From Al-Jazeera…
Israeli forces have withdrawn from Nablus after conducting a three-day military operation there, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in the West Bank city reports.
Agencies also quoted Palestinians as saying that the Israeli army had pulled its troops and armoured vehicles out, with no soldiers visible in Nablus at dawn on Tuesday.
However, the Israeli army did not [...]

From Al-Jazeera…
An Egyptian appeal court has overturned a one-year jail term served against a newspaper editor convicted of defaming Hosni Mubarak, the country’s president, substituting it for a fine of $3,950.
Ibrahim Eissa, editor of al-Dustour weekly, had accused Mubarak of selling state enterprises too cheaply and wasting foreign aid in editorial columns.
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Journalist and friend Jano Charbel sent me the following update on the Nasr City gardeners’ strike that started yesterday…
Cairo Garden Workers to Expand Scope of Strikes if their Demands are not Met
Following yesterday’s strike, workers and employees at Nasr City’s International Garden resumed work on Tuesday, February 27; yet announced that they would expand [...]

Click on Fathi Abul Ezz’s cartoon below to read Al-Masry Al-Youm report…

100 fishermen from Kafr el-Sheikh governorate, far north of the Nile Delta, assembled in front of the People’s Assembly yesterday in downtown Cairo to protest the provincial authorities attempts to strip them from their lands, Al-Masry Al-Youm reports…

I received the following statement from the Nadeem Center…

El Nadim Center for the Management and Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence
Member of AMAN Network
3 A Soliman El Halabi Street, off Ramsis street, Cairo
Tel: 202 5787089 Fax: 5776792 email: nadeem@link.net website: www.hrinfo.net/egypt/nadeem
Ruling against Karim Amer: A Return to the Age of Inquisition
El Nadim Center expresses its major [...]

From Al-Jazeera…
A suicide attack has killed at least 18 people, including one American soldier, at Bagram air base in Afghanistan, while Dick Cheney, the US vice-president, was visiting, officials said.
Click on Latuff’s cartoon below to read the full report…

Click on Latuff’s cartoon below to read the report…

Blogger Ahmad Sherif sent me a video, he put together, where he runs an English translation of the conversation–recorded in the brutality video leaked by blogojournalist Wael Abbas–the police officers were having while they were engaged in abusing a group of detainees.
First watch Wael Abbas’ video…

And here’s Ahmad’s video…

I was watching it being taken down day by day, as I drive on the 6th of October bridge into town. It’s another example of how public funds are squandered by Nazif’s brilliant technocrats that Bush keeps expressing admiration for…
One minute it was there, the next it was gone. Pedestrians or drivers could easily notice [...]

This is one other thing they don’t teach us in history classes at school. The first recorded workers’ strike in history happened in Ancient Egypt…
A contemporary document recounting the first ever recorded labour strike, which occured in Deir el Medina, Ancient Egypt during the reign of Ramses III when workers did not receive their rations.
The [...]