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Mariam @itsmariamwr.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Ants are not meant to serve grasshoppers Ants don't serve grasshoppers
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Basma Mostafa @basmamostafa.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
اليوم تكمل د. ليلى سويف يومها الـ141 في إضرابها عن الطعام، احتجاجًا على استمرار سجن ابنها علاء عبد الفتاح رغم انتهاء مدة عقوبته في سبتمبر. في قصتي مع صحيفة تاز الألمانية، تحدثت عن نضالها، وكيف تُستخدم القوانين المصرية للقمع، لا للعدالة. #FreeAlaa
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Ägyptisch-britischer Aktivist in Haft: Nun will sich Keir Starmer einmischen
Alaa Abdel Fattah sitzt seit über fünf Jahren im Gefängnis. Seine Mutter macht mit einem Hungerstreik darauf aufmerksam – und könnte Hilfe bekommen.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Meanwhile, The Guardian @theguardian.com decided to team up with OpenAI. Why would anyone trust their reporting on AI now? It’s the definition of a conflict of interests. www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-of...
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Guardian Media Group announces strategic partnership with OpenAI
Guardian Media Group today announced a strategic partnership with Open AI, a leader in artificial intelligence and deployment, that will bring the Guardian’s high quality journalism to ChatGPT’s globa...
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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 17/02/2025
Eni signs deal to bring Cypriot offshore gas to Europe, via Egypt
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Eni signs deal to bring Cypriot offshore gas to Europe, via Egypt
Italian energy group Eni signed an agreement on Monday to export Cyprus' offshore gas via Egypt, hailing it as a "milestone" towards the creation of a gas hub in the eastern Mediterranean.
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Planet's wonders @naturesoddities.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Very cool. We tend to underestimate how advanced Ancient Egypt was.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
For all their talk of making america great, they really hate this country
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Khalida Jarrar's release showed the shocking levels of Israel's abuse of Palestinian political prisoners, yet mainstream media is silent, writes Samar Saeed Read 🔗 www.newarab.com/opinion/pale...
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Ten years ago yesterday, on February 10, 2015, three young Muslims--23 year old Deah Barakat, 21 year old Yusor Abu-Salha, and 19 year old Razan Abu-Salha--were shot to death in their home, in what came to be known as the Chapel Hill Shooting. Thinking of their loved ones today.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
my toxic trait is thinking I can read all the books
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
What’s telling is how many Dems have finally come out against ethnic cleansing now that it’s Trump branded
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Mariam @itsmariamwr.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Read more books by the People about the People :)
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a sultan. The palace becomes a circus. — old Turkish proverb
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
يحكى أن يا حرية ثورتنا ثورة عربية فجر وصبح وضهر وعصر تونس، ليبيا، سوريا، مصر youtu.be/T8R57v_9GqM?...
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يحكى أن - اسكندريلا - النسخة الثانية
YouTube video by Mellow Melodies
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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 27/01/2025
Egypt’s Healthcare Crisis: Doctors Are Fleeing 🏥 Egypt has 12.8 doctors per 10,000 people—far below the global average. ✈️ 62% of Egyptian physicians have already left the country. 💸 The gov’t blames “malpractice,” but doctors say systemic underfunding is the real issue. 📩 Read the full story:
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Egypt Security Sector Report
27/1/2025: This week’s dispatch includes reports on Egypt and the regional developments, the Red Sea, the Egyptian navy, Police Day, migration, health, education, prisons, security crackdowns, and a r...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 26/01/2025
NEW: Trump tells reporters he wants to "just clean out" Gaza and relocate Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan
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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2025
#FreeAlaa in 2025 moftasa.net/freealaa-2025 #Jan25
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#FreeAlaa in 2025
I can't believe we are still calling for Alaa's freedom in 2025. Particularly on the 14th anniversary of January 25. He finished his last sentence more than 100 days ago. His mother has been on a hunger strike since. Alaa was arrested in 2019. Two years later, he received a non-appealable 5 years sentence from a state security court for sharing a Facebook post about prison conditions in Egypt. He spent the majority of the …
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Tahrir Square was not designed to serve as a space for the Egyptian people's expressions of revolution and protest, but it became exactly that. Since the 2011 uprising, it has been architecturally transformed to suppress its revolutionary identity and reshape its perception in collective memory:
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Erasing the revolutionary identity of Egypt's Tahrir Square
In-depth: Since 2011, Tahrir Square has been architecturally transformed to suppress its revolutionary identity and reshape its perception in collective memory.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/01/2025
Conservatives Claim Hitler’s Nazi Allegiance Greatly Exaggerated theonion.com/conserv...
