Kefaya’s website has posted an exclusive interview with Nazmi Shahin, member of Egypt’s Revolution group, who was involved in armed operations against CIA and Mossad agents in Cairo.
The armed organization was founded by Nasserist army and intelligence officers in the beginning of the 1980s. They managed to kill two Mossad agents in August 1985 and [...]

No, not the Egyptian state-owned Al-Akhbar of course which totally sucks…
I’ve been following for some time, Al-Akhbar, a new Arabic left-leaning Lebanese daily that was launched following the end of Israel’s war on Lebanon. It’s run by the veteran Lebanese journalist Joseph Samaha, with contributers including Ziyad Rahbani.

Totally rocks… keep an eye on it… جريدة [...]

Socialist activist and dear friend Sameh Naguib’s booklet on the Muslim Brothers is available now online. Click on Hassan el-Banna’s pic below to read it…

The booklet is in Arabic, and provides a Marxist analysis of Egypt’s largest Islamist opposition group, and outlines the Socialist strategy vis a vis it.
A must read… الإخوان المسلمون: رؤية اشتراكية… [...]

I received breaking news that three Sinai bombings suspects, currently detained in Tora Prison have attempted to escape, but their attempt was reportedly foiled.
I don’t have more details at the moment.
As far as I know, three of the suspects who were sentenced to death by the Ismailiya State Security court, on 7 September, are locked [...]

(Via BP)
Iran cuts Internet speeds to homes, cafes
Wed Oct 18
TEHRAN (Reuters)
Iran’s internet service providers (ISPs) have started reducing the speed of Internet access to homes and cafes based on new government-imposed limits, a move critics said appeared to be part of a clampdown on the media.

The “V word” has finally been uttered by George Bush…

BBC: Bush accepts Iraq-Vietnam echoes

A BBC survey in 25 countries on the usage of torture showed some depressing results. One third of those surveyed insisted torture could be used in prison on circumstances.
More than 27,000 people in 25 countries were asked if torture was acceptable if it could provide information to save innocent lives.
In Egypt, according to the poll, [...]

I uploaded to my flickr account some random pix taken by Nasser Nouri and Amr Abdallah of the Nile in Egypt…

From Xinhua…
Canadian judge rules against sending detainee back to Egypt
A Canadian federal court judge ruled on Monday not to deport a man accused of being a national security threat to his native Egypt for he could be tortured there.
Judge Andrew MacKay made the ruling despite acknowledging that Mahmoud Jaballah made a series of questionable phone [...]

(Via SM)
I found this touching story, written by a Jordanian blogger, on the horrible work conditions of Egyptian migrant laborers in Amman.
Egyptian Workers in Jordan: A True Story
To be frank, I was not surprised at all when I read this. It’s no secret how Egyptian (especially the unskilled) workers are treated in the Arab World, [...]

Fifty two civil servants and workers are currently on a sit-in at the Ain Shams University Campus, after the administration’s decision to cut down their basic monthly salary from LE220 (US$38) to LE134 (US$23.3), according to Kefaya’s website.
The workers tried without success to meet the University’s dean, so they went on strike, and are refusing [...]

I was going through old messages in my inbox, when I came across these two pix…

Very arty indeed…

Dozens of wives of Islamist detainees demonstrated today in front of the Lawyers’ Syndicate, Downtown Cairo, to protest their husbands continuous detention by the Interior Ministry. Some of them have been in jails without trial since the 1980s.

Meanwhile, a handful of Muslim Brothers journalists demonstrated in front of the Press Syndicate, protesting the closure of [...]

From Al-Jazeera…

From Reuters…

Egypt border guard shot dead along Israel border
14 Oct 2006

ISMAILIA, Egypt, Oct 14 (Reuters) - An Egyptian border guard was shot dead on Saturday in the Sinai peninsula while on patrol along the Israeli border and another critically wounded, security sources said.
Several Egyptian security sources at the border said preliminary investigations showed the two [...]