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Automatically populating YouTube playlist upon new Embedded Video Field submission

Here's a little action I wrote recently, to automatically populate a specific YouTube playlist as new videos are being posted to a Drupal site, using modules Trigger or Rules. The same concept can also be used retroactively on existing content, using Views Bulk Operations: select all existing video nodes and apply the action to them.

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Islam: What you didn’t know about the Islamic fatwa


Islam: What you didn’t know about the Islamic fatwa

Joseph Mayton

Bikya Masr

30 August 2009

Egyptian woman passes a Cairo mosque in the early morning hours

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Egypt Internet activists and “influence”


Egypt Internet activists and “influence”

Muhammad Hamza

Bikya Masr

30 August 2009

The use of the Internet in Egypt as a platform for political activism has been the topic of discussion in various political circles and in the media.

Bloggers have come under the spotlight when they started to expose and bring to public attention cases of human rights violations and physical abuse against detainees in police stations. Others have been expressing their political views, which are quite critical of the government and the policies of the state as a whole.

They have managed to grab the attention of the media at home and human rights and media freedom organizations abroad.  read more »

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American Egypt researcher says Mubarak “exploiting” country


American Egypt researcher says Mubarak “exploiting” country

Bikya Masr

30 August 2009

CAIRO: Lisa Blaides, an American researcher specialized in Egyptian and the Arab world affairs, who won an award last week for her work and research on Egypt under President Hosni Mubarak’s era, said that the Egyptian political elite is “exploiting” and manipulating politics for personal interests and that elections in Egypt are a means to maintain the regime’s power and status quo.  read more »

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Egypt: Al-Azhar website hacked


Egypt: Al-Azhar website hacked

Bikya Masr

30 August 2009

CAIRO: The prominent Sunni Muslim religious institution has become Egypt’s latest Internet victim after it was hacked early Sunday morning. Visitors to the website seeking information on Islam were surprised by the new homepage created by the hackers, who had replaced the original site with a new network that posted the name “sovalye-starturk” in its place.  read more »

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Egypt: April 6 movement to launch anti-government campaign


Egypt: April 6 movement to launch anti-government campaign

Bikya Masr

29 August 2009

CAIRO: Egypt’s most successful opposition movement to date, the April 6 Student Movement, has announced it will launch a new anti-government campaign to “expose the regime’s policy and the ruling party’s failures.” On Friday, the movement known for organizing Internet and street demonstrations – said they plan to organize the second annual Electronic anti-National Democratic Party (NDP) conference, according to local newspapers.  read more »

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