www.ftm.nl > Sebastiaan Brommersma
Promotie tijdens de Arabische Lente: ‘Beveiligingsbedrijf Fox-IT overschreed morele grens’
31 jul. 2021 - Cybersecurity-bedrijf Fox-IT promootte zijn spionagesoftware in het Midden-Oosten, zelfs tijdens de Arabische Lente. Directeuren Ronald Prins en Menno van der Marel gaven hun fiat. Geestelijk vader Bert Hubert presenteerde de tool zelf op vakbeurzen in de regio. Fox werd nadien steeds belangrijker voor de Nederlandse overheid: Prins hield van 2018 tot 2020 toezicht op de Nederlandse veiligheidsdiensten. In 2020 volgde Hubert hem op.
 · egypt · fox-it · middle-east · oversight · surveillance · syria

www.thisiscolossal.com > Christopher Jobson
Spectacular Drone Views Of Giza Present the Pyramid in an Unusual Perspective
13 jul. 2021 - Ukrainian photographer Alexander Ladanivskyy travels the world in search of spectacular images including idyllic scenes of Icelandic waterfalls, ancient mountain cities in Jordan, and the collision of history and modernity in Nepal. Last April, he teamed up with the Ministry of Tourism in Egypt to shoot one of the most photographed landmarks on Earth: the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. Not satisfied with recreating perspectives found on postcards and Instagram feeds, Ladanivskyy instead used a drone to shoot the 4,600-year-old structure squarely from above at different altitudes.
 · aerial · architecture · design · egypt · history · photography · pyramids

www.nybooks.com > Ursula Lindsey
Ancient Egypt for the Egyptians
13 may. 2021 - Europeans made—and carried away—many of the most famous discoveries of the “Golden Age of Egyptology,” but Egyptians today are beginning to reclaim their own past.
 · archaeology · colonialism · egypt · hieroglyphics

foreignpolicy.com > Mona Eltahawy
Why Do They Hate Us?
23 apr. 2012 - The real war on women is in the Middle East.
 · arab-spring · arab-world · blasphemy · childrens-rights · cultural-relativism · egypt · feminism · freedom · genital-mutilation · islam · libya · misogyny · morocco · muslim-brotherhood · polygamy · saudi-arabia · sexuality · tunesia · yemen

www.economist.com
Nawal El-Saadawi died on March 21st
27 mar. 2021 - The indefatigable campaigner for women’s rights in Egypt was 89.
 · egypt · feminism · islam · secularization

www.nybooks.com > Ursula Lindsey
Me Too in Egypt & Morocco
11 mar. 2021 - In both countries, burgeoning movements to hold men accountable for sexual violence have led to new waves of repression.
 · arab-spring · egypt · freedom-of-the-press · hirak · journalism · misogyny · morocco · sexual-violence · shaming · surveillance · tiktok

www.theguardian.com > Tom Faber
'She exists out of time': Umm Kulthum, Arab music's eternal star
28 feb. 2020 - With a voice adored by Bob Dylan, Robert Plant and millions across the Arab world, Umm Kulthum rejected gender norms with her powerful, political music. But can her 90-minute songs work in a new stage musical?
 · egypt · umm-kulthum

www.groene.nl > Nirit Peled
‘Plotseling werd er niet meer gepraat’
4 nov. 2015 - Op 4 november is het twintig jaar geleden dat Yitzhak Rabin werd vermoord – voor de generatie die in 1973 werd geboren een bepalend moment. ‘Voor ons was de vraag: waar gaan we voor sterven?’
 · egypt · ethnic-profiling · intifada · israel · judaism · mizrahi · palestine · syria · unions