Posted in Del.icio.us on Tuesday, 30 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Death penalty debate rages as hundreds await gallows – The National Newspaper
(tags: egypt humanrights)
Google chief: Iran can't control the net | Media | guardian.co.uk
(tags: google internet censorship technology BigBrother iran IranElections2009)
Posted in Del.icio.us on Monday, 29 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Creating a 'Pollution Casino': Why the Energy Bill May End Up a Boon for Our Dirtiest Industries | Environment | AlterNet
"Offsets literally provide massive incentives for polluters. Rather than transforming their business practices, they can simply write a small check to an Indonesian farmer, whose activities may not offset their industrial emissions," says Slocum, who [...]
Posted in Del.icio.us on Sunday, 28 June 2009 | 1 Comment »
NewNet News – US and Chile to collaborate on clean energy issues
(tags: chile united-states energy alternative latin-america)
Why the Microgrid Could Be the Answer to Our Energy Crisis | Page 6 | Fast Company
Very useful and informative.
"The microgrid is all about consumer control — aligning monetary incentives, with the help of information technology, to make renewables [...]
Posted in Del.icio.us on Friday, 26 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
House Democrats strike deal on climate bill – Lisa Lerer and Patrick O'Connor – POLITICO.com
(tags: united-states policy politics energy climate-change)
Slaughterhouse blues
(tags: unemployment SwineFlu egyptian)
Artificial Trees: Could They be Better Than the Real Thing? : TreeHugger
fake tree that captures carbon?!
(tags: carbon environment)
T. Boone Pickens: Propane and the Pickens Plan
(tags: energy oil-dependence TBoonPickens alternative fuel-economy)
Posted in Del.icio.us on Thursday, 25 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BBC NEWS | Europe | France sets up burka commission
(tags: veil france islamophobia islam muslim women)
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Jazzing up the abaya
(tags: uae fashion arab women muslim veil)
The Arabs’ Forlorn Envy of Iranians – Tehran Bureau
Arab regimes and leaders have worked themselves into a lose-lose situation whereby they would be unhappy if [...]
Posted in Arab, Iran, Middle East, Politics on Thursday, 25 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I couldnt let this one by with just a delicious bookmark. Rami El Khouri comments on Arab (regime and popular) perceptions of and reactions to the events unfolding in Iran. I think he hits a crucial point whith this article in highlighting that they’ve trapped themselves in a lose-lose situation regardless of the outcomes in [...]
Posted in Del.icio.us on Wednesday, 24 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mojtaba Khamenei: gatekeeper to Iran's supreme leader | World news | The Guardian
(tags: iran IranElections2009 politics)
BM News: Sexual harassment continues unabated in Egypt « Bikya Masr
(tags: sexual-harrassment egypt)
Posted in Academia, Egypt, Israel, Politics on Wednesday, 24 June 2009 | 2 Comments »
Here’s the announcement from the AUC website:
Retired U.S. Diplomat Named to AUC Board of Trustees
June 21, 2009, Cairo, Egypt – The American University in Cairo announced today the appointment of former US ambassador to Egypt Daniel C. Kurtzer as a member of its Board of Trustees. Kurtzer, the S. Daniel Abraham Professor of Middle East [...]
Posted in Del.icio.us on Tuesday, 23 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Egyptians look to military 'saviour'
(tags: egypt politics military)
BM News: Egypt’s Brotherhood lashes out over recent arrests « Bikya Masr
(tags: egypt muslim-brotherhood politics humanrights)
Green Economic Development in the Middle East – Arab Environment Watch
(tags: energy green sustainable alternative environment energy-policy MiddleEast)
Aqaba sea life hurting from global warming and pollution – [...]
Posted in Del.icio.us on Monday, 22 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
"Suck on Our Yachts": Goldman Sachs Issues Non-Apology for Destroying the World Economy | Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace | AlterNet
(tags: financial-crisis finance economic-crisis banks)
Op-Ed Columnist – A Supreme Leader Loses His Aura as Iranians Flock to the Streets – NYTimes.com
(tags: iran IranElections2009 politics police protests)
Jordan to implement first Climate Change adaptation project – Arab Environment [...]
Posted in Del.icio.us on Sunday, 21 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BBC NEWS | Business | Egypt faces real estate collapse
mid and high end real estate prices falling but low-income still struggling
(tags: egypt economy)
BM News: Timeline of 30 H1N1 cases in Egypt – 18 June 2009 « Bikya Masr
(tags: SwineFlu egypt)
International Crisis Group – Privileged Partnership offers…
"In short, "privileged partnership" offers no obvious new privileges to [...]
Posted in Del.icio.us on Friday, 19 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Arabic blogosphere begins to bloom
study of 35k active blogs including mapping networks etc.
(tags: blogs arab MiddleEast statistics resource)
GreenAdvertizing.com » Green Advertising Network | GreenAdvertizing.com
GreenAdvertizing.com is a green affiliate network providing specialist advertising services to green advertisers and publishers.
Publishers of popular blogs and green web sites who join our [...]
Posted in Del.icio.us on Thursday, 18 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On the rebound
on tourism in global econ crisis
(tags: egypt economy economic-crisis)
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Fusion falters under soaring costs
(tags: nuclear energy science)
BBC World Service – News – Fusion reactor threatened by costs
(tags: nuclear energy research science)
Daily Kos: Ahmadinejad Rally Photoshopped to Appear Larger
(tags: iran elections IranElections2009)
Western Misconceptions Meet Iranian Reality | STRATFOR
(tags: [...]
Posted in Del.icio.us on Wednesday, 17 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How To Communicate Securely in Repressive Environments « iRevolution
(tags: web2.0 censorship technology internet howto politics privacy security activism ICT)
MBAs, Media & the Middle East. | Web’s Dead Baby, Web’s Dead.
on how our uses of ICT for communication are evolving including the demise of email
(tags: web2.0 internet ICT)
More than just medicine
on the state of Abasiyya Fever [...]
Posted in Del.icio.us on Tuesday, 16 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Emerald: Journal Issue List
International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship
(tags: gender women business sme development)
BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Iran 'to hold election recount'
recount
(tags: iran elections)
Communities at risk, but coal ash sites secret
(tags: coal environment united-states)
Stimulus packages trigger climate outperformance, according to research
companies working on climate changed outperformed markets globally.
(tags: environment climate-change business economy finance)
Iran's [...]
