egyoffline weekly news: February 2010

Iran's first stock of 20 per cent-enriched uranium

Sunday, February 28, 2010

The story behind hijacking biggest day in Iran’s calendar

President Ahmadinejad sought to divert attention from the protests by announcing that

Iran

had produced its first stock of 20 per cent-enriched uranium. He declared that Iran was now a “nuclear state”.

Opposition websites claimed a young woman named Leila Zareii, was killed and many others were wounded or arrested. The opposition leaders Mehdi Karroubi and Mohammed Khatami - a former president - were attacked, as was Zahra Rahnavard, wife of the Green Movement’s other leader, Mir Hossein Mousavi.

Taliban style government in Iran

The current civil uprising in Iran reflects not just a protest against a rigged election. Nor is it primarily a symptom of contentions for power or clashes between opposing perspectives on the nature of the Islamic regime. It is, rather, resistance against a political coup, whose engineers plan to impose a Taliban-style Islamic government on Iran. The coup has been organized by an alliance between the supreme leader and the most militant and fundamentalist faction within the ruling establishment, backed by the Revolutionary Guard.

Israel in Africa

For the second week running I will focus on the implications of the Israeli foreign minister's recent African tour. After visiting several countries in Central Asia and Latin America, Avigdor Lieberman went to Africa, where he visited five carefully selected African nations. The man who, because of his well-known racist views, has failed to persuade any Arab or Western nation to receive him found African doors open. The tour has scantly been reported in the media, apart from a few leaks. But from what we know, it is safe to assume that the Israeli government is trying to outflank us in Africa.

Hossein Mousavi challenged the government

Hijacked the concept of Iranianism and nationalism," Mousavi said

Iran

's opposition leader said Saturday that a dictatorial "cult" was ruling Iran in the name of Islam - his strongest attack to date on the country's clerical leadership.

Mir Hossein Mousavi also challenged the government to let his supporters take to the streets freely, saying that would allow it to gauge the opposition's true strength. Two days ago, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, charged that Iran's the opposition had lost its credibility and its right to participate in politics by not accepting the results of June presidential elections

On the northern edge of the former Taliban

Marines and Afghan troops who fought through the centre of Marjah linked up Saturday with American soldiers on the northern edge of the former Taliban stronghold, clearing the town's last major pocket of resistance.

The joint force encountered almost no hostile fire, indicating that the militants have either fled or blended in with the local population - perhaps to stage attacks later if the Afghan government fails to hold the town. Some Taliban operatives are believed to remain west of Marjah

What is sure right now is that Dubai police have good camcorder

But what else they can do?

Most of the 26 people so far linked to the murder of a top Hamas commander are to be found in Israel, Agence France-Presse cited Dubai police chief Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan as charging in comments published on Saturday.

Khalfan also again pointed the finger at Meir Dagan, the head of Israel’s secret service Mossad which is widely suspected of carrying out the Cold War-style hit on Mahmoud Mabhuh in his Dubai hotel room on January 20

Qatar Facilities for usa

The State of Qatar is situated halfway along the west coast of the Persian Gulf, on the eastern side of the Arabian peninsula. The present population is estimated at 600,000 inhabitants most of whom reside in Doha, the capital city. It is a Peninsula that extends northward covering an area of 11,437 sq. km. as well as a number of islands in the coastal waters of the peninsula. The terrain is generally flat. However, there are some hills and sand dunes which reach an altitude of 40 metres above sea level in the areas of Dukhan and Jebel Fuwairit in the western and northern parts of the country and Khor Al-Udeid in the south.

Iran's nuclear program

Iran

's nuclear program began in the Shah's era, including a plan to build 20 nuclear power reactors. Two power reactors in Bushehr, on the coast of the Persian Gulf, were started but remained unfinished when they were bombed and damaged by the Iraqis during the Iran-Iraq war. Following the revolution in 1979, all nuclear activity was suspended, though subsequently work was resumed on a somewhat more modest scale. Current plans extend to the construction of 15 power reactors and two research reactors.

