Saif Gadaffhi, plagiarist – UPDATED
Saif Gadaffhi’s not just the scion of a lunatic dictatorial legacy, and not just the ironic recipient of a PhD from the London School of Economics in ‘The Role of Civil Society in the Democratisation of Global Governance Institutions’ — he’s also a plagiarist!
Gaddafi scandal highlights funding trap for EU universities
from EUobserver.com – Headline News
Hilal Kaplan reads the joint statement in anti-Gaddafi demonsration in Istanbul.
| Protest against Gaddafi in Istanbul Monthly Review Mazlumder Istanbul Branch Vice President Cüneyt Sarıyaşar and author Hamza Türkmen also spoke in support of the Libyan people. More photographs are available at . IHH burst onto the world stage as a joint sponsor with the Free Gaza Movement of a Free |
Gadaffhi Junior’s PhD celebrates “soft power,” democracy
Saif Gadaffhi, son of Muammar, deliverer of speeches in which he pledges to hold dictatorial power until he has expended his last bullet, did his PhD at the London School of Economics on “THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE DEMOCRATISATION OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE INSTITUTIONS: From ‘Soft Power’ to Collective Decision-Making?”
It?s Libya?s turn now
Report: military aircraft are firing at protestors in Libya
from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin
Operation “Libya White Fax”
from Boing Boing by Sean Bonner
Libya’s UN mission asks world to defend Libyans from Gadaffi
Libya’s UN ambassadors have joined the ranks of Libyan diplomats around the world to denounce Gadhafi’s brutal crackdown on the popular uprising across the country. The entire Libyan UN diplomatic has appealed to the Security Council to defend their countrymen from the crackdown.
Bahrain: One Country, Two Rallies
Written by Yacoub Al-Slaise
This post is part of our special coverage of Bahrain Protests 2011.
Seven days have passed since Bahrain’s Day of Wrath protests which started on February 14, causing the death of eight protesters in the capital Manama. While protesters continue to camp in Pearl (Lulu) Roundabout, two rallies, one in support of the protests and another in support of the royal family are taking place as I type.
Djibouti: Will it become another Egypt?
Written by Ndesanjo Macha
Protests are taking place in Djibouti against President Ismail Omar Guelleh who succeeded his uncle Hassan_Gouled_Aptidon in 1999. Somaliland Press reports that 300 protesters demonstrated near the governmental palace on Friday.
Voices from Libya: ?It’s a massacre? (Audio)
Written by John Liebhardt
As the scale of atrocities carried out by the Libya’s government’s against protesters begins to mount, people around the world have been clamoring for reliable information. It’s very difficulty in a country where foreign media has found it hard to penetrate and the government has attempted to restrict service to the internet and cell phones.
Libya: Stop Gaddafi’s Massacre
from Global Voices Online by Amira Al Hussaini
Libya: Death Before Liberty (Videos)
from Global Voices Online by John Liebhardt
Yemen: Walking the Walk, One More Protester Dies (Videos)
Written by John Liebhardt
A teenager was shot and killed in Aden, Yemen on Monday, February 21 as tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered in four separate cities on the 11th day of protests calling for the end of the three-decade reign of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. At least 11 people have died since the demonstrations began, and Amnesty International says at least 78 people have been injured. Five students remain in police custody.
Morocco & Libya Unrest As Seen Via YouTube
from Mashable! by Jolie O’Dell
The shattered myth of a moderate Qaddafi heir
from FP Passport by Elizabeth Dickinson
Turkey, Italy try to evacuate citizens from Libya
Well-argued OPED on Bahrain
Emile Nakhleh, whose 1975 book is a seminal account
of Bahraini politics, offers a smart commentary on Bahrain.
France ignored human rights in Maghreb, cables show
from EUobserver.com – Headline News
Egyptian man names daughter ‘Facebook’
from Wikinews
MAIN FOCUS: Pressure on Gaddafi grows | 22/02/2011
The protest movement in Libya is spreading despite the increasingly brutal tactics of the security forces, including reported attacks by fighter jets. Commentators complain that the international community is merely looking out for its own interests, seeking to justify the weapons exports of the past and worrying about the rising price of oil.
Egypt Isn?t Turkey
Newsweek (USA) February 20, 2011
by Norman Stone *
If history is any guide, there will not be an Atatürk in Cairo. A hundred years ago, Egyptians looked down on Turks: etrak bi itrak, ran the pun. ?Turks are clods.? Egyptians had Westernized first, had a modern Army that defeated the Turks twice, and then got a huge amount of money from the tolls of the Suez Canal. Cairo had resplendent mosques and religious schools, whereas the Turks, speaking a Central Asian language the grammar of which was tortuous and the vocabulary limited to physical activities of a rudimentary nature, did not rate. Egyptian money was all over the Turkish capital, and there are still splendid buildings to mark that era.
Un modèle de démocratie pour la région ?
France 24, 15/02/2011
Par Assia Shihab
Les révolutions tunisienne et égyptienne font planer espoir mais aussi inquiétudes au Moyen-Orient. Certains craignent l?ascension d?islamistes, voire un scénario à l?iranienne. Mais d?autres imaginent une autre voie et citent le modèle turc. La Turquie est en effet un grand pays musulman, qui est passé d?un régime dominé par les militaires à un régime civil.
Un « modèle turc » pour les révolutions arabes ?
Le Monde (France) 16.02.11
Guillaume Perrier, Istanbul
Quand la plupart des leaders du Moyen-Orient tombent en disgrâce, l?un d?eux renforce sa popularité : c?est le premier ministre turc, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, au pouvoir depuis 2003, et qui briguera un troisième mandat en juin. Dans un paysage de régimes autoritaires et décrépits, la Turquie montre un visage moderne, propre à séduire les peuples arabes en quête d?un modèle. Ankara s?est projeté sur la région avec un appétit non dissimulé, redevenant, en quelques années, une puissance économique, culturelle et politique dominante, diffusant ses séries télévisées autant que sa vision du monde.
Governments Pulling Their Citizens From Libya
Gaddafi?s end
Libyan forces turn on Gadaffhi, declare “Free Benghazi,” capture foreign mercenaries
Soldiers and police in Beghazi, Libya’s second city, have thrown in with protesters on the ground and declared the city to be “Free Benghazi.” The Guardian is carrying eyewitness reports of more than 4,000 foreign mercenaries being brought to the country to fight for Gadaffhi, some of whom are in custody of the revolutionary army. The “ransacked” government buildings are flying pre-Gadaffhi-era flags.
UAE: Libyan Consulate in Dubai Occupied and Flags Removed
from Global Voices Online by Yacoub Al-Slaise
Libya: Why was Gaddafi Late?
from Global Voices Online by Amira Al Hussaini
Egypt: Social Media in the Middle East as a Tool for Incremental Change
Written by Gilad Lotan
In this post, we reflect on Egyptian blogger Hani Morsi‘s writing about technology driven activism and the role social media plays in providing incremental societal change. Hani’s core argument focuses on the long term effects of social media. Rather than looking at it as a cathartic outlet for the oppressed, he stresses its value in making an otherwise impossible popular political discourse possible.
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