt wrote an article in which he asks if Hamas would come out stronger, after the current bombardment of the Gaza strip. He is also discussing the recent movements against the Arab regimes in support of Gaza.
Egypt: From Egyptian Artists to Artists of the World
Egyptian artists are lending their voices to the Palestinian cause, explaining to the rest of the world the history of the Arab-Israeli struggle from their view point.
The initiative, spearheaded by Khaled El Sawy, a famous Egyptian actor and blogger, is called “A message from Egyptian artists to all artists of the world“, and is targeted towards non-Arabs.
Om Maryam translated El Sawy's message in one of the comments on the post.
Here's the actor's message in Arabic, followed by Om Maryam's translation: read more »
Transfer mobile phone credit to injured Gazans in hospitals in Egypt
There are more than 100 injured Palestinians in Egyptian hospitals. Most of them suffered difficult, life-threatening, disabling or disfiguring injuries and they speak of horror stories.
I personally met some of them in three different hospitals. Many of the casualties are civilians including children.
The attacks on Gaza didn't discriminate between civilians or non-civilians.
You can help the injured from Gaza by transfering mobile credit to their phones. A one minute phone call to Gaza costs around 5 EGPs. read more »
Egypt: Ship hijacked by the Pirates
In the midst of the intense talks about the Gaza attack, Zeinobia didn't forget to shed the light on the recent hijacking of another Egyptian ship by the pirates of Somalia. She is also speculating what the Egyptian ministry of foreign affairs is going to do about the repeated threats.
Egypt: The other side of Gaza’s story
“Why aren’t you as an Arab lady writing about Gaza?”
“Where are your columns about Gaza?”
“Say the Israelis are wrong!”
The messages started to arrive soon after Israel’s bombardment of Gaza killed close to 300 Palestinians. Implicit was the pressure to toe the party line, Hamas is good, Israel is bad. Say it, say it! Or else you’re not Arab enough, you’re not Muslim enough, you’re not enough.
By the above paragraph, Mona El Tahawy, an Egyptian columnist who is based in New York, started her last article “Israel is the Opium of the People and Other Taboos”. read more »
Egypt: Down sizing Car factory
In the middle of everybody's talk about Gaza's siege and Israeli brutal attack on Palestinians, Egyptian blogger Zeinobia is asking people not to forget Egyptian internal affairs. In her new post, “Don't forget the inner line” , she highlights the Government's new decision to downsize the Nasr Car Factory as well as Mahala factory, by early pension for 2000 workers, in order to privatize them.
Egypt: Solidarity with Palestine
Since they’ve heard, Egyptian Bloggers expressed their immediate solidarity with their Palestine brothers against the brutal attack. Everybody condemned the Siege, as well as the blind Israeli bombings that does not differentiate between killing militants or civilians, women, children and men.
Mostafa launched a Jaiku channel to pass news about and from Gaza, that can be followed also on Mostafa’s Twitter.
Fadfada wrote a post entitled “Gaza we are sorry”, where she said: read more »
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Syria: Outrage at the Massacre in Gaza
The Arab world is somber today. The feeling of shock and disgust at the events of yesterday can be felt at every blog. As the Israeli Defense Forces bombed and wrecked havoc in besieged Gaza the blogosphere had a sense of disbelief at what is happening and the international reaction to it.
The IDF launched on Saturday, December 27, 2008, Operation Cast Lead, in response to local Qassam rockets being fired from Gaza. An intensive bombing of the Gaza strip that resulted (in its first 12 hours) in 230 dead and more than 700 wounded. read more »
Quick summary
Long time since I posted anything here. I just have nothing to say. Nothing is happening in general and all days are almost the same!
* Went to Egypt on vacation and came back.
Saudi Arabia accuses Egyptian of Espionage
27 year old IT programmer Youssef Al Ashmawy is currently detained in a prison Riyadh and is accused of spying on the Kingdom.
Saudi Arabia is detaining Egyptian Internet activist Youssef Al Ashamawy. Youssef is being accused of spying on the kingdom for the Egyptian intelligence!! Youssef is detained or in fact is in jail since last August 2008 !!?? He was forced to sign confession with the above-mentioned accusation. He worked for an IT company that installed some systems for the Saudi Intelligence. read more »
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