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		<title>Counter-revolution!</title>
		<link>http://delepaak.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/counter-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 11:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ali the Shoeshine doesn&#8217;t live on the street, or even in Alexandria. He leaves home in Buheira, the Nile Delta, at 6 every morning to be here by 8.30 am. He&#8217;s 30, has two toddlers, and has to fight to keep his family going. He charges one Egyptian pound for a spit and polish and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=delepaak.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7527859&amp;post=186&amp;subd=delepaak&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Read All About It &#8211; Egypt&#8217;s state propaganda machine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here, look at this, a friend said. Al Ahram is doing exactly what you are – a take out on the world of Khaled Said. Sure enough, there was an inside spread, with a large picture of Khaled set against a wide shot of Manshiet Nasser, one of Alexandria&#8217;s famous tourist spots, and the legend [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=delepaak.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7527859&amp;post=183&amp;subd=delepaak&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We are all Khaled Said</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“It was about 11 o&#8217;clock in the evening,” said Hassan al-Misbah, sitting at the desk of his Internet cafe. “Khaled came in and saw two of his friends. Two plain clothes police came in after him, held him back with his arms to his head and began beating him.” He got up, walked round the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=delepaak.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7527859&amp;post=180&amp;subd=delepaak&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Repression Industry: &#8220;We are all Ben Ali&#8217;s sons&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes the most striking things about profound subjects are the trivial, almost casual details. I was deep into a day of discussion about torture, with torture victims, in the town of Kairawan, in the centre of Tunisia, half way between Sidi Bou Zid and the capital Tunis. The young men I was talking to had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=delepaak.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7527859&amp;post=177&amp;subd=delepaak&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tyranno-anarchitis: a tale of two checkpoints</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By chance I got the chance to experience a little of police intrusiveness that Bouazizi suffered his whole life while driving down to Sidi Bou Zid. It all started when I picked up a hitcher on the road from Kairawan as the sun was just starting to dip in a cloudless, pale winter sky. Mourad, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=delepaak.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7527859&amp;post=173&amp;subd=delepaak&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Libya: of oil, revolution, and complicity</title>
		<link>http://delepaak.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/libya-of-oil-revolution-and-complicity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every hour or so, in free Libya, you hear this phrase: “The richest country in the world and the poorest people in the world”. Statistically speaking, there&#8217;s poetic license on both sides of that equation. But it would be a harsh judge that denied its essential truth. From the Egyptian border at Salloum to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=delepaak.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7527859&amp;post=168&amp;subd=delepaak&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Searching for mercenaries in Libya</title>
		<link>http://delepaak.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/searching-for-mercenaries-in-libya/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was in Benghazi, Libya&#8217;s second city, liberated from the tyranny of Muammar Gaddafi for a week now, and had sought out its poorest neighbourhood, Luheishi, to get a haircut. It is an old ploy. Like eating – slowly – whatever comes to hand, slurping tea, or getting your shoes shined. Any transaction that helps [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=delepaak.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7527859&amp;post=161&amp;subd=delepaak&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ICG policy note on Libya is a serious mistake!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Ms Arbour, I have long been a fan of ICG but, having just returned from Benghazi, I have to say I think your policy note to trhe UN security council on Libya, suggesting a political solution through negotiations leading to a consensus transition to legitimate government, is a serious error of judgement. Its biggest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=delepaak.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7527859&amp;post=159&amp;subd=delepaak&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Once Upon a Time &#8211; the Arab Revolutions as a children&#8217;s story</title>
		<link>http://delepaak.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/once-upon-a-time-the-arab-revolutions-as-a-childrens-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(the illustrated version is here in doc and here in pdf) Once upon a time, not so long ago, millions of people living not far from here, on just the other side of the Mediterranean Sea, were unhappy. The main reason was because they were not free. There were two countries called Egypt and Tunisia, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=delepaak.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7527859&amp;post=156&amp;subd=delepaak&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the Arab Spring &#8211; BMS links</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Arab Spring &#8211; as a children&#8217;s story&#8230; quickly written for a talk to Ruby&#8217;s third grade class tomorrow&#8230; with pictures! Balti &#8211; Layam, the breakthrough rap song Ben Ali&#8217;s last speech in Tunisia El General against Ben Ali in Tunisia Egypt: Amr Eid in Tahrir Square<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=delepaak.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7527859&amp;post=144&amp;subd=delepaak&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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