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We have been following blogger Kareem Amer for four years, and recently reported on his release from prison. He has a piece in the Wall Street Journal that is worth reading
For too long, despotic Arab governments have been reassured by the submissiveness and compliance of the people. The events in Tunisia have changed everything.
Initially, I [...]

The Daily Mail reports:
The national president of the NUS pulled out of speaking at a student fees rally after being surrounded by demonstrators calling for his resignation and shouting anti-Semitic insults at him.
Aaron Porter had to be escorted to safety by police this morning as he made his way to his offices in Manchester.
Protesters shouted [...]

This is Potkin’s piece in full
It is of course always heart warming to see people any where in the world overcoming despotic regimes. As the Iranian historian Kasravi said ‘Nothing is as rapturous as when the people win their freedom’. The recent events in Tunisia and in Egypt, the people power challenging a despotic regime, [...]

The Islamic Republic’s Press TV reports:
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast has called on political leaders in Egypt to follow the “rightful demands” of their people.
“Iran expects Egyptian officials to listen to the voice of their Muslim people, respond to their rightful demands and refrain from exerting violence by security forces and police against an [...]

This is a cross post by Edmund Standing:
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) is a trade union for school teachers in England and Wales, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, and is the largest teachers’ union in Europe. While the NUT presents itself as an organisation which simply seeks to [...]

by Joseph W
A couple of weeks ago, Israel Shamir co-authored an article in the Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda, claiming to show new Wikileaks documents which prove that the US ’somehow tried to manage what is happening in Russia.’
In the article, Shamir labels Moscow’s liberals as a “fifth column”, and claims that finally we have uncovered [...]

This is a cross post by Maajid Nawaz, co-founder and executive director of Quilliam. It appears in The Times
You may have looked on in pleasant surprise as the Arab youth of Tunisia spontaneously rose up to remove their ruler of 23 years, President Ben Ali. Not many of us know much about Tunisia. But now [...]

The Daily Mail contains an extensive account of the years of abuse that the former wife of Stephen Green suffered at his hands. Although it is still sadly relatively common to hear of campaigns of vicious and violent domestic abuse within marriages, what is notable about this account is that Stephen Green’s attitude towards his [...]

It’s every bit as important as what’s there.
Amr Hamzawy of the Carnegie Middle East Center writes:
[T]he citizens’ protests in Egypt were driven purely by domestic demands. No signs read “death to Israel, America, and global imperialism” or “together to free Palestine and Iraq.” In the streets of Cairo, Alexandria and Suez the only slogans [...]

This is a cross-post from Just Journalism.
Top story on the BBC News website’s Middle East section removes profile of controversial Islamist organisation that described it as anti-violence and pro-democracy.
The top story on the BBC News website’s Middle East section this morning, ‘Egypt protests escalate in Cairo, Suez and other cities,’ contained numerous references to the [...]