I received the following updates on detained blogger Kareem Amer, from rights activist Dalia Ziada…
I have just learnt from HRinfo lawyer who is representing Kareem with other two lawyers fro Hisham Mubark Center for Law and Association for Human Rights Legal Aid, that:
-The trial is postponed to 25 January upon the demand of defence for [...]

Egyptian blogger Kareem, who’s been in police custody for two months pending investigation, will show up in Moharram Beik Court Thursday 18 January in Alexandria to face charges that include: posting articles on the internet deemed “insulting” to the president and the Islamic faith.

[Above: Photo of Kareem taken on November 8, 2006. Kareem had been [...]

Click on the cartoon below…

Al-Azhar University administration, led by its pro-Mubarak Dean Ahmad Tayyeb Naggar, is on fast track campaign of stiffling dissent on campus… and now inside classrooms.

After blessing the security crackdown on the Free Student Union in Al-Azhar, and regretting “it didn’t happen earlier, by the start of the university semester,” Naggar is now planning to “monitor [...]

Socialist activist Yehya Fekri writes on the veil row in Egypt…

Al-Azhar mosque is expected to be the scene of a mass demo against Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni over his recent veil remarks, tomorrow following the Friday prayers. Both the Muslim Brothers and the Islamist-leaning Labor Party supporters are expected to be present and have a leading role.

Already thousands of Muslim Brothers supporters have demonstrated [...]

بصراحة، رجل أهبل…. رجل دين مسيحي ألماني يحرق نفسه احتجاجا على انتشار الإسلام بأوروبا

The talented AP photographer Amr Nabil is having a photo exhibition tomorrow Saturday, 9pm, at Sawy’s Cultural Wheel in Zamalek.

Amr will be showing his pix of Hajj rituals in Mecca and Medina.

If you are around, hope you can make it. The exhibition is on till 30 October.

I found this video on Lenin’s Tomb blog.

The recent anti-Prophet cartoons by the Danish far-right assh*les is reviving the Danish products’ boycotting campaign in Egypt.
The Muslim Brotherhood vehemently denounced the “insults against the Prophet,” and called for an economic boycott campaign against the products of the countries that “allow such insults.”
Click on the pic below to view a slideshow of photos, shot [...]

Does anybody know if our local Egyptian press covered this? I can’t recall coming across a news report in Al-Masri Al-Youm or Al-Ahram about it?

Muslim scholars held at airport before being returned to Egypt
By Ruth Morris, 20 Sept
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Federal immigration authorities held four Muslim scholars for 24 hours at Miami [...]

An interesting article by NYT on the Muslim American dating scene…
It’s Muslim Boy Meets Girl, Yes, but Please Don’t Call It Dating