The Interior Minister asks Hosni Mubarak to write a “Farewell Letter” to the Egyptian people. Mubarak replies: “Why? Where are they going?” On a popular Egyptian radio show, the deposed president of Tunisia Zine El Abidine Ben Ali requests Nancy Ajram’s song “I’m Waiting for You” . . . and dedicates it to Egyptian President […]
Geography Archives: Middle East
The Egyptian Working Class Enters the Arena with Full Force
My sources have just confirmed this now. The Cairo Public Transportation workers, who started a strike today in six garages — Nasr Station, Fateh Station, Ter’a Station, Amiriya Station, Mezzalat Station, Sawwah Station — have issued a statement with a list of demands, calling for overthrowing Mubarak. No public buses will roam Cairo tomorrow, except […]
Egypt: Obama’s Counter-Revolution
Carlos Latuff is a Brazilian cartoonist. | Print
Egyptian Dictatorship, Made in USA
The Egyptian dictatorship, made in the USA, is still powered by an Israeli battery, but the battery is running low. . . . This cartoon was first published by Al Jazeera; it is reproduced here for non-profit educational purposes. Cf. Mark Landler and Helene Cooper, “Allies Press U.S. to Go Slow on Egypt” (New […]
#Jan25 Egypt
The only question is: who’s next? Omar Offendum (MC #1), ; The Narcicyst (MC #2), ; Freeway (MC #3), ; Amir Sulaiman (MC #4) ; Ayah (R&B Vocalist), ; Sami Matar (Producer), ; Artwork by Ridwan Adhami . Download link: . Cf. Interview with Omar Offendum (Al Jazeera, 8 February 2011): . | Print
Revolution 2.0: Interview with Hossam el-Hamalawy
Hossam el-Hamalawy is a member of the organization Revolutionary Socialists as well as of the Center for Socialist Studies in Cairo. A journalist and blogger, he is one of the “cyberguerrilla” youth at the heart of the revolutions underway in the Arab world. While constantly occupying Tahrir Square, he seeks to regularly disseminate alternative […]
Counter-Revolution Field Manual
In a speech attacking ‘multiculturalism’ Prime Minister David Cameron argued for a “muscular liberalism” that would actively confront “extremist” ideologies — principally radical Islamism — that fail to conform to “Western values”. The problem is not with Islam per se, he argued, but with those “distortion[s]” of Islam that reject “democracy, the rule of law, […]
The Sound of the Revolution
Ramy Essam is a singer and composer from Mansoura, Egypt. For more information about Essam, visit <www.facebook.com/RamyEssamOfficial>. This song, composed of slogans of the Egyptian Revolution, was performed at Tahrir Square in Egypt on the “Day of Departure” (4 February 2011). | Print
Documenting Mubarak’s Attacks on the Press
Carlos Latuff is a Brazilian cartoonist. | Print
Egypt: Which Way Is the Way Forward? Interview with Hossam el-Hamalawy
Saturday, February 5th, 8 pm (Egyptian time) What are some of the hurdles the protest movement is facing? Are there divisions emerging while trying to find common ground? Yesterday the square was completely packed with more than one million protestors and Alexandria witnessed similar protests as well as the other provinces. But there are […]
Democracy in Egypt
Carlos Latuff is a Brazilian cartoonist. | Print
Egypt Will Rise
Nick Bygon, Moreno Valley, California. This image is licensed under a Creative Commons license. An Adobe Illustrator file of this poster is available at <files.me.com/nickbygon/xpiz91>. | Print
Muslims and Christians, United for Egypt, against Mubarak
Carlos Latuff is a Brazilian cartoonist. Cf. As’ad AbuKhalil, “Egyptian Slogans” (Angry Arab News Service, 27 January 2011). | Print
Mubarak’s Scales
Mubarak weighs Egypt and himself and concludes: I am weightier than Egypt. This photograph was taken on 1 February 2011. Visit the blog Egyptian Chronicles at <egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com>. | Print
Tunisia, Egypt, and Beyond: Interview with Aijaz Ahmad
Aijaz Ahmad: The dictatorship is gone but the regime is still there [in Tunisia], tottering, hopefully on its last legs. This is the last card that the old regime is playing, which is trying to keep the government under the control of the RCD, the ruling party, the Constitutional Democratic Rally. Actually most of the […]
What Happens to Pent-up Anger? Interview with Michael D. Yates
Listen to the interview with Michael D. Yates: I know there’s a lot of pent-up anger. If you take a country like Egypt, where people are suppressed, when they get an opportunity, a real opportunity, like what happened in the wake of the revolt in Tunisia, they will do things, they will take to […]
Rallies throughout Occupied Palestine in Solidarity with Egypt and Tunisia
5 February 2011 More than two thousand people rallied today in the center of Ramallah at Al-Manara Square in solidarity with the popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, calling for freedom, social justice, democracy, and human rights. Parallel rallies took place in Bethlehem and Nazareth. Previous rallies have been held by Palestinian activists in […]
Plan B for a Post-Mubarak Egypt?
“Freedom lies behind a door closed shut,” the great Egyptian poet Ahmed Shawqi wrote in the last century. “It can only be knocked down with a bleeding fist.” More than that is bleeding in the Arab world at the moment. The uprisings we are witnessing in Egypt have been a rude awakening for all those […]
Egyptian Protests, Grounded in Decades of Struggle, Portend Regional Transformation
Egypt is throbbing with resistance. Cairo is cloven between the forces of revolution and those of counterrevolution. Hundreds of thousands of people — on Tuesday, February 1, well over a million — have been streaming each day into Tahrir Square, the largest plaza in the Arab world, located in the heart of downtown Cairo. Army […]
Islam as Democracy against the Dictatorships of the Western Powers
The West has financed dictatorships in the Middle East and Arab World for more than a century. The pro-democracy protests against Western-backed dictatorships in the Arab world have shown, once again, the immense hypocrisy of our rulers. Which side are the Western governments on — the side of protesters or the side of dictators? The […]
