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Update: Freedom of Information in Egypt

June 11, 2012 by Louisa Loveluck

In early May, members of the People’s Assembly Human Rights Committee, together with experts, presented a government draft bill on availing records and information during a discussion at the Information Center for Technology. The tension is apparent even in the language used in the bill’s title; it uses the word etaha in Arabic, meaning availing. Compare this with the draft law submitted by a group of civil society actors that includes the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights and the Association […]

Categories: corruption, Egypt • Tags: egyptian parliament, freedom of information law, middle-east, politics, Revolution

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Saleh clutching at straws

May 13, 2011 by Louisa Loveluck

True to form, today’s speech from Saleh was as fiery as it was predictable. As the months of protest have worn on in Yemen, these presidential appearances have become somewhat of a formality. Each week after Friday prayers, Saleh stands in front of a crowd of cheering (and likely, paid) supporters and condemns the protesters in increasingly colourful terms. Today’s target: the JMP. The unrest, it seems, it their fault, and they must be careful ‘not to play with fire’. […]

Categories: Yemen • Tags: Revolution, Yemen

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Translating the Revolution

April 13, 2011 by Louisa Loveluck

“The poetry of this revolt is not reducible to a text that can be read and translated in words, for it is also an act in and of itself.” The Egyptian revolution has presented us with a number of intellectual challenges, not least the question of how to interpret events that seemed as globalised as they were localised. Although the uprising was a distinctly Egyptian expression of anger and frustration, many outside the country’s borders were also able to ‘live’ the […]

Categories: Egypt, Media • Tags: Egypt, Journalism, Languages, Media, Poetry, Revolution

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