The cars started flowing through downtown Cairo’s Tahrir Square again on Sunday. Most of the protesters, who had made the massive public space their...
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Iran cuts a calender month ahead of protests
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei’s praise of the Egyptian people and encouragement of Cairo's protesters in the past...
“I am on the people’s side, not the regime’s”
Shahira Amin, the number two at Nile television, explains why she resigned from Egyptian state television
“I am on the people’s side, not the regime’s”
Shahira Amin, the number two at Nile television, explains why she resigned from Egyptian state television When I got into the car to drive to work...
Iran jams BBC Persian Television
Iran has jammed the BBC's Persian Television service following its coverage of political unrest in Egypt. The electronic signal jamming satellites...
Egypt: Protesters move from euphoria to fury
Anger in Tahir Square as President Mubarak refuses to stand down, Index on Censorship’s Egypt regional editor Ashraf Khalil reports
Egypt: Protesters move from euphoria to fury
I watched President Hosni Mubarak’s speech Thursday night from Tahrir Square, where a live broadcast of Al Jazeera was being projected onto a sheet...
Cab confessionals: Iranians respond to Egypt
In a New York Times op-ed last week, These Revolutions Are Not All Twitter, Andrew Woods raises the significance of “a phenomenon called...
Jordan: Top news site disabled by hackers
Jordan's most visited news website, Ammonnews, was frozen by hackers for several hours on Monday. The cyber attack came a day after the website had...
Syria unblocks Facebook and Youtube
Syria has restored access to video sharing website youtube and social networking website facebook. Access to youtube had been blocked in August 2007...