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Reading the entire Wikipedia list of fallacies should be made a mandatory part of the Twitter onboarding process.
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For those of us enduring the often farcical brutality that comes with living under dictatorship, Trump offers us some brief moments of consolation—for we can truthfully say, “At least our head of state isn’t being a blithering idiot on Twitter.”
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Anyone else in Egypt notice a recent uptick of seemingly Egyptian Twitter accounts whose handles are a string of random letters and numbers (usually 14 characters), who only appear to be replying to accounts critical of the regime? e.g. CXVq3zQGPTIXTWR, RCLKLVH1LrpbQg6, etc.
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@guardiannews
i would repost this article had the headline not been so blatantly reductive/sensationalist
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Any pretence that Egypt’s coming presidential election will be free & fair is laughable. It’s not yet 2018 and already we’ve got one candidate MIA, another detained for interrogation, and a third facing preposterous litigation. Will anyone besides the incumbent be allowed to run?
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It beggars belief how those administering Cairo—a city with rich history that would allow it to foster a vibrant tourism industry if that history were to be preserved with care—are destroying the things that attract tourists the most… Only to become more like cities in the Gulf?
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@dancow
another recent example
Not cool
@nytimes
, stealing our hummus story with no credit. Down to copying the medieval recipe? This is now a recurring issue for us at
@newlinesmag
.
#HummusGate
Our story from 4 months ago, no doubt when the NYT picked it 🙃 &
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Egypt’s Twitter users might as well add people to lists instead of following them, in order to steer clear of the legislative absurdity that keeps being thrown at them for groundless incrimination.
5000 followers is the magic number, really? On a platform saturated with bots?
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an interesting read, regardless of your opinion about the history → middle east under construction:
http://is.gd/KiafZU
#arabspring
#mena
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In case anyone is still wondering what the regime really thinks about January 25th, 2011, we now have a definitive answer.
Egypt’s El-Sisi says he’d be ready to pay with his life to prevent another uprising
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in case youtube does get blocked in
#egypt
:
http://t.co/59yIPw4g
+
http://t.co/fcq25PCY
— and upload to
http://t.co/ExcsYXqs
instead.
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Next time you see someone referencing a Twitter poll and what it “shows”…
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@Beltrew
Truly sorry to hear this happened, Bel. Such terrible news—and a shameful loss for us. You've done outstanding work here from the very beginning. Wishing you all the best and hope things look up in near future.
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Politicians in Egypt who seek to ban/restrict social media, etc. overlook the fact that not only are these platforms popular, but local businesses rely on them. Even these very politicians rely on them.
Bottom line: You can’t modernise while obstructing avenues of modernisation.
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*15, sorry. Probably safe to presume that they're part of a bot farm/army that can be mobilised at any time to attack dissenters and get accounts suspended. Would highly suggest blocking them to ward off suspicious or hostile activity.
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@StephenPritcha8
@tekaldas
@andreaterenzio
@RosalineElbay
Then why frame Egypt’s violations against the press in a culturally relativistic lense, so as to alleviate alarm? That is precisely the excuse peddled by the state. With all due respect, you should apologise for comments that may in future be used as cover for regime practices.
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@marwanbishara
Leadership deficit, corruption, constitutions subservient to the law and/or no rule of law, discriminatory personal status laws, education that doesn’t foster culture of reasoning/debate, retrograde social conventions, state-sanctioned bigotry & animosity towards non-conformity…
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@RuskLover
@shadihamid
Sure, but he's the one touting a campaign for “moderate” Islam and the renewal of religious discourse (which appears to have largely failed so far)…
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hilarious video from taiwan's
@NMAtv
on
@DrBassemYoussef
& regime attempts to silence him:
http://t.co/lbCiMaJB
#egypt
#MB
(via
@Gsquare86
)
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And
@Twitter
/
@TwitterSupport
/
@jack
/
@TwitterMENA
should really look into this. We can only report so many accounts before they crop up again in droves.
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For a country so deeply afflicted by authoritarian tendencies to attribute criticisms of its deteriorating political climate to “a sense of envy” is practically self-parody at this point.
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$20 million loan from
@EBRD
to improve egypt’s
#agriculture
commodities sector:
http://t.co/bFNqFnhGGQ
#egyecon
#logistics
#sustainability
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To those all too ready to believe any narrative on either side:
Have we not learned anything from Giulio Regeni's murder, or the Mexican tourists, or the two planes, or state TV during the uprising—and the lengths to which regimes have gone to obfuscate many a story to this day?
