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On AlterNet: egypt

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "egypt"

In Egypt,

In Egypt, "Prostitute" Is a Slippery Term

L.L. Wynn, American Sexuality Magazine. June 26, 2008.
In Egypt the label "prostitute" is often applied to women who defy traditional social and sexual codes of conduct.

HIV Scare in Egypt: Gays Rounded Up, Called

HIV Scare in Egypt: Gays Rounded Up, Called "Suspects"

Manila Ryce, The Largest Minority AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. February 19, 2008.
This not only violates the most basic rights of people living with HIV. It also threatens public health.

Gender Equality Cheers and Jeers

Gender Equality Cheers and Jeers

Jennifer Thurston, Dominique Soguel, January 8, 2008.
Cheers: N.H. allows civil unions. Jeers: Abortion clinic attacks intensify.

America's Shocking Nuclear Hypocrisy

America's Shocking Nuclear Hypocrisy

Tad Daley, AlterNet. November 9, 2007.
America's standard for saying which countries can go nuclear is simple: Countries we like can. Countries we dislike can't.

Bush and Napoleon Both Believed Their Own Propaganda About a

Bush and Napoleon Both Believed Their Own Propaganda About a "Greater Middle East"

Juan Cole, Tomdispatch.com. August 25, 2007.
There are times when the resonances of history are positively eerie. The parallels of Napoleon's occupation of Egypt with Bush's disaster in Iraq are enough to make you jump out of your chair.

Palestinians Stranded in Egypt

Palestinians Stranded in Egypt

Laila El-Haddad, AlterNet. December 18, 2006.
Israel shut its last border crossing with Egypt, keeping hundreds of thousands of Palestinians stranded and penned like cattle, unable to move freely in and out of their own land.