GV Special Coverage Page - Egypt

Global Voices have launched a Special Coverage page for Egypt , the General Strike and it´s aftermath as to follow events as they develop. Thanks Amira, Solana, Ethan, Rebecka and everybody else at GV. You can find it here. Right now a piece by Lasto Adri is featured(originally by Ahmed in Arabic). It´s about the American student at the AUC , Sounilla who got caught up in the 6th of April demonstration on his way to the University, and snatched into a car , arrested and interogated.

One nation,but a world apart

Nader G El Attar & Rienne Gamal´s film hideous is one of the subjects of Global Voices video editor Juliana Rincón Parra´s article secrets on Video. The seven and a half minute long film shows the gap between the affluent and poor in Egypt , how they stumble upon each other, day in and day out, but in reality living separate lives. The contrast with half of it being filmed in colour and the other in black & White as well as the famous Louis Armstrong tune What a wonderful world adds a dimension to the topic of the have & have not´s.

Thanks to Nader and Rienne for making the film , and to Juliana for showing it to a broder audience on GV!

I would have loved to have it on my blog, but i couldn´t find it on youtube , so for now the only way to see it to my knowledge is through Nader´s facebook account were he has uploaded te film, you can reach it via the Global Voices article above.

GV interview with Wa7da Masrya

Georgia Popplewell from Global Voices interviews Egyptian blogger Wa7da Masrrya in a seven minutes podcast profile. You can find an interview in French as well. She´s been on my blogroll forever and do great things.

Go read it!

Other very good GV articles focusing on the Egyptian bloggers is Inside the school of the Egyptian Blogosphere part I & II by prominent Human Rights blogger-activist Sami Ben Gharbia.

Some other blogrelated articles are Rania Al Malky´s Blogging for reform: The case of Egypt(Rania why don´t you blog anymore?) and Marc Lynch´s article on the Muslim Brotherhood blogging generation, The Brotherhood of the blog.

Enjoy your reading!