#Lina_Attalah : « J’avais moins peur sous Moubarak »
▻https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/191217/lina-attalah-j-avais-moins-peur-sous-moubarak
Lina Attalah, directrice du site égyptien Mada Masr, un des derniers espaces de liberté médiatique en Égypte, fermé au printemps dernier par les autorités, revient pour Mediapart sur la situation politique du pays.
#International #Censure #Egypte #indépendance #Information #Journalisme #maréchal_Sissi #presse
From boredom to labor and labor to boredom | MadaMasr
Lina Attalah
▻https://www.madamasr.com/en/2017/07/02/opinion/u/from-boredom-to-labor-and-labor-to-boredom/?mc_cid=a840ee4478&mc_eid=f9f1783efa
You were sitting, smoking a cigarette, in our new office space underneath a canvas bearing the words: “this sea is mine.” The line comes from a Mahmoud Darwish poem, A Mural, popularized in poetic resistance to political and corporate colonization.
The canvas is now four years old. Back then, some weeks after Mada Masr was born on June 30, the day of a military political take-over in Egypt, the bloodiest event in the country’s modern history took place. Over a thousand people belonging to or sympathizing with the Muslim Brotherhood were killed when their sit-ins were cleared out.
A curfew was imposed by the military to contain the ensuing chaos. It started at 7 pm and ended at 6 am everyday. After work, we often gathered at one of our homes, some of us cooking, some of us painting to kill the time and the boredom.
We had been dramatically laid off as a team a few months earlier. Fearing the boredom of being without a newspaper in the midst of an imminent and radical political upheaval, we started an online publication. At the time, I wrote, “We wanted to re-appropriate our journalism on this heated day, because it is through the prism of this craft that we engage with politics and activism.”
I might as well have also said that it is through the prism of this craft that we resist existential boredom.
L’Égypte rend deux îlots stratégiques de la mer Rouge à l’Arabie saoudite - Le Monde
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2017/06/24/l-egypte-finalise-le-transfert-de-deux-ilots-de-la-mer-rouge-a-l-arabie-saou
Le président égyptien Abdel Fattah Al-Sissi a officialisé, samedi 24 juin, le transfert à l’Arabie saoudite de deux îlots de la mer Rouge.
Ces deux îles, Tiran et Sanafir, sont inhabitées mais sont situées stratégiquement à l’entrée du golfe d’Aqaba. Elles permettent de contrôler l’accès au port israélien d’Eilat grâce au détroit de Tiran.
Sur @OrientXXI
Analyse de Mada Masr et reportage de @AlainGresh ▻http://orientxxi.info/magazine/le-pouvoir-egyptien-dans-l-imbroglio-de-l-affaire-des-iles-tiran-et-sana
▻http://orientxxi.info/magazine/turbulences-dans-les-relations-entre-l-arabie-saoudite-et-l-egypte,1618
A Macron tale: The story of a perfect Champs-Elywood recipe
▻http://orientxxi.info/dossiers/mada-masr/a-macron-tale-the-story-of-a-perfect-champs-elywood-recipe,1913
This article was originally published on Mada Masr, a digital media outlet based in Egypt, and has been republished here with permission. As part of the Egyptian government’s on-going campaign of press censorship, Mada Masr has been blocked inside Egypt. In line with our commitment to press freedom and independent journalism, Orient XXI will be republishing content from Mada Masr, to help circumvent the Egyptian state’s actions and assist Mada Masr in reaching people inside Egypt. Read more about the Egyptian state’s suppression of the media and attacks against Mada Masr here.
Let me start with a vain introduction.
I am French.
Worse, I belong to the Parisian middle-class.
After needing 10 years to realize human life is theoretically possible outside of Paris and 10 more to realize it actually exists, I left Paris, and have lived outside France for most of the past 10 years.
Throughout this period, I actively worked on unparisianing myself. This probably seems absurd, but, for me, being Parisian is associated with gray. Gray is more Parisian than Paris itself.
Gray is a color. Paris is visually quite gray, from its sidewalks to its buildings, from its roofs to its eternally clouded sky. Gray can be beautiful. Paris is beautiful.
