An Egyptian woman living in Turkey holds a placard that reads ‘Mubarak will go, the treachery will end’ as about 200 members of pro-Islamic human rights groups and a leftist party hold a joint protest in show of solidarity with protestors in Egypt, outside the Egyptian embassy in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011.? Read more »(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
In Turkey?s Example, Some See a Road Map for Egypt
Camel demonstration in Istanbul supports protesters in Egypt
@monasosh: Egy revolution rocks! #Jan25 🙂 http://yfrog.com/h7tl5bj
After Mubarak, what’s next for Egypt?
The Post asked experts what should happen in Egypt after Mubarak. Below are responses from Michele Dunne, John R. Bolton, Newt Gingrich, Shadi Hamid, Aaron David Miller, Salman Shaikh, and Dina Guirguis.
Middle East Views Turkey As Model
This post was updated.
A newly released Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV) report surveyed people in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq and Iran about Turkey?s role in the Middle East. (click here for the survey in Turkish, here for a news article in English. And here?s more from the New York Times)
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Egyptian army begins rounding up journalists
After Egypt
Educators involved in study abroad expect interest in the Middle East to grow, but many colleges are looking for alternatives to programs they had in Cairo. more
Egypt: Five Killed in Tahrir Square as Egyptians Day 10 Protests Begin
from Global Voices Online by Amira Al Hussaini
YouTube Partners With Curation Startup to Chronicle Protests in Egypt
from Mashable! by Sarah Kessler
Qatar: Down with Mubarak, residents say
Written by Shabina Khatri
Down with Mubarak.
That is the popular sentiment in the tiny Gulf Arab country of Qatar, whose residents have been furiously filling the Internet with support for Egyptian protesters, criticisms of Mubarak and statements of pride for Doha-based Al Jazeera for its no-holds-barred reporting of the week’s events.
Yemen: Thousands Protest on Day of Rage
Written by Amira Al Hussaini
Yemen’s Day of Rage protests have started, and the scramble in on for online resources and people on the ground to tell us their story in their own words.
Africa: Will there be ?Jasmine Revolution? in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Written by Ndesanjo Macha
Ghanaian blogger Osabutey says that West Africa may be hit by Jasmine’s smell. Jasmine Revolution is the term used to describe a series of street demonstrations taking place throughout Tunisia since December 2010.
Japan: Reflecting on the protest in Egypt
from Global Voices Online by Scilla Alecci
Egypt: Sandmonkey Back, Human Rights Activists Held
Written by Amira Al Hussaini
This post is part of our special coverage of Egypt Protests 2011.
Prominent Egyptian blogger and Twitter user Sandmonkey has been arrested today, amid a crackdown on activists and human rights organisations in Egypt. He has since been released, after being beaten up, and medical supplies he had on him to help those in Tahrir Square confiscated.
Hackers Take Down Government Websites in Egypt and Yemen
from Mashable! by Sarah Kessler
Southeast Asia: Reactions to Egypt protests
Written by Mong Palatino
Using the #egypt hashtag, let?s read what twitter users in several Southeast Asian countries have been tweeting in reaction to the ongoing Egypt protests.
Where Facebook Ends And Foreign Diplomacy Begins
from All Facebook by Jackie Cohen
Egypt: Clashes on Video
from Global Voices Online by Juliana Rincón Parra
Egypt: War Waged on Press, Human Rights Defenders
Written by Amira Al Hussaini
This post is part of our special coverage of Egypt Protests 2011.
Egyptian protesters are calling for massive anti-Mubarak marches across the country, after the Friday prayers tomorrow. Last week, Mubarak’s regime cut off the Internet before Egypt’s Day of Wrath. Today, reports continued all day of arrests of activists, and the arrest, bullying and harassment of journalists ahead of ?Departure Friday.?
Using a Map to Bear Witness in Egypt #Jan25
[Cross-posted from the Ushahidi blog]
The Cairo-based Development and Institutionalization Support Center (DISC) has just launched their #U-Shahid map below. DISC previously used the Ushahidi platform to monitor the country?s Parliamentary Elections last November and December (see this post for more info). This means they already know the technology and have a trained network of active crisis mappers that can verify reports before they are mapped.
Grabbing at straws in Cairo
from Wiki Leaks by Charles Homans
Egypt: Rapping the Revolution
Written by Juliana Rincón Parra
Mideast Tunes brings us a group of Egyptian rappers which under the name Arabian Knightz wish to spread their perspective on the recent events shaking their country. From the site:
Kenya: To protest or not to protest?’
Written by Collins Mbalo
Following role the social media site Twitter played in the Tunisian and Egyptian protests, Kenyans are discussing on Twitter whether to emulate these protests or not. Trending on Twitter are the hashtags #KenyaFeb28 and #ChoosePeace. Apparently, the former being a marshaling call for protests on 28 February 2011.
Human rights analyst: Egyptian government sent thugs to attack the demonstrators
Speaking by phone from Cairo, Human Rights Watch’s Joe Stork told me that he is alarmed by the U.S. media coverage portraying the clashes on the streets as spats between “rival protesters” — citizens who have two different visions of the future of Egypt:
What Turks really think about the Arab uprising
Washington Times
ISTANBUL, February 5, 2011 ? I’m being asked by everyone I know how Turkey is responding to the uprising in Egypt. The assumption in the question is that
After Mubarak’s autocracy, how Egypt can build democracy
Washington Post
Anger at Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak spread to Istanbul, where protesters torched his image. The region now must ask: What will happen when he’s gone?
Egyptian army declares it will not use force against civilians as protests intensify, Josephine Whitaker
Streaming Revolution, Screaming Revolution
Al Jazeera offers live coverage of events in Egypt on the internet
Not even Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul who I suspect lies awake at night (just as many of his news outlets lie throughout the day) thinking of new ways to manufacture news, could have imagined the current crisis streaming live on the cable channels and over the Internet for well over a week. America has had its tea party and birthers with Fox gobbling up Sarah Palin to supplement the loonies already on the payroll.
Turkey is in Tahrir Squareby Mümtaz?Er Türköne
The Suez factor and the West?s long silence
It will not become Iran, but it may become Turkey
Egypt and our so-called experts
A particular dimension of the Egypt debate in Turkey
Exploding Egypt
What about the Muslim brothers?
Dear Egyptian sisters and brothers
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