Conservatives Claim Hitler’s Nazi Allegiance Greatly Exaggerated
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
This is the deputy political editor of the Financial Times, folks. He is right that it wasn't *a* Nazi salute, because it was two Nazi salutes in two different directions bsky.app/profile/thec... Don't let anyone make you believe the opposite of what your eyes can clearly see.
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Ahmed kamel 𓂆 🔻 @a7med.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Iconic
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
All my solidarity with my friend Hossam Bahgat, director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, who heads in for questioning today before the Supreme State Security Prosecution in a new case (Case No. 6/2025). He has been provided no information about the case or the charges.
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Mariam @itsmariamwr.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
“Dozens of Egyptian families are pleading with authorities to uncover the fate of their loved ones, missing for years in Syria, as prison doors open and detainees are freed” Some of them have been missing for more than 20 years #Syria #Sednaya #Egypt The Assad regime brutality affected all Arabs
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Joanna Wren @1962wrenbskysocia.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
#KamalAdwan #Gaza 'We currently have nearly 400 civilians in the hospital, including babies in the neonatal unit, whose lives depend on oxygen and incubators. We CANNOT EVACUATE these patients safely without assistance, equipment, and time' www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/li...
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Kamal Adwan hospital chief: 'Next to impossible' to get patients out safely
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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 22/12/2024
Mapping Egypt's Prisons
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Egypt prisons - Google My Maps
Documenting Egyptian prisons. Data compiled using several sources: - ِEgyptian Front for human rights. https://egyptianfront.org/ar/prisons-observatory/ - Egyptian MOI public posts. - Social Media pos...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 21/12/2024
The US State Department has approved the potential sale of more than $5bn in arms for Egypt, despite ongoing concerns over the Egyptian government’s human rights violations ⤵️ aje.io/jz0ei4
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US State Dept gives nod to $5bn in potential arms sales for Egypt
Huge sale likely to go through despite ongoing concerns over Egyptian government’s human rights breaches,
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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 20/12/2024
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السجن والتهجير ثمن حلم العودة إلى سيناء
YouTube video by متصدقش
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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 20/12/2024
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مصر تحصل على قرض بمليار يورو من المفوضية الأوروبية خلال أيام
ستحصل مصر على قرض أوروبي بمليار يورو "خلال أيام" حيث قررت المفوضية الأوروبية اليوم الجمعة
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Micha Tobia @michatobia.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
"Forcibly returning Syrians to Syria when they do not have homes in which to live in, infrastructure to support them, or jobs to find in a financially-collapsed country may serve as a destabilizing factor." By @timep.bsky.social's Obai Kurd Ali & @maitelsadany.bsky.social timep.org/2024/12/18/l...
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Left in Limbo: Uncertainty For Europe’s Syrian Refugees Post-Assad - The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy
Several European countries decided to pause the review and processing of all Syrian asylum applications, leaving many asylum seekers in limbo.
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Zawia3- زاوية ثالثة @zawia3.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Shaimaa Hamdy, a journalist at Zawia3 and participant in organizing the conference, told Zawia3: Law 180 imposes restrictive conditions for licensing online platforms. The Supreme Media Council delays responses or rejects applications without explanation, threatening media freedom and innovation
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Sixth General Conference: A Roadmap for Journalism Development in Egypt
The Sixth General Conference of the Journalists Syndicate issues recommendations focusing on economic reforms for journalists, integrating AI technologies, protecting digital archives, and improving p...
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Palestinian Americans trapped in Gaza sue the Biden administration - www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestin…
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Palestinian Americans trapped in Gaza sue the Biden administration
Americans of Palestinian origin say they have exhausted non-legal means of urging the US to help them evacuate from Gaza amid the ongoing war
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
This is great. They’re telling ppl not to put up the photo of Sharaa (Jolani) everywhere as the ‘sanctification’ of people is against their principles and it’s what the Assad regime did
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Chris El-kholy 🧿 @chriselkholy.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
"At what point will they give up? At what point can you give up on the hope of finding your lost loved ones? Many have held onto that hope for years, some for decades. What more are a few days?" Riveting photo essay on #SednayaPrison today in @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/spotlight/ho...
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https://newlinesmag.com/spotlight/hope-and-despair-at-assads-human-slaughterhouse/
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Leila @leilashami.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Victims of chemical massacres can now speak freely without fear of retribution & are calling for fresh investigations. So many western 'leftists' spread denial about chemical massacres. Hopefully those who propagandized for Syrian fascism will face their day in court. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Victims of Syria chemical attacks speak freely for first time
The UN's chemical watchdog says dozens were killed in a chemical attack in Eastern Ghouta in 2018.
