WilliamsJon : Incredible photo by... Arab spring gets only fraction of funds. لنناقش تعديل الدستور. Mubarak's Last Breath. On 6 October 1981, President Anwar al-Sadat attended a parade to mark the anniversary of the crossing of the Suez Canal in the 1973 war with Israel.
It was also an occasion to display the American, British and French aircraft Egypt had recently acquired: symbols of its realignment with the West after more than two decades as a Soviet ally. Sadat wore a Prussian-style uniform but no bullet-proof vest: it would have ruined the line. Rumours of a plot were in the air, and his vice president, Hosni Mubarak, had warned him not to go.
Sadat brushed this off, but when he stood to receive the salute, he was killed in a hail of grenades and bullets, fired by a group of Islamist soldiers in his own army. Hosni Mubarak's trial: What the Arab papers say. How The Mubarak Family Made Its Billions. This story has been updated to reflect breaking news A tourist in Cairo spots three photographs on the wall of a restaurant: one of Nasser, another of Sadat, and the third of Hosni Mubarak.
He asks the owner who the first man is, and the owner tells him it's the man who overthrew the Egyptian monarchy and served as the country's president. "Who's the second man? " the tourist wants to know. "That's Anwar Sadat, our next president," comes the reply. NEW YORK -- In his first speech to the country, the new president of Egypt promised "not to commit myself to what I cannot implement, hide the truth from the people, or be lenient with corruption and disorder. " La fortune des Moubarak dépasserait les 40 milliards. Selon des experts cités par le journal britannique The Guardian, la fortune de la famille Moubarak pourrait même atteindre 70 milliards de dollars à la suite de partenariats d'affaires avec des entreprises étrangères.
Le peuple égyptien réclame ostensiblement son départ, mais Hosni Moubarak s'accroche. Alors qu'environ 40% de la population (l'Egypte compte 80 millions d'habitants) vivrait avec moins de trois dollars par jour, le journal britannique The Guardian rapporte ce dimanche que selon des experts du Moyen-Orient la fortune de la famille du président égyptien serait comprise entre 40 et 70 milliards de dollars. Elle serait répartie comme tel : 15 milliards de dollars pour Hosni Moubarak, un milliard pour son épouse Suzanne, huit milliards pour son fils aîné, Alaa et 17 milliards pour son second fils Gamal.
Par comparaison, celle du couple Ben Ali est estimée à cinq milliards de dollars, selon le classement du magazine américain Forbes. One U.S. Corporation's Role in Egypt's Brutal Crackdown. The open Internet's role in popular uprising is now undisputed.
Look no further than Egypt, where the Mubarak regime today reportedly shut down Internet and cell phone communications -- a troubling predictor of the fierce crackdown that has followed. What's even more troubling is news that one American company is aiding Egypt's harsh response through sales of technology that makes this repression possible.
The Internet's favorite offspring -- Twitter, Facebook and YouTube -- are now heralded on CNN, BBC and Fox News as flag-bearers for a new era of citizen journalism and activism. (More and more these same news organizations have abandoned their own, more traditional means of newsgathering to troll social media for breaking information.) But the open Internet's power cuts both ways: The tools that connect, organize and empower protesters can also be used to hunt them down. Wael Ghonim will be 'footnote in history', claims author - Technology. Wael Ghonim, the Google executive that became the face of Egypt’s revolution, will be nothing more than a “footnote in history”, a leading author has claimed.
“When the full history of 2011 is written – and I think 2011 is like 1848 in Europe, the revolution year that never turned – I think he will be at best a footnote, I think Google and Facebook will be footnotes in history,”said Andrew Keen, author of 'The Cult of the Amateur'. Ghonim, Google’s regional head of marketing, was catapulted into the media spot light this year after setting up a Facebook page in which he invited 350,000 people to a demonstrate against former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Egypt vote: The weird and wonderful party logos. 28 November 2011Last updated at 11:01 By Kevin Connolly BBC Middle East correspondent Voting is under way in Egypt, in the first elections since President Hosni Mubarak was toppled in February.
There is a long list of parties, each with its own logo, such as a food blender, a traffic light and a vacuum cleaner. Bruised but defiant: Mona Eltahawy on her assault by Egyptian security forces. The last thing I remember before the riot police surrounded me was punching a man who had groped me.
Who the hell thinks of copping a feel as you're taking shelter from bullets? Another man tried to protect him by standing between us, but I was enraged, and kept going back for more. A third man was trying to snatch my smartphone out of my other hand. He was the one who had pulled my friend Maged Butter and me into an abandoned shop – supposedly for safety's sake – and he wouldn't let go of my hand. It was November. Maged tried to pull me away. And when they did come, I was the only one left in the deserted shop. I suffered a broken left arm and right hand.
Mona El Tahawy or native neo-orientalism. It’s probably a particularly sterile waste of time, but here are a few lines on the polemical "Why do they hate us?
" article written for Foreign Policy magazine by Egyptian-born US debater Mona El Tahawy. The cover chosen for that issue of Foreign Policy – a black niqab painted on a woman’s naked body – caused even more furore than the article, a disparity which probably makes to justice to the intellectual substance of El Tahawy’s article. Let me cite the gist of her argument: In a crisp three-and-a-half pages, Rifaat lays out a trifecta of sex, death, and religion, a bulldozer that crushes denial and defensiveness to get at the pulsating heart of misogyny in the Middle East.
There is no sugarcoating it. An American journalist writing exclusively for European, US and Israeli media outlets, Mona El Tahawy is not interested in helping Middle Eastern activists to bring about the legislative and social changes required, or to identify the practical ways this might be achieved. An epic November - Yest another image that will go down in history #Tahrir #Egypt #Nov20 #Jan25 #photography.