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By: Part One: Inside the school of the Egyptian blogosphere at Global Voices Advocacy

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:23:24 +0000

[...] a week pass by without news about the arrest of one or more Egyptian bloggers. On March 15 2007, three bloggers were arrested –- then released the same day — for taking part in a protest against the controversial [...]

By: Leftist Egyptian

Leftist Egyptian — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:27:54 +0000

maybe ma comment is kinda soo late but i wasnt that lucky to know abt the site before
i wanna answer Hamid Tehrani abt his Question

Hamid Tehrani
lets just say egyptians sayin NO to Mubarak & his guys
however the political color is Moslem Brotherhood, Left or Liberal

we were egyptians sayin no askin for our rights & after short time we turned to egyptians running escaping from the police hands for not to get arrested & tortured

but we still have the hope to set EGYPT our country free

By: Inside the school of the Egyptian blogosphere at [fikra] فكرة

Inside the school of the Egyptian blogosphere at [fikra] فكرة — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:34:04 +0000

[...] Rarely does a week pass by without news about the arrest of one or more Egyptian bloggers. On March 15 2007, three bloggers were arrested –- then released the same day — for taking part in a protest against the controversial constitutional amendments which were approved by Egypt’s parliament on March 19. On March 20, three more bloggers, MaLeK (aka MaLcoLM X), Mohammad Gamal (aka Gimihood) and Mina (aka Haj Girgis), were arrested en route to a sit-in in front of the People’s Assembly in Cairo. They were also released the same day. [...]

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Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:14:08 +0000

By: Amira Al Hussaini

Amira Al Hussaini — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:27:10 +0000

Alaa,
You are right. Thanks for pointing it out. It was Nora’s comment!

By: Kesher Talk

Kesher Talk — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 20:56:45 +0000

Egyptian dissidents detained…

We publicized the arrests of Abdel Karim Suleiman and Alaa seif el-Islam. Alaa was subsequently released, but now the Egyptian government is cracking down on activists, arresting some of them at a demonstration. The charge against the 21 arrested [and….

By: Rosemary

Rosemary — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:42:18 +0000

Dear Amira,
I am so saddened to hear this. It would appear that Egypt believes it can get away with anything now. Nothing ever changes just because we wish it to. These are brave people who protest. I shall pray for them…all. Thank you.

By: Alaa

Alaa — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:12:33 +0000

it’s not true, I never expressed shock at poor media coverage. I was too busy running away from police, protesting, chasing prison cars and running from police station to police station trying to track our detainees to even notice if media coverage was good or bad. I think that was Nora’s comment.

By: Amr Gharbeia

Amr Gharbeia — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:02:53 +0000

All of the above, Hamid. The Egyptian blogsphere is now big enough to include people from all ends of the political spectrum in Egypt, especially after the recent, powerful–and good!–entry of Muslim Brotherhood bloggers, writing about their family and friends in detention and in military courts.

By: Hamid Tehrani

Hamid Tehrani — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:04:58 +0000

what is these bloggers’ political colour?Moslem Brotherhood?Left?Liberal?or just citizens with a desire for justice…