There isn't much to say about these photos: I loved the image of all the back-lit brooms in the hardware shop and I liked the dude on the phone outside the post-office, complete with his headgear.
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This blog is a messy combination of personal anecdotes, topics related to international human rights and commentary on art & literature. The mish-mash is intentional. Rorty has described how human solidarity can be achieved by attempting to describe and understand unfamiliar people, and by allowing ourselves to be described and known. This blog is a contribution to that effort of 'knowing' and 'describing.'
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"One is never ready for the next step in life's journey. We learn what we need to know on the road itself."
Elise Boulding, Quaker
Elise Boulding, Quaker
Remembering the indivisibility of all human rights
One of the controversial Danish cartoons from 2006
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But do Western women really have the best view of "women's rights"?
http://themiddleeastinterest.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/do-muslim-women-believe-and-desire-what-western-women-believe-and-desire/
Struggles of Egyptian Human Rights Activists
- Egypt sends refugees to uncertain fate in Sudan
- Coptic blogger arrested, harassed by state security
- Verdict on controversial website trial set for early December (includes EIPR website)
- Trial shows need to ends curbs on free speech
- Egypt Targets Web-Savvy Opponents
- Shameful attempt to silence Human Rights Defenders
From Arabist.net
Good links to Human Rights and Politics in Egypt/around the world
- There is no reason the Middle East cannot be a liberal polity
- Documents range of blogs from Iraq.
- Bahais in Egypt
- Making Sense of Darfur
- photos by US solider in Iraq
- Women Living Under Muslim Laws
- Egyptian Center for Women's Rights
- AMERA, refugee organisation
- Andalus Institute for Tolerance and Anti-Violence
- cairo institute for human rights studies
- Egyptian organisation for human rights
- The Arabic Network for Human Rights
- http://egypthr.blogspot.com/
- http://arabist.net/arabawy/
- Baheyya: Egypt Analysis and Whimsy
- Recycling Fear: The New American Enemy - a documentary that looks at discrimination against Muslims in America's "war" against terrorism
Human rights in Egypt
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From Richard Rorty, "Human Rights, Rationality and Sentimentality":
"If one follows Baier's advice one will not see it as the moral educator's task to answer the rational egotist's question "Why should I be moral?" but rather to answer the much more frequently posed question "Why should I care about a stranger, a person who is no kin to me, a person whose habits I find disgusting?". The traditional answer to the latter question is "Because kinship and custom are morally irrelevant, irrelevant to the obligations imposed by the recognition of membership in the same species". This has never been very convincing, since it begs the question at issue: whether mere species membership is, in fact, a sufficient surrogate for closer kinship. Furthermore, that answer leaves one wide open to Nietzsche's discomfiting rejoinder: That universalistic notion, Nietzsche will sneer, would only have crossed the mind of a slave – or, perhaps, the mind of an intellectual, a priest whose self-esteem and livelihood both depend on getting the rest of us to accept a sacred, unarguable, unchallengeable paradox.
A better sort of answer is the sort of long, sad, sentimental story which begins "Because this is what it is like to be in her situation – to be far from home, among strangers", or "Because she might become your daughter-in-law", or "Because her mother would grieve for her". Such stories, repeated and varied over the centuries, have induced us, the rich, safe, powerful, people, to tolerate, and even to cherish, powerless people – people whose appearance or habits or beliefs at first seemed an insult to our own moral identity, our sense of the limits of permissible human variation."
"If one follows Baier's advice one will not see it as the moral educator's task to answer the rational egotist's question "Why should I be moral?" but rather to answer the much more frequently posed question "Why should I care about a stranger, a person who is no kin to me, a person whose habits I find disgusting?". The traditional answer to the latter question is "Because kinship and custom are morally irrelevant, irrelevant to the obligations imposed by the recognition of membership in the same species". This has never been very convincing, since it begs the question at issue: whether mere species membership is, in fact, a sufficient surrogate for closer kinship. Furthermore, that answer leaves one wide open to Nietzsche's discomfiting rejoinder: That universalistic notion, Nietzsche will sneer, would only have crossed the mind of a slave – or, perhaps, the mind of an intellectual, a priest whose self-esteem and livelihood both depend on getting the rest of us to accept a sacred, unarguable, unchallengeable paradox.
A better sort of answer is the sort of long, sad, sentimental story which begins "Because this is what it is like to be in her situation – to be far from home, among strangers", or "Because she might become your daughter-in-law", or "Because her mother would grieve for her". Such stories, repeated and varied over the centuries, have induced us, the rich, safe, powerful, people, to tolerate, and even to cherish, powerless people – people whose appearance or habits or beliefs at first seemed an insult to our own moral identity, our sense of the limits of permissible human variation."
Richard Rorty
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