Egypt 24 hours later: What we know about the blocking of Mada Masr’s website | MadaMasr
Menaces contre un des meilleurs sites d’information égyptien
▻http://www.madamasr.com/en/2017/05/26/feature/u/24-hours-later-what-we-know-about-the-blocking-of-mada-masrs-website
Access to Mada Masr’s website via most of Egypt’s internet service providers (ISPs) has been blocked since Wednesday evening.
The country’s official state news agency, MENA, quoted a high-level security source on Wednesday night as saying that access to 21 websites, which had disseminated “content that supports terrorism and extremism and deliberately spreads lies,” had been blocked in Egypt in accord with “relevant legal proceedings.”
Mada Masr has not been officially informed that any party has taken official or legal measures against it.
Several other websites have also been blocked, including two Egyptian publications: Masr al-Arabiya and the website of the print weekly Al-Mesryoon. The list also includes some Qatari or Qatar-funded news outlets that support or are managed by the Muslim Brotherhood, principal among them Al Jazeera and Huffington Post Arabic, in addition to the official website for Palestinian political movement Hamas.
Egypt-Saudi Arabia Handshake between king and president points to waning tensions | MadaMasr
▻http://www.madamasr.com/en/2017/04/13/feature/politics/handshake-between-king-and-president-points-to-waning-tensions
Some signals suggest a possible de-escalation between Egypt and Saudi Arabia, whose usually tight relations have recently witnessed turbulence.
The Jordan Arab Summit, held on March 29, saw the leaders of both countries, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and King Salman bin Abdulaziz, meet and shake hands, while their respective ministers of foreign affairs agreed to set up a “committee for political follow-up.”
Meanwhile, earlier in February, King Salman visited the Egyptian wing at the Jenaderiyah cultural festival, in what was interpreted as a gesture of restoring relations.
One of the latest points of contention between the two countries concerns the Red Sea islands of Tiran and Sanafir, which Egypt ceded sovereignty over in April 2016, following an agreement between the two governments. However, the Egyptian Supreme Administrative Court ruled on January 16 against the agreement, declaring the islands Egyptian. The court argued that the Egyptian government failed to submit documents in support of Saudi sovereignty.
But the legal contest didn’t stop here. On April 2, a court of urgent matters annulled the supreme court’s ruling. Parliament took a decisive step forward on April 10, one day after Coptic Christian churches in Alexandria and Tanta were bombed in attacks claimed by the Province of Sinai. In its first session after the bombings, Parliament referred the case to its legislative and constitutional affairs committee, where it will undergo a preliminary vote before a final vote takes place in the general assembly. It is a development aligned with what officials have said in closed quarters for some time.
“Saudi Arabia has reassurances from Cairo that it will receive the two islands in any case. But it also blames Cairo for managing this issue poorly,” says an Egyptian official working at the General Secretariat of the Arab League, who spoke to Mada Masr on condition of anonymity.
Italy accuses 10 of killing Regeni, removes 16 officials from list of suspects | MadaMasr
▻http://www.madamasr.com/en/2017/04/05/feature/politics/italy-accuses-10-of-killing-regeni-removes-16-officials-from-list-of-suspe
The identification by Italian investigators of an initial list of defendants accused of the 2016 killing of Italian student Guilio Regeni in Egypt marks a critical development in the case. An initial list of 26 names was pared down to 10 politicians and officials.
Regeni’s mother, Paola Deffendi, revealed in a press conference on Monday at the Italian Senate that the family now knows who killed their son after torturing him, as well as where the crime took place. Alessandra Ballerini, the family lawyer, also said at the presser that Regeni was killed in an area that falls under the control of an Egyptian security apparatus.
An Italian government source, speaking to Mada Masr on condition of anonymity, revealed that Italian investigators prepared a list of 26 figures whom evidence implicates in the killing of Regeni.
“In order to preserve the relations between the two countries, names of politicians and officials working in sovereign executive bodies have been removed from the list,” the source said. “The responsibility of some of them is limited to knowledge of the crime, given their positions. We also removed names of those who intervened in the case after Regeni’s death.”