U S A Suicide airplane

Frustrated American flew his airplane into an Austin, Texas, office building. He was one of the 79 percent of Americans who have given up on “their” government.

The latest Rasmussen Poll indicates that the vast majority of Americans are convinced that “their” government is totally unresponsive to them, their concerns, and their needs. Rasmussen found that only 21 percent of the American population agree that the U.S. government has the consent of the governed, and that 21 percent is comprised of the political class itself and liberals. Rasmussen concludes that the gap between the American population and the politicians who rule them “may be as big today as the gap between the colonies and England during the 18th century.”

Hamas ..the vulnerability game

Mosab Hassan Yousef, whose father, Sheik Hassan Yousef, is in an Israeli prison, provided intelligence to

Israel

's Shin Bet domestic security service was the latest setback to Hamas's image. The organization seized control of the Gaza Strip from the ruling Fatah Party in 2007 and had once been viewed as all but impregnable.

The news comes amid fighting between Hamas and Fatah that has split Palestinians and hampered U.S. efforts to restart peace negotiations with Israel, which has sealed off the Gaza Strip to pressure Hamas into releasing Gilad Shalit, a captured Israeli soldier

History of the word (jehad)

Serbs suffered under the Turkish Jihad but fought back tenaciously to reverse Islam from the Balkan

The Saga of Serbs’ Struggle against the Ottoman Jihad
Today Serbia, Bosnia and Albania are different nations. Kosovo and later perhaps Montenegro would also become different nations. But there was a time when all these people were one nation. There were differences of language among them, but they were bound by one faith – that of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
A cataclysmic event in the fourteenth century was seared into their memory during which all of them paid the price of preserving their national and cultural identity with blood and death. While some survived to retain their original Eastern Orthodox Christian character, some nations were not so fortunate. Centuries of oppression by the Ottoman Turkish Jihadis made them sterile to their ancient history and has changed their character today. While today the Kosovars, Albanians and Bosnian Muslims remain European in their appearance and in some aspects of their culture, they have become Islamized to practice and propagate the faith of their erstwhile tormentors.

Che Guevara

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Remembering His Death, Celebrating His Life

On October 9, 1967, 40 years ago today, Che Guevara was assassinated in Bolivia by his CIA-assisted and -directed captors.

He told the frightened soldier who was sent to execute him in the small room where Che lay, seriously wounded: “I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man." The Bolivian had been told not to shoot Che in the head, because they wanted to be sure to get identifiable photos of him dead. After he was killed, and photos taken, Che's hands were chopped off and sent to Cuba as further proof that the world-famous revolutionary was dead

Gaddafi calls for jihad against Switzerland…video

Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi has called on Muslims around the world to declare a jihad against Switzerland. There has been an ongoing feud between the two countries after Gaddafi's son Hanibal was arrested in Geneva in 2008.

Gaza game

Friday, February 26, 2010

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon seems unable to comprehend that Israel is at war with Hamas - declared a hostile entity by Israel and a proscribed terrorist organisation by America and the European Union

U A E women

Arab societies have always been patriarchal in nature. The prevalence of strict Islam makes them male dominated in all walks of life. Despite the modern face lift of their infrastructure and economies they have had, most Arab countries are still adamant when it comes to providing their women with equal opportunities as men. For example, in a country like UAE, which has a high level of female education, the ratio of female participation in the workforce is still very low As per the officially made available data, about 65% of the UAE's university students were females, but their participation in the country's workforce was only around 15%.

