Click below to watch some photos taken by Sarah Carr of the Thursday anti-price hikes protest in front of the Press Syndicate…

For continuous updates from Lebanon, Keep an eye on Comrade Farah Kobaissy’s Twitter account and Sursock’s blog…

From the Daily News Egypt…
CAPMAS announced Thursday that urban inflation in Egypt rose to a new three-year high of 16.4 percent in the year to April, up from 14.4 percent in the year to March.
Abu Bakr El-Guindi, head of the state statistics agency, told reporters in a news conference that inflation was driven mainly by [...]

Troubling news about Facebook activist Ahmed Maher… Here’s a report from the Daily News Egypt…
The administrator and arguably the real creator of the April 6 Strike group on Facebook Ahmed Maher was detained briefly Wednesday and beaten, his lawyer told Daily News Egypt.
Khaled Ali, who is the head of the Hisham Mubarak Center for Human [...]

Ma3lesh, I’ll go back again to the issue of photography…

I gave recently some talks about the Mahalla Uprising, among labor and progressive circles in the Bay Area, as part of the effort (tremendously helped by friends in California and NYC I’m grateful for) to spread the word about what’s going on back in Egypt among [...]

From Reuters…
Egypt has asked mobile phone companies to block service to anonymous subscribers as a public security measure, and at least two firms have begun efforts to comply, Egyptian officials and mobile firms said on Monday.
The move comes as Egypt tries to combat a wave of public discontent over rising prices and low wages that [...]

Japan Town, San Francisco…

Ya shabab, I saw this movie and I highly recommend it…

روحوا إضربوه من أي حتة على النت ولا من المكسيك.. الفيلم ده يا جماعة والله ينفع يبقى على مصر… وخصوصا إني مبضون من “المستوطنات” الي قاعدين يبنوها برة القاهرة ويدوها أسامي زي “بيفرلي هيلز” و”دريم لاند”.. يا أخي أحا فعلا.. المهم حاولوا تجيبوا الفيلم ده [...]

Zionist students have started their celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the founding of their apartheid genocidal state in Palestine, by distributing free falafel sandwiches and bringing “models” you can take photos with…

I find this very, aaaam, what’s the word? Ah, beidan…

Some Egyptian readers have complained recently that while they could find my new postings on their RSS feeds, they couldn’t see them on the frontpage. This I’m afraid is linked to the transfer of the Arabist blogs to a new host. Below is a message from Scot, on how to solve it…
This is not [...]