Photos from the first hours of New Years Day 2012 in Tahrir Square.
Labour Journalist Jano Charbel (@janocharbel)
The beautiful and super-impressive Aliya Alwi (@aliyaalwi)
Austin G. Mackell
Top Posts
- Democracy Without Elections
- VBS.TV are a bunch of little bitches.
- You can crush the flowers, but you can't stop the spring.
- Christopher Hitchens: Farewell the Hypocrite
- Bio
- Female Misogynist goes Internet dating
- Happy New Year From Tahrir
- Heroin for Dole-Bludgers
- Egypt's revolutionaries fight the army, and win.
- Egypt's Workers in Revolution: An Interview with Labor Journalist Jano Charbel
me on twitter…
- @Glebe2037 i thought i had it set to public... but perhaps logged in yeah- 6 hours ago
- @arabglot and hence begins a chicken and egg cycle of if they don't return it won't get better and if it doesn't get better.... 13 hours ago
- reference link for last tweet, aljazeera.com/video/middleea… via @zhohaq 13 hours ago
- Will put down money now saying the 30th of June "open ended strike" in #Egypt (calling for fresh elections, we think) will be a huge flop. 14 hours ago
- RT @ValVenisEnt: RT @TheUrbanGrower: POLL: Essentially No One Believes Marijuana Users Should Go to Jail shar.es/Z7o94 via @sharet… 14 hours ago
Blogroll
- Acitv8Change The fantastic and fiery Kate Ausburn’s blog
- Antony Loewenstein One of Australia’s best and most critical intellectuals
- Disgruntled Biped “23 year old curmudgeon. Serial pessimist. Born in Jesusland, raised in Redneck Wonderland… suffice to say that both these experiences damaged me profoundly. Much happier now in the Inner West.”
- Inner West Live A community of blogger/journo/food-reviews/catlovers from around the Inner West (The Cool Part) of Sydney
- Lorenzo Tugnoli An amazing Italian photojournalist.
- Patch Galey A very sharp young British journalist based in Beirut and working at the Daily Star (also once my flat-mate)
- Penultimo A blog about my neighbourhood run by Jesse Stein and Erin Riley… Coz I still got love for the streets.
- Richard Hall Another fine young Daily Star Journo, writing from Beirut about the Middle East and beyond.
- Sam Tarling English Photojournalist bouncing round the Middle East. In Cairo (in the thick of it) last I checked.
- The Review of The New York Review of Books A side project of mine, featuring meta-reviews (reviews of reviews), video digests, and comment pages for the NYRB
- The Tongue Are you ready for a taste of the realness?
- The Tracy and The John “the men danced the dance of the gays”
- Two Bullets an anonymous insider from the Sydney music scene
Archives
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- December 2009
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- October 2009
The candle art was made by @abdukhalim1, @salehfekry , @Psypherize and @no_raat