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While the story of Ireland and the fate of Portugal monopolize the attention of the European Union (waiting for the eye along the Brussels move garbage from Naples accounts of the Beautiful Country), the EU risks losing sight of a privileged partner in the Islamic world, preaching in the country to become a member for 50 years, Turkey.
Or maybe not. Not all observers interpret the strategic choices of Ankara's foreign policy in the same way.

In an editorial published in the Corriere della Sera, November 23, "NATO, Iran and Turkey, which is leaving us," Giovanni Sartori, says: "Turkey, now seems to look to Islam: turkish Prime Minister Erdogan at the NATO summit in Lisbon (19 and November 20, 2010, ed), managed to get that Iran was ruled by the States that threaten the West, precisely protected by the military of the Atlantic Alliance. So we lost Turkey and at the same time strengthened the hand of our most dangerous enemy, Iran of the ayatollahs. Really a bell'insuccesso.

But really the Turkish move is both surprising and definitive? The comment by Valeria Talbot, senior researcher of euro-Mediterranean partnership and Turkey Institute for the study of international politics: "I would like some clarification, because I believe that this first reading is misleading. The document mentioned by Sartori regard the missile shield of NATO, which will be addressed to protect Europe from specific countries, but by generic threats. In addition, in text are not the names of other nations, "then, he claims, report only the name of Iran would be inappropriate.

ISPI From the perspective of the analyst, in fact, "the choice in the direction of Turkey in the Middle East is not an alternative to the European way, but complementary." Even more so if Brussels and Washington will be able to assess this "projection Middle East" in the right proportions.

What Ankara is disappointed by the difficulties negotiating with the European Union and hostile attitude of France and Germany is not new: critical issues such as Cyprus and the rights of the Kurdish minority constitutes an impediment to progress turkish dossier into the European fold. But that is not

impasse to push the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan to strengthen relations with Tehran, "This is the result of pragmatism, of energy interests (Iran is the main supplier of gas to Ankara, ed) and commercial relief (about $ 10 billion annual interchange with growth expectations to 30 bn).

And attention to the Iran issue in the Turkish Born reflects an attempt to avoid a rupture between the Atlantic Alliance and the ayatollahs, pushing for development in key civilian nuclear program.
"But since the 80s, and gradually more and more in the decade Next, the Turks have strengthened relations with the Middle East. Just think of the intense flow of exports to Iraq that has endured during the crisis "with the regime of Saddam Hussein.

How to 'argue that, to Western interests would be desirable that the Turkish strategy must be in harmony with the objectives of Americans and Europeans, this is another kind of speech, "said the researcher.

Finally, the religious issue: the government of the AKP (Party for Justice and Development, of which Erdogan is the leader) and all his moves are constantly under the magnifying glass.

Why? The answer is obvious, also at risk because dangerous simplification: "For the religious position that we give ourselves to Turkey, the way we want to paint the country", assuming that by now have turned their backs on secularism for un'islamizzazione no return.

a simplification that could be dangerous to assess and prevent the scenario turkish in its specificity, with a route different from that in other Muslim majority countries in the region. And with different political ambitions, such as a bridge between the West and the Middle East.

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When a thirty-looking regime monolithic afraid of a twenty year old "internett" and his fellow freak, perhaps it is time to doubt the stability and keep listening to perceive the creaks.

Especially since the young man in question, Abdel Kareem Nabil Suleiman, 26, one Egyptian blogger to have served a prison sentence (four years) for his writings on the web, highly regarded as defamatory against President Hosni Mubarak and faith Islam, no longer seems able to harm anyone.

But, obviously, to rot in prison last November 5 Burg El Arab, Alexandria, Egypt, was judged insufficient by the authorities: Abdel Kareem, according to reconstructions of the independent press and organizations for the protection of human rights, was quickly recapture by Egyptian secret services, who were arrested without new charges notified (but this is nothing new in a country where, since 1981 , martial law applies) and thrown in jail for 12 days.

Until 17 November, when the family was able to embrace the rough draft of their loved one. In those 10 extra days of "rehabilitation", the blogger has received a clear message: you are free, but do not you dare open your mouth ever again.

At the time of her diary on the net, Nabil wrote with the nom de plume Kareem Amer and ridiculed the flaws of the government, conservative Islam, which has taken hold in the country over the past twenty years, and the mosque of Al Azhar University, where he studied law.

institution of the millennial point of reference for all the Sunnis in the world, Kareem Amer said: "The University of terrorism." And then: "Muslims revealed their true scary face, showing the world that are brutal, barbaric and inhuman."

The judge who sentenced him reported another blogger's comment subversive: the prophet Mohammed and his followers are "" pouring "blood."
And it was this his anti-Islamist stance, with tones unprecedented, for having made it vulnerable: it was limited to criticism of the regime, Kareem Amer was found cross-party consensus in opposition, secular and religious. It probably would have remained in prison a few weeks, without stop, as a warning. What happened to his other "colleagues" of dissidents on the web.

speak ill of the religion but not really. Admitting that there is a problem, "Islamic fundamentalism" is not everything. Moreover, the play may have against the entries in a country where, in the heart of the capital, a year ago looking for a prestigious ice "committed, only men, practicing Muslims? Since November

2006, the date of his first arrest, Abdel Kareem Nabil Suleiman has received the support of many international symbols, such as Reporters Without Borders and the Committee to Protect Journalists, who considered his actions in the network and those of other Egyptian bloggers a form of journalism in all respects, who lived on the ground, high information content because it free.

