Damn! I never knew Egypt’s colonial history involved campaigns in Mexico!!! I’m very glad however to know that the Latinos kicked our imperialist asses…

Metal concert held at El-Sawy’s Cultural Wheel…

The Alexandrian band Massive Scar Era…

Shady Nour, Vocals, Your Prince Harming…

Khaled el-Balshi, editor in chief, and Zein Khairy reviewing the final draft of the paper before print… More pix from el-Badeel office uploaded here…

Pigs are the same everywhere, in Greece, Egypt, or America…
A New York City patrolman used his baton to sodomize a man in a subway station, and two complicit colleagues helped him cover it up, the Brooklyn district attorney charged on Tuesday as he unsealed indictments against three police officers.
Using graphic detail, the district attorney described [...]

Clashes are taking place in El-Elyan Village located 10 km from Tebbeen, south of Cairo, between the citizens and police troops. The details are still fuzzy, but there are unconfirmed reports of two deaths, 13 injuries and the arrests of more than 20 citizens. The road between Tebbeen and El-Saff has been totally shut down…
UPDATE: [...]

Leftist lawyer Ahmed Seif El-Islam Hamad was named Human Rights Defender in Egypt, by Amnesty International…

My article in the December ‘08 issue of the (UK) Socialist Review on Egypt’s Real Estate Tax Collectors is now available online…

New Socialist blog added to the Lenospehere…

Police has cracked down this morning on activists assembling in Dokki, who were preparing to travel to Gaza with a caravan of medical aid and supplies, detaining dozens including our friend Ahmad Abdel Fattah…
UPDATE: Ahmad has been released…
UPDATE: A report by Sarah Carr…
UPDATE: Solidarity needed with detained Ad-Dustour journalist Aya Youssef…
UPDATE: Aya released…

Sarah Carr reports…
Lawyers and activists condemned the detention of 10 men who they say are prisoners of conscience during a seminar held Thursday at the Journalists’ Syndicate.
The seminar was followed by a protest on the steps of the Syndicate during which demonstrators called for the release of the detainees.
Twenty-two-year-old Mohamed Adel, a blogger and IT [...]

Thousands of Real Estate Tax Collectors across the country celebrated, on 3 December, the anniversary of their Downtown Cairo sit-in, by decorating their offices, distributing sweets, singing and dancing. The Tax Collectors dubbed the day, “Tax Collectors’ Eid.” El-Badeel’s labor journalist Omar Said attended the celebrations in the Giza directorate and has a report here…

NYC-based [...]

From the Daily News Egypt…
Five journalists being tried for violating the press ban on the Suzanne Tamim murder case were present at the South Cairo Misdemeanor Court Dec. 4 to see their case adjourned to Jan. 8.
The journalists, from Al-Masry Al-Youm and Al-Wafd newspapers including their two chief editors were being tried for violating the [...]

Yasser el-Zayat, el-Badeel office…

Zein el-Abedeen Khairy, el-Badeel office…

Mustafa el-Garhi, el-Badeel office…

Hatem Hafez, el-Badeel office…

Wael Abbas, el-Horriya cafe/bar…

Mohamed Gaber, el-Horriya cafe/bar…

Malek Mustafa, el-Horriya cafe/bar…

Helwan University’s Resistance Students are marching tomorrow, Tuesday, 11am, against the Gaza siege…