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The Unfinished Revolution: We Must Stand Shoulder to Shoulder With the Egyptian Protesters

Bianca Jagger | Posted 03.26.2012 | World
Read More: Egypt, Rasha Azeb, Women's Rights, Military Tribunals, Salwa Hosseini, Maikel Nabil, Human Rights Watch, Hosni Mubarak, Bread, Freedom and Dignity, Democracy, Emergency Law, Amnesty International, Khaled Alkhamissi, Scaf, Mu?Tazz Nasr, Revolution, Samira Ibrahim, Protest, Tahrir Square, Mona El Tahawy, Hania Sholkamy, Virginity Test, Mohammed Hussein Tantawi, World News
Bianca Jagger

The Egyptian peoples' revolution that began a year ago today must not be allowed to be hijacked by the military. The Egyptians, more than ever, need the support of the international community during this critical period, to achieve their goals.

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Obama: 'Outrageous' Violence In Syria Must 'End Now'

AP | Posted 06.22.2011 | World
Read More: The-Right-to-Peaceful-Assembly, Middle East Protests, Emergency Law, Freedom of Expression, Bashar Assad, Peaceful Assembly, Syria-Emergency-Law, Syria Protests, Syria, Barack Obama, Tear Gas, Bashar Al-Assad, Freedom-of-Association, World News

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is condemning the latest use of force by Syria against anti-government demonstrators and says the regime's "outra...

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Syrian President Says Government To Lift Emergency Law

AP | By ZEINA KARAM | Posted 06.16.2011 | World
Read More: Syria Law, President Assad, Bashar Assad, Syria Emergency Law, Emergency Law, Syria, Emergency Law Syria, World News

BEIRUT -- Bowing to pressure from a popular uprising, Syria's president promised Saturday to end nearly 50 years of emergency rule next week but coupl...

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Toppling Dictators with a Lethal Dose of Technology and Nonviolent Action

Stephanie Rudat | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Egypt Demonstrations, Egypt Protests, Congress, Youth Movement, Political Repression, Nonviolent Conflict, Socioeconomics, Facebook, Dictators, Tunisia Revolution, Political Reform, Albert Einstein Institution, Social Media, Tunisia Protests, Emergency Law, Egypt Revolution, Egypt, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, Revolution, Political Activism, Protest, Nonviolent Resistance, Political Corruption, Hosni Mubarak, Mubarak, Technology, Demonstrations, Tunisia, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Repression, Citizen Journalism, Gene Sharp, The Guardian, Dictatorship, Egypt Emergency Laws, Egypt State Tv, Nonviolence, Human Rights, Ahmed Salah, Oppression, Youtube, Nonviolent Action, Political Prisoners, Khaled Said, Torture, Impact News
Stephanie Rudat

Ahmed Salah, an Egyptian journalist and activist who had survived torture while incarcerated in jail for pushing against the regime, brought his mission to the United States.

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Egyptian Foreign Minister: US Should Not Impose Will on Egypt; Violence Against Uprising Possible

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Egypt, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Margaret Warner, Tahrir Square, Democracy, Hosni Mubarak, Pbs Newshour, Joe Biden, Emergency Law, Politics News
Steve Clemons

PBS NewsHour's Margaret Warner has secured very important interviews with Egypt Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit. In the five minute clip above...

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Thunderous Silence on the Nile

Adel Iskandar | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Egypt, Elbaradei, Khaled Said, Emergency Law, Facebook, Silent Revolution, World News
Adel Iskandar

July 23rd marked the 58th anniversary of the end of the monarchy and the birth of the Egyptian republic. This summer it appears the regime has little control of political dissent in the country.

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Flash Mob in Egypt: Protesters find a way around Emergency Law

Nadine Wahab | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Egypt, Facebook, Emergency Law, Ayman Nour, Flash Mob, Fanpage, Elshaheed, Egypt Protests, World News
Nadine Wahab

A Flash Mob was organized in Egypt last week by the Facebook fan page, We are Khalid Said. The page was formed in memory of Khaled Said who was brutal...

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