Year: 2008

Families of the Mahalla detainees

Posted on 02/09/200809/02/2021 By 3arabawy

Blogger Kareem el-Beheiri uploaded some photos of the Mahalla detainees’ families:

Families of the Mahalla detainees. Photo by Kareem el-Beheiri

‘The state of fear has broken down’

Posted on 01/09/200810/01/2021 By 3arabawy

“The state of fear has broken down,” said Sayyed el-Badri of Alexandria’s Teachers’ Voice. I hear this sentence a lot in activist meetings nowadays.

‘We want a free syndicate’

Posted on 01/09/200820/12/2020 By 3arabawy

“There are two systems for education in Egypt,” said Omar Morsi, a Cairo teacher, during the Saturday protest. “A foreign system for the children of the rich, who live in closed compounds and lead a different life-style; and the other one for the children of the ugly duckling–our children! The first one has all the privileges, while the second has none… We want a free syndicate! We want a syndicate that doesn’t sleep! We want a syndicate that doesn’t fear (the govt)!”