Woman rights in Saudi Arabia

It wasn’t too long ago when women won the right to vote in

America

which was during 1919-1920. Discrimination against women has diminished in many countries through out the years, but what about the places where women are still treated as inferiors? Discrimination and abuse of women in Saudi Arabia still exists today

Iranian women

The revolution in

Iran

of 30 years ago was carried out by bearded men. The new faces of Iran in what just may be another major turning point, if not a revolution, are the young women who are the vanguards of Iran. The rally-cry is for Neda! A young Iranian woman, named Neda, was gunned down in one of the most iconic images of the last week. But, it's not just about one woman named Neda as hundreds and thousands of women protest defiantly showing off her hair and body in a revealing dress

Hamas and its abuse civilian cover

The Law of Armed Conflict not only prohibits targeting an enemy's civilians; it also requires parties to an armed conflict to distinguish their combatant forces from their own civilians, and not to base operations in or near civilian structures, especially protected sites such as schools, medical facilities and places of worship

Tattoo eyebrows

Although sometimes cosmetic eyebrow tattooing is a necessary step in the reconstruction of a face following a traumatic accident, it can also be used for patients who have sparse eyebrows and do not want to apply brow liner daily. Most of the time, these patients are women who are concerned about the way that their eyebrows frame their face. Some patients are allergic to cosmetics or have poor eyesight and cannot apply their makeup correctly. In these and other cases, cosmetic eyebrow tattooing is a viable option. Sometimes the tattoo is a permanent tattoo done purely for cosmetic purposes

Coffee history

here is no doubt that drinking coffee and puffing a cigar are some of the favorite relaxation methods for many people and it is also not surprising that the history of coffee and tobacco has seen the two becoming very popular with the passage of time. Throughout times gone by, coffee has always been the most enervating beverage that has seen people feel invigorated after having had a mug full of this wonderful drink.

Blood money in Saudi Arabia

The Wall Street Journal published the concept of blood money in Saudi Arabia. If a person has been killed or caused to die by another, the latter has to pay blood money or compensation, as follow. 100,000 riyals if the victim is a Muslim man 50,000 riyals if a Muslim woman 50,000 riyals if a Christian man 25,000 riyals if a Christian woman 6,666 riyals if a Hindu man 3,333 riyals if a Hindu woman According to this hierarchy, a Muslim man's life is worth 33 times that of a Hindu woman. This hierarchy is based on the Islamic definition of human rights and is rooted in the

Egypt..how it is safe for you

Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa Covering an area of about 1,010,000 square kilometers, Egypt borders the Mediterranean sea to the north, the Gaza strip and Israel to the northeast, the red sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west.

Jobs for you in Egypt

International Schools in Egypt expect good behaviour, self discipline and tolerance. The school day usually begins at 8 am and finishes at 3pm. Class sizes vary but in some schools they have a maximum of 15 pupils.

World at war

The period after the Second World War would see a time of rebuilding across Europe. Western society would remain conservative after the disastrous consequences of the changes in the 1920s and 1930s. Using many of the

agent green

Story of the son of the founder of Hamas, which defeated its operations against Israel

Opec and oil can harm us

Crude oil costs $139/barrel worldwide, but Indian prices of petroleum products have long been linked to barely $60/barrel. This has predestined under recoveries – explicit and implicit subsidies to consumers – of a whopping re 2,45,000 crore.

recycle taxi cab scraps

Monday, February 22, 2010

For the first time, the government plans to construct a factory that will recycle taxi cab scraps, as a follow-up to last April's introduction of white taxis--an initiative aimed at ridding the capital of its older and more decrepit black and white taxis. Since then, old black and white scrap metal has been piling up at the government automobile junkyard on the Alexandria Desert Highway. Hence, the Ministry of Finance is establishing this new factory to recycle the scrap metal

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Gaza Tunnels

One of the principal goals of Israel's assault in Gaza is to shut down tunnels that are used to smuggle weapons from the Egyptian Sinai. Stephen Farrell of The New York Times explores a commercial tunnel.

