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Revolution,

artappraiser — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 04:31:40 +0000

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Revolution, Interrupted
There's a reason Egyptians keep taking to the streets: The Muslim Brotherhood has proved to be little more than the old Mubarak clique with beards.

BY HANI SHUKRALLAH, ForeignPolicy.com, Feb, 8, 2013

[Hani Shukrallah is editor of Ahram Online.]

Raping women in Tahrir NOT

artappraiser — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 07:33:01 +0000

In reply to The article by Tom Dale that

Raping women in Tahrir NOT ‘red line’: Egyptian preacher Abu Islam
Al Arabiya News, 07 Feb. 2013

An Egyptian Salafi preacher said raping and sexually harassing women protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square is justified, calling them “crusaders” who “have no shame, no fear and not even feminism.”

In an online video posted Wednesday, Ahmad Mahmoud Abdullah, known as “Abu Islam” and owner of the private television channel of “al-Ummah,” said these women are no red line.

“They tell you women are a red line. They tell you that naked women -- who are going to Tahrir Square because they want to be raped -- are a red line! And they ask Mursi and the Brotherhood to leave power!,” he said.

Abu Islam added that these women activists are going to Tahrir Square not to protest but to be sexually abused because they had wanted to be raped.

“They have no shame, no fear and not even feminism. Practice your feminism, sheikha! It is a legitimate right for you to be a woman,” he said.

“And by the way, 90 percent of them are crusaders and the remaining 10 percent are widows who have no one to control them. You see women talking like monsters,” he added.

Abu Islam further described these female political activists as “devils.” [....]

Video and Images of New

artappraiser — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 02:17:32 +0000

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Video and Images of New Clashes in Cairo
By Liam Stack and Robert Mackey, The Lede, Feb. 1, 2013, last updated 7:16pm

Excerpt:

A well-known rights lawyer, Ragia Omran, reported on Twitter that one protester died after being shot in the head and neck outside the palace. According to the Egyptian blogger who writes as The Big Pharaoh, the dead man, identified by officials as Mohamed Hussein Qurany, 23, had a note in his wallet asking that his parents be notified if anything happened to him.

Ahram site works fine for me.

acanuck — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:08:05 +0000

In reply to Just checked the Ahram link

Ahram site works fine for me.

Think Again: The Muslim

artappraiser — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 02:00:20 +0000

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Think Again: The Muslim Brotherhood
BY Eric Trager, ForeignPolicy.com, Jan. 28, 2013

How did so many Western analysts get Egypt's Islamist movement so wrong?

Just checked the Ahram link

artappraiser — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 01:49:36 +0000

In reply to Ursula also has a new post up

Just checked the Ahram link and see their site is down now, get this:

Server Error

500 - Internal server error.

There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed.

Hope it's temporary and for typical reasons and not political ones, and hopefully the link will work again later.

Ursula also has a new post up

artappraiser — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 01:44:55 +0000

In reply to The article by Tom Dale that

Ursula also has a new post up trying to explain wassup with the Tahrir 'Black Bloc," concluding iwith:

The whole Black Bloc phenomenon is pretty silly. It's a symptom of the immaturity, lack of foresight and drift from peaceful (and seemingly fruitless) protesting to glamorized, indiscriminate, anti-authoritarian violence that has characterized a wing of the protest movement. And I fear these kids could end up paying a high price for their bravado.

And of the compilation of recommended inks that Issandr has put up today @ Arabist, this is the most interesting, mho, not the least of which because of his comment on it:

US still backing Morsi as army remains quiescent - Ahram Online
Seething undertone of rage in this piece.

The article by Tom Dale that

artappraiser — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 01:17:56 +0000

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The article by Tom Dale that Ursula links to here is a depressing "must read" for fellow feminists; there are strange gang rapes going on, mob-driven but at the same time almost ritual:

Rape in Tahrir
By Ursula Lindsey, Arabist.net, Jan. 27, 2013

On today's podcast, we talked about the disturbing lawlessness that is the result of Egypt's political polarization and of the erosion of trust in state institutions. We didn't discuss the escalating sexual violence against women that has become a regular phenomenon at protests in Egypt.

I think I know, for myself, why I haven't brought this topic up much. It's because I find it too awful. Read this article, if you can bear to, by Egypt Independent's (as often, daring to speak of a subject skirted by most of the media) news editor Tom Dale. I've read too many similar accounts in the past. They make me heartsick. And I would rather not write, and not think, of these incidents because I am frightened and confused by them. And ashamed for Egypt, a country I've lived in 10 years now. [.....]

[.....] I myself no longer feel safe in Tahrir. I don't cover daily news these days, and I don't go there. [.....]