Socialist activists in Mahalla recorded three video clips of the 27,000-strong Textile workers strike at the beginning of the month, which ended in victory. The videos show workers carrying coffins while staging a mock funeral for their bosses, and chanting against corruption…
Click to watch Video 1…

Click to watch Video 2…

Click to watch Video 3…

مجدي مهنا يتناول في عاموده اليومي المجهودات الخارقة التي يقوم بها مـفيد شهـاب، عميد ترزية قوانـين النـظام

Click on the pic above (taken by Mathew Carrington) to read the report…

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A leaked video of Saddam’s execution, recorded by a mobile phone, has been broadcasted by Al-Jazeera and surfaced on the web. Click on the pic below to watch it…

Alaa with the help of the “30th of February Organization” moved the Egyptian blogs aggregator to a new domain.

Egyptian blogger Demagh Mak strikes again…
After cyber-leaking the video of citizen Emad Kabeer’s rape inside Boulaq al-Dakrour Police Station, which snowballed into El-Adly Video-Gate, Demagh Mak uploaded a new clip, shot by a mobile phone camera, of a terrified citizen pleading inside a police station, surrounded by at least three uniformed police agents, in addition [...]

The latest report from Reporters Without Borders…

Fathi Abul Ezz produced this cartoon of Boulaq al-Dakrour Police Station Captain Islam Nabih, who is to stand in court facing charges of torturing and sexually abusing driver Emad Kabeer.

Photographer Ahmad el-Masry had exclusively photographed the officer while leaving the Prosecutor’s office last week.

UPDATE: Torture in Egypt blog has designed a banner, with Islam’s [...]

When I saw the photo below of worshippers marking the beginning of Eid ul Adha under rifles, I thought it was from occupied Palestine.

But no, it is Mubarak’s Egypt. Central Security Forces were literally everywhere in the major cities early morning today, for fear of anti-government demonstrations following the prayers…
UPDATE: Four MB activists were detained [...]

Increasingly I’m stumbling on music mp3s and videoclips produced by Egyptian activists. A trend, one could say has been in motion since the bloggers threw their weight behind the movement for change in 2005… activism meets creativity and humour…
Click on the pic below to watch a remake of the popular Shaabi song, “I love you, [...]

I never claimed I was a cool hipster who’s following the latest in Egypt’s music scene… but goodness, I never knew the legendary Shaaban Abdel Rehim had a brother who’s in the singing business too. Or may be Shaaban was keeping him behind the Iron Mask for fear of competition?

[Above: Photo of Shaaban by Daniel [...]