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klweber2

Israel cartoon highlights troubled ties with US - 0 views

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israel cartoon

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  • sraeli political cartoon
  • troubled relationship between Israel and the United States.
  • against its message of a crisis in bilateral relations
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  • tense dynamic with Netanyahu,
  • Obama administration
  • defending Israel's interests.
  • ecturing tone toward the U.S. president.
  • klweber2 on 10 Nov 14
     
    This is an article about an Israeli political cartoon that depicts an Israeli plane flying towards a US tower. The article discusses how this is very thoughtless on the Israeli side and does't understand the magnitude of 9/11. 
klweber2

Egypt's 1984 - Sada - 1 views

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egyptian media freedom

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  • silence opposition voices, and consolidate control over the body politic
  • unprecedented authoritarian measures into law.
  • military tribunals to try civilians accused of offenses such as blocking roads or attacking public property,
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  • llows the military to assist police in guarding public facilities, including power stations, gas pipelines, railway stations, roads, and bridges.
  • NGOs in Egypt are bracing for a crackdown next month.
  • ew powers to expel students or fire professors suspected of “crimes that disturb the educational process”
  • at least eleven journalists are behind bars in Egypt,
  • professors and deans to choose their own leadership through elections.
  • media outlets also continue to come under fire from the government.
  • hauled before state security prosecutors and interrogated for fourteen hours after the paper declared it would publish investigation records into alleged fraud in the 2012 presidential election.
  • halting the publication of Al-Masry Al-Youm’s
  • veto their board decisions, and it imposes harsher penalties of up to three years in prison for such infractions as operating
  • privately owned daily newspapers signed a statement supporting the government in its war on terror and pledging not to criticize state institutions.
  • Privately-owned Al-Nahar station banned television host Mahmoud Saad from his nightly show,
  • klweber2 on 09 Nov 14
     
    This is an article from sada discussing how Egypt is comparative to the book "1984". In it is discusses how the government is not allowing for the media to criticize state institutions, and taking many journalists into custody.  
klweber2

Egypt chief editors pledge support for state institutions - Politics - Egypt - Ahram On... - 0 views

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egyptian media freedom

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  • stop publishing "statements undermining state institutions"
  • major deadly attacks on security forces in Sinai.
  • ejection of attempts to doubt state institutions or insult the army or police or judiciary in a way that would reflect negatively on these institutions' performance,"
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  • no longer publish statements "supportive of terrorism or that undermine state institutions directly or indirectly."
  • support" for all procedures the government
  • "total confidence" in state institutions
  • 30 security forces were killed in two attacks
  • media
  • essential role against any attempts at undermining state policies. 
  • klweber2 on 09 Nov 14
     
    This is an article from ahramonline that discusses how newspapers are supporting the government and censoring certain topics. This article briefly illustrates the restrictions on freedom of speech in Egypt. 
klweber2

Jonathan Guyer on Twitter: "Egyptian illustrator Walid Taher in today's Al-Shorouk, the... - 0 views

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art satire cartoon arab egyptian

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      klweber2 on 09 Nov 14
       
      This cartoon appears to be making a statement on Egyptian censorship. Everything that appears on the media may seem fine, but in reality those remarks are just enforced by the government. A remark on freedom of speech. 
klweber2

An Interview with Omar Khouri | Qifa Nabki - 0 views

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arab art satire cartoon interview

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  • politics
  • equated with war.
  • my refusal to engage in any political act or discussion was in itself a political statement.
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  • censorship and the separation of religion from the state,
  • political figures in this context, juxtaposed with the other subjects in this series,
  • depoliticize their image and highlight the human aspect of their nature
  • personalities that one can connect with on a more basic level regardless of their political views.
  • French comics master Moebius,
  • English comics author Alan Moore, whose masterpiece Watchmen blew my mind wide open to the idea that comics could be as powerful and insightful as any other art form when dealing with the depths of the human soul;
  • shatter the boundaries of my imagination to this day.
  • freedoms of painting.
  • ivision between Media Arts and the Higher Arts.
  • comics were not only children’s entertainment,
  • Another very difficult obstacle is censorship.
  • extreme conservatism of the surrounding countries
  • Arab art
  • very positive side effect of a horrible situation,
  • klweber2 on 09 Nov 14
     
    An interview with Omar Khouri, a political artist/cartoonist. The interview goes in depth of what Khouri mainly draws/paints and where his inspirations come from. 
nicolet1189

ISIS Tactics Illustrate Social Media's New Place In Modern War | TechCrunch - 0 views

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Isis media journalism Twitter hashtag

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  • modern warfare, where online propaganda plays a central role.
  • ISIS makes use of its decentralized structur
  • propaganda tools is an app called “The Dawn of Glad Tidings,”
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  • users consent to allowing ISIS to post to their social-media accounts. To avoid Twitter’s spam-detection algorithms, Berger noted, the app even spaces out its posts.
  • 27,000 Twitter accounts that mentioned the ISIS positively.
  • 40,000 tweets in a single day,
  • 700,000 accounts discussed the terrorist group.
  • ISIS tries to get its content to trend globally.
  • using a #worldcup2014
  • “When an account gets shut down, a new one is immediately created, and they use other guys to promote the [new] account,” Truvé tells me. “It’s kind of a whack-a-mole thing.”
  • “The volume of those tweets was enough to make any search for ‘Baghdad’ on Twitter generate the image among its first results,” Berger noted, “which is certainly one means of intimidating the city’s residents.”
  • , propaganda has one crucial deficiency: It’s not the truth.
  • nicolet1189 on 05 Nov 14
     
