Saturday 26 May 2012

A Birthday Tribute to Fatin Hamama

A selection of photos with which to celebrate the birthday of the 'queen of the Arab cinema,' Fatin Hamama:










Graphic: Islamists v. Non-Islamists

A particularly interesting graphic, which seems to suggest that the 60-40 Islamist v. non-Islamist split of the parliamentary elections was reversed to a 60-40 split favoring non-Islamists in the presidential elections:
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Source: Ahram Online and Jadaliyya
 

A Striking Resemblance



Reporting Links: Prelude to the Elections

Downtown Cairo 1946

For Egypt's voters, revolution feels light years away 
22 May 2012

‘Veiled women only’ TV channel stirs controversy in Egypt
22 May 2012

Egypt's struggle will go on after vote-activists
22 May 2012

A little music goes a long way in Egypt vote
22 May 2012

Most Egyptians Expect a Fair, Honest Election
22 May 2012

Govt: Cairo, Giza have 1 in 5 registered voters; Delta has 40%
22 May 2012

Court upholds prison verdict for police chief in 2003 torture incident
22 May 2012

On the campaign trail in Egypt
22 May 2012

Five Giza policemen sentenced to 10 years in prison for killing protesters
22 May 2012

Surrounded by a climate of fear, Egypt's Copts to vote for a secularist president
22 May 2012

Govt allocates funds to Minya village to curb female genital mutilation
22 May 2012

Military trials for civilians: the human cost
21 May 2012

Wednesday 23 May 2012

Tribute in Photos: The Magnificent Ismail Yassin

A photographic tribute to the magnificent Ismail Yassin, who passed away forty years ago today...















Tuesday 22 May 2012

Watani Newspaper: Copts protest against unfair sentence


Copts protest against unfair sentence

Nader Shukry

Coptic activists, led by the Maspero Youth Union (MYU) are today planning a demonstration in front of the High Court in central Cairo to protest against what they see as an unjust, non-justifiably harsh sentence by the Minya Criminal Court. Simultaneously, said MYU member Andrawus Eweida, other protests will be held in the towns of Alexandria, Assiut, Minya, and Suez.

The court ruling in question had sentenced 12 Copts to life imprisonment while it acquitted eight Muslims who had been prosecuted for the same charges.


Eweida called upon Muslim Egyptians to join the Copts in today’s protest to announce their rejection of injustice, and to take a stand against what he described as “court sentences based on religious identity”.

The Criminal Court of Minya in Upper Egypt had yesterday sentenced 12 Copts to life imprisonment for their part in a fight which took place in the town of Abu-Qurqas in April 2011 and which left three Muslims dead, and several Copts’ houses and cattle sheds looted and burnt.


Alaa’ Rushdy, Yacoub Fadl, Abdullah Mikhail Abdullah, Adel Abdullah Mikhail, Fanous Nady Ibrahim, Magdy Nady Ibrahim, Gamal Fouad Hanna, Eid Ibrahim Fanous, Safwat Kamel Habib Ghattas, Eid Abdullah Mikhail, Magdy Abdullah Mikhail, and Saeed Waheed Deif were all sentenced. The court acquitted the eight Muslim men who had been charged in the same case: Ahmed Mustafa Rabie, Taher Atef Taher, Khaled Ibrahim Mohamed, Ahmed Badr Ahmed, Ramadan Abdel-Azim Mohamed, Reda Sayed Ahemd, Ismail Mamdouh Mahmoud, and Ikrami Abdullah Mohamed.


The April 2011 fight in Abu-Qurqas village in Minya had erupted over a speed bump which the Coptic lawyer, Alaa’ Rushdy, had constructed in front of his house in order to slow down traffic. The defendants, the 12 Copts and eight Muslims, had all been charged with mobbing, premeditated murder, threatening public peace, sectarian sedition, arson, and using unlicensed arms to threaten security and public order.

The MYU had last evening issued a statement in which it said that the several recent court rulings which indicted innocent Copts and exonerated Muslim offenders has made it impossible to commit to the policy of refraining from comment on court rulings. The only two crimes in which Muslims were sentenced for murder of Copts were the cases of Nag Hammadi where seven were shot as they left church following Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve (6 January) in 2010, and that of Dairout in which a Muslim policeman man shot at six Copts on a train, killing one of them and wounding the others. In some 160 cases of attacks against Copts during the past decades, no-one was indicted.


“No sound reason,” the statement said, “can condone the notion that defending oneself, one’s family, honour, and property, is a crime which warrants life imprisonment.”

For its part, the Alliance of Egypt’s Copts announced it will contest the ruling.

Watani International
22 May 2012


Sunday 20 May 2012

Reporting Links: Drug Addiction, Imam Strike, Nasrallah at Cannes

Sharia Emad ad-Din, 1941


Brotherhood draws on Salafi and Al-Azhar preachers to support Morsy
16 May 2012

Who will Egypt artists vote for?
16 May 2012

As drug addiction rises in Cairo, experts offer recommendations
16 May 2012

In Egypt's vote, revolutionaries lack a candidate
16 May 2012

Saudi lawyer declines to defend Gizawy
16 May 2012

Imams put holy work on hold over stipends
16 May 2012

Electoral programmes for Egypt's first post-Mubarak presidential poll
16 May 2012

Tahrir Square Comes to Cannes
16 May 2012

Egypt vote monitors say state hindering their work
16 May 2012

Knife Brawl Over $8 Food Debt Reveals Egyptian Risks
15 May 2012

Egypt's trashmen look to next president to ease traditional hardships
15 May 2012

Prominent ‘Free Officer’ dies at 94
15 May 2012

Monufiya students suspended after protest against former higher education minister
15 May 2012

Rights group documents 841 deaths in 2011 uprising
15 May 2012

Khaled Ali campaign lacks funds, but not dreams
15 May 2012

               

Carlos Latuff: In solidarity with Egypt hunger strikers, MODHunger



(1) Cartoons in solidarity with #Egypt hunger strikers – #MODHunger

 

Carlos Latuff: In solidarity with Egypt hunger strikers, MODHunger



(2) Cartoons in solidarity with #Egypt hunger strikers – #MODHunger