We’ve been facing increased IT problems on The Arabist blogs, since the Mahalla Uprising due to the overload of internet traffic, which has led to the daily collapse of the server for varying periods of time (few mins to sometimes hours)… Hence, we are migrating to the Birdhouse…

Shokran to Scot, James and the IT wizards [...]

Asad has moved to a new domain…

Mabrouk ya Abul Ossoud…

Is it true that Kefaya’s website was blocked in Egypt yesterday?

From the Daily News Egypt…
The last entry on Kareem Al-Beheiri’s blog, egyworkers.blogspot.com, reads, “It is now 7 am on April 6 and I am on my way to the Mahalla textile factory to cover the events of the strikes. I wish success to all seeking to expose the failing Egyptian political system.”
It is unlikely that [...]

As expected, yesterday’s “Facebook Strike” was a failure.. I hope our peers in the activist community will wake up and realize now the limitations of online activism.. Let’s get back to organizing on the ground, fellow bloggers, and leave behind these cyber-fantasies…
Egyptians largely ignored a call by online activists for a general strike Sunday to [...]

Check out Abdel Gelil’s blog… We need more bloggers in Mahalla shabab…
There are disturbing news about renewed arrests in Mahalla; police is also disconnecting the satellite receivers’ cables on the roofs of houses…

Comrade Gaber has moved his blog to a new domain.. Mabrouk ya Guebara…

Make sure you also check out his flickr, deviant art and Twitter accounts…

Ahmad Sherif sends his greetings to the US-backed dictator Hosni Mubarak on his 80th birthday…

Click on the pic below to check out Comrade Farah’s new blog…

And click on the pic below to view a set of photos of Lebanon’s May Day protests, taken by Farah…

I found also more photos of the marches via Razan… For continuous coverage of Lebanese revolutionary politics, check out the following IST Lebanese blogs: Sursock, [...]

Freedom for Kareem el-Beheiri…

I’ve just received news that MB blogger and friend Abdel Moneim Mahmoud has been stopped at the Cairo International airport, by Mubarak’s State Security pigs, on his way to Morocco to participate in a conference on press freedom. He remains detained in the State Security office in the airport as of time of writing…

UPDATE: Moneim [...]

Detained Ghazl el-Mahalla blogger Kareem el-Beheiri, is now an “uncle” after his sister gave birth to Hanin.. Kareem’s family and friends are sending him a message…

A Socialist activist I spoke with around six hours ago said no lawyers have managed yet to gain access to Kareem and the Textile Workers’ League activists Kamal el-Fayoumi and [...]