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16 – 23 February 2012

Newsletter - Issue No. 1

Arabist

A New Post Blog by Issandr El Amrani: A Point of

Clarification on US Aid to Egypt and Peace

with Israel

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Threat of 3rd Intifada, says UN Reporter

about Khader Adnan hunger strike

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Event Listings

Support Khader Adnan - Feb 24 at Cairo

Arab league near to Tahrir

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Gaza Youth Break Out

Khader Adnan will be free on the 17th of April.

He stopped his Hunger Strike.

Issa Qaraqe prisoners' minister confirms that Israel's Court decided to

release Khader Adnan after the end of his reign in 2 months.

Egypt

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Ahmad H. Aggour

The Egypt Parliament's role model is Saudi Arabia. People are still too naive to

notice.

I hope Mubarak gets a 'not guilty' for a verdict. Maybe people will wake the

fuck up and get back to the streets.

Salafist MP demands Egypt ban on porn sites

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Hany Rasmy

Katatni, McCain Discuss Egypt-US Relations

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Sherine Tadros

MccainEgypt issue of NGO came up in our meetings and we are confident

acceptable solution will be found

MccainEgypt the real issue is not about America it's about Egyptian and

Egyptian civil society groups and whether their rights respected

MccainEgypt we met with Tantawi who said he's

work diligently on the NGO issue

MccainEgypt US treats our Egyptian allies with

dignity and respect. We made mistakes in the

past with this relationship

MccainEgypt we approach issue of NGOs with

guarded optimism. It's not about making threats

(in ref to withholding aid)

Mohamed El Dahshan

Playing a dangerous game in Egypt

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Awesome info graphic about Hunger

Strikes. Feat. Khader Adnan, Leila Soueif

and other heroes of non-violent resist

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A.E.K

2500 Defected Syrian soldiers taking oath to topple Assad regime together

Watch It

Draft Constitution for the Syrian Arab Republic

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Dima Khatib

New Blog post: When Revolution

Reaches Your Neighborhood

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Samsom homs

Stunning photo from Homs after

the explosion of the oil pipeline

For more photos

Ahmed Al Omran

Live-tweeting the Uprising of Syria -

2/21:

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Zaid Benjamin

Syrian National Council Urges Egypt to Restrict Suez Canal Access to Ships

Carrying Arms RMS to the Syrian Government – Statement

Syrian National Council Says Coming to The View that Military Intervention is

the Only Solution for Syria.

Syria

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Mulham Al-Jundi

Sharing some real Photo from Homs in Syria , taken by my Camera

For More Photos

Shireen

Interactive map of events in Syria - 21/02/12:

Aleppo Damascus Daraa Hama Homs, Idlib Latakia Qamishli Raqqah

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Interactive map of events in Syria -20/02/12:

Damascus Daraa Hama Hasakah Homs Latakia Qamishli Raqqah

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Ahmed Al Omran

A new Blog Post by Ahmed Al Omran: Saudi, the “New Terrorism”

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Sultan Al Qassemi

Saudi hosts secret talks on Iran arms to Hezbollah, excludes Qatar

For the Full Report

Saudi Arabia

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Twitter users turn up heat on media to #CoverKhader

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Gaza Youth Break Out

February 21st General Strike in Solidarity with Khader Adnan

"As Khader Adnan enters his 66th day of hunger strike, protests are expected

to take place at the central squares in the cities and towns in the West Bank

(and hopefully Gaza), the same day that Israeli High Court hearing for his

case will be held in Jerusalem, at 3pm"

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Occupied Palestine

New Storify, Israel: Not looking for

Peace. Nor Talks. But this...

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ندای دانشجویان

The fall of one dictator, causes the

collapse of others

Sonja Jo

New blog post: Responsibility for the Lives

of Political Prisoners Lies with the

Highest Ranking Officials of

the Islamic Republic of Iran

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Read More (Part 2)

Palestinian

Iran

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Marc Owen Jones

Tear gas has reportedly been

a contributing factor in the

deaths of 24 people in

Bahrain since February 14th

2011

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M. K. Al-Binateej

Bahrain 21Feb Thousands

gathering at Al-Fateh Mosque.

21-02-2012 to demand to be heard

For more pictures

نون عربیه

Yemen is the only country in

the world that holds a one

man "election" and the result

of him winning is known

beforehand

The CCYRC = Coordinating

Council of the Youth Revolution of

Change (in Yemen) boycotted the

election

Yemen's president Saleh is out. But

real change remains elusive

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Bahrain

Yemen

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Hind Aleryani

Abdulkarim Al Eryani: There is a

consensus that the dominance of the

military and tribal sheiks that has

controlled the stage is now no longer

acceptable.

Tom Finn

For those of you wondering this is

what a one-man ballot paper looks

like

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The first anniversary of

the Feb20 protests in

Morocco

A year on, Morocco's

democracy movement

founders

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Morocco's resilient

protest movement

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Rabat:

Zineb Belmkaddem

Today's 20 FEB Rabat protest 4 1st movement anniversary starts at

4pm Bab Al-Itihad in Rabat

For More Photos

Morocco

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Casablanca:

Aida Alami

At sit-in in Casablanca 4 the anniversary of Feb20 I heard they're

staying all night. Guys praying.

Photos (1)

Photos (2)

Photos (3)

Marrakech:

Mohamed Amine Manar

https://twitter.com/#!/manaramine/status/171181604725727232/photo/1 &

https://twitter.com/#!/manaramine/status/171206905824428034/photo/1 &

https://twitter.com/#!/manaramine/status/171213111532072960/photo/1 &

https://twitter.com/#!/manaramine/status/171181604725727232/photo/1 &

https://twitter.com/#!/manaramine/status/171177148793634816/photo/1

Zeinobia

A New Blog Post by Zeinobia:

"Will 2012 be the year of the

Algiers revolution?"

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Algeria