Egyptian bloggers will hold a “wedding party” in Talaat Harb Sq., Friday 4 May, 6pm, to celebrate the marriage of our future president Gamal Mubarak to the lovely Khadiga, which will be held simultaneously in Sharm el-Sheikh.
The bloggers’ protest party will be held under the slogan: “Heyya ah! Baladna La!” (basically: Go and marry [...]

The final schedule for the Conference and Forum meetings is now available in Arabic and English. Click on the poster below to download it…

I’ll be speaking in two meetings. The first is on the fight against police torture in Egypt…
Sorry, some last-minute rearrangements… I won’t be speaking at the anti-torture forum. Blogojournalist and friend Abdel [...]

Kefaya activists in Alexandria have called for a sit-in, to protest Mubarak’s dictatorial constitutional amendments, on Monday 26 March, at Manshiya Square, from 9am to 5pm.

Egyptian activists in New York City are organizing a demonstration against Mubarak’s dictatorial constitutional amendments, Monday 26 March, in front of the Egyptian Consulate, from 12:30pm to 1:30pm.

The Egyptian Consulate in NYC is located at 1110 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10022.
For more information, contact Shehab Fakhry: shehabfakhry [at] yahoo [dot] com,
917-392-9408

Egyptians in London will demonstrate in front of the Egyptian Embassy, Monday 26 March, from 12pm to 3pm, to protest Mubarak’s authoritarian constitutional amendments.

The Embassy is located: 26 South Street, London W1K 1DW

There will be a demonstration planned by Egyptians Against Mubarak(s), in front of the Egyptian Embassy in Washington DC, Monday 11am to 1pm.
Click on the banner below for more details….

Activists from different political tendencies are calling for a demonstration in Tahrir Sq., Sunday 25 March, 6pm, to protest Mubarak’s dictatorial amendments to the constitution.

The organizers of the Fifth Cairo Conference Against Imperialism and Zionism invite you to attend their press conference, 22 March, 12 noon, at the Press Syndicate.
Representatives from the Muslim Brothers, Karama Party, The Revolutionary Socialists’ Organization, Labor Party will brief journalists and activists on the international gathering of anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist activists planned from 29 [...]

Bloggers and human rights activists have called for an anti-torture protest tomorrow Thursday 25 January, 4pm, in front of the Press Syndicate, to celebrate “Egyptian Police Day.”

Participants are urged to bring along banners, posters, and photos of Mubarak’s police torture victims.

I’ve just spoken now with Nasser Amin, Emad Kabeer’s lawyer, and I need to correct a previously posted information, as well as provide a quick update…

The trial of the Boulaq al-Daqrour torturers is NOT starting tomorrow as I posted before. Emad will show up tomorrow in court with his lawyer, but for another case. A [...]

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Click on the picture below (of Police Captain Islam Nabih, who tortured and sexually abused driver Emad Kabeer) to read the latest updates on the case…

Great news! The officer who tortured and sexually abused driver Emad Kabeer will be prosecuted.
But that will not end the practice. Those are not just “few rotten apples.” Mubarak’s policing system is classist, abusive, unprofessional and repressive. Still the campaign launched by the Egyptian bloggers and the independent press was strong enough to push the [...]

Activists are holding a candle light vigil, Friday 29 December, 6pm, in front of the UNHCR office in Mohandessin, to mark the first the anniversary of the massacre of Sudanese refugees on the hands of the Egyptian Interior Ministry’s Central Security Forces.

Blogger Nora Younis witnessed the atrocity last year, and wrote her testimony here…

Activists are holding a stand in front of the State Council in Dokki, Saturday 16 December, 10am, in solidarity with Egypt’s Bahaai minority, who are suffering state descrimination against them, that includes refusing to issue any official documents to them, since Mubarak’s “secular” government requires the religion of the citizen to be mentioned on his/her [...]

The Center for Socialist Studies is organizing a talk on “Lebanon: Between Politics and Sectarianism,” Sunday 17 December, 7pm. Speakers include:
Dr. Refa’at Seed Ahmad, Director of the Jaffa Center for Studies
Engineer Wael Khalil, Socialist activist

ندعوكم لحضور ندوة في مركز الدراسات الاشتراكية بعنوان:
لبنــــــــان بيـن السـياسة والطـائفية
يتحدث فيها
د. رفعت سيد أحمد، مدير مركز يافا للدراسات والأبحاث
وائل خليل، [...]

Egyptian activists are holding an anti-torture protest in front of the Lawyers’ Syndicate, this Wednesday 6 December at 4pm. More details in Arabic here…

Kefaya is calling up on civil society and environmental activists to join the movement’s anti-corruption demo, Sunday 3 December, 1pm, in Matarriya Square to protest the unfair garbage collection fees.
دعوة عامة الى كل القوى الوطنية الشريفة واحزاب المعارضة ومؤسسات المجتمع المدنى والجمعيات الاهلية وجمعيات حماية البيئةتدعوكم الحركة المصرية من اجل التغيير كفاية وبمشاركة لجنة الاحياء [...]

I received news that leftist academics are holding a protest tomorrow Wednesday, from 11am to 12 noon, at Ain Shams University to protest the state-sponsored thuggery against activist students over the past couple of weeks. The professors will assemble in front of Qasr el-Za’afarana, the university’s administration building.

In recent weeks, Ain Shams University campus has [...]