'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."

Culinary Diversion: Gaza's Food Heritage

Saudi Aramco World : Gaza's Food Heritage non-tech, interesting and beautifully photographed article by Laila El-Haddad and Maggie Schmitt ...

'How Will Facebook and Twitter Impact Islam?'

Nidhal Guessoum, Huffington Post, How Will Facebook and Twitter Impact Islam?, 29 Nov 2011 "During a recent Friday sermon, a young Muslim sitting next to me took out his Blackberry and started to check his messages (while the Imam was giving his speech). I was quite stunned. The young man then put away his smartphone, but 10 minutes later took it out again and typed a few things. That gave me a good indication of both his (short) attention span and the addiction to cyberspace that youngsters have fallen victim to these days."

Tahrir Sq doctors

Egyptian newspapers

Mustafa Suleiman, alarabiya.net, New independent newspapers see the light in post-revolution Egypt, 23 Nov 2011 "Despite the economic crisis Egypt has faced since the eruption of the January 25 revolution, print media outlets are currently enjoying a boom and the launch of several independent newspapers bears witness to a new era that wants to do away with official and businessmen’s press."

Opinion piece on Muslim Brotherhood

Amira Nowaira, Guardian, Comment is free, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood continues to alienate itself from the people, 25 Nov 2011 "In deciding to stay away from these protests, the Brotherhood may have committed its gravest mistake to date. The footage showing a dead protester being dragged by a security officer and dumped near a rubbish heap, appearing on many satellite channels and the internet, has not only shocked and enraged Egyptians, but it has sent them out on to the streets in their thousands to protest against this outrage."

Opinion/analysis piece on 'Cyber-Hezbollah'

Opinion/analysis piece Wahied Wahdat-Hagh, European Foundation For Democracy, Iran And Cyber-Hezbollah Strategies: Killing Enemies In Hyperspace – Analysis "Last September, Jihadists who call themselves “Cyber-Hezbollah” organised their second conference in Teheran. Islamist hackers and cyber-jihadists gathered there and decided to fight the U.S. and Europe."

Mehanna trial

Boston Globe, Mehanna posted on radical site, 24 Nov 2011 "Tarek Mehanna was committed to translating and distributing pro-jihad materials on the Internet, including on a website promoting radical ideology, according to testimony by an FBI agent yesterday in Mehanna’s terrorism trial in US District Court in Boston. "

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.

Arabic on Twitter

Dana Khraiche, Arabic fastest growing language on Twitter: study, 24 Nov 2011. "The Paris-based Semiocast released an analysis on the language shares on Twitter, surveying 5.6 billion public messages gathered between July 1, 2010 and Oct. 31, 2011. ""More than 2 million public messages were posted ever day on Twitter in Arabic, from about 30,000 in July 2010 [out of 5.6 billion tweets]," the study said."

Mona Eltahawy's tweets

Storify, Shiv Malik, Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy tweets her assault, 24 Nov 2011 Disturbing series of tweets

Mona Eltahawy

Guardian, Journalist Mona Eltahawy alleges sexual assault in Egypt detention, 24 Nov 2011 . "The US-based Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy has been released, according to her personal Twitter account, after 12 hours in detention at the hands of Cairo security forces. A later tweet from the account @monaeltahawy said that she was sexually and physically assaulted while being held inside the interior ministry in Cairo, in the early hours of Thursday morning."

Cairo

Guardian, Ahdaf Soueif in Cairo: 'By early evening it was clear that this was Revolution II', 23 Nov 2011 "Eat a good breakfast. Take a rucksack with a gas mask and swimming goggles. Write your name on your arm. Write your details into a message on your mobile. And go to the Square." The tweet appeared after three of the (at least) 38 people killed in the streets of Egypt over the last three days proved impossible to identify. It was picked up by the well-respected Egyptian daily al-Shorouk and published to #Tahrirsupplies – the hashtag that collates what you can bring in to the square if you want to help." One of the best pieces from Tahrir Sq

Egypt human rights

alarabiya.net, Amnesty accuses Egypt’s ruling generals of ‘gross’ human rights abuses, 22 Nov 2011

Secret net Tor

BBC, Secret net Tor asks users to sign up o cloud services, 22 Nov 2011 refers to Egypt and Iran

E-warfare

Press.tv, Israel to wage E-warfare against Iran, 19 Nov 2011

Egypt bloggers

BBC News, Egyptian Blog Review, 22 Nov 2011

Review on Al-Azhar Manuscripts Online

Irtiqa, Al-Azhar Manuscripts Online, 21 Nov 2011 review concerning a much heralded project, which has so far not fulfilled expectations

Al-Qaida advises the Arab Spring: Syria

Joas Wagemakers, jihadica.com, Al-Qaida advises the Arab Spring: Syria, 19 Nov 2011 "With the Arab Spring going strong in several countries, al-Qaida (in a broad sense, so including ideologues and scholars supportive of the organisation) still finds it necessary to comment on what is happening. In a series of posts, I will deal with the advice al-Qaida is giving the people of several countries, starting with Syria."

Al-Shabab

Christopher Anzalone, opendemocracy.net, The rapid evolution of Al-Shabab’s media and insurgent “journalism”, 16 November 2011 "The evolution of Al-Shabab’s media arm provides a window into the group’s overall maturation as an insurgent movement that has endorsed key elements of Al-Qaeda Central’s ideology while still focusing primarily on waging a domestic insurgency inside Somalia."