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Invert the Regime’s Flag إقلبوا علم النظام لحد ما النظام يتعدل

3arabawy - Sun, 2008-05-11 21:41 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
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أبا الهول.. طال عليك العصر وبلّغت في الأرض أقصى العمـر.. غور بقى

3arabawy - Sat, 2008-05-10 12:02 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
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The Memory of the Class: The Mahalla Uprising إنتفاضة المحلة

3arabawy - Sat, 2008-05-10 10:06 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Visualize the Revolution… [Click on the pic above to watch a slide show of the Mahalla April Uprising. The set was digitally edited by me, using Adobe Lightroom, but all photos were originally taken by the brave photographer Nasser Nouri, who was shot by a rubber bullet and later detained by the pigs, yet he [...]
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Facebook activist speaks of torture in custody شهادة أحمد ماهر حول تعذيبه

3arabawy - Sat, 2008-05-10 07:04 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Ahmad Maher speaks about the torture he faced on the hands of Mubarak’s State Security Pigs…
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Activists protest in solidarity with Mahalla in front of Mubarak’s Consulate in Chicago وقفة تضامن مع معتقلي المحلة أمام قنصلية

3arabawy - Sat, 2008-05-10 06:45 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
I received photos of the protest organized by activists in solidarity with the Mahalla detainees, in front of Mubarak’s Consulate in Chicago…
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The Return of Abu Se7la.. عودة أبو سحلة

3arabawy - Sat, 2008-05-10 06:33 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
It seems our friend Police Major Samawa’el Abu Sehla has made a come back.. Abu Sehla, the Qasr el-Nil Police Station dog, who kidnapped blogger Mohamed el-Sharqawi on 25 May 2006, was present in front of the Press Syndicate during Thursday’s anti-price hikes protest… Keep photographing the rapist dog ya shabab…
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Anti-price hikes protest صور مظاهرة نقابة الصحافيين ضد غلاء الأسعار

3arabawy - Fri, 2008-05-09 11:55 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Click below to watch some photos taken by Sarah Carr of the Thursday anti-price hikes protest in front of the Press Syndicate…
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Another Facebook activist detained and abused

3arabawy - Fri, 2008-05-09 11:09 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Troubling news about Facebook activist Ahmed Maher… Here’s a report from the Daily News Egypt… The administrator and arguably the real creator of the April 6 Strike group on Facebook Ahmed Maher was detained briefly Wednesday and beaten, his lawyer told Daily News Egypt. Khaled Ali, who is the head of the Hisham Mubarak Center for Human [...]
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The Revolution will be Flickrized

3arabawy - Thu, 2008-05-08 12:07 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Ma3lesh, I’ll go back again to the issue of photography… I gave recently some talks about the Mahalla Uprising, among labor and progressive circles in the Bay Area, as part of the effort (tremendously helped by friends in California and NYC I’m grateful for) to spread the word about what’s going on back in Egypt among [...]
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Mubarak’s pigs order mobile firms to bar anonymous users

3arabawy - Thu, 2008-05-08 11:29 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
From Reuters… Egypt has asked mobile phone companies to block service to anonymous subscribers as a public security measure, and at least two firms have begun efforts to comply, Egyptian officials and mobile firms said on Monday. The move comes as Egypt tries to combat a wave of public discontent over rising prices and low wages that [...]
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شبح 1977 يخيم على القاهرة

3arabawy - Wed, 2008-05-07 23:20 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Click below to watch some photos taken by Nasser Nouri of gas stations in the Cairo neighborhoods of Hadayeq el-Qobba, where Nasser lives, and Ghamra… Plainclothes police agents were deployed close to the gas stations, Nasser told me, fearing protests or clashes with angry drivers… According to virtually everyone I speak with in the capital, the [...]
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Egyptian Strikes: More than bread and butter

3arabawy - Wed, 2008-05-07 23:02 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
My feature on the labor movement, in the British Socialist Review, is now available online… The mass demonstrations and strikes that have swept Egypt over the last year have transformed the opposition movement. For decades Egyptians lived in fear of the regime - opposition activists were rounded up, imprisoned and tortured, and strikers gunned down - [...]
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Friday: Workers Coordination Committee Conference المؤتمر السنوي الخامس للجنة التنسيقية للحقوق والحريات النقابية والعمالية

3arabawy - Wed, 2008-05-07 22:25 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
The Workers’ Coordination Committee is holding its fifth annual conference, this Friday at the Press Syndicate… For more information, click on the poster below…
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Seminar dubs April 6 strike a turning point in Egypt history

3arabawy - Wed, 2008-05-07 01:15 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Sarah Carr reports on the seminar organized by the Center for Socialist Studies on the April 6th strike… The April 6 general strike was an unprecedented turning point in the Egyptian protest movement, concluded a discussion held Monday at the Center for Socialist Studies titled “What next after April 6 and May 4?” El-Dostour journalist Haitham Gabr [...]
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موت بقى يا غلس

3arabawy - Tue, 2008-05-06 22:52 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
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AsadX.Net مبروك يا أبو الأسود

3arabawy - Tue, 2008-05-06 22:43 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Asad has moved to a new domain… Mabrouk ya Abul Ossoud…
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صور جرسة حسني في بيروت

3arabawy - Tue, 2008-05-06 22:16 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Razan Ghazzawi has some photos of the May 4th solidarity with Mahalla protest in front of Mubarak’s Embassy in Beirut…
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Cab chat

3arabawy - Tue, 2008-05-06 21:49 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
I received this message from a friend of mine in Cairo… The taxi driver I took this morning spat at Mubarak’s palace and started crying… I was talking about the price rises and sources of income today with the cab driver i took.. He recommended a new source: Put a 7assala (safe) in every midan (square) under Mubarak’s [...]
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Down with Mubarak يسقط مبارك كلب الأمريكان

3arabawy - Tue, 2008-05-06 01:18 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
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Activists نشطاء

3arabawy - Mon, 2008-05-05 23:20 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Mohamed Khaled (MAK), anti-torture blogger, Downtown Cairo… Sharat G. Lin, Political economist, San Jose Peace & Justice Center, San Jose… Jack Stephens, trade unionist and blogger, San Francisco… Maria Poblet, St. Peter’s Housing Committee activist, San Francisco… Alex Tom, Chinese Progressive Association organizer, San Francisco… Amadito rallying the masses on May Day, San Francisco…
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