Blogging Lebanon
since 2005
Blogging Lebanon since 2005
Unblocking Facebook and other social media websites in Syria now is like turning off your fire alarm when fires are raging all around your neighborhood. This is a big sign of confidence from the Syrian regime, a sort of middle finger to all would-be Syrian freedom revolutionaries.
Mustapha Hamoui · Feb 9, 2011
Well, not exactly scientific proof, but look at the photo below taken yesterday (source) and remember that the Muslim Brotherhood types will never miss a prayer. You can also read more about this here.
Mustapha Hamoui · Feb 9, 2011
Only yesterday, TV and radio pundits were saying that the regime outsmarted the protesters and divided them, that the protesters were becoming a noisy, inflexible minority, and that normality has returned.
Mustapha Hamoui · Feb 8, 2011
Yesterday in Egypt, two events took place at the same time:
Mustapha Hamoui · Feb 8, 2011
Ghassan Karam:
Mustapha Hamoui · Feb 8, 2011
The Wall Street Journal profiles Google’s top Middle East executive Wael Ghoneim and his role in the Egyptian revolution:
Mustapha Hamoui · Feb 7, 2011
As some of you remember, Aljazeera was banished from major USA cable providers during the days when Americans stopped eating french fries and began eating freedom fries.
Mustapha Hamoui · Feb 7, 2011
I have always compared Lebanon’s Cedar revolution (and its aftermath) to Ukraine’s Orange revolution. This is why, when Yulia Tymoshenko, one the heroines of that orange revolution, gives advice to Egypt and Tunisia on how revolutions can be betrayed and reversed, I listen:
Mustapha Hamoui · Feb 7, 2011