#Egypte #répression #regeni #Italie
Update : Egypt’s parliament passes new NGO law | MadaMasr
▻http://www.madamasr.com/en/2016/11/29/news/u/parliament-passes-new-ngo-law
Article 24 makes the approval of the National Authority for the Regulation of Non-Governmental Foreign Organizations necessary for the receipt of foreign funding. While the earlier draft presented by the government had the same condition, it considered the lack of a response within 60 days equivalent to approval, while the current draft considers the lack of a response within the same period equivalent to a rejection.
The penalties in Article 87 of the new law range from one to five years imprisonment, in addition to a fine between LE50 thousand and LE1 million.
The law stipulates prison terms of up to five years and fines between LE50,000 and LE1 million. Crimes considered punishable by five-year sentences include cooperating with a foreign organization to practice civil society work without obtaining permits, and conducting or participating in field research or opinion polls in the field of civil society without prior approval.
It is not permissible for an association to open headquarters or offices in any governorate without prior written approval from the minister of social solidarity, according to Article 21. Those who move an association’s headquarters to somewhere other than the originally registered location may be eligible for prison time of up to a year and a fine up to LE500,000.
Associations are obliged “to work according to the state’s plan and its developmental needs,” Article 14 stipulates.
Mohamed Zaree, the head of the Cairo office of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) previously told Mada Masr that the new law does not only target human rights organizations, but all local development organizations and individual initiatives. For him, the law indicates that the state is at war with civil society.
Video of tuk tuk driver railing against the state goes viral | Mada Masr
▻http://www.madamasr.com/news/video-tuktuk-driver-railing-against-state-goes-viral
He added, “the people are not educated, the people are tired, the people are hungry.”
The footage shows him questioning how the state can have so many institutions — the military, Interior Ministry, Trade Ministry and Parliament — and yet people are still unable to find rice or sugar on the street. The driver insisted that before the presidential elections the people had these commodities. “Now what has happened?” he asked.
He also railed against the fact the Egypt receives huge sums of money from Saudi Arabia, but the people never see it.
Petit aperçu d’#Egypte
“Shame on Egypt for doing this, how did we get to this state?” he asked, calling for justice and democracy in Egypt.
In addition to economic troubles, the unnamed driver asserted that one of the biggest problems in Egypt is the state of education. When the interviewer asked the driver what he graduated in, he replied “I graduated from tuk tuk.”
Egypt to investigate spying charges against Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh and Hamdeen Sabbahi | Mada Masr
▻http://www.madamasr.com/news/egypt-investigate-spying-charges-against-abdel-moneim-abouel-fotouh-and-ha
Allegations that Egyptian politicians Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh and Hamdeen Sabbahi have spied for Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard were referred Monday to Egypt’s State Security Agency for investigation.
The allegations were leveled by lawyer Ashraf Farahat after the two men attended a conference in Lebanon titled: “The general Arab conference to support resistance and reject its categorization as terrorism,” organized by the National Arab Conference in collaboration with the Islamic National Conference, the General Conference for Arab Parties and the Arab Popular Mobilization Body.
Organizers said in media statements that the conference aimed to demonstrate popular support for resistance movements in response to what they called campaigns led by the US and Saudi Arabia against them. It stated that the Palestinian cause and resistance remain a common ground for Arab political factions to unite around.
The conference was held on the 10th anniversary of the 34-day July war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon in 2006, which ended with Lebanon’s Hezbollah successfully repelling the Israeli attack.
Sinai tells its own story |
As mainstream media depends on military press releases to report on Sinai, locals try to build a different narrative
Monday, July 18, 2016 - 21:05
By:
Heba Afify
Mada Masr
▻http://www.madamasr.com/sections/politics/sinai-tells-its-own-story
For a strategic border area in its third year of a brutal war between armed militants and security forces, North Sinai receives remarkably little coverage in mainstream media. As the area has become off-limits for outside journalists, and as most local journalists have little space to operate, the security apparatus has become the main channel of information about the conflict-torn area.
It is now common to find the same news story identically reproduced in all media outlets, always crediting the official Facebook page of the Armed Forces spokesperson. Most of these articles either tout successful military operations on militant targets, or describe casualities from the ranks of the security forces incurred in attacks by militants.
