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Eman AbdElRahman

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About Eman AbdElRahman

119 posts · joined 2008-04-9

An engineer and a blogger. Reading, photography, radio, and music summarize my life with its ups and downs. I've lived the Egyptian blogsphere since its early beginnings, and thus know well how to love the virtual cities blogging creates.
I have 2 blogs: Lasto adri [Ar] and On My Own [En]. As well as working on my baby project We are all Laila to give a chance for Arab women to finally speak out against the injustice females face daily in oppressive societies like the Arab World..
For more, follow me on Twitter: Lastoadri & KolenaLaila

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November 2nd, 2009

Egypt: El Koshary launched

A new sarcastic news website has been launched in Egypt. El Koshary, dubbed as Egypt's most reliable news service, has been welcomed by bloggers.

Middle East & North Africa

Syrian blogger Marcell provided links [Ar], in her blog, to a number of studies and books that discuss blogging in Syria and the Arab countries in general.

September 29th, 2009

Egypt: Another journalist to be deported

"Your name [is] on the computer." With those words Cairo-based Swedish journalist and blogger Per Bjorklund is being turned away from the Cairo Airport, where he landed a few hours ago. Egypt's bloggers are angry and speaking up against it.

September 22nd, 2009

MENA: Thanks “Khawater” from Japan

Television viewers across the Arab world were in for a treat this Ramadan, with the airing of a special programme on Japan. In its fifth season, Khawater (Thoughts) visited Japan, where a young Saudi preacher Ahmed Al Shugairy explained the Japanese success story to Arab and Muslim viewers. Here are some blogger reactions to the one month show.

July 6th, 2009

Egyptian woman killed in German court for being veiled

Egyptian bloggers join forces to decry the murder of a veiled Egyptian woman in a German court. Marwa El Sherbini, 32, who was pregnant at the time of her murder was stabbed to death 18 times by the man she had sued for insulting her for wearing the Hijab (Islamic headscarf) after judges ruled in her favour. Here is a round up of reactions from Egypt.

June 6th, 2009

Egypt: Will there be any action after Obama's Talk?

As expected, US President Barack Obama's speech was received with different and contradicting reactions in the Egyptian blogsphere. While many praised his eloquence, charisma, intelligence and awareness of Arab and Islamic history, more believed it was just the same talk they had heard from other presidents but in a better wrapping. Also, they almost all agreed they are waiting for "action" to prove the supposed "good intentions."