. @HRW “Victims’ families have the right to know the truth about their loved ones’ deaths. Even if certain information can’t be made public in the interests of justice, all Egyptians need to know what happened,
 Nadim Houry, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch.
إذا نُشر تقرير لجنة تقصي الحقائق فسوف يكون أول اعتراف من الحكومة المصرية بانتهاكات الجيش والشرطة على مدار عامين. من حق أهالي الضحايا أن يعرفوا الحقيقة بشأن وفاة أحبائهم. وحتى إذا تعذر إعلان بعض المعلومات حرصاً على العدالة فإن المصريين جميعاً بحاجة لمعرفة ما حدث
نديم حوري، نائب المدير التنفيذي لقسم الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا
مسجد أحمد بن طولون - روعة العمارة الإسلامية في مصر mediterraneum: mediterraneum: Mosque of Ahmad ibn Tulun, arcade and interior windows, 9th century. Prostrating men provide scale and accentuat the arcade’s massiveness. Arches vary Irttle; they rest on brick pillars with a rectangular plan. Unobstructed interior windows and laced exterior windows form interesting contrasts, capturing the movement of air and light.
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مسجد أحمد بن طولون - روعة العمارة الإسلامية في مصر

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Mosque of Ahmad ibn Tulun, arcade and interior windows, 9th century. Prostrating men provide scale and accentuat the arcade’s massiveness. Arches vary Irttle; they rest on brick pillars with a rectangular plan. Unobstructed interior windows and laced exterior windows form interesting contrasts, capturing the movement of air and light.

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Archaeologists discover 3,000-year-old tombs in Egypt NBC News: Archaeologists say they have discovered a string of 3,000-year-old rock tombs in the Egyptian city of Luxor, containing the remains of wooden coffins, skeletons, furniture and canopic jars. breakingnews: Archaeologists discover 3,000-year-old tombs in Egypt NBC News: Archaeologists say they have discovered a string of 3,000-year-old rock tombs in the Egyptian city of Luxor, containing the remains of wooden coffins, skeletons, furniture and canopic jars. The tombs were dug within the funerary temple of Pharaoh Amenhotep II, who reigned from 1427 to 1401 B.C. during Egypt’s 18th Dynasty. However, the newfound tombs appear to be part of a more recent cemetery. In Thursday’s announcement of the discovery, Egyptian Antiquities Minister Mohammed Ibrahim said they date back to the beginning of a transitional period that lasted from 1075 to 664 B.C. Photo: A worker studies one of the funerary jars found inside a recently discovered burial chamber in Luxor (Egypt Ministry of Antiquities)
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Archaeologists discover 3,000-year-old tombs in Egypt

NBC News: Archaeologists say they have discovered a string of 3,000-year-old rock tombs in the Egyptian city of Luxor, containing the remains of wooden coffins, skeletons, furniture and canopic jars.

breakingnews:

Archaeologists discover 3,000-year-old tombs in Egypt

NBC News: Archaeologists say they have discovered a string of 3,000-year-old rock tombs in the Egyptian city of Luxor, containing the remains of wooden coffins, skeletons, furniture and canopic jars.

The tombs were dug within the funerary temple of Pharaoh Amenhotep II, who reigned from 1427 to 1401 B.C. during Egypt’s 18th Dynasty. However, the newfound tombs appear to be part of a more recent cemetery. In Thursday’s announcement of the discovery, Egyptian Antiquities Minister Mohammed Ibrahim said they date back to the beginning of a transitional period that lasted from 1075 to 664 B.C.

