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Politics: Egytian women protesting in Cairo. Make sure to watch the video that comes with the article as well, because we hear various women speak on the situation, which I think has been missing in a lot of reporting. Also, it's a somewhat depressing comment on short attention spans that everyone was following the spring uprising but what's going ( Read more... )

In honour of yesterday, five of my favourite Egyptians throughout history:

1) Hatshepsut. Pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty, one of the few female rulers of ancient Egypt; while warfare occured early in her reign, she ushered in a long and peaceful era, re-established trade networks and left behind a rich country. Her successor and stepson tried ( Read more... )

More halfamoon goodness:

BTVS:

Diamond Mind: brief but wonderful Anya vid.

Multifandom:

There's also the annual love thread for disliked female characters. Some personal favourites to share the love for:

Guinevere from Merlin. As the poster said, every time someone hates on Gwen, a fairy dies. Trufax.

Amy Gardner from West Wing.

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Egypt: wow. Aside from everything else, though, it reminds me again of the innate hypocrisy and contradiction of the West regarding the Middle East. We'd like you to be democratic and free, sure, but only if it can be guaranteed your freely elected goverment will be pro-West and above all secular; otherwise, we'd rather keep the pro-West despot in ( Read more... )

fannish5: Name five historical characters whose lives you'd like to see adapted into movies or TV series.

1.) Hatshepsut, pharao of Egypt, one of the few female ones. (Yes, there were more than two.) (Though not many.) Now I'm admittedly biased in favour of Pauline Gedge's novel about her, so my ideal would be for that novel to be the basis of a film or ( Read more... )

The undisputed highlight of my time in Berlin: the new exhibition Ägyptens Versunkene Schätze ("The Sunken Treasures of Egypt") which hasn't been shown anywhere else in the world yet and was only opened last week. It shows the findings made in the bey of Alexandria - the lost cities Heraklion and Conapus, and the part of Alexandria which had been ( Read more... )