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BDS Report back from Egypt
Yesterday July 9th 2010, the global BDS day of action, Egyptian and international activists gathered at Nasr city in Cairo. Getting ready with their banners and flags and statements. They marched over to Starbucks cáfe, while two had already been inside distributing Boycott statements to all customers, protestors gathered in front of the cafe and […]
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Conference mulls means of pressuring Israel
Nashwa el-Hofi Basant Zain-eddine “In Israel there are a number of protest movements and peace groups that reject the racism of the state in its treatment of Palestinians. But are we ready to work with these groups as Arabs and form a lobby to pressure the Israeli government?” This was the question posed by Ahmed […]
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Egyptian activists do flash mob on Starbucks
Their account: Yesterday, 18 Egyptian activists gathered along with 7 International activists to create a flashmob at Starsucks cafe. We gathered right beside Starbucks cafe, we went with the Keffiyes (Palestinian scarves), Turkish flags, and BDS stickers and posters. 3 activists went inside the cafe and kept distributing a statement of boycott which is advocating […]
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180 Prominent Egyptian & Arab Intellectuals Condemn Israel’s Attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Call on Egyptian Government to Take Immediate Action
180 Prominent Egyptian & Arab Intellectuals Condemn Israel’s Attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Call on Egyptian Government to Take Immediate Action Egyptian intellectuals issued a statement on the afternoon of May 31st 2010, condemning the Israeli attack on the “Freedom Flotilla” ship convoy carrying humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza strip. The statement described the […]
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Thanks to Israeli director, Egyptian filmmakers boycott festival
Louise Sarant The sixth annual short-film festival at the French Cultural Center in Cairo (CFCC), “Recontres de l’Image,” started out with 49 screenings. That number has now dropped to 17 after the jury, composed of three Egyptian directors and actors, pulled out of the competition and a number of Egyptian short films followed them. The […]
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Protesting Egyptian Normalization
On Saturday Egyptians protested on the 31st anniversary of the Egyptian “peace” agreement with Israel at Camp David. The accord has translated into the selling out of the Palestinian people. In recent days meanwhile Egyptian state security forces have maintained a detention craze by arresting students all over Egypt speaking out against Israeli acts of […]
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Israel, the Palestinians and Apartheid: The Case for Sanctions and Boycott
4th December 2009 The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) – University of London On 4th December 2009, the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP) and SOAS Palestine Society organised a public meeting putting forward the case for sanctions and boycott of Israel. Amongst the speakers were several from the South African […]
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Normalization Politics on the Nile
Ursula Lindsey is a Cairo-based writer and reporter. On September 23, Farouq Husni lost a close vote for the post of head of the UN cultural and educational body, UNESCO, to the Bulgarian Irina Bokova. Husni, the sitting minister of culture in Egypt, had become the “controversial” contender for the position, his candidacy marred by […]
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