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This post also available in:| Deutsch | · Ägypten: 18 jüdische Frauen und vier Männer |
| عربي | · مصر: 18 سيدة يهودية وأربع رجال |
| Español | · Egipto: 18 damas judías y cuatro hombres |
| Português | · Egito: 18 Mulheres e Quatro Homens Judeus |
| Français | · Egypte : La minuscule communauté juive d'Alexandrie |
| Ελληνικά | · Αίγυπτος: 22 Εβραίοι, 18 γυναίκες και 4 άνδρες |
| Filipino | · Ehipto: 18 Kababaihang Hudyo at 4 na Kalalakihan |
Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue in Alexandria. Photo has been released into the public domain by its author, Moshirah.
Some minorities are very small that many people aren't aware of them. Nervana Mahmoud (@Nervana_1) wrote in her blog about the Jewish population in Alexandria that is composed of 18 women and four men, and how according to the Jewish religious customs, six more visitor men are required for them to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, in Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue in Alexandria.
Lebanese blogger Habib Battah narrates how he was held against his consent, forced to delete photographs of ruins from his phone camera and repeatedly assaulted in this post on the Beirut Report. When he reported the case to his local police station, the officers in charge said it was his word against theirs. He adds:
Cairo Urban Initiatives Platform. Image from Cairobserver facebook page.
Supported by Ford Foundation and the British Council, Cluster has recently launched the Cairo Urban Initiatives Platform (CUIP), the first resource of its kind in Egypt.
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Sokhanesabz says [fa] that people send SMS to each other inviting Iranians to protest against internet interruption in front of Ministry of Communication on Saturday 11th May.
Yemeni blogger Noon Arabia writes an open letter to US President Barak Obama in which she says:
All Yemenis are against terrorism and condemn Al-Qaeda, yet are also against the violent and unethical use of predator drones in combating them. We are against the death of civilians, whom you refer to as collateral damage in the war against terror. We are against the long-term effects on their communities and their lives. We are against any extrajudicial killings.
Six Twitter users were sentenced to a year in prison each by a Bahrain court last week for allegedly insulting King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa... More »
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I mourn the Croat people. Joining the bureaucrat New Soviet Union is a terrible mistake....
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