Monitoring companies say access to internet appears to have been cut off in country
Access to the internet in Syria appeared to have been cut off on Monday evening, according to a number of monitoring companies, prompting speculation that the apparent blackout was an attempt by the Syrian government to disrupt the online activities of opponents. Live blog here.
A man poses for a photo in front of a burning bus reportedly belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood. Award-winning Australian photojournalist, Ed Giles, documents the growing dissatisfaction with the government of President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
Photograph: Ed Giles/Getty Images
Syrian families wait their turn to register at the UNHCR center in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon. The UN has announced today that the number of Syrian refugees fleeing the conflict has reached 1 million. Photograph: Bilal Hussein/AP
A major new collection of contemporary Middle Eastern photography has been announced. The works, by over 30 of the top artists from Iran to Egypt and Palestine, will address the massive social and political changes and events of recent years. The works will go on show for the first time in November 2012 at London’s V&A.
Jowhara AlSaud. Airmail, from the series Out of Line, 2008 Photograph: Art Fund Collection of Middle Eastern Photography at the V&A and the British Museum
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The UN refugee agency says up to 2,000 Syrians have crossed the border into Lebanon to escape the violence
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Photograph: Craig Thompson
It took the graphic novelist Craig Thompson seven years to complete Habibi, his epic exploration of child slavery and sexual awakening in an imaginary Middle-Eastern kingdom. In this gallery he shows how it grew from his first ideas to the final pages.
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France 2 television station has confirmed that the journalist reported killed along with 8 Syrians in Homs this morning is one of their employees, Gilles Jacquier. Jacquier, pictured above in a photo from 2009 (AFP / Kenzo Tribouillard), is the first Western journalist to be killed in Syria since the beginning of the revolt and Assad’s brutal crackdown (although, of course, non-Western journalists have been killed).
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Terrible, terrible news. According to our Middle East correspondent who is on the ground (@ian_black), the Homs attack that killed French journalist was “first described as mortars then changed to rocket-propelled grenade. Circs v unclear”.
Remember, these journalists put themselves in grave danger to tell you the stories you read. And sometimes they pay very difficult prices. Our thoughts are with the family, co-workers and friends of Gilles Jacquier this morning.
You can listen to Ian Black’s account of what happened in Homs today here.
Ian Black on Homs attack (mp3)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxn5o4dLOH1qchhhqo1_500.jpg)
France 2 television station has confirmed that the journalist reported killed along with 8 Syrians in Homs this morning is one of their employees, Gilles Jacquier. Jacquier, pictured above in a photo from 2009 (AFP / Kenzo Tribouillard), is the first Western journalist to be killed in Syria since the beginning of the revolt and Assad’s brutal crackdown (although, of course, non-Western journalists have been killed).
Terrible, terrible news. According to our Middle East correspondent who is on the ground (@ian_black), the Homs attack that killed French journalist was “first described as mortars then changed to rocket-propelled grenade. Circs v unclear”.
Remember, these journalists put themselves in grave danger to tell you the stories you read. And sometimes they pay very difficult prices. Our thoughts are with the family, co-workers and friends of Gilles Jacquier this morning.
You can listen to Ian Black’s account of what happened in Homs today here.
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