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how academics got the muslim brotherhood wrong — an essential read by
@hhassan140
:
http://t.co/PzXA7N2TVa
#egypt
#MB
(via
@maitelsadany
)
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why is
#egypt
's draft constitution so controversial? the main talking points, by
@kristenchick
:
http://t.co/1Du6YjAX
#dostor
#humanrights
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NYT: netflix acquires streaming rights to highly praised documentary by
@JehaneNoujaim
, 'the square' —
http://t.co/1kxhSLL144
#egypt
#tahrir
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Finally, progress: “Twitter announcing limits on how users/apps can automate tweets…Devs now banned from using any system that simultaneously posts ‘identical or substantially similar’ tweets from multiple accounts at once…”
(Thank you
@arahmaneldesoky
)
Twitter bans bulk tweeting and duplicate accounts in bot crackdown
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quickly, google 'how to bypass internet censorship' before
#egypt
blocks google too. also:
http://t.co/5rDdIVlv
#netfreedom
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This feed started exactly 7 years ago after flooding my personal account with non-stop
#Jan25
updates till Mubarak was ejected.
Huge thank you to the people here who’ve made news more bearable since. Here’s to a better future for Egypt—the one we’d hoped for all those years ago.
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An interesting aspect of what’s happening to MENA’s digital spaces is that as authoritarian regimes try to disrupt web access and social networks, citizens will develop new habits and tools to enhance security and circumvention. Attempts to shut us down will forever be resisted.
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Maybe now we’ll learn that the fate of a nation shouldn’t rest on one person only.
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an entire nation held hostage by two organisations that would rather see the nation burn than give up their claim to unchecked power.
#egypt
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the koshks of
#cairo
— a fascinating look at the history and culture of the city's kiosks, by
@ghazalairshad
:
http://t.co/qZLNG1Dyc8
#egypt
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مفأجاة الطب الشرعى يؤكد ان الاخوان المسلمين هم من قتلوا شهداء الاتحادية —
http://t.co/NbWxCLSy
#dec5
#egypt
#MB
via
@weskandar
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From today, will be regularly posting podcast recommendations in a single thread—with shows that explore policy, history, diplomacy, and all things in between.
Here’s the first one 🔊
Trump, the Border, the 4th Amendment, & your cellphone-a new 🎧
@TrumpConLaw
with
@romanmars
& me 🎤 by
@DOOMTREE
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journalist
@MFFahmy11
gives up
#egypt
citizenship to secure his release:
http://t.co/Y3Y7XROxKi
#freepress
#humanrights
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Egypt will continue to fail in cleaning up its image on the world stage, no matter how many sham forums and marketing campaigns the regime pays millions for, so long as it continues to oppress the country’s brightest and most open-minded/forward-thinking.
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'a rising mass movement attracts a following not by its doctrine but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties of an individual existence.'
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names, pictures and political affiliation of constituent assembly's 86 signatories —
http://t.co/Bj31IKi9
#egypt
#dostor
(via
@Gsquare86
)
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@RuskLover
@shadihamid
Fully agreed. Now if only Egypt's leaders and institutions were capable of this realisation, and were competent enough to take the initiative fully and effectively. Considering how much is at stake, it's astonishing how blunt and narrow the approach thus far has often been.
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Are we now living in a world where a country can declare war against itself on behalf of another country that hasn’t expressly done so?
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why democracy will fail in the arab world without reform of education:
http://t.co/VfywDt9F
#jan25
#egypt
#mena
(via
@Isobel_Coleman
)
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every egyptian citizen should be recognized equally in the eyes of the law, whether or not they believe in your god, or my god, or no god.
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list of emergency numbers to call for traffic, military, police and EOD support in
#egypt
—
http://t.co/J5hEEll1Xo
(via
@melhoshy
)
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non-exhaustive list of human rights violations under the guise of anti-blasphemy measures in
#egypt
, from 2007 to date:
http://t.co/7OCwwzWT
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Is there any regime in the Middle East that doesn’t behave like an outright mafia or drug cartel?
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filmmaker
@JehaneNoujaim
on
#jan25
, women in film, and the difficulty of getting
@TheSquareFilm
screened in
#egypt
:
http://t.co/BJgVEvnhHn
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example of how blasphemy & 'insulting the president' laws are implemented in
#egypt
, from september 2012 under morsy:
http://t.co/rCQdWJ775a
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Shoutout to all the Egyptians on Twitter who are now involuntarily classified as media entities.
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Sick irony that on a day in which Egypt endured one of the gravest security lapses in its history, police are busy shutting down the Cairo screening of a globally acclaimed film directed by a Swedish-Egyptian because they find it insulting.
Police prevented a screening of The Nile Hilton Incident at an alternative arts venue in Cairo on Friday. Police personnel were allegedly stationed in front of Balcon Heliopolis and told some attendees to leave, asking one whether “he knew the film insults police officers.”
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a religious institution that deems people from other faiths as unworthy of being recognised is itself unworthy of being recognised.
#egypt
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an ‘unofficial’ english translation of
#egypt
’s new draft constitution —
http://t.co/6RCh5cgh
#dostor
#humanrights
(via
@ReligionEgypt
)
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there are many threats to democracy in the middle east, but saudi arabia certainly takes the lion's share.
