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On December 8, the Administrative Court will issue its verdict regarding Judge Mourade’s demand to ban 51 blogs and websites, deemed” harmful for national security and insulting to the president.” The list includes my blog. More details in the following HRINFO statement…
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information said today that this week is full [...]

It’s confirmed… 55,000 Real Estate Tax officers are striking tomorrow Sunday. Thousands, from the Cairo and Giza offices, are expected to demonstrate at 10am for an hour in front of the Mogamaa’ el-Massaleh in Giza (near Om el-Masreyeen), then move to join 2000 of their colleagues who are expected to arrive in buses from the [...]

Hey, you can add your Facebook Events onto your Google Calendar. Here you are the steps for doing so.
1. Click on the "Events" link found in the left menu of your Facebook account.

2. On the top of the page you'll find a link called "Export Events". Click on it, and copy the URL that appears in the pop-up window.

3. Go to Google Calendar, and press on the "Add" button, found in the "Manage Calendars" box there. Then select "Add by URL".

4. Enter the URL you've just got from Facebook there, and click on the "Add" button.

5. Voila, here you go.

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"لأَنَّ
ظُلْمَ لُبْنَانَ يُغَطِّيكَ واغْتِصَابَ الْبَهَائِمِ الَّذِي رَوَّعَهَا
لأَجْلِ دِمَاءِ النَّاسِ
وَظُلْمِ الأَرْضِ وَالْمَدِينَةِ وَجَمِيعِ السَّاكِنِينَ فِيهَا."

[من العهد القديم؛ ما قرأه ياسر عَرفات على جنوده لدى رحيلهم عن بيروت، 1982]

The US Embassy recently produced a CD of old interviews from the Voice of America Arabic service archives. (VOA Arabic was canceled a while ago, to be replaced by the much-criticized, pop-heavy Radio Sawa). The interviews — of major Egyptian writers, artists, singers such as Naguib Mahfouz, Mohamed Abdel Wahab and Tahia Carioca — are also available online. I haven’t had a chance to hear more than the opening minutes of the Mahfouz interview, but I look forward to furthering my Mahfouz obsession by listening to the whole thing soon. In general, it’s nice to see the US Embassy support a cultural initiative like this.