Archive: egypt
29th April 2010
A group called Lawyers Without Restrictions is trying to launch an obscenity case against cultural officials in Egypt for publishing the centuries-old collection of folk tales, A Thousand and One Nights.
Read my article about it at Comment is free.
Posted by Brian Whitaker, 29 April 2010.
28th April 2010
It's not just in Egypt that Mohamed ElBaradei's calls for constitutional reform are making the authorities twitchy.
Earlier this month, the Kuwaiti authorities arrested more than 30 of his supporters and summarily deported most of them.
A couple of weeks ago, the UAE was reported to be blocking… Read more
24th April 2010
Hany Nazeer, an Egyptian blogger, has been detained without charge since October 2008 under the country's emergency law. This week, the interior ministry renewed his detention order for the sixth time – allegedly for his own protection.
Human Rights Watch explains:
"A high school social worker… Read more
21st April 2010
Top-heavy: the ill-fated Salam Boccaccio ferry
Four years after the Red Sea ferry, Salam Boccaccio, sank with the loss of more than 1,000 lives, there are at last signs of a crackdown on unseaworthy vessels in the area.
Surprise inspections of 24 ships operating between Saudi Arabia, Egypt and… Read more
16th April 2010
Few countries are immune to the possibility of communal violence, but they differ in how they deal with it and what steps they take in the aftermath to prevent a recurrence.
A new report by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights looks at the growing problem of sectarian violence in Egypt and… Read more
12th April 2010
Kuwait deported four more Egyptians yesterday. Together with the 17 deported on Saturday, this brings the total so far to 21. Around 20 others are thought to be still under arrest in Kuwait.
Those arrested and expelled are believed to be supporters of the National Association for Change, a new… Read more
11th April 2010
The authorities in Kuwait are continuing their crackdown against support for Mohamed ElBaradei among the emirate's large Egyptian community. Yesterday, 17 ElBaradei supporters were expelled.
A total of 34 Egyptians have been arrested in Kuwait, according to ElBaradei's National Association for… Read more
10th April 2010
The authorities in Kuwait are cracking down on efforts to organise support for Mohamed ElBaradei among the emirate's large Egyptian community.
Three people were arrested earlier this week just hours before they were due to launch the Independent Campaign for Support of ElBaradei in Kuwait. … Read more
7th April 2010
The suppression of protests by the 6 April movement in Cairo yesterday has attracted a lot of media coverage, so I'll just note it here. For reports, see: AP, BBC, Al-Masry al-Youm, The Majlis,Bikya Masr and Egyptian Chronicles (which has a collection of photos and video clips). There were also… Read more
7th April 2010
Apart from the attacks on demonstrators, there's another matter causing deep concern among the estimated 10 million Egyptians who regularly partake of hashish. It's in very short supply and prices have rocketed.
The government has even gone so far as to claim "the complete destruction of the… Read more
ARAB ART ONLINE: Susan Hefuna: Al Sabr Gamil (Patience is Beautiful) 2007. Ink stained on wood 140 x 170 cm. More information | Click to enlarge