#mena
#arabspring
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candid, fascinating take on the recent protests and current dynamic in
#egypt
, by
@Sarahcarr
: uncle morsi —
http://t.co/8I13NkpA
#tahrir
#MB
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With this level of absurdity, it's almost as though someone posted “ELECTION IN SEARCH OF SECOND CANDIDATE (TEMP)” on the Cairo Craigslist.
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important read by
@nellyali
on
#sectarianism
in
#egypt
& the problem of 'deep-rooted, systematic otherisation' —
http://t.co/qiwWxBZghn
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@RuskLover
@shadihamid
Brute force as opposed to effective intel coordination, fit-for-purpose mil training/equipment, practical CVE framework…
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If only Egypt treated its citizens' well-being—its human capital—with as much zeal and urgency as it does natural resources and FDI. Instead, it tramples upon people's dreams, freedoms & dignity—all in the name of “social stability”, which it undermines through these violations.
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turkish youth suffering from knowledge deficit, says leading sociologist nilüfer narlı —
http://t.co/38Rs2X8l
#turkey
(via
@LaurenBohn
)
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“The Arabic-language Anadolu Agency Twitter account was hacked for around five minutes and used to publish material against Egyptian politician Ayman Nour.”
Turkish state media hacked in attempt to discredit Egypt opposition figure Ayman Nour
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'we need to reform our education system…teach our children proper ethics, principles that originate in humanity & not in divine doctrines…'
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two christians murdered in
#egypt
for refusing to pay jizya:
http://t.co/oJmkxodlHV
— more here:
http://t.co/wrqNEHDDzo
(via
@minafayek
)
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brotherhood member responds to criticism over women's rights article in
#egypt
's constitution:
http://t.co/XbGLAiQs
#dostor
#humanrights
#MB
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@salamamoussa
Touched upon briefly here, with a few interesting additional points in the few paragraphs directly above and below:
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very telling read: egyptian students respond to
@FouadMD
's article on atheism, by
@estermeerman
—
http://t.co/vha4qBmc
#egypt
#humanrights
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@tekaldas
This, a thousand times. Unreasoned “dear leader” defensiveness in some responses is staggering. How can things improve if we don't hold gov't to a higher standard? Refusal to engage in civil debate and disingenuousness in face of criticism will only doom us to further calamities.
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'to understand our present, we must look to our past.' 100 years of history's revolutionaries and social movements:
http://t.co/Z3hHmTkYVw
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powerful and heartbreaking piece by
@nellyali
on
#egypt
's street children: the hymen and stamp of shame —
http://t.co/btPQslqH
#humanrights
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#cairo
resident uses solar power & homemade biogas unit to make cheap, clean energy for his community:
http://t.co/ENUGTdLa
(via
@SaraLabib
)
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important post by
@Elazul
on how
#MB
condoned/supported brutality by army & police against others while in power:
http://t.co/BlAjYvUTLQ
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so turns out someone at sawt al umma newspaper is a fan of 'curb your enthusiasm'…
http://t.co/Y7v2JzY2cO
vs
http://t.co/EJ25kht4Tg
#egypt
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the streets of cairo belong to us all. and we all have the right to be free, safe and unmolested — regardless of gender.
#humanrights
#EndSH
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it's increasingly apparent that morsy suffers from a dissociative disorder & is seriously divorced from reality…or he's just a liar.
#egypt
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What the Egyptian government is doing is simply not good enough. No number of emergency declarations or days of mourning or sum of blood money will compensate for this fact. It was obvious that a change in strategy was needed well before today, and it sure as hell is evident now.
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#egypt
media long obsessed with alleged foreign conspiracy to split up the nation. as if egyptians don't split themselves up enough already.
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fairly certain it was the islamists who first framed it as 'us versus them' when they proclaimed
#egypt
's 'identity' as being solely theirs.
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An unintended consequence of Egypt having chosen Grozny as its World Cup base is that the repeated mention of Kadyrov‘s brutality in stories about team training is now serving as a constant reminder of brutality in…another place perhaps.
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all
#egypt
politicians, spokespeople, and commentators ought to read the following book: attacking faulty reasoning —
http://t.co/5AptBI14lR
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#egypt
's draft constitution in arabic:
http://t.co/alEbAPXk
— and in english:
http://t.co/pfMz7OzO
#dostor
#dec8
#dec15
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32 reasons to vote 'no' in the constitutional referendum, by
@khaledfahmy11
—
http://t.co/dXI59jjI
#egypt
#dostor
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'
#egypt
…not for everyone' — satirical tourism ad highlights the denial of rights for religious minorities:
http://t.co/XZXbqGCd
#humanrights
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دليل النشطاء لمواجهة حجب الحكومات القمعية مواقع الإنترنت —
http://t.co/oUr9x8bP
#egypt
#netfreedom
via
@virtualactivist
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'if…you belittl[e] the blood of your opponents & only mourn the blood of your own, you're neither committed to citizenship nor to humanity.'
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Elections in Egypt have become like religion in Egypt: dictated by the state, forced or coerced, with very little room for any real debate or dissent. Also, with the word “moderate” bandied around a lot, and yet meaning nothing at all.
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