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You can’t always get what you want
This was in Egypt Independent the other day: Nubian group drafts demands for new president. I mentioned some of the issues around the displacement of people in Nubia—or al-Nub, as it’s called in...
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Court Rules Israel Is Not at Fault in American Activist’s Death
Court Rules Israel Is Not at Fault in American Activist’s Death It’s just a huge bummer, basically. First of all, it’s terrible that this girl died. It’s terrible that she died trying to put herself...
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Proxy wars in the Levant: will Lebanon get sucked into Syria’s mess?
Uh oh. Termoil in Beirut after the Ashrafiyeh car bombing: The military raids, which began around 10 a.m., were heavily concentrated in the areas of Tayyouneh, Qasqas and Beshara al-Khoury. The Army...
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Jadaliyya: “Dissecting IDF Propaganda: The Numbers Behind the Rocket Attacks”
One of the infographics the IDF has been promoting This is sooo three weeks ago, but I thought it was worth sharing. A friend of mine put this article on facebook and tagged me and some other...
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I refuse to bea…
I refuse to beat my chest over a grief that belongs to others, or shout about how terrorists messed with the wrong city. I find no virtue in braying over the capture of a teenager whose toxic...
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Advertising and public space: reappropriating and remixing media is a...
From Upworthy: ORIGINAL IMAGE designed by Karina Nurdinova and inspired by a quote from Banksy, which was inspired by Sean Tejaratchi’s 1999 essay, “Death, Phones, Scissors.” There’s a bit of...
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What does “nonlethal” really mean?
So a man died in Long Island a couple of days ago after being tasered by the police. He’s by no means the first person to die from tasering under arrest. This seems like as good a time as any to talk...
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Some thoughts on Egypt after the Raba’a massacre
More photos available from Mosa’aberising’s flickr. Be warned: some of them are graphic and depict corpses, injuries, blood, and fire. The NYT published an article that gives me the opportunity to...
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