June 2nd, 2008 by Adam

Liam Stack in the Christian Science Monitor looks at a theater program in Cairo that attempts to empower women and bring attention to gender issues in Egypt and Middle East. The women’s defiance is embodied by one participant’s statement, “My liberation won’t come from the one who has oppressed me – bringing me democracy? You think you’re really gonna send Condi to tell me how to be free?” Aside from the theater, Sherif Mansour at the Los Angeles Times provides insight into how Egyptian activists look to Facebook as an avenue of free expression, drawing the ire of the Mubarak government. Also, Alaa Abd El Fattah on PostGlobal finds that blogs are “at the heart of Egyptian cyber-activism, and citizen journalism through blogs remains the one consistently free source of information available.”

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