“Both state-owned and private media can’t get the information,” says Mostafa Singer, a Sinai-based journalist working at the privately owned Al-Shorouk newspaper. “Reaching the location of events in Sinai has become almost impossible. Official sources don’t give any real information, and they [mainstream media] all operate under serious constraints, not to mention the threat of prosecution.”
Mother of the World, against the world and outside of it | Mada Masr
▻http://www.madamasr.com/opinion/mother-world-against-world-and-outside-it
Mohamed Naeem
Une effrayante vision du chauvinisme égyptien à travers l’histoire récente
I have long known that the contemporary Egypt in which I was raised could easily produce a figure like General Ibrahim Abd al-Ati and his ill-famed sham device for vanquishing AIDS and hepatitis C. I knew that Egypt’s security doctrine could enable the killing of a young man like Giulio Regeni under torture, without the slightest trace of guilt. I also knew that Egypt’s strategic experts could believe that Freemasons actually rule the world. I was aware that the mentality of education officials in Giza would let them burn books deemed insulting to the nation. I was not surprised that a former chair of the Federation of Industries and a member of the board of trustees at a foreign university could say under the dome of that university that intellectuals are the greatest threat to society; or that state antiquities officials could destroy archeological inscriptions on a temple wall thinking that a foreign archeological mission had carved them.
Egypt Breaking the back of the Journalists Syndicate | Mada Masr
Despite the syndicate’s attempt to de-escalate the crisis, the state seems determined to fuel the conflict
Wednesday, June 1, 2016 - 21:04
By:
Omar Said
▻http://www.madamasr.com/sections/politics/breaking-back-journalists-syndicate
A month after security forces stormed the Journalist Syndicate and arrested two reporters, the standoff between police and journalists continues.
On Sunday, May 29, syndicate head Yehia Qallash and two prominent board members, Khaled al-Balshy and Gamal Abdel Rehim, refused to post bail for their release because one of the charges they face relates to publishing, which according to the Constitution is not punishable by detention, according to a statement released by Qallash.
Prosecutors had taken the three men into custody on Sunday and interrogated them on charges of “harboring fugitives and propagating false news,” in relation to the recent arrest of journalists Amr Badr and Mahmoud al-Sakka from the Journalists Syndicate, where they were holding a sit-in earlier this month. The arrests have triggered a protest movement within the organization.
World Bank: Egypt’s middle class shrank in the lead-up to Arab Spring | Mada Masr
▻http://www.madamasr.com/news/world-bank-egypts-middle-class-shrank-lead-arab-spring
In the first decade of the 21st Century, the middle class expanded across the Middle East, except in Egypt and Yemen, a recent World Bank study concludes.
In Egypt, the middle class shrank from 14.3 percent in the mid-2000s to 9.8 percent by the end of the decade. Only in Yemen was the decline sharper, falling from 17 percent to 8 percent in a decade. By contrast, the percentage of the region’s population considered middle class swelled from 36 percent in the mid-2000s to 42 percent by the end of the decade, according to a World Bank policy research paper.
J’allais le signaler ;-) Chiffres intéressants. J’y ajoute cette autre citation : Across the region, people also became unhappier during the 2000s. Again, Egypt led the pack. In both Egypt and Syria, almost half of the population reported being unhappy with their lives.
Voir : ▻http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2015/10/21/middle-class-frustration-that-fueled-the-arab-spring
Our analysis of middle-class dynamics suggests that there was no middle-class consensus in the Arab Spring countries. The large and growing Tunisian middle class was not feeling prosperous and was fractured in terms of political and social views. In Egypt, the middle class was small and getting smaller as many people were getting poorer. In Syria, the middle class grew quickly from a small base, but the emerging middle class was growing more unhappy and fractured. In Yemen, a combination of sharp divisions and a small and declining middle class created conditions for instability.
The Armed Forces and Egypt’s land | Mada Masr
▻http://www.madamasr.com/sections/economy/armed-forces-and-egypts-land
In February, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued a decree to direct the Armed Forces Land Projects Agency (AFLPA) to oversee construction of two of Egypt’s mega-projects to be built on 16,000 acres under military control: the new capital city and Sheikh Zeyad’s new urban community. The decree granted AFLPA the power to form joint ventures.
