Toronto-based activist Ali Mustafa recently captured powerful images from the ongoing struggle in Egypt.
Arab Spring
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Babblers discuss the battle for Tripoli
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A participant's account of the World Social Forum in Tunisia
"This was like a dream come true," said a radiant Sossi Mohamed Sadek, a Tunisian second year engineering student who was one of the hundreds of local volunteers at the World Social Forum in Tunis. "To see our university overflowing with over 50,000 people from Africa, Europe, Latin America, the United States, the Middle East -- it was extraordinary. I came away with new ideas and new friends that will surely have a great impact on my life."
The tyrant's poison pill: The suppression of civil society
The West's hypocrisy and oil-greed are coming home to roost with a vengeance in Libya as the Arab Spring in that country turns into a nightmarish winter characterized by armed gangs, economic collapse, a decline in services by an incompetent government and increasing political domination by radical Islamists.
Tunisia: Assassination of opposition leader sparks mass protests
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After a day of massive protests in Tunisia, ruling Islamist party Ennahda dissolved its coalition government on Wednesday, promising rapid new elections.
The day saw the biggest street protests since the country's revolution two years ago.
The protests were sparked after a well known political opposition leader, Shokri Belaid, was shot dead outside of his home Wednesday morning.
Protesters took to the streets in cities across the country throughout the day, as police and protesters clashed amongst clouds of teargas.
Covering the 'war on terror': In conversation with Robert Fisk
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It is Monday morning January 21 and here I am sitting in downtown Toronto on a comfy white CBC couch with Robert Fisk, the most famous foreign correspondent in the world.
This veteran Beirut-based reporter for the UK newspaper, the Independent, has just provided among other things a spirited commentary on the latest bound-to-fail military interventions into Muslim lands by the west, this one in Mali, on the morning radio, The Current.
Wael Ghonim on the social media spark that lit Egypt's revolutionary fire
Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir
(Mariner Books,
2012;
$18.95)
Reading Revolution 2.0 against the backdrop of the current unrest in Egypt, one can’t help but feel nostalgic.
After all, this book is an ode to the belief that people have the power to choose their political, social, and economic destinies -- at least if they unite in their struggle for justice.
And for all of us, it indeed seemed possible as we watched the Egyptian revolution unfold, when citizens who had up until been “unengaged,” “cautious” and “intimidated” finally broke through the barrier of fear. Who can forget those staggering scenes in Cairo’s Tahrir square full of millions of hopeful, demanding, persistent demonstrators finally finding their voice?