Posted By Mohamed El Dahshan
Monday, November 12, 2012 - 2:42 PM
"I called people up so they would join the revolution. And they died. I let (Ahmed) Harara walk onto Mohamed Mahmoud Street, and he was blinded. My friends, who weren't into politics but whom I talked into coming to the streets, died... All so you would block porn sites, you sons of bitches?"
Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images
Posted By Min Zin
Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - 11:23 AM
The Lady continues her U.S. tour. Aung San Suu Kyi has already visited Washington, DC, and New York City, and now she's on her way to the West Coast. Last week I had the privilege of flying to the U.S. capital to see her during her stop there. It was a great honor to greet her again in person. It was 23 years since we had last seen each other.
Soe Than WIN/AFP/GettyImages
Posted By Mohamed El Dahshan
Monday, September 10, 2012 - 11:07 AM
With her white hijab and the slight gap between her teeth, Fatma Nabil looks like my cousin. She probably looks like everybody's cousin.
Yet after presenting the afternoon news last week, Fatma became the most recognizable face on Egyptian television: She is, after all, Egypt's first veiled TV news anchor. Ever.
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Posted By Mohamed El Dahshan
Monday, March 19, 2012 - 11:42 AM
Walls. The Egyptian army's answer to protests has, for the past six months, been to build walls. The construction of these walls at a few key points in downtown Cairo, blocking major streets in one of the world's already hardest-to-navigate capitals, is severely damaging the neighborhood, both economically and socially. But that was the least of their concerns. (How very Israeli of them!).
The aesthetics of these walls is, naturally, horrendous. They're little more than cubes of stone piled up across the streets, sometimes several meters high.
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Posted By Jackee Budesta Batanda
Friday, March 9, 2012 - 12:16 PM
While the rest of the world jumps onto the Kony2012 bandwagon -- wrongly assuming that the main problem in Uganda is the Lord's Resistance Army -- Ugandans are worrying about the much more urgent problem plaguing their country: nodding disease.
The cause of the disease is unknown. It affects thousands of children in Northern Uganda, causing symptoms similar to epilepsy, but with more severe mental and physical retardation. (The photo above shows 12-year-old Nancy Lamwaka, a victim of the disease.) Yet the Ugandan government has been notably slow to deal with the problem.
A lot has happened since I last blogged about the government's strange priorities. As I noted at the time, the Ugandan president's office requested additional funding for its own needs that amounted to nine times of what the Health Ministry had specified for its first response to the disease. The government's failure to allocate resources to this threat raises serious questions about its competence and its commitment to dealing with crises.
REUTERS/Edward Echwalu
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