Civil Rights Leadership
I’ll be speaking in Morocco at the Civil Rights Leadership Seminar at Al-Akhawayn University this week. I’m in Paris today, which means spending the whole day and evening doing work…
Victims of Rights Violations
An Essay on Kareem
I have a piece today on National Review Online, “Getting Kareem Freed: A brave college student and a network of bloggers are stronger than many think.”
How States Get Started: Darfur
Just Like the Early States-Men “[T]here remains a relatively small number of farming villages such as Kuteri where people are struggling to maintain dignity under the yoke of the government-backed…
Washington Blade Coverage of Second Amendment Case
From today’s Washington Blade, “Gay scholar helps overturn D.C. gun law.” (The headline might suggest that I’m a scholar of gay subjects, which I’m not, but headlines have to be…
A Message to Condi Rice….
My friend Constantino Diaz-Duran has published a very fine piece in the New York Post today calling on Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice to raise the issue of pardoning Kareem…
Art for Freedom
The Egyptian Embassy in London, with a Projection of Abdelkareem Being Taken to Prison www.freekareem.org: Thanks to Launa Bacon.
Heroes of Free Speech
The annual Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards have been awarded to five courageous people, including Abdelkareem Nabil Soliman, who was awarded the 2007 journalism award and whose cause…
Kareem’s Unjust Punishment Upheld
Yesterday an Egyptian court upheld the sentence of four years in prison for Abdel Kareem. CNN has posted an article, “Cairo Cracks Down on Bloggers,” that features interviews with other…
Kareem’s Unjust Punishment Upheld
Yesterday an Egyptian court upheld the sentence of four years in prison for Abdel Kareem. CNN has posted an article, “Cairo Cracks Down on Bloggers,” that features interviews with other…
Kareem’s Case Continues to Get Attention
Rep. Trent Franks has a letter in today’s Washington Post. I heard yesterday from some diplomatic sources that other governments are approaching the Egyptian authorities to urge a correction of…