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Shisha in Cairo

Anyone who has ever spent any time in a Cairo taxicab, restaurant, office, lobby, coffeehouse, cafeteria or university, or even at the zoo, knows just how ubiquitous smoking is. “There is a movement to be tobacco free in the whole world,” said Ehab Assad, a tobacco control officer in the Egyptian Ministry of Health. “We cannot be away from this

In Cairo

The streets of Cairo are lined with police, thousands of them, standing erect every 20 or 40 feet, facing away from traffic to look for threats, even if that means looking directly at a wall. Instead of gun holsters, most wear water canteens on their belts.

At Cairo University, where Obama is set to speak, American protesters from Code Pink, the peace group that is a fixture of Capitol Hill, have set up shop with a bull horn, announcing that they have a letter from the Hamas government in Gaza that they would like to deliver to President Obama. (The Ministry of Information

Gamal Mubarak

Hosni Mubarak has ruled

Egypt

for 28 of his 81 years, but he's not likely to run for re-election in 2011. And growing public debate over the identity of his successor is fueled in no small part by the fact that Egyptians are not fond of a President who is widely believed to be grooming his 45-year-old son, Gamal Mubarak, to take the reins. (Neither man acknowledges such a plan.) But while such a familial handoff would hardly be atypical in the Middle East, it's far from a done deal in Egypt.

ElBaradei Run for President of Egypt

Egyptian activists, most of them young, were out in force in the midday sun on Friday, their flags and posters raised high, their chants rippling across the pavement at the arrival terminal of Cairo International Airport. They had come out in a startling show of support for a candidate who has yet to declare his candidacy for the Presidency of Egypt.

SADAT

By now the well-groomed cavalry mustache, gleaming dome and heavily lidded eyes have become familiar sights in every Arab land. But except for an occasional trip to Moscow or some other Soviet-bloc capital in quest of arms and aid, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat has rarely ventured beyond the Middle East. Last week Sadat's Boeing 707 presidential jet whisked him westward for a change. By way of Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, and Vienna, Sadat flew to the scenic Austrian city of Salzburg for a face-to-face meeting—his first—with Gerald Ford.

NASSER

THE threat of summer heat already lies heavy over Cairo and the rest of Gamal Abdel Nasser's

Egypt

. The city police have changed their blue flannel uniforms to summer whites. Jacaranda trees are blooming richly purple in suburban Heliopolis, remnants of the district's lost elegance. While the triple peaks of the pyramids of Giza shimmer on the horizon, stately feluccas sail down the Nile as silently as they have done for centuries. Overhead, hawks wheel lazily in gyres. The pace of the people in their flowing gallabia robes, never very fast, has grown a step or two slower.

Sinai's Bedouins

Abu Daoud opens the back door to his Land Cruiser in the darkness of the open desert and flicks on his cigarette lighter to illuminate the large, mounted, belt-fed machine gun in the trunk. "This is for the Egyptians," he says, laughing.

Egyptian is not a label with which Abu Daoud (not his real name) identifies. Many of the Bedouin tribes who populate this mountainous desert region of the northern Sinai Peninsula, where Egypt shares a tense border with Israel and the Gaza Strip, have long been at odds with their government in Cairo.

In the Siege of Gaza

Nothing unites Arab public opinion as much as hostility toward

Israel

's treatment of the Palestinians. The corollary is that there is no greater betrayal, in the minds of the Arab public, than taking Israel's side against the Palestinians — and on that count, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak finds himself on tricky ground.

Egypt's Promise of Peace

"Peace is not an abstract. It means a better life for people. We have shaken off prejudice. Now we must destroy poverty, ignorance, hunger."

That is what Egypt's President Anwar Sadat says his country must gain as a result of his bold decision to make peace with Israel. Now, two years after his flight to Jerusalem and nine months after the signing of the treaty ending hostilities, some changes are appearing. Tourists wearing yarmulkes are visiting the pyramids, new high-rises spike the Cairo sky line, and signs hawking familiar brand names reflect increased Western business investment. The reopened Suez Canal is earning rich transit fees, and Egyptian engineers have taken over Alma, the largest of the oilfields being given up by the Israelis in the course of their three-year withdrawal from the Sinai.

