One thousand gardeners went on strike today in my neighborhood, few blocks away from my house. Unfortunately, I was in Helwan then, so I missed it. But luckily, journalist (and neighbor) Jano Charbel managed to go and check out the scene. Here’s the report he sent me…
Around 1,000 Public Garden Workers on Strike at Nasr [...]

Houses had to be evacuated in Souq el-Labban district, in el-Mahalla el-Kobra, after they were deemed unsafe. The working class families are living now out on the street, with no help provided from the local authorities, except for some miserable tents…
Ghazl el-Mahalla labor activist Kareem el-Beheiri sent me the following report…
كارثة من العيار الثقيل وتحركات [...]

The Egyptian blogosphere has a message to Mubarak…

For more of Matwadinash Fedahya Productions, check Ahmad Sherif’s blog…

Joseph Samaha, editor of the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar passed away yesterday. Click on the photo below to read an obituary by the Angry Arab…

اليوم الاثنين، 26 فبراير 2007
في محكمة جنح باب شرق - الإسكندرية
محاكمة رجال شرطة وضحاياهم في نفس الجلسة
الشرطة: بتهمة استخدام القسوة والضرب؛ والضحايا: بتهمة مقاومة السلطات!!

القاهرة 25/2/2007
 
يعود تاريخ القصة إلى يوم 15 أغسطس 2005.
ثلاث جروح غائرة بفروة الرأس وذراع في جبيرة مغطاة بالدماء هي ما انتهى إليه حال محمد عبد العزيز عبد الفتاح الذي تم ضربه [...]

The New Yorker’s Seymour Hersh, one of Amreeka’s top investigative journalists, has been in Cairo for a couple of days, where he lectured Egyptian and Arab journalists on the art of investigative journalism–part of a training program by the Heikal Foundation. Unfortunately, I attended only his last workshop today, and the public talk he gave [...]

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

I still don’t have details, but I received news that a strike had started in the Telephones Equipment Company in Helwan yesterday evening and ended today.
The company, which produces phone sets, was privatized either five or six years ago (My source was not sure about the exact date). The total labor force is more than [...]

Outrageous!!!
Police officer jailed for refusing to protect Israelis
CAIRO, Feb 25 (Reuters) - An Egyptian police tribunal on Sunday sentenced a police officer to six months in jail for refusing orders to go on guard duty at the Israeli embassy in Cairo, police sources said.
Mohamed Khalaf Hassan Ibrahim, a sergeant in his late 30s, had been [...]