Ants are not meant to serve grasshoppers Ants don't serve grasshoppers
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
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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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...
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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Roland Meyer@bildoperationen.bsky.social · 2y agoApparently, OpenAI is already aligning its LLM to the expectations of the new fascist government – racism, lies, and conspiracy theories will now be sold as «multiple perspectives on controversial subjects» techcrunch.com/2025/02/16/o...
Eni signs deal to bring Cypriot offshore gas to Europe, via Egypt
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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Very cool. We tend to underestimate how advanced Ancient Egypt was.
Kristina Killgrove@killgrove.bsky.social · 2y agoThis week's astonishing artifact is a model granary-slash-accountant-office found in a tomb in ancient Egypt (along with two dozen other neat little models). 🏺🧪
For all their talk of making america great, they really hate this country
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...
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.
my toxic trait is thinking I can read all the books
What’s telling is how many Dems have finally come out against ethnic cleansing now that it’s Trump branded
When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a sultan. The palace becomes a circus. — old Turkish proverb
يحكى أن يا حرية ثورتنا ثورة عربية فجر وصبح وضهر وعصر تونس، ليبيا، سوريا، مصر youtu.be/T8R57v_9GqM?...
يحكى أن - اسكندريلا - النسخة الثانية
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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:
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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NEW: Trump tells reporters he wants to "just clean out" Gaza and relocate Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan
#FreeAlaa in 2025 https://moftasa.net/freealaa-2025 #Jan25
#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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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:
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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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.
Jim Pickard@pickardje.bsky.social · 2y agodon’t shoot me but my contentious view is that it probably wasn’t a Nazi salute - despite obvious similarities - and we shouldn’t claim to *know* that it was one
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.
“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
Zawia3- زاوية ثالثة@zawia3.bsky.social · 2y agoNo official list of missing Egyptians in #Syria exists to date. However, Zawia3 documented the names and details of 20 individuals during its investigation.
#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...
Kamal Adwan hospital chief: 'Next to impossible' to get patients out safely
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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
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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"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...
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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The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy@timep.bsky.social · 2y agoNEW: TIMEP's Obai Kurd Ali and @maitelsadany.bsky.social argue that the decision of some European countries to pause the review and processing of all Syrian asylum applications is premature, unethical, and not commensurate with facts on the ground. Read more: timep.org/2024/12/18/l...
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
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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