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A First Hand Account of the Egyptian Revolution

by John P.

Cairo Egypt - Tahrir Square

Cairo Egypt - Tahrir Square

If you’re like me, you don’t really know much about what is going on in Egypt. There has been a lot of news, but in the US it has also been somewhat overshadowed by the major storm that has been ravaging much of the country. Here in Dallas the city has been shut down for a couple of days and we’re suffering from rolling power outages which serve to shut down access to TV and the Internet.

However, today I received an email from Ossama Hassanein, Chairman of the Board for TechWadi – an organization that supports entrepreneurship in the middle east. Ossama was passing along the following letter from his daughter, which recounts her first hand experiences of what has transpired over the past week. I found the message eye-opening and it helped me gain an understanding of what has been going on.
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The Fertile Crescent – Mesopotamia as Viewed From Space

June 6, 2008

I thought this was cool, so just wanted to share this true-color Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image of a cloud-free view of the Middle Eastern countries surrounding the Fertile Crescent. (I got the image from NASA.) Arching along the Eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea from the Red Sea through modern-day Syria, and then [...]

Saudi Blogger Fouah al-Farhan Arrested for… Blogging

January 2, 2008
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Although I can’t read a word of his blog, Fouah al-Farhan has been taken into custody by the Saudi government for posting some remarks critical of the government. They are supposedly holding out for a written apology, so if indeed we do see one expect it to be completely bogus. I mean, lets face it. [...]

Middle East Conflict is Par for the Course

January 20, 2007

Can’t we all just get along? Apparantly not, and the folks over at Maps of War have documented the many different eras of domination of the Middle East as proof. Who has controlled the Middle East over the course of history? Pretty much everyone. Egyptians, Turks, Jews, Romans, Arabs, Persians, Europeans…the list goes on. Who [...]