Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

“The idea of the book arose from my interest in writing about the body and its relationship to surrounding spaces . It explores the political, intellectual, and organizational state of paralysis that has afflicted Egyptian society due to the oppression of the current regime.”

 without paying a cruel price

  Source: Le Monde Diplomatique

 

Egypt Mohammed Morsi was not a revolutionary. On the contrary, the Muslim Brotherhood made deals with SCAF during the heyday of Tahrir Square mobilisation, he and his movement did not have a programme for the development of Egypt, he embraced Obama and co., he attacked the workers movement, etc. But he was not a "terrorist", nor is the MB.  He did not die ; he was slowly killed by the military.

"Cant displays of piety and dogmatism remained anathema to him." The centenary of the birth of Egypt's musical rebel

Echoes For Samira al-Khalil

A short story Yes, we have no bananas By Stephen Langfur

The power thinker

Syria According to a report by Amnesty 13,000 secretly hanged in Saydnaya military prison

The Egyptians: A Radical History of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution

A Palestinian student has almost destroyed the Israeli state

"The world’s refugee crisis, with its 65 million people on the move, more than at any time since 1945, knows no more sustained, sinister or surreal exercise in cruelty than the South Pacific quasi-prisons Australia has established for its trickle of the migrant flood ." (the NYT)

England In a recent report on HMP Bedford, inmates claimed it was  easier to get hold of drugs than clothes or bedding . (the BBC online)

"The Worst Place on Earth": Inside Assad's Saydnaya Prison The liberals have again 'discovered' a new torture compound. They want to raise awareness. Where were they when people like me, and thousands of others were tortured, deprived of their rights, and even killed in the jails of their allies? Is it only when an ally is no longer an ally that we 'discover' their brutality? “For years Russia has used its UN security council veto to shield its ally, the Syrian government,” says Amnesty’s Philip Luther..." Yes, like what the US, Britain, France, etc have done in Tunisia, Egypt, Latin America, Indonesia, Greece, Uzbekistan, etc. They shielded, and still do, their allies. And like how the US using the UN security council veto to shield the Israeli state barbaric actions. Amnesty, according to Aljazeera Arabic website, is an independent organisation and away from any idelology! What about the Amnesty's support of one of the biggest criminal or...

The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between  by  Hisham Matar

F: Hu Feng's Prison Years