December 17th, 2011 
Rowan El Shimi These photos were not taken by me. However, I felt the need to compile them all into one place to get a clear vision of what monsters we are dealing with. Also, as a way to make it easier to share and disseminate. Don’t underestimate the power of photos and videos. They have taken us [...]
December 16th, 2011 Rowan El Shimi This morning army and military police attacked the sit-in that has been taking place on Parliament street, also known as “Occupy Cabinet” Protests since November 25th demanding the removal of SCAF (Supreme Council of Armed Forces) and showing their dissent to the “National Salvation Government” that SCAF appointed following violent clashes near Tahrir and massive [...]
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Tags: brutality, Egypt, Egyptian Revolution, Occupy Cabinet, SCAF, Torture 
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November 26th, 2011 Rowan El Shimi In Egypt, sexual harassment has been an issue for quite sometime. Women can’t walk down the street without being harassed whether verbally, physically or just by inappropriate looks. According to the Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights research 85% of Egyptian women have experienced sexual harassment and 55% of them are exposed to it on a [...]
Posted in Blog, Local & Global Affairs Tags: Egypt, Sexual Harassment, Tahrir, Women's Rights 2 Comments »
November 20th, 2011 Rowan El Shimi أيوة الشعب هو المشكلة. احنا السبنى العسكر يحكمنا مع اننا عارفين إن احنا في دولة بيحكمها العسكر من وقت ما شالو الملك. ناصر كان عسكر. و مش بس عسكر كمان دكتاتور كبير قمع القوة السياسية و إستغل سذاجة الاخوان المسلمين و طمعهم فالسلطة وركبها هو و ابتدى يودينا في داهية. بعدها جه السادات. هو كمان [...]
June 5th, 2011 Rowan El Shimi I graduated from university in June 2009, and since I was studying journalism we were asked to work on a magazine as our graduation project. Each student had to work on an investigative piece as well. This was my work (and I got an A by the way… then again my university isn’t exactly known [...]
Posted in Blog, Community Times Mag, Local & Global Affairs, Published Articles Tags: #endsh, Egypt, Initiatives, Sexual Harassment, Women No Comments »
June 3rd, 2011 Rowan El Shimi Most people know the micro-celebrity Tarek Shalaby as the blogger, and activist who was among the first to camp out in Tarir as early as Jan 30th vowing to leave when Mubarak was ousted. His tent, named Bansyon El Horeyya, became a meeting point for some revolutionaries, and soon enough emerged versions 2, 3, 4, [...]
Posted in Blog, Local & Global Affairs Tags: Citizen Journalism, Egypt, Intifada, Israel, Protesting, SCAF 3 Comments »
April 19th, 2011 Rowan El Shimi The day started as any other. It was a Friday, and I headed down to Tahrir Square in Cairo to participate in the protest to “Save the Revolution”. I bumped into my friend from university, Amina Ismail, there who told me she was going to dress in Niqab and attend a Salafi conference and asked if I wanted [...]
Posted in Blog, Local & Global Affairs Tags: Egypt, Islam, Niqab, Salafi, Social Experiment 1 Comment »
April 3rd, 2011 Rowan El Shimi The day started as any other. It was a Friday, and I headed down to Tahrir Square in Cairo to participate in the protest to “Save the Revolution”. I bumped into my friend from university, Amina Ismail, there who told me she was going to dress in Niqab and attend a Salafi conference and asked [...]
Posted in Blog, Local & Global Affairs Tags: Egypt, Islam, Niqab, Salafi, Social Experiment 19 Comments »
March 31st, 2011 Rowan El Shimi We’ve all seen from recent events around the Arab world that authoritarian regimes tend to cave to pressure (unless they are Gaddafi, but he is a madman not just a dictator). This is just what Radwan’s family and friends are doing to free him. With a successful social media campaign, many Egyptian activists on their [...]
Posted in Blog, Local & Global Affairs Tags: Citizen Journalism, Detained Illegally, Human Rights, Muhammad Radwan, Syria, Uprising 2 Comments »
March 5th, 2011 Rowan El Shimi Ever since Tunisia’s uprising started, we’ve seen many across the Arab world. Egypt followed Tunisia’s uprising on January 25th, and 18 days later successfully toppled the thirty year dictator Hosni Mubarak. During the Egyptian uprising we’ve seen similar ones in Jordan, successfully removing their government, Yemen, where the struggles continues till now. The day after [...]
Posted in Blog, Local & Global Affairs Tags: Arab Unity, Egypt, Gaddafi, Middle-East, Poetry, Tunisia, Yemen 4 Comments »
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