I had no doubt Al-Masry Al-Youm’s journalist, blogger, and friend Ali Zalat would be among the first of the army of independent and opposition journalists and bloggers who flocked to the Nile Delta to report on the Mahlla intifada…

[Above: Ali interviewing one of the Mahalla workers.]

Ali has been one of the independent daily’s best investigative journalists, and was directly invovled in exposing the police torturers in El-Adly Videogate…

Good luck to Ali and to all the brave journalists, photographers and bloggers stationed with the workers in the factory… I wish I was there with you ya shabab…