… roughly a third of the most blatantly anti-Muslim films of the last century were made in the 1980s alone. These movies used sporadic atrocities committed by individual Islamic extremists (the Lebanon bombing, the Berlin bombing, etc.) to demonize all Muslims. Consequently, Hollywood’s go-to villain in the 1980s became the Muslim terrorist—whether it was “Iron [...]
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A harrowing, historic week in Egypt – The Big Picture – Boston.com. Nice collection of photos from Egypt. To be a photog in the Middle East right now… h/t to Natalie
bp15-600×400.jpg 600×400. Gives me goosebumps. More from @cliffhammond: “Egyptian Christians said they will guard the Muslims from the police while they on Friday Pray.” Amazing solidarity. #Egypt #Jan25” Photo from here. Recommend following this Twitter Search feed.
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Worth a read. “To be honest, so much of the rhetoric around the use of social media in Egypt and Tunisia makes me want to scream — folks act like these American tools just dropped from the sky like humanitarian food rations, set to save the people from their (American-supported, natch) dictators.” http://jilliancyork.com/2011/01/27/how-are-protestors-in-egypt-using-social-media/
صورة لميدان التحرير في القاهرة قب… on Twitpic. Today. Our hearts and fists are with you. More at NYT. Follow @monasosh.
