al-Azhar

onislam.net, Police Clashes With Al-Azhar Students, 20 Oct 2013 "Images of anti-riot police forces firing teargas at students protesting against the army’s move to depose former President Mohamed Morsi were posted on the internet on Sunday, October 20, reflecting a new development in Egypt daily protests over the past three months."

SalamWorld.com

AFP/alarabiya.net, Businessmen unveil plans for ‘Muslim Facebook’, 1 Dec 2011 "Based in Istanbul, with offices in Moscow and Cairo and coordinators in 30 countries, the site hopes to attract 50 million users within three years, Azimov told about 150 journalists from Muslim countries at the company’s luxurious Istanbul offices.

"“The heart of the project is to create a network without any content that is prohibited by religion,” said [Akhmed] Azimov, a Dagestan native. “To achieve this, we will have a big team of moderators and there will be filters.”"

Egypt updates

AlJazeera Live Blog Egypt updates on current situation

'The battle of Cairo's Muhammad Mahmoud Street'

AlJazeera, The battle of Cairo's Muhammad Mahmoud Street, 30 Nov 2011 "The street battles taking place in Cairo are emblematic of its Second Revolution: tear gas, hair gel and tramadol."

Tahrir Sq

First Post, Social media in Tahrir square: How #FreeMona resulted in freeing Mona, 24 Nov 2011. "What is that one thing that united Egypt with Tunisia, Tunisia with Bahrain, Bahrain to Libya—and theses countries with the rest of the world? Social media. Tweets shrieking out for help, an image of a man with a head injury from missiles fired by Egyptian forces, or a jerky video showing people protesting when suddenly a youth is shot through the head.  Social media helped the world to witness and participate in the Egyptian revolution not by fighting tear gas in Tahrir Square but simply through the web." Useful article by Adrija Bose.

HolyBookers 1 – Facebookers 0

Jo Johnson, The Spectator, Web Exclusive: HolyBookers 1 – Facebookers 0, 22 Mar 2011 : "Wael Ghonim, Google’s head of marketing and an emblematic figure for the Facebookers, also looks deflated on the day of the referendum, after riffing to a half-empty auditorium in the trendy Zamelek quarter of Cairo about the need to get more people onto the internet. But he also says it is time to stop isolating the Brothers. “They are not terrorists. They are part of us. We must give them a chance. They’ve promised not to go for a majority and I believe they’ll show restraint.”"

Interesting article/op-ed from the MP for Orpington.

'Taxi of Knowledge'

Arab Press House/alarabiya.net, Egypt bookstore launches 'Taxi of Knowledge': Commuters to read while stuck in Cairo traffic, 24 Nov 2010 "The streets of the Egyptian capital Cairo have witnessed in the past couple of weeks the introduction of a fleet of 50 cabs, each with a cloth rack attached to the passenger seat and containing books provided by Alef Bookstores, the sponsors of the project."

I think this is a cool idea, definitely transferable, and there are many possible suggestions for titles appropriate for sitting in the back of a Cairo cab ...

Alef Bookstores has more info on its FB

HarassMap Egypt

Jack Shenker, Guardian, Women in Egypt get hi-tech aid to beat sexual harassment, 19 Sep 2010 "HarassMap, a private venture that is set to launch later this year, allows women to instantly report incidents of sexual harassment by sending a text message to a centralised computer. Victims will immediately receive a reply offering support and practical advice, and the reports will be used to build up a detailed and publicly available map of harassment hotspots."

Egypt Twitters on Obama

Sarah Carr, Daily News Egypt, Egyptians on twitter unimpressed with Obama speech, "Confined to their homes, Egypt’s Twitter users passed the time by engaging in a lively debate about the merits or otherwise of Obama’s speech.

"While waiting for Obama to arrive at Cairo University blogger Wael Abbas spent the time celebrity-spotting, possibly because he was “stuck with old people” downstairs and “all the [babes] are upstairs in the journos and students section” [sic]."