Showing posts with label Yasmin Salem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yasmin Salem. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Other Good Analyses re Maspero

Dear readers

I went to graduate school at Harvard with Anthony Shenoda.We were Graduate Research Associates at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.  He argues that Copts are largely invisible in Egyptian society until they are attacked. Here is a link to his recent work on Maspero in Jadaaliya, which is a good magazine, by the way.

Reflections on the (In)Visibility of Copts in Egypt. 

Yasmin Salem says the Copts face institutionalized racism in Egypt.

A Case of Institutionalized Racism?

If you read Arabic, here are Maspero testimonies.

Testimonies of Eyewitnesses in Maspero incidents.

My colleague Mr. Hussein talks on his blog Sibilant Egypt about the problems with press coverage that have emerged in the wake of the Maspero incident.


Will Maspiro ever be cleansed?

~WMB





Sunday, August 21, 2011

Crisis on Sinai border

Just some links. More shortly. WMB

Egypt says it deeply regrets Egypt troop deaths
http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/488097

Sinai contested: outlaws, Islamists, Israel and Army
http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/488224

Give peace a chance
http://chronicleofapostrevolution.blogspot.com/2011/08/give-peace-chance.html

Egypt-Israel: What happened to Give Peace a Chance?
http://chronicleofapostrevolution.blogspot.com/2011/08/egypt-israel-what-happened-to-give_3018.html