Egypt Detains Tabula Gaza blogger, Philip Rizk

Reuters reported today (Feb 7, 2009) that Egyptian police have detained Philip Rizk, the blogger who created Tabula Gaza. Rizk is a 26 year old graduate student at the American University in Cairo. His blog provides remarkable insight into conditions in Gaza where he resided for 2 years. His most recent post to Tabula Gaza (Feb 4) includes a call from the To Gaza movement, which is an Egypt-based activist group that organized a walk from Egypt to Gaza starting on Feb 6. The arrest of Rizk reveals the Egyptian government's intolerance of public support of Palestinians. Protest the arrest of Rizk.