My mother will be taking part in the following art exhibition…

CSA PRESENTS
The Art Exhibition
Egypt from Within and Afar
September 5th – October 29th

Smash Unionism… Smash Imperialism…

From Forbes…
The United States is beginning talks with Egypt on a 10-year arms deal worth 13 bln usd, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced on Monday ahead of her trip to the Middle East with Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
Washington was ‘beginning discussions with the government of Egypt on a new 10-year, 13 bln usd [...]

Click on the poster below to check it out…

From Al-Jazeera…
Up to eight million Iraqis require immediate emergency aid, with nearly half of the population living in “absolute poverty”, according to a report by Oxfam and a coalition of Iraqi groups.
About four million people are lacking food and “in dire need of different types of humanitarian assistance”, said the report, released in Amman [...]

Serene has an excellent report about the clashes that occurred yesterday between Mubarak’s police troops and the Sinai Bedouins…
From as far as three kilometres away from Masoura, we saw thick clouds of black smoke climbing eastwards into the sky. A little closer, and we started to hear gunfire, and then the teargas bomblets as [...]

Our friend Serene is currently in Sinai. She texted me saying: “Bedouins stage three thousand-strong demo at Masoura, near Rafah in protest of plans to demolish houses by Egyptian (-Palestinian) border. Approx 3000 families affected by plans.”

(Thanks Farah…)
Leaded/Unleaded documents the May 2004 labour demonstrations in the poorest neighbourhoods of Beirut that were violently repressed by the army. There has been little focus on the perpetual economic crisis in Lebanon, where upwards of 40% of the country’s population lives below the poverty line. Many link the current economic crisis to ex-prime [...]

From the Telegraph…
It is true that Britain and the other Anglosphere allies are in Iraq partly because the US is. But we also had our own reasons for military intervention - our seventh in the region. We were the former colonial power, the home of the exiled opposition and the patron of the Gulf [...]

sarkozy - ben ali - un petit zest de dictatureUploaded by Marcusgarvey

From AFP…
Egypt’s ruling party is to elect its leader for the first time in a move geared towards eventually offering President Hosni Mubarak’s son Gamal the country’s top job, analysts said on Sunday.
The National Democratic Party (NDP) presidency — a post held by Mubarak since he came to power in 1981 — will be [...]

From Al-Jazeera…
Israeli soldiers have shot and killed two Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip as they approached the border fence, a Palestinian group has said.
An Israeli army spokeswoman said soldiers had opened fire on two men near the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya on Saturday.
“They were planting an explosive device near the fence,” [...]

I received the following statement from HRinfo…
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (HRinfo) salutes Abdel Moati Hegazi, a prominent Egyptian poet, for his refusal to pay a L.E 20,000 fine imposed against him by an appeal court in Cairo, after he was charged with insulting Yusuf al Badri, an extremist infamous for his [...]