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Visualizing ideology: Movies, politics and the working class

Posted on By 3arabawy

Labor Vs. Capital in the Age of Silent Film:

Visual images can often be far more powerful than words. Back in late 1800s, when New York City’s infamous Boss Tweed was asked why he had offered cartoonist Thomas Nast $500,000 to stop drawing caricatures of him and his cronies, Tweed replied: “I don’t care so much what the papers write about me–my constituents can’t read; but they can understand pictures.”
The same is true today. Movies and mass media most impact us in the areas we know the least about.

Battleship Potemkin

State Security detain 33 MB students

Posted on By 3arabawy

From Ikhwan Web:

State security forces arrested 33 students from the Egyptian summer resort of Hanoville, Agamy, west of Alexandria , on Saturday at dawn, after raiding three flats which the students rented to spend three days holiday. The students belong to the Muslim Brotherhood group, 26 of them are engineering students at Ain Shams university, Cairo , and seven students are from the Alexandria University . One of the students contacted his friends and told them of the security raid and detentions.