Aya - Tango Till They’re Sore (Tom Waits)
Cover done right.
Other choice: The River Song (orignal) and All the World is Green (Tom Waits)
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"The reason we’re so dependent on donor funding is limitations set on collecting donations. There’s also pressure on rich businessmen who’ve opted to fund such activities in the past. Since the homegrown charity replaces the nonexistent social security net, we won’t be able to cultivate a full replacement for donor funding at the moment. We’ll have to either depend on the state or big business, and both are not good for independence, so a mix of sources is best. The serious radical centers have multiple sources of funding, severely underpay their employees, have strict policies of wage discrepancies and spend most of their money on travel or legal fees."
— Sticky Fingers: Foreign Funding in Flux (Bidoun magazine)
A conversation with Issandr El Amrani, Moukhtar Kocache, William Wells, Alaa Abd El Fattah, Khaled El Qazzaz, Basma El Husseiny, Oussama Rifahi, Amr Gharbeia, Sarah Rifky, Hossam El Hamalawy, Angela Harutyunyan and Marwa Sharafeldin
A conversation with Issandr El Amrani, Moukhtar Kocache, William Wells, Alaa Abd El Fattah, Khaled El Qazzaz, Basma El Husseiny, Oussama Rifahi, Amr Gharbeia, Sarah Rifky, Hossam El Hamalawy, Angela Harutyunyan and Marwa Sharafeldin
March 30th
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I’ve posted about this dope tear gas comic my friend Ali at the War Resistors League and others (Global Justice Working Group) created. They’ve just come out with an Arabic translation that’s being circulated in some independent publications in Egypt, Palestine and maybe now Yemen.
The comic is a strong pop-ed resource for how US ‘aid’ breaks down and I wanted to share a column with you all. Here’s Ali’s post framing the comic’s content and how folk might use it (Ar.)
January 27th
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Today, January 27 is Khaled Saeed’s birthday. (Photo: @sultanalqassemi)
January 25th
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يسقط حكم العسكر - Down with military rule
Graffiti in Abdel Salam Aref Street (photo: Hossam el-Hamalawy)
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Protesters gather in front of Isteqama Mosque in Giza Square on Jan. 25th
(photo: Hossam el-Hamalawy)
January 7th
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Reda Abdelaziz Mohamed is not crying.
His left eye constantly weeps, his right, blinded forever.
Nineteen-year-old Reda (Arabic word meaning ‘contentment’) was shot in his eyes on November 19, 2011. He was in Mohamed Mahmoud Street in central Cairo to support protesters in an ongoing battle against security forces off Tahrir Square. Reda was not throwing rocks at police — he was kneeling down to pick up a protester’s dead body when he was shot. “I don’t remember feeling anything. I ran and knelt down to pick up a dead body. Next to me stood a police officer. Suddenly I was thrust backwards and I have not seen anything since.”
Read the rest of Laura el tantawy’s great piece in burn magazine.
December 28th
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December 13th
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ANNOUNCING WINNERS OF THE 2011 SPRINGIES
In a year defined by unimaginable bravery and heroism, lesser deeds must still be recognised: introducing the Springies™, rewarding services to hilarity and general greatness amidst the Arab Spring.
With no further ado, the 2011 winners are…(full list here)
The Joseph Stalin Award for Being So Thoroughly Disgraced That Even Azerbaijan Takes Down Your Statue
Hosni Mubarak, whose Jeffersonian statue on the outskirts of Baku was replaced by a more generic Egyptian figure.
Worth noting via this Radio Free Europe report that this wasn’t the only purge of Mubarak remnants in Azerbaijan: “A school in Khyrdalan named after Mubarak’s wife Suzanna was also re-dubbed “Egyptian school.”
