CAIRO, Aug 20 (IPS) - The spectre of a U.S. nuclear umbrella for the Middle East haunted the U.S.- Egyptian summit this week. In the run-up to President Hosni Mubarak's first Washington visit in five years, both the Egyptian leader and his senior aides ca
Walden Bello: ... neither the international marchers nor their representatives were able to get into Gaza (the 65 who did go only represented themselves). Whatever its intentions, the Egyptian government behaved terribly. Although arguing that it wanted
The use of social media to facilitate and organise protests could lead to an uncertain future for the web in Egypt.Jillian York (Boston) Last Modified: 01 Feb 2011
oogle, in response to the Internet blockade in Egypt, said on Monday (31Jan )that it had created a way to post messages to microblogging service Twitter by making telephone calls.
Mir Hossein Mousavi, the Iranian opposition leader who many believe defeated Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the 2009 presidential election, is also lauding events in Egypt – and claiming credit."What we are witnessing in the streets of Tunis, Sana'a, Cairo, Alexa
Plutôt que de chercher à censurer massivement — et sans discernement — les messages d’opposants en fermant le robinet numérique, les autorités égyptiennes prennent l’initiative de se servir à leur tour des nouvelles technologies : c’est ainsi que l’armée
Cybrarians, Arabic library portal: "In a scene reminds us with the destruction of the National Library of Iraq in 2003 after the American occupation, "Al Bahr Al A'zam Library" in Cairo was burned and destroyed during the Egyptian revolution against Mubar
Hidden energy crisis in the Middle EastBy Victor Kotsev TEL AVIV - While most of the world is preoccupied with the impact of instability in the Middle East on oil prices and the world economy, a different kind of energy crisis is unfolding practically un
Hesham Bahari. "Marknadsanpassade religiösa och ideologiska reliker från det förflutna är en del av det realpolitiska spel som ser till att rika blir allt rikare och fattiga allt fattigare. Det är mot detta spel som miljontals människor i arabvärlden nu r
The demonstrators in the Arab streets did not chant revolutionary slogans; they did not ask for arms or call for “resistance”. They chanted instead: “peaceful, peaceful”. The mood of young Arab people differed entirely from those of previous decades. This
Another story of activists being arrested. "..there is no evidence that Iran created the ring, let alone micromanaged it, and it isn't at all clear that a newly unquiet Suez Canal would be in the mullahs' interests." Amotz Asa-El, who is a former executi