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Star-Studded Obama Video Gains Momentum

UPDATED: The Huffington Post is now suggesting that the will.i.am-produced pro-Obama video could significantly impact the outcome of Super Tuesday. Do you agree?"This election cycle marks the first time when...

created by Jarrett Martineau | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Doc Film Deals Done at Sundance

Docs films continue their dominance as a viable and engaging filmic form at this year's Sundance Film Festival, which opened yesterday. One of the biggest deals was made for "Up the Yangtze", an acclaimed film by Canadian filmmaker Yung Chang."Several small acquisitions...

created by Jarrett Martineau | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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if oceans collide

Dating in a War Zone (AP)

In Baghdad, even a first date can be a long-distance relationship. In a city with no real streat life left, there would be no "hot spots". You cannot take in a movie with no cinemas, nor can you take that special...

created by jordan | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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Egypt's blog rebels silenced by jail

"A popular Egyptian blogger known for his withering criticisms of the government has given up writing after becoming the latest victim of a state crackdown on dissent. The blogger, known as Sandmonkey, signed off last week, writing that he had noticed state security agents on...

created by KEARNEY | 2 years ago
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Concerns Grow Over Bloggers Quitting Due To Govt Intimidation

"Sunday, April 29, 2007 Muslim Brotherhood activist and blogger Ibrahim El Houdaiby expressed support and solidarity with blogger Sandmonkey, who decided to stop blogging after being intimidated by Egyptian...

created by KEARNEY | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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Getting Kareem Freed

"Four years in prison for blogging: three of them for inciting "hatred of Islam" and one for "insulting the president." That's the sentence handed down by an Egyptian judge to a young Egyptian blogger, Abdelkareem Nabil Soliman, generally known in the blogosphere as "Kareem."...

created by KEARNEY | 2 years ago
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Blogger's Appeal Fails

Despite an outcry raised round the world, the Egyptian court scheduled to hear blogger Kareem Nabel's appeal upheld his sentence today. The 4 year prison term meted out to the blogger was the result of Egypt's first complete prosecution of a blogger."The Appeal Court on...

created by publicreader | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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Bloggers Alaa Seif and Wael Abbas squished by security troops

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Blogger's Appeal Tomorrow

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak probably had no idea what a firestorm would be let loose when his courts sentenced a blogger to four years in prison for defaming Islam and insulting Mubarak. "Egyptian blogger...

created by publicreader | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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EGYPT: BLOGGER CASE TO SUPREME COURT AFTER APPEAL RULING

"EGYPT: BLOGGER CASE TO SUPREME COURT AFTER APPEAL RULING Cairo, 12 March (AKI) - The lawyer of the first Egyptian blogger to receive a four year prison sentence for his web writings has said he will take the case to the Supreme Court. "We have no option but to go to the...

created by KEARNEY | 2 years ago
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Blogger jailed for 4 years

"“On blogs everyone is allowed to write what they want. This proves how unintelligent the president and Al-Azahr are “Said kazia.Abdel Kareem Soliman,22, an Egyptian blogger blogging under the name Kareem Amer,has been sentenced for four years’ prison for insulting...

created by bigbrother | 2 years ago
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salik

Join "Free Kareem Campaign"

“Free Kareem Campaign” has been launched to form pressure on the Egyptian government to release an Egyptian blogger who has been sentenced to four years in prison for the alleged crimes of “defaming the...

created by salik | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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Egyptian blogger needs support

The Egyptian blogger Abdelkareem Nabil Soliman Amer has been arrested by the police for 'criticising Islam' and will be subject to a second interrogation "by the prosecutor and... professors from Al-Azhar University" tomorrow. Amer was expelled in March from that...