Photo: A worker studies one of the funerary jars found inside a recently discovered burial chamber in Luxor (Egypt Ministry of Antiquities)

“Women are being viciously targeted. Over the last week, there have been more than a dozen brazen gang rapes and sexual assaults in and around Tahrir Square. ” Read more»> theweekmagazine: Jacob Lippincott is on the ground in Cairo. Here’s his latest update: Violent street fights are tearing apart the downtown area, the capital’s economic and cultural nerve center. Secular activists, football hooligans, and grubby street children fight police on the Nile Corniche, an open promenade that runs along the famous river. Meanwhile, gangs of thugs prey on peaceful activists, local businesses, and passers-by in the city’s shadowed side streets. Women are being viciously targeted. Over the last week, there have been more than a dozen brazen gang rapes and sexual assaults in and around Tahrir Square. In one particularly harrowing case, a gang of youths took turns raping a 19-year-old woman, mutilated her vagina with a knife, and left her naked on the street. She is reportedly still in critical condition in a Cairo hospital, suffering from internal injuries. I personally witnessed one of these assaults in Tahrir. Some tried to help the woman, while others joined in the assault. There were masses of people pushing past each other to get away, and I, along with everyone around me, was pressed against a wall, unable to help, flee, or move. Keep reading
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“Women are being viciously targeted. Over the last week, there have been more than a dozen brazen gang rapes and sexual assaults in and around Tahrir Square. ” Read more»>

theweekmagazine:

Jacob Lippincott is on the ground in Cairo. Here’s his latest update:

Violent street fights are tearing apart the downtown area, the capital’s economic and cultural nerve center. Secular activists, football hooligans, and grubby street children fight police on the Nile Corniche, an open promenade that runs along the famous river. Meanwhile, gangs of thugs prey on peaceful activists, local businesses, and passers-by in the city’s shadowed side streets.

Women are being viciously targeted. Over the last week, there have been more than a dozen brazen gang rapes and sexual assaults in and around Tahrir Square. In one particularly harrowing case, a gang of youths took turns raping a 19-year-old woman, mutilated her vagina with a knife, and left her naked on the street. She is reportedly still in critical condition in a Cairo hospital, suffering from internal injuries.

I personally witnessed one of these assaults in Tahrir. Some tried to help the woman, while others joined in the assault. There were masses of people pushing past each other to get away, and I, along with everyone around me, was pressed against a wall, unable to help, flee, or move.

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Aywasfun: Police Brutality Cairo

Police Brutality Cairo

Please reblog this. 

I’m an American living in Cairo, and have been for several years. I was proud to watch the revolution, and even participate in several days of protests myself. I remain mostly quiet as this revolution needs to be in the hands of the Egyptians. It is their destiny, their legacy. 

However, when I see a danger, I feel the need to speak out. There have been many instances of police brutality throughout the Mubarak era, and through the revolution, it has not stopped. This revolution was fought to bring democracy, freedom of speech  and a downfall of the corruption that was a trademark of the Mubarak era. Sadly, it has not stopped yet. The new regime has brought more of the same old story. 

This is not the time nor the place for finger wagging and soap box preaching about who was elected and why. Please do not use this as the forum for that debate. 

Tonight I sat and watched a protestor in his mid 40’s get captured in the street, stripped naked, kicked and beaten senseless, dragged across the pavement and thrown into a black special ops van. I will edit in a video link once it’s uploaded. This is NOT an isolated incident. There is a pattern of escalating violence here. 

I don’t know what i hope to accomplish aside from bringing awareness back to social media, where this revolution began, that IT IS NOT OVER. It is not over for us. It is not over for the Egyptian people. We will continue, we will persevere until freedom of speech, freedom of peaceful protest, freedom of peaceful congregation, and democracy are secured. 

Please show your support for these principles. Remind the people of Egypt that you have not forgotten us either. I stood in Tahrir with a sign 2 years ago that read “Egyptians want a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Sound Familiar? Americans Support You!” I know I’m not alone in my support. 

My prayers to this man, and his family. 

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/02/201321142037321188.html

 يحدث أمام قصر الاتحادية Cairo, Egypt: Protesters throw stones and molotov cocktails at security forces inside the presidential palace during clashes between protesters and police, February 1, 2013. Opponents of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi hurled petrol bombs at his palace on Friday as protesters returned to the streets of Egypt demanding his overthrow after the deadliest violence of his seven months in power. 
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 يحدث أمام قصر الاتحادية Cairo, Egypt: Protesters throw stones and molotov cocktails at security forces inside the presidential palace during clashes between protesters and police, February 1, 2013. Opponents of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi hurled petrol bombs at his palace on Friday as protesters returned to the streets of Egypt demanding his overthrow after the deadliest violence of his seven months in power.