As those of Wael Abbas (misrdigital.blogspirit.com) Nawara Negm (tahyyes.blogspot.com), Alaa Abd El Fatah and his wife Manal (www.manalaa.net), Rehab Bassam (www.rehabbassam.com) Yasser Thabet (yasser-best.blogspot.com) Zeinobia (egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com), or "aggregators" Omraneya (www.omraneya.net) Baheyya (baheyya.blogspot.com), The Egyptian blog (theegyptblog.blogspot.com).

The topics covered by the report, "Flower" with a season of renewed political activism in 2004-2005, the most varied and intertwined with each other (art, culture, society, politics, religion), but it is obvious on the Web have found that natural vent all those whose views are censored in everyday life. At school, college, work, into a mosque in the family.

Not to mention those born in specific occasions, for example, the strike of the cotton mill workers in Mahalla El Kubra, the largest in the Middle East, holed up inside the plant surrounded by the army and in contact with the world only through the web.

In just over five years, bloggers have reported and documented cases of corruption, torture, sexual discrimination, sectarian violence like never before. Aroused heated debates in public and then disappear into the network, sometimes identified by intelligence agencies and more often not.

Now, ten days before the election for the renewal of the People, the lower house of Egyptian Parliament, while the U.S. press on the Cairo to accept the presence of international observers to monitor the transparency of the vote, the regime led by Hosni Mubarak, 82, gives signals of hardening: refuses, through official channels and the national press, any foreign interference in its policy, is to stop prominent members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the only true opposition movement capable of challenging the absolute power of the National Democratic Party (NDP) ; hinders political rallies and debates, or they "padded" by intelligence agents in plain clothes.

and free is an internationally known blogger (for Abdel Kareem associations have mobilized U.S., British, French, Swedish), but twenty years old and terrified.

The situation for dissidents, it could get worse next year as we approach the elections presidential. The vote could ratify the 2011 transfer of power by the President, who is finishing a fifth consecutive term, and a successor, perhaps son Gamal, perhaps a senior NDP.
why are the laws of the November 28 opening of a season by the outcome anything but certain.

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Comics desecrating

A glimpse of life underground, between humanity and machine jams, overcrowded subway stops, pollution, dirt, blinding and only hot air mixed with sand.

And cultural ferment, political commitment, inter-generational strife, endemic corruption and nobility of spirit, generous and free. Poised between love and hate, on the border between labile worship hypnotic disgust and revulsion, as only those who have lived in a large African capital has experienced the same moment.

This is "Metro", a comic published in Cairo Egypt in 2008 in a few hundred copies and immediately went into hiding because censored by the authorities.

Because the first graphic novel ever has displaced the Egyptian political leadership, abituatasi the disputes in recent years, but all in all controllable through tools: Sporadic and "bald" manifestations of political activists, with the party Al Ghad (Tomorrow) of Ayman Nour and the movement Kefaya (Enough) at the forefront yesterday, and the reformist Mohammed El Baradei, Former number one of the United Nations Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) engaged today.

And then a few novel by internationally renowned "reclaimed" by the censors ("The Yacoubian Building" by Alaa El Aswani) and independent newspapers to ensure a functional pluralist facade under thirty years of Hosni Mubarak.

But no drawings, no one had thought to turn into comic everyday reality of a country of 80 million inhabitants, of whom about half semi-illiterate. And on top of using the dialect, that is the language spoken by the people, ironic and irreverent, disillusioned and fatalistic. This must have crowded out the (almost) one-party National Democrat, already struggling with elusive blogger.

Now the tables from the suddenly dry, which gives the little Baroque, a young designer Magdy El Shafie, pharmacist training, will reach the Italian public with an edition edited by The Sirente, for the translation of Ernesto Pagano, out in end of November.

"This is a bet to see if Italy will have to wait for a response from the public. But I have no doubts about the value of comics, "he told the translator Lettera43.it Ernesto Pagano, behind the experience, again for the Sirente, with his bestseller" Taxi "by Khaled Al Khamissi (a collection of dialogues between real and paradoxical the author Taxi drivers and Cairo).

It is also thought to make the Egyptian dialect with the Sicilian, to translate the excitement of colorful language. Then, the final choice of Italian current.
"The characters are typed by a decision" as Shehade, the protagonist, a brilliant young university student and frustrated because it will be difficult to realize its ambitions into a reality that property as the Arab country.

And then a succession of "puppets" tormented, including journalists, shoeshine, porters and "street urchins" of neighborhoods, immigrants in the capital of the Saïd, the Deep South

All 'in a cage, a metaphor the social and cultural captivity "in which they are conscious of living especially the young, Pagano said, convinced that" Metro "can have an audience among those" who want to discover a different Egypt, now, away from Sharm El Sheikh " in constant boiling.

signals in the Italian publishing world and, consequently, the audience, are there: while the Arabic language flourish university and non university, there are literary series of experiments focusing on new emerging phenomena of Arabic literature. Sometimes "caught" between the lines of its most outrageous, outspoken. Or, why not trade.

Per immagini e contenuti, ritenuti troppo spinti, autore ed editore, Mohammed Sharqawi, sono stati processati e condannati alla distruzione di tutte le copie del volume. Quelle ancora nelle librerie. Per le altre, rien ne va plus.

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