The move is indicative of the political direction increasingly taken by Egypt’s authorities to expand the Armed Forces’ involvement in the economy. This military involvement does not only take the form of oversight and contractual management, but increasingly is articulated through the formation of joint venture investments wherein the military allocates desert land under its control – land whose value is expected to appreciate markedly – to companies affiliated with the Armed Forces, as a capital investment.
Does allowing the AFLPA to form joint ventures signal a major transformation in the military’s role in Egypt’s economy?
First, it establishes a legal framework to allow the Armed Forces to use desert land as an investment. Egyptian jurisprudence’s historical attention to national defense has led to the consolidation of desert lands under the control of the Armed Forces. Most desert land fell under the control of the Armed Forces in the 1950s and 1960s. At the time, desert land had little economic value, as Egypt’s population was concentrated in the Nile Valley and the Delta – a situation that has completely changed over the last three decades. Economic and population growth have become increasingly dependent on expansion into Egypt’s once uninhabitable deserts. Expansion has taken the form of land reclamation and housing projects, new industrial cities and tourist attractions. The development of each of these initiatives is contingent upon access to affordable desert land, which the government has been able to provide using the compensatory framework of the original desert land law: the Armed Forces is paid for the utility costs incurred during its relocation. However, in reality, the state and the military, often indivisible, have used desert land to acquire economic gains, either through the outright sale of land or through the recent practice of using land as a capital investment in urban development companies.
Second, the recent presidential decree changes the way in which the Armed Forces use desert land. Access to desert land has allowed the NSPO to transform Egypt’s transportation infrastructure through the construction of roads, overpasses and tunnels. However, now – as evinced by the government’s projects in the administrative capital and the Suez Canal channel, as well as in affordable housing – the Armed Forces have pivoted and will commence a foray into urban and industrial projects as well as logistical services. The move may augur AFLPA’s more frequent use of its land possessions as capital investments in joint ventures with Arab and international investors.
Il y a qqs mois sur le même sujet : Barayez A.-F., 2016, « This Land is their Land »: Egypt’s Military and the Economy, in Jadaliyya, < ▻http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/23671/« this-land-is-their-land »_egypt’s-military-and-the >
April 6 cofounder Amr Ali sentenced to 3 years prison | Mada Masr
▻http://www.madamasr.com/news/april-6-cofounder-amr-ali-sentenced-3-years-prison
He has served as acting general coordinator for April 6 since the arrest of his predecessor, Ahmed Maher, in 2013. Ali was one of the movement’s cofounders and has held several different leadership positions in the group.
In January 2015, Ali was among several liberal and leftist activists whose assets were frozen after the judicial committee tasked with identifying the assets of the Muslim Brotherhood added their names to its list of suspects.
The movement was established in 2008 to help workers in Al-Mahalla al-Kubra stage a successful strike on April 6 of that year. It subsequently grew into one of Egypt’s foremost youth movements, and until recently was celebrated as an orchestrator of the January 25 revolution. However, a court banned the group’s activities in 2014 after ruling that it was involved in espionage and acts that tarnish the national image.
April 6 cofounders Ahmed Maher and Mohamed Adel were sentenced to three years in prison in 2013 along with activist Ahmed Douma with charges of protesting without a permit and assaulting police.
Four other members of the movement were released from custody earlier this month pending investigations into charges of illegally protesting.
A confrontation between the Interior Ministry and angry policemen | Mada Masr
▻http://www.madamasr.com/sections/politics/confrontation-between-interior-ministry-and-angry-policemen
A crisis between Egypt’s Interior Ministry and police forces escalated this week, with seven leaders of a coalition of police sergeants and personnel who are critical of the ministry arrested on their way to a television appearance.
The detained personnel face charges of incitement, obstructing work and illegal strikes, as well as forming a “banned group” that aims to influence and harm the work of a state authority — the Interior Ministry.