    Author Jillian Melchoir relates recent participation in groups like ISIS as spawning a new type of modern warfare. Melchoir continues, describing ISIS's presence on Twitter where they regularly get their content to trend globally for example hijacking popular hasthags like #worldcup2014.
malbasr

Sinai Jihadi Group Reportedly Pledges Allegiance to Islamic State - 0 views

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egypt ISIS syria iraq

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  • malbasr on 08 Nov 14
     
    A statement released by ABM read, "After entrusting Allah we decided to swear allegiance to the emir of the faithful Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, caliph of the Muslims in Syria and Iraq and in other countries," according to a Reuters report.
diamond03

UNFPA Egypt - National Legislation, Decrees and Statements Banning FGM/C - 0 views

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egypt syria politics legislation fgm

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  • National Legislation, Decrees and Statements Banning FGM/C
  • June of 2008
  • Egypt hosted in 2008 a regional meeting entitled 'Cairo Declaration+5'.
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  • minimum custodial sentence of three months and a maximum of two years, or an alternative minimum penalty of 1,000 Egyptian pounds (LE) and a maximum of 5,000 LE.
  • new Child Law included the formation of Child Protection Committees (CPC
  • ncluding girls at risk of circumcision
  • criminalize FGM/C in the Penal Code,
  • 'The Cairo Declaration for the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation'
  • international campaign aimed at rekindling world-wide attention on FGM/C.
  • Egyptian Ministry of Health (MoH) issued in 2007 a ministerial decree (271) closing a loophole in the previous 1996 decre
  • In 2007
  • FGM/C has no basis in the core Islamic Sharia or any of its partial provisions.
  • diamond03 on 08 Nov 14
     
    The Egyptian parliament decided to criminalize FGM. The Child Protection Committee is now in charge of helping girls who are at risk of FGM. 
malbasr

Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis denies pledging allegiance to ISIS - Daily News Egypt - 0 views

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  • malbasr on 08 Nov 14
     
    An unsubstantiated statement was released Monday affirming that Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis (ABM) was pledging loyalty to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham (ISIS), stating that the group chose Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, known as the leader of ISIS, as its leader.
malbasr

Sunnis and Shias: Islam's ancient schism - 0 views

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egypt ISIS war politics syria iraq

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  • malbasr on 08 Nov 14
     
    What are the differences between Sunnis and Shias?Muslims are split into two main branches, the Sunnis and Shias. The split originates in a dispute soon after the death of the Prophet Muhammad over who should lead the Muslim community. The great majority of Muslims are Sunnis - estimates suggest the figure is somewhere between 85% and 90%.
haitham10

AP Exclusive: Easing of Saudi driving ban possible - Businessweek - 1 views

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saudi driving ban law

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    "licentiousness"
  • haitham10 on 08 Nov 14
     
    "licentiousness"
haitham10

سبق | "الشورى" يكذِّب شائعة موافقته على قيادة المرأة للسيارة - 0 views

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saudi driving ban law

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  • haitham10 on 08 Nov 14
     
    This article is in Arabic and I picked it from a Saudi newspaper called Sabq, the article defies what a western newspaper has published about easing the ban on woman driving in Saudi.
mariebenavides

'This Is Not Graffiti': Street artists take their art indoors | Egypt Independent - 0 views

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art graffiti egypt revolution

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  • mariebenavides on 07 Nov 14
     
    This article explores an exhibition called "This Is Not Graffiti" that was opened in 2011 and had the work of many major street artists. Steven Viney, the writer, talks about the different pieces displayed and the way the authors felt about their works.
mariebenavides

Rolling Stone ME - Hend Kheera | Michael Downey - 0 views

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art graffiti egypt revolution

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  • mariebenavides on 07 Nov 14
     
    This artifact is a picture of an article titled "The Writings on the Wall," a piece about Hend Kheera, an Egyptian street artist, who grew in popularity during the revolution. She speaks about the focus of her work and what it means for the future.
malbasr

Interpol investigates the use of cruise ships by jihadist fighters - NBC News - 0 views

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  • malbasr on 07 Nov 14
     
    Outgoing head of Interpol, Ronald Noble suggests that jihadist fighters are traveling to Syria and Iraq on cruise ships.Â
malbasr

Jihadis book cruise ships to join extremists in Syria - 0 views

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syria iraq ISIS war

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  • malbasr on 07 Nov 14
     
    MONACO (AP) - Would-be jihadi fighters are increasingly booking tickets on cruise ships to join extremists in battle zones in Syria and Iraq, hoping to bypass stepped-up efforts to thwart them in neighboring Turkey, Interpol officials have told The Associated Press.
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