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
🧵 It is incredulous that within just days of the Assad regime's fall, a number of European countries, including Germany, Austria, Denmark, and others have announced pauses in the processing of asylum applications. (1)
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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
The West on day one of Syrian freedom: We're happy to supply Israel the bombs for its unprovoked assault on Syria. We're not happy to host any Syrians.
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Egypt's plan to revamp the Giza Plateau raises archaeologists' concerns about preserving ancient sites:
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Archaeologists wary over Egypt's Giza plateau 'upgrade' plans
Egypt's plan to revamp the Giza Plateau raises archaeologists' concerns about preserving ancient sites, as the global tender aims to boost tourism services.
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
For more than 13 years, Syrian survivors have shared their testimonies in events, films, exhibits; they've documented their abuses in rights reports; they smuggled photos for the world to see; they've testified in courts. For shame that it took so long and so much for hearts to be moved.
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Ahmed Gamal Ziada @ziada.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
الطغاة يشبهون الدومينو؛ إذا سقط أحدهم، اهتزت البقية، وعلت أصوات من كانوا تحتهم "كفاكم دهسًا لنا!".
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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 09/12/2024
مصر: “لجنة العدالة” ترصد حالة الوفاة الـ 49 في 2024 لمحتجز سياسي بسجن “وادي النطرون” نتيجة للإهمال الصحي المتعمد
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مصر: "لجنة العدالة" ترصد حالة الوفاة الـ 49 في 2024 لمحتجز سياسي بسجن "وادي النطرون" نتيجة للإهمال الصحي المتعمد - Committee for Justice
مصر: "لجنة العدالة" ترصد حالة الوفاة الـ 49 في 2024 لمحتجز سياسي بسجن "وادي النطرون" نتيجة للإهمال الصحي المتعمد رصدت "لجنة العدالة" وفاة محتجز على ذمة قضية سياسية داخل سجن "وادي النطرون"، بسبب الإهما...
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I'm of a certain age that the Arab spring defined my entire life. It was THE "formative moment," the lens through which I continue to see every political issue. عيش حرية عدالة اجتماعية I still remember every chant, and the early days of Twitter watching updates filter in. When ben ali fled.
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Remi Kanazi @remikanazi.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
May every prison be abolished in our lifetime
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Ibrahim Ezz El-Din @ezz-eldin.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
من امبارح وانا بفكر في المعتقلين المحررين واللي بقالهم عشرات السنين في السجون السورية وبقول ياتري هيعرفوا يتعاملوا مع العالم ازاي ؟ وانا اللي قضيت ٣ سنين في السجن مش عارف أكمل حياتي طبيعي لحد النهارده !
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Hayan @hayanomi.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
With Assad’s regime already collapsed, Israel is likely moving to expand its territory in the Golan. This isn’t due to a conspiracy with the rebels but because Assad’s regime had upheld the longest Arab ceasefire with Israel...
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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
The media isn't reporting the collapse of the Assad regime as the huge advance in human freedom it is. I’ve written this text for the IPM giving background on Assad’s detention and torture state. Please read, and share. qunfuz.com/2024/12/07/a...
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Assad’s Prison State
Much of the media is reporting the collapse of the Assad regime as ‘scary jihadis’ rather than as the liberation – the huge advance in human freedom – it actually is. I&#821…
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Mariam @itsmariamwr.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
كنت لسا بقول لحد قد ايه منصة زي زاوية ثالثة حاجة كويسة جداً خصوصاً أنها مش مشفرة و بتقدم محتوي متعوب عليه و يحترم جدا جدا جدا في وسط عبث صحافي حرفياً و لسا حاطة مقالين علي توتير و حقيقي بستفيد منها و بعدين قرأت منشور @ziada.bsky.socialعلي توتير و زعلت جدا خصوصا أني لسا شايفة حاجة عن حسيبة محسوب من
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Israeli soldiers film home invasion and beating of Palestinian in West Bank - www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-…
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Israeli soldiers film home invasion and beating of Palestinian in West Bank
Clips posted on social media show Israeli forces abusing and insulting 20-year-old in his home
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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 07/12/2024
‘He has come out an old man’: joy and grief as loved ones released from Assad prisons
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‘He has come out an old man’: joy and grief as loved ones released from Assad prisons
Family members describe renewed hopes after decades-long searches for political detainees in ‘Kingdom of Silence’
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Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Refaat Alareer’s book of poetry and prose, titled “If I Must Die,” has now cracked the top 200 best selling books worldwide across all categories cc @bariweiss.bsky.social
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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The media is reporting this story as 'scary jihadis' rather than as the liberation it is. I've written this text giving background on Assad's detention and torture state, to show what's at stake for Syrians. Please read, and share.
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