They were arrested while en route to appear on a television show on a satellite channel, and their detention was extended on Sunday for 15 days pending investigations.
The Facebook page “Officers of Egypt,” which has since been taken down, claims to speak in the name of the sergeants’ coalition. Founded by low-ranking police in the aftermath of the 2011 revolution, the page alleges state security officers fabricated charges of possession of drugs and weapons against the arrested police personnel. A statement on the page pledges that the group will “expose corruption” and that they refuse to be “scapegoats for the corruption of others.”
Aya Hegazy trial postponed for 5th time after court unable to turn on laptop | Mada Masr
▻http://www.madamasr.com/news/aya-hegazy-trial-postponed-5th-time-after-court-unable-turn-laptop
The defendants, who run the nongovernmental organization (NGO) Belady Foundation for Street Children, face a total of seven criminal charges for running an unlicensed organization, inciting street children to join pro-Muslim Brotherhood protests and sexually assaulting minors.
Hegazy’s brother Basel told Mada Masr that when the court-appointed technician failed to turn on a laptop that was confiscated from Belady’s headquarters, the Abdeen Criminal Court summoned a committee from Maspero to attend the next hearing. The committee would be required to present its report on the prosecution’s technical evidence on April 20.
The trial has now been postponed five separate times, with Hegazy and the other female defendants held in pretrial detention for more than 600 days at Cairo’s Qanater Women’s Prison, while the male defendants are in custody at Tora Prison. One defendant is being tried in absentia. The case goes back to May 2014, when police raided the Belady Foundation’s headquarters and arrested everyone on the premise.
Only four hearings have taken place so far. At the first session, the trial was postponed for six months due to the absence of witnesses, while the second hearing was postponed for another six months when the police force tasked with transporting the defendants from their respective prisons to the courtroom showed up late. The court has yet to hear any witnesses, and the prosecution has yet to present any evidence.
l’ #égypte quoi !...
At least 20 Alexandrian young people forcibly disappeared in the last week | Mada Masr
▻http://www.madamasr.com/news/least-20-alexandrian-young-people-forcibly-disappeared-last-week
Hany Abu-Assad creates a fictional gem about the Palestinian Arab Idol winner | Mada Masr
▻http://www.madamasr.com/sections/culture/hany-abu-assad-creates-fictional-gem-about-palestinian-arab-idol-winner
Le denier film de Hany Abu Assad (Paraside Now, Omar), inspiré par Assaf, un chanteur de Gaza, lauréat d’un concours sur une télé, Arab Idol).
Jan 25, 5 years on : The only words I can write are about losing my words | Mada Masr
▻http://www.madamasr.com/opinion/politics/jan-25-5-years-only-words-i-can-write-are-about-losing-my-words
Témoignage de Alaa Abdel-Fattah, un des principaux acteurs du 25 jnavier 2011, actuellement en prison.
But by early 2015, as I heard my sentence, I had nothing left to say to any public. I could only write personal letters. The revolution and, indeed Egypt itself, would slowly fade out even from those letters, and by fall 2015, even my personal words dried up. It’s been months since I wrote a letter and more than a year since I’ve written an article. I have nothing to say: no hopes, no dreams, no fears, no warnings, no insights, nothing, absolutely nothing. Like a child showing signs of autism, I am regressing and losing my words, my ability to imagine an audience and mentally model the impact of my words on them.
I try to remember what I wrote for the Guardian five years ago on the last normal day of my life. I try to imagine who read that article and what impact it had on them, I try to remember what it was like when tomorrow seemed so full of possibility and my words seemed to have the power to influence (if only slightly) what that tomorrow would look like.
I can’t really remember that. Now tomorrow will be exactly like today and yesterday and all the days preceding and all the days following. I have no influence over anything.
But one thing I do remember, one thing I know, is that the sense of possibility was real. It may have been naive to believe our dream could come true, but it was not foolish to believe that another world was possible. It really was. Or at least that’s how I remember it.
