I’ve started reading this awesome book: “Shaking the World: Revolutionary Journalism by John Reed,” which I bought from Bookmarks.. I wanna quote some excerpts from preface, written by Paul Foot on 28 September 1998…
I write this on the day after marching to lobby the Labour Party conference in Blackpool and I am reading the newspapers. [...]

I got a number of emails in these last few days from journalists in US publications who wanted a quote about the new media law, leaked by the Al-Masry Al-Youm, which will tighten the grip of the Mubarak’s dictatorship on the media outlets as well as the cyberspace… The queries were mostly something like: “How [...]

Mohamed Maree speaks to Sarah Carr about his ordeal…
Mohamed Salah Marei is a 23-year-old student in his fourth year of veterinary science at Mansoura University who doesn’t really want to be a vet.
“I wanted to study political science, but my father was determined that there should be at least one person in the family able [...]

Michaela Singer reports…
Standing on the steps of the Journalists’ Syndicate, press and activists — led by the Head of the Freedom Committee Mohamed Abdel Qoddous — voiced Monday their support for Al-Fajr journalist Kamal Murad, who was assaulted and arrested by police last month.
Activists leading the demonstration called for the cessation of police attacks on [...]

Horrible news about our friend Mohammed Omer…
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information “ANHRI.Net”condemns the detention of Palestinian Journalist Mohammad Omer Mughir by Israeli Occupation Forces. Muhammad was detained, assaulted and interrogated on June 27th upon his return to Gaza after receiving the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. The young journalist returned to Gaza [...]

From the Daily News Egypt…
Local press reports allege that Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif has twice disqualified journalist and poet Farouk Goweida from nomination for membership of the Supreme Council for Culture over the past three months in retaliation for a series of articles critical of the government.
The article series titled “The Land Mafia,” which were [...]

Mohamed Maree has sent a letter from Bourg el-Arab prison, addressed to Hosni Mubarak, accusing his regime of tyranny and detailing the torture he faced on the hands of the State Security pigs…

Our rulers can’t fool all of the people all of the time.. Click on the poster below to read a Socialist Worker feature by Sadie Robinson…

From the BBC…
More bloggers than ever face arrest for exposing human rights abuses or criticising governments, says a report.
Since 2003, 64 people have been arrested for publishing their views on a blog, says the University of Washington annual report.
In 2007 three times as many people were arrested for blogging about political issues than in 2006, [...]

Dr. Bahgat Korany, Political scientist…

Mohamed el-Nahhass, El-Borolls sculptor, muralist and left-wing activist

Batoul, Mohamed el-Nahhass’ seven year old daughter

Kareem el-Beheiri, Ghazl el-Mahalla blogger

Omar Said, el-Badeel labor correspondent

Dr. Alaa el-Aswani, Novelist, dentist and left wing activist…

Testimony from a labor organizer, involved in Mahalla’s 6 April Uprising…
The factory floor in the days preceding the 6th of April was a battleground between the Textile Workers’ League activists who were agitating for the strike on the one hand, and the security and Attar’s group on the other. Every day, in the week before [...]