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24 Oct

Lion of the Desert

Slasher-flick innovator Moustapha Akkad had bad timing. The creator of the Halloween series and the Prophet’s bioepic The Messenger, the Syrian-American dreamed big in Hollywood of …

By ST McNeil
Also posted in Africa, Book Reviews
Tagged Anthony Quinn, fascism, film, Gaddafi, Libya, Mustafa Akkad
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21 Oct

The Transcontinental Election Everyone is Kind of Looking at

On this Sunday, Oct. 23, Tunisians will vote for the first time, for real, ever. Ten months after their revolution which sparked the Arab Awakening, les …

By ST McNeil
Also posted in Africa, Middle East, News, Tunisia, Uncategorized
Tagged Arab Awakening, election, Jasmine Revolution, Tunis, Tunisia, Zen El Abdine Ben Ali
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23 Sep

Not another Twitter Revolution

The Jasmine Revolution and the January 25 Revolution are not Twitter revolutions…sorry, but sometimes you just need to beat a dead horse. Only 131,204 Egyptians used …

By ST McNeil
Also posted in Egypt, Middle East, Research, Tunisia
Tagged Cairo, Digital Evangelism, Malcolm Gladwell, Mark Zuckerberg, Moammar Gaddafi, Net Delusion, SISMEC, social media, Tahrir Square, Tunis, Tunisia, Zen El Abdine Ben Ali
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11 Jul

Palestine’s Coast

Nagoua pulled up in an enormous SUV right at seven am. With reflexes slowed by a night spent drinking Egypt’s finest Stellas in the famous …

By ST McNeil
Also posted in PalestineIsrael
Tagged Cairo, Gaza pollution, Gaza tunnels, palestine, Rafah border crossing, Suez Canal
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10 Jul

How to get into Gaza as a journalist. Kind of.

Disclaimer: only God knows if this will work. The 25 January Revolution reverberated throughout the Middle East, rocking the foundations of the lords of the land …

By ST McNeil
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09 Jul

Flag-waving in Tahrir video

A short video clip from Tahrir Square yesterday: flag waving while shouting “the masses want an end to the system”.

By ST McNeil
Also posted in Photography
Tagged 25 January Revolution, 8 July, Cairo, Egypt, Israeli activists, Tahrir Square, thawura
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09 Jul

July 8 Tahrir Square: Revolution 2.0

The July 8 protest in Tahrir Square, Cairo was packed full of people. An estimated 100,000 attended from nearly every one of Egypt’s 160+ new …

By ST McNeil
Also posted in PalestineIsrael
Tagged 25 January Revolution, Cairo, Egypt, Tahrir Square
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05 Jul

Baubles and trinkets of language

Old Cairo Bazaar underneath the labyrinthine alleys of the Coptic Christian neighborhood took me by surprise. Down a small path far below the ground, I walked past hundreds …

By ST McNeil
Also posted in Photography
Tagged Coptic Cairo, Egypt, Old Cairo Bazaar, tourism trinkets
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04 Jul

Giza Wonders

By ST McNeil
Also posted in Photography
Tagged Cairo, Egypt, Giza Pyramids, Sphinx
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03 Jul

Abou Tarek´s famous koshary

I was about to post about the lack of culinary feats in Egypt, but then Abu Tarek served up some delicious fare. In the second floor …

By ST McNeil
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