Interesting media clips on the Lebanon war coverage…
Tag: lebanon
Lebanon update
Al-Jazeera announced that “Israeli army will pull back as quickly as possible tomorrow to the Blue Line and the international border, the head of Israel’s ground forces G. Gantz said.”
UNjust
Arabist reader Sally Sami sent me a link to this blog…
Leninology
Check out this interesting blog… LENIN’S TOMB
الـبـتــــــاع
One of my favorite Ahmad Fouad Negm‘s poems… البتــــاع
Egyptian blogger Fantomas dedicates it to el presidente.
Pro-resistance demos (digital roundup)
I’ve uploaded more photos of pro-resistance demos, that took place over the past week, to my flickr account.
-A pro-resistance women’s candle vigil in Tahrir Square, on 2 August
-I’ve added more pix by Amr Abdallah of Artists & Writers For Change’s pro-Hizbollah demo, on 3 August
-Muslim Brothers’ protest at the Lawyers’ Syndicate in solidarity with the resistance, on 5 August
-A Kefaya demo in front of the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, demanding the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador to Cairo, on 6 August
(UPDATE: Wael Abbas posted some good photos of the FM protest here.)
-Bassam Haddad also sent this video of Washington DC protests
Solidarity from Brazil
I received this from a friend…
10th August, 2006
We, the undersigned writers, gathered for a festival of literature in the idyllic Brazilian town of Paraty, cannot but help think of the innocent victims of wars in the Middle East.
The Israeli invasion of Lebanon is only the most recent addition to the litany of war and occupation. The deliberate destruction of the social infra-structure of Lebanon and the massacres of Marwahin, Qana and Srifa should awake the conscience of the world.
Pro-resistance demo at Al-Azhar
Thousands demonstrated today at Cairo’s Al-Azhar Mosque, following the Friday prayers, in solidarity with the Lebanese and Palestinian resistance.
The mosque came under the siege of security forces since the morning. Plainclothes thugs were deployed by the police inside the mosque’s courtyard. The thugs clashed with the demonstrators, banning them from marching in the streets.
Photographer and friend Nasser Nouri was there…
Kefaya’s website reported a pro-resistance demo took place today in the town of Snoris in the Fayyoum oasis. Police cracked down on the demonstrators, arresting Kefaya activist Ahmad Fayedd. Another solidarity demo went out from Seedi Ghareeb Mosque in Suez.
No reports yet on the Zagazig and Damanhour demos…
Abul 3abed goes to war
An Abul 3abed humour that’s been circulating the Arab cyberspace recently….
Olmert was sitting in his office wondering how to invade Lebanon when his telephone rang.
“Hallo, Mr. Olmert!” a heavily accented voice said. “This is Abul Abed,down at the tea house in Beirut! I am callin` to tell ya dat we are officially declaring war on you, yes you!”
“Well” Olmert replied, “This is indeed important news! How big is your army?”
“Right now,” said Abul Abed, after a moments calculation “there is myself, my cousin Mustafa, me next-door-neighbor Abou khaled, and the whole team from the tea house. That makes eight!”
Israel’s new Gulag
Ynet reported Israel is building a new prison, where detained members of the Lebanese resistance group Hizbollah are to be held. You can find the report here.
Nazareth-based British journalist Jonathan Cook had written three years ago a good story on an Israeli secret prison, Facility 1391, where Lebanese and Arab prisoners were reportedly incarcerated and tortured. Newsweek also ran a feature on that facility.
Israel’s interrogation tactics were largely copied by the US forces in Iraq.
Nazareth-based British journalist Jonathan Cook had written three years ago a good story on an Israeli secret prison, Facility 1391, where Lebanese and Arab prisoners were reportedly incarcerated and tortured. Newsweek also ran a feature on that facility.
Israel’s interrogation tactics were largely copied by the US forces in Iraq.