Today’s headlines: January 25, 2016 | Mada Masr
▻http://www.madamasr.com/news/todays-headlines-january-25-2016
The headlines in today’s main state and privately owned newspapers:
Ministry of Interior: No protests today, Youm7 (page 1)
Sisi: 25 January went off track and correction came through June 30, Al-Watan (page 1)
President redeems status of January revolution, Al-Masry Al-Youm (page 1)
Delusions of the Muslim Brotherhood fall through on revolution anniversary, Al-Wafd (page 3)
Committee for confiscating Brotherhood funds reveals group’s plan to take over the state, Al-Ahram (page 1)
Bundle of Saudi aid for Egypt, Al-Shorouk (page 1)
Arab Investment Bank and United Bank of Egypt top banks to be floated in the stock exchange, Al-Watan (page 1)
Dangerous report to general prosecutor reveals squandering of LE55 billion at Ministry of Agriculture, Al-Dostour (page 7)
Emergency meeting for Supporting Egypt coalition to fix performance of their members in parliament, Al-Shorouk (page 3)
Court: Ban on conditional release of defendants accused of attacking police stations, Al-Watan (page 2)
Ministry of Education prepares ‘power of arrest’ against private-lessons mafia,Youm7 (page 2)
Egypt calls for speeding up Syrian negotiations, Al-Ahram (page 1)
Studio Emad Eddin inspected by authorities, operations continue as normal | Mada Masr
▻http://www.madamasr.com/news/studio-emad-eddin-inspected-authorities-operations-continue-normal
A surprise inspection by the Office of Artistic Production Police Department at performance arts center Studio Emad Eddin’s downtown Cairo premises on Tuesday was confirmed in a statement released by the studio Thursday.
Dans la suite de mon billet sur #cpa, une autre institution remuante au Caire est visitée par l’administration en amont du 25 janvier.
Et ça également : ▻http://www.madamasr.com/news/politics/activist-arrests-media-raids-continue-january-25-approaches
sur l’arrestation de deux activistes, Taher Mokhtar et Omar Hazek.
The co-curated, best-of-2015 #MadaMixTape | Mada Masr
▻http://www.madamasr.com/sections/culture/co-curated-best-2015-madamixtape
Une sélection de musiques actuelles arabes. « This 33-song playlist will carry you through music from the MENA region, across genres like neo-folk, rap, electronica, noise, and alt-rock, mostly from 2015. »
Amateurs de danse du ventre et autres orientaleries, passez votre chemin !
▻https://soundcloud.com/mada-masr/sets/co-curated-2015-year-end
A signaler. Club Maze à Berlin chaque premier mercredi du mois soirée “Syrphe electronic night” par C-Dric fermont (Liban).
Musiques électroniques et expérimentales avec des musiciens du Moyen Orient et d’Asie.
“Syrphe (hoverfly in English) is a platform focused on music and events in the field of electronic music, noise, avant-garde, contemporary classical, electro-acoustic, industrial, experimental, sound art (...) specially from Africa and Asia but not exclusively. Syrphe tries to establish new connections and exchanges between musicians, promoters, galleries, venues, magazines, radio stations from all over the world and tends to spread above all awareness about Asian and African composers. Cd’s and other formats are now and then published, lectures, workshops and concerts are also sometimes given in various art centres, universities, museums and venues. C-drík, behind the label/platform programmes now and then a radio show on Radio Staalplaat, presenting new and old discoveries in sound art, electro-acoustic, improv, musique concrète, ambient from Asia, Africa and Latin America and publishes newsletters, writings and essays around that topic.”
▻http://www.syrphe.com
Tu me connais, j’allais passer mon chemin mais finalement je suis resté :-)
Student community outraged after Egyptian Student Union dissolved | Mada Masr
▻http://www.madamasr.com/news/student-community-outraged-after-egyptian-student-union-dissolved
In response to the ministry’s decision, a group of student movements released a statement condemning the nullification of election results, asking for support from the larger student community. The student movements also demanded the resignation of Higher Education Minister Ashraf al-Shehy.
Une tactique adpoptée avec le succès que l’on sait en Algérie il y a quelques décennies : quand une élection ne vous plaît pas, vous l’annulez ! Ici, les élections (politiquement significatives) des responsables étudiants dans les Universités, élections remportées par des candidats « indépendants » proche du 25 janvier.