Arts & Entertainment 'Ramses the Great' Egyptian Artifact Exhibit Comes to the deYoung This Summer A touring exhibition of rare Egyptian artifacts, some unearthed just in recent years, will be coming to the deYoung Museum starting August 20.
SF News An Activist In Cairo, An Exile In San Francisco Ahmed Salah, a former Egyptian democracy activist and the author of You Are Under Arrest for Masterminding the Egyptian Revolution: A Memoir, seems to like San Francisco okay. In an excerpt posted to
SF News <em>SF Weekly</em> Makes Breakup Song Playlist for Mubarak Ian S. Port over at the Weekly's All Shook Down blog put up one of those 10-song playlists they've been doing, this time a list of breakup songs to "help get Egypt President
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink (UPDATED) Egyptian President Mubarak <s>Refuses to Step Down</s> Resigns Although most media outlets claimed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak would resign today amid increasing pressure from citizens, that wasn't the case. This afternoon, he "announced he has handed his powers over to his
SF News 'Missing' Google Executive In Egypt Freed Wael Ghoneim, the Google marketing manager/opposition leader who has been "missing" in Egypt since late January, has been freed. "Google Inc. said Monday that its marketing manager has been released in Egypt
SF News Jewish Organizations Under Fire As the Bay Citizen reports, local Jewish organizations like Oakland’s Jewish Voice for Peace, have drawn scrutiny both locally and worldwide for expressing hope that Egypt's push for democracy could shift Middle
SF News "Egypt Remembers" Memorial Seeks Help Honoring Victims San Francisco-based company 1000Memories, a free site that provides a forum for friends and families to pay tribute to their deceased loved ones, has created its first group memorial page, "Egypt Remembers." The
Arts & Entertainment Choices, Choices: Pro-Giants Rally or Anti-Mubarak Rally? The way we see it, there are two things you can do tomorrow afternoon to assert yourself as a responsible citizen of the world: show up to AT&T Park around 11
SF News (UPDATED) Infamous Kenneth Cole Egypt Tweet Emblazoned on SOMA Store Window Just as soon as Kenneth Cole posted this Twitter update that used the crisis in Egypt to sell shoes, he quickly erased it and followed up with an apology. “I’ve dedicated my
SF News Google Executive Missing In Egypt, Now Named Spokesman By Egypt’s Youth Opposition Movement Google’s head of marketing for the Middle East and North Africa, Wael Ghonim, who has been missing in Egypt since the uprisings began, has been named the symbolic spokesperson for the opposition
SF News Egyptian Students at Cal Organize Protest to Help Their Families, Friends Early this morning, the pro-democracy demonstrators in Egypt were assaulted first by supporters of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak charging them on horses and camels, then by automatic weapon fire. That's why for Salma
SF News How Not To Say Stupid Stuff About Egypt Like, it's really sad what's going on in Egypt and stuff, right? Wrong! According to Sarthanapalos' "How Not To Say Stupid Stuff About Egypt" (discovered by SFBG's Sarah Phelan) that kind of gibberish
SF News UC Students Removed from Egypt After political unrest hit Egypt eight days ago (which has since turned violent), 19 UC students "and at least 13 other adults" have been evacuated. According to the UC Office of the President,
SF News Twitter is Finally Useful for Something Buck was in Egypt doing a project on Egyptian bloggers who tend to be, according to The Mercury News "mostly leftist, anti-government bloggers." When photographing a demonstration, Buck and his translator, Mohammed Salah