Mubarak’s regime bans ‘brink of revolution’ book
3arabawy - Thu, 2008-07-24 01:08 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
From AFP… Egypt has banned a book by a British journalist about Egyptian politics and society entitled “Inside Egypt: The Land of the Pharaohs on the Brink of a Revolution,” the author told AFP on Wednesday. “According to my publisher, the American University in Cairo bookstore ordered 50 copies of ‘Inside Egypt’ a few days ago, only [...]
From AFP… Egypt has banned a book by a British journalist about Egyptian politics and society entitled “Inside Egypt: The Land of the Pharaohs on the Brink of a Revolution,” the author told AFP on Wednesday. “According to my publisher, the American University in Cairo bookstore ordered 50 copies of ‘Inside Egypt’ a few days ago, only [...]
Duweiqa residents wait in vain for ministry’s ‘gift’ housing for the poor
3arabawy - Tue, 2008-07-22 08:46 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Michaela Singer reports… In 2003, the Housing Ministry, under the auspices of the First Lady, launched a campaign to provide housing for some of the poorest Cairo residents. Five years later and white apartment blocks, Suzanne Mubarak’s ‘gift’ to the poor, pepper the landscape. But it is the slum housing, thickly crammed up the mountains of Manshiat [...]
Michaela Singer reports… In 2003, the Housing Ministry, under the auspices of the First Lady, launched a campaign to provide housing for some of the poorest Cairo residents. Five years later and white apartment blocks, Suzanne Mubarak’s ‘gift’ to the poor, pepper the landscape. But it is the slum housing, thickly crammed up the mountains of Manshiat [...]
From the Memory of the Class: Leftist students take to the streets 1976 مظاهرات طلاب اليسار
3arabawy - Tue, 2008-07-22 08:44 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
[25-11-1976] Leftist students demonstrate outside the parliament building to protest the high cost of living and Sadat’s economic policies. Two months later, the country was to witness a national uprising on 18 and 19 January 1977, that was crushed by Sadat’s army [Photo from Socialist Worker Archives]
[25-11-1976] Leftist students demonstrate outside the parliament building to protest the high cost of living and Sadat’s economic policies. Two months later, the country was to witness a national uprising on 18 and 19 January 1977, that was crushed by Sadat’s army [Photo from Socialist Worker Archives]
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