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Journalist side-lined for criticizing government in Al-Ahram column

Posted on 27/06/200802/01/2021 By 3arabawy

Local press reports allege that Prime Minister Ahmad Nazif has twice disqualified journalist and poet Farouk Goweida from nomination for membership of the Supreme Council for Culture over the past three months in retaliation for a series of articles critical of the government.
The article series titled “The Land Mafia,” which were published in the state-owned Al-Ahram newspaper, heavily criticized the government for not following due process when selling state-owned land to investors and businessmen.

Bourg el-Arab detainees suspend hunger strike

Posted on 26/06/200812/01/2021 By 3arabawy

Muhammad Maree and Mosaad Abul Fagr suspended their hunger strike yesterday in Bourg el-Arab Prison, coming under pressures from State Security police.

Rashad

Posted on 25/06/200809/02/2021 By 3arabawy

Demoralized by the failure of the 1977 Bread Intifada, and faced with an escalating witch-hunt campaign and purges by Sadat’s regime against leftists in the universities and civil service, thousands of Egyptian communists and radical nationalists left the country and sought refuge in Libya, Algeria, Iraq, Kuwait (yeah, believe it or not, Kuwait received tons of Egyptian communists back then!) and Yemen… Four months after my birth, my family left Egypt for Yemen in 1977, where we lived in Sana’a for two years. In the above photo, taken in 1978 or 1979, my father (on the left dancing while carrying a stick) is dressed together with an Egyptian friend in a Yemeni traditional costume, during a trip outside Sana’a. Below, is a pic of Hoss and Abu Hoss taken on 13 June 1979.