January 2011
“Many families in Egypt are fast running out of staples such as bread, beans and...”
– Okay so this is pretty bleak. Egypt imports a whole lot of its food supply, and people living in urban areas acquire basically all their food through shopping, so there’s a whole complicated supply chain upon which everyone is relying, and that’s breaking down. This probably puts a time limit of...
NY TIMES: "The numbers in (Tahrir Square) appeared... →
“I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via azspot)
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Mubarak’s Last Breath →
Egypt has never been a democracy. The military has always dominated its political life. Even during the age of liberal nationalism after the First World War, when it had a lively parliamentary life, popular sovereignty was sharply curtailed by British power. Since the 1952 coup which brought Nasser to power, it has been ruled by military dictatorship, although the establishment of multi-party...
Images of what is going on in Egypt. →
caraobrien:
mendmyheart:
*Warning, some images are horrific.
May Allah grant them the strength and will power to overcome such a difficult time.
These are really disturbing.
Why Egypt’s popular rebellion is the greatest... →
A very informative and well-written article about the current events in Egypt. Here’s an excerpt.
Barack Obama, in his [state of the union] speech, naturally spoke most about the United States; but he also spoke about Korea, Russia, Chile, China, India, Afghanistan, Iraq, Panama, Pakistan, Brazil, El Salvador, Sudan, and Colombia. He even said he supports the revolution in Tunisia:
And...
We still haven't been able to contact any of my...
Egypt protests: America's secret backing for rebel... →
caraobrien:
…The US government has previously been a supporter of Mr Mubarak’s regime. But the leaked documents show the extent to which America was offering support to pro-democracy activists in Egypt while publicly praising Mr Mubarak as an important ally in the Middle East.
In a secret diplomatic dispatch, sent on December 30 2008, Margaret Scobey, the US Ambassador to Cairo, recorded that...
“But love does not stop at the border. We now have a family that includes but...”
– Shane Claiborne (via latikaaaa)
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WIKILEAKS: Egypt - Evidence of torture and... →
Wiki cable released today.
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Protest spreads in the Middle East: Egypt,... →
“The overwhelming impression that emerges from the confidential records of a...”
– Seumas Milne
The Palestine Papers were just released, a massive data dump that reveals the behind the scenes machinations of the peach process in the Middle East. Guardian is slowing releasing 8 pieces a day, while Al-Jazeera is releasing the entire archive at once, starting on Monday.
(via...
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omg a regularly-updated tumblr devoted to gilmore... →
i miss gilmore girls.
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pedro the lion = magazine
this life is a...
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