Here’s your occasional dose of inspiring news: Alaa Abdel-Fattah, an Egyptian pro-democracy activist who was arrested in early May, is continuing to blog from prison — somehow getting slips of paper with his scribbled posts past his jailers and into the safe havens of cyberspace. He and his wife Manal Hassan run a popular blog that has become a beacon within Egypt’s political reform movement, and a thorn in the side of President Hosni Mubarak’s authoritarian regime. You can read the blog here (it includes articles in English).

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