January 2011
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I am worried sick about Egypt. In particular, my friends and co-workers in Cairo. The same people who proudly showed me around their city are now in a constant state of worry of their entire country. Pride peeks it’s head out when talking about neighbors banding together to protect their neighborhoods and the Egyptian Museum. It’s time for change - as someone born and raised in the...
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“British-based Vodafone said all mobile operators in Egypt had been...”
– - This is why my Egyptian mobile phone and I couldn’t get a hold of my Egyptian friends…
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For those of you in the U.S. Who want to do... →
soupsoup:
via squashed and afghanipoppy
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Get the facts about Egypt
foreignaffairsmagazine:
Get the background you need on Mubarak and Egypt—from Boutros Boutros-Ghali on Egypt in the Post-Sadat Era to CFR Fellow Steven Cook on Mohamed El Baradei’s chance for reform.
Also check out our ‘must reads’ from this Egyptian politics reading list.
“The Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia has sent a shock wave through the Arab world....”
– Bruce Riedel (via soupsoup)
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I don't care - I can't stop →
labroad:
Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period.
Type professionals can get amusingly—if justifiably—overworked about spaces. “Forget about tolerating differences of opinion: typographically speaking, typing two spaces before the start of a new sentence is absolutely, unequivocally wrong,” Ilene Strizver, who runs a typographic consulting firm The Type Studio, once wrote. “When...
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I got a lot of unsolicited encouragement on my run today. Every bus, car and motorcycle flashed their lights/honked/waved at me while I ran on the side of the road. I’m glad the citizens of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt were so supportive of my running.
“I’m not a fan of Facebook as a product. I have an account that I rarely use. I...”
– Everything will be reinvented (via bijan)
December 2010
46 posts
