While Egypt is walking the tight rope between the return to normality, the designing of the country's constitutional and political future, and the furthering of the more ambitious long-term goal of social justice, protests spread to the rest of the Middle East
Day of Rage announced for Thursday in Gaddafy's Libya
In Bahrain protests have also been continuing with clashes breaking out in various places across the Bahraini capital of Manama (good opportunity for us to learn the names of Arab capitals...)
Al Jazeera is also running a live blog on events in Bahrain
Also in Yemen (its capital being Sanaa) the heavy-handed police and security reaction to protests has already claimed lifes.
It is worth noting that in its coverage Al Jazeera's apparently is eager to identify the victims with their full names. I do not know whether this in general common in Arab Media, yet it is remarkable insofar as both the protests in Tunisia and Egypt had been connected to the fate of the individual's Khaled Said (Egypt) and Mohamed Bouazizi (Tunisia). These „martyrs“ constituted important points of reference for mobilisation of protesters.
Similarly, in Iran protests and unrest have been going on for days now, it seemed the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt had revived some of the opposition forces, who had retreated somewhat (or rather been: successfully suppressed) after their major confrontations with Ahmadinejad and his forces last year.
The clash reported by Al Jazeera has just been the most recent event in a series of events in Iran.
Also here in Iran we can observe tactics of intended misinformation, at least partially reminding of the media war that had been going on in Egypt
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