Stop Mubarak’s police brutality…

The domino effect is working from Cairo to Damascus and from Mahalla to Beirut, as Zenobia notes…

Visualize the Revolution…

[Click on the pic above to watch a slide show of the Mahalla April Uprising. The set was digitally edited by me, using Adobe Lightroom, but all photos were originally taken by the brave photographer Nasser Nouri, who was shot by a rubber bullet and later detained by the pigs, yet he [...]

Click on the poster below to read a posting by Comrade Richard…

From the Daily News Egypt…
CAPMAS announced Thursday that urban inflation in Egypt rose to a new three-year high of 16.4 percent in the year to April, up from 14.4 percent in the year to March.
Abu Bakr El-Guindi, head of the state statistics agency, told reporters in a news conference that inflation was driven mainly by [...]

Troubling news about Facebook activist Ahmed Maher… Here’s a report from the Daily News Egypt…
The administrator and arguably the real creator of the April 6 Strike group on Facebook Ahmed Maher was detained briefly Wednesday and beaten, his lawyer told Daily News Egypt.
Khaled Ali, who is the head of the Hisham Mubarak Center for Human [...]

Click below to watch some photos taken by Nasser Nouri of gas stations in the Cairo neighborhoods of Hadayeq el-Qobba, where Nasser lives, and Ghamra…

Plainclothes police agents were deployed close to the gas stations, Nasser told me, fearing protests or clashes with angry drivers… According to virtually everyone I speak with in the capital, the [...]

I received this message from my friend Atle in Cairo…
Not surprisingly it is the taxi drivers that are really pissed off with the recent price hikes. When I get into a taxi they politely raise the issue of petrol being expensive, probably to warn me that the old khawagat [foreigners'] fares have gone up. When [...]