Invoking Islam to Combat Sexual Harassment

Doaa Kassem, like most Egyptian women, is used to being catcalled and grabbed at by men in the crowded streets of Cairo. The 24-year-old executive secretary is well versed in women's rights, having studied the subject in Sweden, and she is bolder than most when it comes to dealing with her harassers. "I'm brave enough to stop them and tell them [what they're doing is wrong]," she says. Sometimes she even chases them down.

THE SUDAN

Arrival. Premier Saad Zaghlul of Egypt arrived in London to confer with Premier Ramsay MacDonald upon the Sudan dispute. At Victoria Station, he and Mme. Zaghlul were hailed with enthusiasm by Egyptian students who lustily cried: "Long live British Democracy! Egypt and the Sudan for the Egyptians!

Youssef Chahine

Where does the truth hide?
Truth is my death; truth is my life.
Before the apocalypse comes, I search in vain for a way to protect you,
My Egypt, my homeland.

This song for a land in distress, with lyrics by the poet Abdel Rahim Mansour, comes from the 1982 film An Egyptian Story. It might have been the personal anthem of the movie's writer-director, Youssef Chahine, who died Sunday at 82, six weeks after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. His passing ended a busy, exemplary

Nubian dream

Sunday, February 21, 2010

"Photo, money, come!" pleaded 80-year-old Raseema, who doesn't speak Arabic or English, except for these few words. She only speaks Nubian. Raseema was born in the village of Gharb Sohil to a father who works as a fisherman and has lived there all her life.

AIDS in Egypt

While the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Egypt is low, its treatment, care and support are in need of a bolster. This is because a combination of factors - overpopulation, poverty and illiteracy - increase the risks of an epidemic, say human rights and public health workers.

Egyptian fish dishes

The civilization of Ancient Egypt was a shining light amid the darkness of the rest of the world. At this society's center was the Nile River. It was on the banks of the Nile that Ancient Egypt grew and prospered. The river provided ancient Egyptians with transportation, irrigation and drinking water. But the Nile was also a major source of food.

Drive in Cairo

If you can drive in Cairo, you can drive anywhere. But, the experience is not as daunting as it first appears to be. In fact, it could be fun. I have driven in Cairo several times, and have also been in the front seat of taxis and private cars. Apart from the odd moment when something I did not expect actually happened, I felt reasonably safe both as a driver and passenger. Once I got the hang of it, it was fun

Waiting for biggest middle east war

There are many sensitive issues in Egypt, with one of the most sensitive of all being the issue of water. Egypt is the gift of the Nile, as Herodotus tells us. What he said sounds all too sweet, even romantic. But the reality is starkly different. Egypt is very jealous of its Nile water quota for the simple reason that its population is

constantly growing. At the same time, the populations of the other Nile Basin countries are growing too. Everyone needs water. This week, Pete Willows and Hugh Nicol take a closer look at a problem which, we must all admit, won’t be suddenly disappearing any time soon.

Egypt

and Sudan dominate contemporary Nile Basin water allocation policy. This is partly because both nations are signatory to the 1959 Nile Waters Agreement (NWA), which apportions the river’s water flow between the two countries.

Suicide in front of passing Cairo Underground trains

WITHIN this week, two young Egyptian men threw themselves in front of passing Cairo Underground trains to put an end to their lives that became miserable either after the death of beloved ones, or because of poverty.

ElBaradei in Egypt

The plane carrying the former UN nuclear agency head Mohamed ElBaradei landed in Cairo as hundreds of Egyptians gathered at Cairo airport Friday to welcome him.

ElBaradei is seen as a possible future presidential candidate since he announced last year he would not rule out running for the country's presidential elections.

hello Asmahan

Saturday, February 20, 2010

A lot of policy news in Egypt suitable for display in the Jokes
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Genuine democratic elections would have won without a doubt it is by 99%
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