Click below to download the latest issue from L’Ishtraki (The Socialist), the voice of Egypt’s revolutionary left…

The Winter 2007 issue of Awraq Ishtrakiya is available online in a PDF format, divided into four files, here, here, here and there…
The Spring 2008 issue is also available in a PDF format… Click below to download it…

Make sure you collect your copy of the new booklet published by the Center for Socialist Studies, on the struggle of the real estate tax collectors. The booklet is authored by Gamal Mohamed Oweida, a strike leader in the Daqahliya Province…

From the Daily News Egypt…
Around 1,000 people, including writers, politicians and activists gathered Sunday at the Press Syndicate to celebrate the launch of Abdel-Halim Qandil’s latest book on President Hosni Mubarak’s rule and the future of Egypt.
The launch of “Al-Ayam Al-Akheera” (The Last Days) faced some obstacles when Qandil’s supporters failed to obtain approvals to [...]

Dog Eared Books, San Francisco…

The best way to improve your photography skills, according to what I hear from peers, professors and veteran photographers, is to spend a good time looking at other people’s works, and see what they photographed, and try to think about where the photographer was standing when he was taking that pic, etc…
But, photography books in [...]

Mubarak’s pigs raided the publishing house run by detained blogger and friend Mohamed el-Sharqawi, around 3pm, according to a phone call I received from his fiance Naira el-Sheikh.
Plainclothes agents, claiming to be from the Vice Squad but showed no ID or official papers, stormed Malameh, located in Garden City in Downtown Cairo.
The police confiscated all [...]

Blogger Taq Hanak quotes Mustafa el-Refai’s memoirs about the victorious 50-day national strike staged by Egyptian doctors in 1951…

Shabab, make sure you stop by the Center for Socialist Studies booth, to check out the books, papers and T-Shirts for sale.
The new issue of Awraq Ishtrakiya, the quarter-annual theoretical journal of the Socialist movement, is now available…

There is also a new must-read booklet, by labor journalists Mostafa Bassiouni and Omar Said, on the [...]

[Sefrios: Under the Roots]

Poetry as Insurgent Art, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti…
I am signaling you through the flames.
The North Pole is not where it used to be.
Manifest Destiny is no longer manifest.
Civilization self-destructs.
Nemesis is knocking at the door.
What are poets for, in such an age?
What is the use of poetry?
The state of the world calls out for poetry to save [...]

The Summer 2007 Issue of Awraq Ishtrakiya, produced by the Center for Socialist Studies is now available online. Click on the Cover below to download a Zip file…

You can also support the publication, by buying your hard copy from The Center for Socialist Studies: 7 Mourad St., Giza
Merit Publishing House: 6 Qasr el-Nil St., [...]

One of my favorite books…

[A higher resolution version of the poster above is available here…]

[”The Fire Next Time” by US Revolutionary Socialist Hip Hop singer S.O.N.]
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An AP report by Nadia Abou El-Magd…
International and local rights groups on Tuesday demanded the release of an Egyptian blogger and member of the banned Muslim Brotherhood who was arrested after reporting on torture.
Abdel Moneim Mahmoud, 27, a well-known blogger and correspondent for the London-based Al-Hewar Arabic TV Channel, was arrested early Sunday at Cairo [...]

The Anti-Globalization Egyptian Group and the South Forum invite you to a lecture by Dr. Samir Amin, where he discusses his latest book, Mozzakerati (”My Memoirs”), Thursday 8 March, 6:30pm, at the Sawy Cultural Wheel in Zamalek.
تتشرف المجموعة المصرية لمناهضة العولمة بالتعاون مع منتدى الجنوب بتنظيم ندوة للمفكر المصري سمير أمين حول كتابه الأخير “مذكراتي” [...]

إصدار جديد من مركز الدراسات الإشتراكية… كيف ستكون الاشتراكية
للحصول على نسخة: عنوان المركز: 7 شارع مــراد بالجيزة

John Molyneux’s booklet on “The Future Socialist Society” is now available in Arabic. Pick your copy from the Center for Socialist Studies, 7 Mourad St., Giza.

إصدار جديد من مركز الدراسات الإشتراكية… إنتصار المقاومة اللبنانية وتحديات المستقبل، بقلم المناضل الإشتراكي كريس هارمان
للحصول على نسخة: عنوان المركز: 7 شارع مــراد بالجيزة

Chris Harman’s fantastic article on the Lebanese resistance group Hizbollah, published in the Fall 2006 issue of ISJ, is now available in Arabic from the Center for Socialist Studies. Pick your copy [...]

I received the following message form journalist and friend Stephen Grey, who spent the last five years researching extraordinary renditionsand tracking down “disappeared” Islamist suspects in the US-run global gulag…
FYI – some exclusive material posted today on www.ghostplane.net, the website of my book Ghost Plane, which is out now.For the first time, I’ve now posted [...]