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Egypt: Women of the Egyptian Revolution

This is a homage to all those women out there fighting on the streets of Egypt, to those whose voices and faces were hidden from the public eye during the first days of the revolution! The album by now has traveled the world back and forth via online social networks, blogs and websites. First and foremost the credit for this album goes to the courageous people of Egypt who are teaching us that freedom is taken and not given. See url link below

تونس: نساء ثورة تونس/ د. نوال السعداوي

تفزع الحكومات العربية والحكومات خارج الوطن العربى (خاصة الحكومة الأمريكية الإسرائيلية) من ثورة تونس الحالية أو أى ثورة شعبية أخرى، هذه الحكومات (المتعاونة داخليا وخارجيا) المتمرسة فى عمل انقلاب ضد الشعوب- تفهم لغة الانقلابات والمؤامرات فهما علميا محكما، لكنها تصاب بالفزع والتخبط والجهل فى مواجهة ثورة يقودها الشعب بنفسه، كما حدث فى تونس هذا الشهر الأول من عام ٢٠١١. سوف تنجح ثورة تونس رغم كل المناورات والتآمرات من داخل الوطن العربى وخارجه، سوف تنجح هذه الثورة الشعبية لأنها تشمل النساء والرجال والشباب والأطفال، وتلاميذ المدارس الابتدائية إلى الجامعة، لأنها ثورة قام بها الشعب التونسى رافعا شعارات الحرية، الكرامة، العدالة.. شعارات تشمل القيم الإنسانية.

Tunisie : l'héroïsme ordinaire des femmes

UPDATE: Egypt: Amnesty staff released but Egyptian activists still detained

Two members of an Amnesty International fact-finding team were among five human rights workers and journalists freed by Egyptian military police late on Friday night after a day and half in detention. The five were among some 35 Egyptian and international human rights activists, lawyers and journalists arrested Thursday when military police raided the offices of the Hisham Mubarak Law Center in Cairo. Update to Egypt: List of detained lawyers & activists from Hisham Mubarak Law Centre in Cairo

Egypt: List of detained lawyers & activists from Hisham Mubarak Law Centre in Cairo

Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director at Human Rights Watch, reported yesterday that several international and Egyptian human rights activists, journalists and lawyers were picked up in a raid on the Hisham Mubarak Law Center in Cairo. The activists are currently detained at an unknown location in Egypt, and no news has been heard from them since their arrest. According to Bouckaert, the arrests are part of a clear campaign against independent eyewitnesses of the violence in Egypt, including journalists and civil society activists.” If you know more names tell @bouckap!#jan25 http://is.gd/FS8kG2

مصر: أهيب بكم أن تقوموا بدوركم الهام في دعم نسويات مصر في فضح النظام المصري

تشهد الأمة المصرية لحظة تاريخية في حياتها ، إذ أن الشعب المصري خرج عن الطوق و مضي في سبيله للتحرر من ربقة الذل ، منذ يوم عيد "الشرطة" المصرية جلادي النظام في يوم 25 يناير 2011 و مئات الألوف بل قد تجاوز العدد ليصل إلي المليون في أيام بعينها خرجوا ثائرين علي صلف و طغيان محمد حسني مبارك . و قد واجه جموع المتظاهرين اقسي درجات القمع بدءا من إطلاق قنابل الغاز المسيلة للدموع منتهية الصلاحية ، مرورا بالضرب بالرصاص المطاطي و حني بالرصاص الحي و الإحراق . إلا أن هذا القمع و البطش لم يثبط من عزيمة المصريين ، بل خرجوا في يوم 1 فبراير في مسيرة مليونية في القاهرة و تجاوزت الاعداد مئات الألوف في مظاهرات الأقاليم.

Egypt: Calling upon feminist sisters all over the world to show solidarity with Egyptian women!

First of all, I have to apologize to the readers for any grammatical mistakes, or if I make no sense; my mental capacities are at their lowest level due lack of sleep for three days. On the 25 January, 2011, a revolution began. Tens of thousands of Egyptians headed to Tahrir (Independence Square), the main square of Cairo, to end decades of despotism, tyranny and brutality. The calls came from a Facebook page called ‘We are all Khaled Said’, an Egyptian icon tortured and killed by the policemen. Thousands of people clicked “attending” and the virtual came real. The Mubarak regime cracked down on the peaceful protests, increasing their brutality in the hope that the protesters would give up. But, I am proud to say that we defeated fear; we are claiming our rights!

Egypt: Military and Intelligence at Egypt's Democratic Dawn

If the military is ever to be a legitimate national force, it must side with the protesters against Mubarak’s thugs and the police. These thugs have been ridiculously and mistakenly labeled by right-wing media as “pro-Mubarak demonstrators. This critical junction in the Egyptian Uprising when is the Egyptian Army’s moment of truth. As thousands of unarmed demonstrators are tortured, trampled, firebombed and molested by Mubarak’s thugs, will the military move to protect, or to crush the non-violent democratic movements that have occupied Tahrir Square in Cairo for the last ten days? Following on Paul Amar’s useful analysis (Jadaliyya, 1 Feb 2011) we need to know which faction of which of the Army's branches is ascendant, and where exactly, within these forces, we can energize possible allies.

Egypt: Political allegiances have shifted under repressive regime

For more than two decades, Mubarak's regime tried to change the structure of Egyptian society through the creation of a class that is loyal to it and benefited from its gains. These gains appeared to flow from Hosni Mubarak’s continuing presidency and his son Gamal’s eventual take-over. The regime put an emphasis on establishing private schools and universities which taught international curriculums, as well as opening the doors for international corporations at which the graduates of these schools and universities would be offered lucrative jobs. It also built luxury malls and attractions; this new class was intended to spend its entire income on imported goods and social diversions.

تونس: سيدة تغني في المظاهرة