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Azerbaijan’s Facebook Dissident
Elnur Majidli a Strasbourg-based blogger and internet activist has been threatened with a 12 year jail sentence for ‘inciting hatred’. Index on Censorship’s Mike Harris interviewed Elnur at the Council of Europe as part of Index and the International Partnership Group for Azerbaijan’s lobbying efforts
Sitting in a coffee shop at the Council of Europe, Elnur Majidli proudly shows off on his netbook the Facebook groups that started the rare public protests in Azerbaijan on 11 March — “the Great People’s Day” — and are now being used to organise further protests.
Tens of thousands of Azerbaijani citizens are members of the groups that Elnur administers, which has led the Ministry of Security to set-up a special Facebook team to monitor web activists. (more…)
The (Middle)East awakens?
Who is Next?
The Arab world is undergoing a remarkable winter uprising.
Unlike, the social revolutions of yesteryear, which were framed in the context of radical ideologies against a socio-economic elite, the revolts in the Arab street lack a clear ideological foundation and are spontaneous uprisings against the excesses of the state, lack of good governance, rule of law and accountability.
The common denominator between Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Algeria and Jordan is the inability of their regimes to promulgate real meaningful political and economic reforms. (more…)
Dynasty and Democracy in Azerbaijan
The Referendum Abolishing Presidential Term Limits
Speech at Columbia University , by Emin Milli
15 April, 2009
Dear professor Mitchel, I would like to thank you, Columbia University and Harriman Institute for showing interest in the latest developments in Azerbaijan. In January when I have organized and participated in protest against this referendum in front of UN, one of the closest members of my family was fired from his job. He was told that he is relative of the enemy of the state. (more…)
Bad things happen when empires fall apart
Harking back to Armenia in 1915 will only drive modern Turkey into China’s arms
The best thing said about the Armenian tragedy was a sermon delivered in the main church in Constantinople in 1894, more than 20 years before it happened. Patriarch Ashikyan had this to say: “We have lived with the Turks for a thousand years, have greatly flourished, are nowhere in this empire in a majority of the population. If the nationalists go on like this [they had started a terrorist campaign] they will ruin the nation.”
That Patriarch was quite right, and the nationalists shot him (and many other notables who were saying the same thing). (more…)
Eşşəyin bilmədiyi
və ya Eşek hoşaftan ne anlar
İstər yazılı, istərsə şifahi xalq ədəbiyyatında eşşək obrazının nə vaxt yarandığı haqqında məlumatım olmasa da , eşşəyin sadəcə şərq ədəbiyyatına məxsus heyvan obrazı olduğunu düşünürdüm.
Bu yaxınlarda etdiyim bir ədəbi araşdırma zamanı, təsadüfən eşşəyin qərb və Afrika ədəbiyyatında da əhəmiyyətli obraz olduğunu gördüm. Hətta bir çox xalqların eşşək simvolik məna daşıyır. (more…)
But They Did Not Give Up…
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” ~ Samuel Beckett
As a young man, Abraham Lincoln went to war a captain and returned a private. Afterwards, he was a failure as a businessman. As a lawyer in Springfield, he was too impractical and temperamental to be a success.
He turned to politics and was defeated in his first try for the legislature, again defeated in his first attempt to be nominated for congress, defeated in his application to be commissioner of the General Land Office, defeated in the senatorial election of 1854, defeated in his efforts for the vice-presidency in 1856, and defeated in the senatorial election of 1858. (more…)
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04/12/2009 at 19:19 7 şərh