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 [...]

Advise from Shobrawy…
Just remember, if you’re an Egyptian American returning to Egypt, your passport is NOT a get out of jail free card. So be careful!
(Thanks Joanne)

A new letter sent by a group of detainees in Al-Wadi Al-Gadid Prison to the editor of Torture In Egypt blog details some of the horrors in Mubarak’s gulags.

In their letter, the detainees complained of continuous verbal abuse, severe beatings from prison officers, which finally led to one of the detainees, Ahmad Abdel Sadek Ibrahim, [...]

I wonder what is it gonna be like when the Cairo Bastille falls…

The Boulaq al-Dakrour Police Station agents involved in the sexual abuse of driver Emad Kabeer have been officially referred by the prosecutor to court, reports Al-Masry Al-Youm today. The South Cairo Prosecutor decided yesterday that Police Captain Islam Nabih Abdel Salam Awad, 29, and Police Corporal Reda Fathi el-Sayyed Abu Fatma, 28, would face charges [...]

في لبنــان، البرد كفـيل بتعذيـب السجنــاء

While the government keeps on inflamming sensationalist reports on the bogus “Muslim Brotherhood student militias,” new videos are circulating the web showing criminal thugs hired by the state, and allowed into the Ain Shams University campus, to terrorize and intimidate Free Student Union activists. The thugs were given passage by the security personnel last November, [...]

If you can read Arabic, check Egyptian blogger Eblis’s interesting account of Mansoura, his hometown…

With the latest surge in US occupation troops’ casualties, looks like they won’t be waiting for long…

Recommended Book: In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq

Immigration to Israel in 2006 fell to its lowest since 1988…