The blog, Manalaa, has won readers across the country — and even around the world — as an alternative to Egypt’s state-run media. An important part of a growing political countermovement, the blog announces upcoming demonstrations, exposes government misdeeds and gives technical support to more than 1,000 blogs in the emerging Egyptian blogosphere.

Abdel-Fattah runs the blog with wife Manal Hassan. They began posting two years ago in a mixture of Arabic and English.

Source: The Sacramento Bee