All posts tagged Egypt

Wednesday Night #1643
August 28, 2013, 1 Comment

The full house included Robert Landori‘s guest, Quebec film pioneer André Link, co-founder of Cinepix, and later, ...

Wednesday Night #1642
August 21, 2013, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1642

Renewable energy Wind power is capricious, noisy, destructive of nature and constitutes a blight on the skyline, especia ...

Wednesday Night #1640
August 7, 2013, 1 Comment

Catherine Gillbert read a delightful essay from The Guardian Weekly about salons. Let’s seek inspiration from Doro ...

Wednesday Night #1639
July 31, 2013, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1639

The  surprise appearance of Karl Moore added an unexpected – and as always interesting –  dimension to the ...

Wednesday Night #1636
July 10, 2013, 1 Comment

The Lac-Mégantic disaster has, perhaps, brought out the best in human beings. What would have constituted a disaster un ...

Wednesday Night #1635 with Mitch Joel
July 3, 2013, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1635 with Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel as the evening’s headliner brought out a capacity crowd of tech and tech-wary friends, almost all with inte ...

U.S. Foreign Relations in 2011-12
December 28, 2012, 5 Comments

  World Outlook for 2013 (Council on Foreign Relations) As the year draws to an end, the United States faces three majo ...

Egypt in 2011-2012
December 22, 2012, 5 Comments

  He’s presiding over a country that lacks a constitution, a dissolved parliament, an economic — a huge ...

Middle East/Arab world in 2012
December 20, 2012, Comments Off on Middle East/Arab world in 2012

The fallacy of the phrase, ‘the Muslim world’ Western media reinforces stereotypes by reducing a complex set ...

Israel – Palestine/Gaza 2012
December 20, 2012, 9 Comments

20 December Marching Toward a Third Uprising? (IPS) – While the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip hasn’t been so quiet for ...