Posted in Committee to Protect Bloggers, Egypt, Free Kareem, Free speech, Kareem on April 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Committee to Protect Bloggers and FreeKareem are doing an analogue letter-writing campaign for Kareem, the imprisoned Egyptian blogger. Read about Flood the Jail with Mail.
Listen to Esra’a and I on PRI’s The World radio show. (Clicking will launch the player.)
Posted in Archaeology, Egypt, History on July 16, 2007 | No Comments »
From the Theban Mapping Project website.
Update: There’s been a significant update to the Theban Mapping Project.
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Modern technology? Eh. It’s poetry I’m after. But there are times, rare certainly, when the meshing of computer technology and the humanities is nothing less than elegant. The most recent example of this is in Egyptology. It’s worth [...]
Posted in Egypt, Free Kareem, Free speech, Jailed bloggers on June 7, 2007 | No Comments »
Esra’a told me (posted here) that all the sites associated with Free Kareem.org, to get Kareem Amer out of Egyptian jail where he’s been put due to critical comments on his blog, have been hacked. The main site’s back up but they’re still recovering data and the feeds don’t work.
I wonder who did the hack? [...]
Posted in America, Egypt, Entrepreneurship, France, Free speech, Human rights, Jailed bloggers, Social media on June 2, 2007 | No Comments »
Parisian wigglers at a bar in the Bastille, by S.
Dear Loic:
We don’t know each other well, having done nothing more than exchange a few emails over the years. But one of the benefits of being a participant in the wide world of social media is a shamelessness and a willingness to dialogue publicly, qualities [...]
Posted in Egypt, History on June 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, always made me a bit uneasy. That he was a camera-whore was obvious. I’m no Egyptologist, but I wasn’t sure how reliable his scholarship was considering most of his time seemed to be spent as a talking head for National Geographic Channel, Discovery Times Channel, [...]
Posted in China, Committee to Protect Bloggers, Egypt, Free speech, Human rights, Jailed bloggers, Journalism, Threatened bloggers, Yahoo on March 8, 2007 | No Comments »
Two awful stories prove that things are still bad for bloggers in oppressive countries. First, Yahoo. (And really, how could it not start with Yahoo?)
Speaking with VOA’s Mandarin Service Wednesday after arriving in Washington, Yu Ling said Chinese police arrested her husband, Wang Xiaoning, partly because Yahoo’s Hong Kong office gave Chinese authorities information about [...]
Posted in Egypt, Free speech, Jailed bloggers, Threatened bloggers on February 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Abdelkareem Nabil Soliman has been sentenced to four years in an Egyptian prison, three for “insulting Islam” and one for insulting Mubarak. Hey, remember when “Egypt” used to be synonymous with “civilization”? Yeah, me neither.
Committee to Protect Bloggers supported Kareem when he was first imprisoned, then freed by the Egyptian authorities, even creating a petition [...]
Posted in Egypt, Jailed bloggers, Threatened bloggers on June 23, 2006 | No Comments »
Detained Egyptian blogger Alaa has been released from Egyptian police and state security. They made sure he got beaten first, of course.
Go here for more about Alaa and his release.
I’m taking down the banner in the sidebar. But that doesn’t mean the danger’s over for him, or for the other bloggers in Iran, China and [...]
Posted in Egypt, Jailed bloggers on May 26, 2006 | No Comments »
Please Digg any of these Alaa-related posts.
Alaa is one of the three Egyptian bloggers jailed by the Egyptian government.
Tags: Alaa, jailed_bloggers, censorship, Egypt, Digg
Curt Hopkins
Posted in Egypt, Jailed bloggers on May 9, 2006 | No Comments »
Tags: Free_Alaa, Egypt, jailed_bloggers, threatened_bloggers, censorship
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