Ten years have passed. It all started with a group of investigative journalists in pursuit of space at a time when such spaces were disappearing. We understood that Egypt was undergoing profound changes. To process those changes, we decided to launch a news website.
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A ship apart: The making of a wreck -- Important investigative work by on the migrant boat tragedy
madamasr.com/en/2023/06/22/
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Latest Sudan figures:
2.5 million people displaced (OCHA) and at least 330 children killed and 1,900 injured (UNICEF).
In Khartoum alone, at least 36 cases of sexual assaults have been documented by the Sudanese Unit of Combating Violence against Women and Children.
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WATCH: On the day Alaa’s son Khaled was born, Alaa was locked away in prison, but he wrote these beautiful words on fatherhood, love & resistance for his son. For #FathersDay Olivia Coleman, , Carey Mulligan, Richard Ratcliffe of , Emily Watson, Rebecca… Show more
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The world has lost a great fighter for justice. RIP Daniel Ellsberg.
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My dear father, #DanielEllsberg, died this morning June 16 at 1:24 a.m., four months after his diagnosis with pancreatic cancer. His family surrounded him as he took his last breath. He had no pain and died peacefully at home. commondreams.org/opinion/daniel
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WATCH: Alaa's sister 's searingly beautiful speech at #OsloFreedomForum received with a standing ovation: "Our story is not one of success, strength or freedom. It's a story of defeat, vulnerability, resilience & the beauty of solidarity" Together we can #FreeAlaa Take… Show more
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Senator demands the Biden administration release a State Department report into the killing of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh last year, when an Israeli soldier shot her in the head. "I believe its release will help save lives going forward."
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Mada Masr’s bid to challenge the denial of its website licensing application was turned down by an administrative court on Wednesday.
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PalFest 2023 closing event tonight at the Sakakini Cultural Center in Ramallah. 6pm. Don’t miss it.
palfest.org/full-schedule/
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May 25: Our closing event will begin with Histories of Resistance: author @MaazaMengiste and artist and writer @MollyCrabapple will discuss their recent and upcoming work with Budour Hassan.
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Moka already spent 7 years in prison in Egypt on trumped up charges. Outrageous.
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I hear extremely disturbing news that Egyptian HRD in exile in Lebanon, AbdelRahman Tarek (Moka), was arrested today with no warrant by 3 men in plainclothes who broke into his house & took him by private car to the intelligence branch of internal security in Beirut.
@Mofalebanon
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May 25: Our closing event will begin with Histories of Resistance: author and artist and writer will discuss their recent and upcoming work with Budour Hassan.
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PalFest is in Ramallah on Wednesday and Thursday for two spectacular events to close out the 2023 festival:
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Tonight for PalFest 2023 don’t miss a unique poetry marathon live from Gaza. We will livestream from the Qattan Center in Gaza at 7pm, May 22 on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/@Palfest/strea
palfest.org/full-schedule/
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Tonight in Jerusalem: SURVIVING COLONIALISM
Join us at 7pm in the garden of Nordic Cafe for a unique conversation about survival, knowledge, art and resistance from 3 writers whose work is born of continuing struggles against apartheid and erasure
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The Palestine Festival of Literature is back!
Join us from May 20 to 25 for conversations, book launches, film screenings and dramatic readings across historic Palestine on the theme of: PALESTINE & THE GLOBAL SOUTH.
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It's been a long and painful year since my aunt, Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, was shot and killed by an Israeli soldier. My family and I are heartbroken but we are steadfast in our calls for accountability and #JusticeForShireen. Our family statement:
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This is where Israeli forces targeted and shot our #ShireenAbuAkleh a year ago today at 6:31 LT and while we still do not know the soldier who pulled the trigger, we know there’s a long chain of command and a world that’s not doing enough to hold them accountable.
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