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“There will be more pressure on the media during the election season. What is happening now indicates that we will not have free elections. If they can interfere at any point to censor information, then this will really affect elections,” Mohamed Zaree, a Program Manager at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies,

“All these disordered procedures and measures that are based on elastic and illegal reasons and applied by the interim authorities everyday the same way the disposed president did,” said the Arab Network for Human Rights Information in a recent press release.

On September 11, officials in Cairo declared that emergency law in Egypt would continue until June of 2012. In previous statements, officials claimed that the emergency law would end before elections this November.

Only 8 percent of all Egyptians said that they received their news via Twitter or Facebook, however, debunking the fallacy that Egypt’s revolution and popular opinion was guided by social networking outlets.

“What is a blog?” she asked conversationally, upon hearing that bloggers relate the news online.

the lobbying of the three Egyptian mobile operators, Vodafone, Mobinil and Etisalat have won the most recent battle with regulators to ban the Internet phone service

“Now, I don’t think I will be able to talk to my brother in Virginia because it is too expensive. I don’t make enough money to buy a computer and get the Internet at home,”

In September, Indian agencies recommended a ban on international internet telephony until a system to trace the calls was put in place.

Al-Azhar is the most influential Islamic institution in the country, however, in recent years it has become more in line with the government and most Egyptians have ignored fatwas that have been released

The protester remembered when US President Barack Obama spoke out in favor of Iranian activists, but this time around, in Tunisia and Egypt, there is little overt support for the anti-government protests. “Our leaders are horrible, just as bad as Iran, but they are liked by Washington, so it is us who suffer twice, when we go to the streets and then when we try to have a voice internationally,” she said.

books that are censored by the government become instant best sellers