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Egypt's non-Coptic Coptic ProblemPosted: July 24, 2016 Filed under: Copts, Egypt Leave a comment
The video posted online looked like a selfie on the road to hell. A young girl, clearly well-taken care of, remarks "Mama, I am afraid". The mother reassures her. The next frame shows a mob below pelting their upper floor apartment with stones. The video maker alternately closes and opens the shutter; the desire for self-protection is clearly struggling with the wish to witness. It has been confirmed that on Friday July 22 2016 a mob of Muslim men, fresh from prayer, were angry at Copts for also praying, or perhaps merely existing. The police chose not to intervene. One imagines a certain calculation in the head of their bosses. The Copts will always support the regime as the best of bad alternatives. Suppressing the crowds may create another group with scores to settle with the police. Best to let it go. This is the symptom of an idiotic state, too stupid for self-protection. While this can be viewed as a "sectarian attack", it is fundamentally an attack on the legitimacy of the state and its ability to protect its citizens. If the Copts were to instantly disappear, the mob would certainly find other victims. This is not a conjecture. Egypt has gotten more violent even as Copts immigrated, and the worst violence has been between contending visions of society, not religions. If anything, the Copts, including those who immigrated, have been remarkably faithful to a country that constantly kicks them in the teeth. The state's refusal to intervene in such events, and its attempts to "reconcile" the victims to attackers, will not buy it the loyalty of the mob, but disrespect and derision, which it richly deserves. Due process and justice are the external garments of a powerful state. What appears to be a "Coptic problem" is not exclusively that. It is the problem of a weak state that needs to muster up to face the numerous problems the country faces. Maspero should have taught everyone that the Copts are the canary in the mine; what befalls them today will befall everyone else ten-fold shortly. As I have written elsewhere, Egypt needs the Copts more than they need it. Their condition is the fever that alerts us to the infection in the overall body.
It was difficult to see individual faces of the mob in the video. But that merely evoked Dante's image of lost souls milling about in the antechamber to hell. They were not virtuous enough to earn paradise, but not evil enough to deserve hell. The mob appears hapless in pursuit of both good and ill. That is an apt metaphor for Egypt today, suspended between heaven and hell. Without concerted effort, that suspension will not be stable for long.
— Maged Atiya
The Trial of Ali Abdel RaziqPosted: July 17, 2016 Filed under: Egypt, Religion, Salafis Leave a comment
The year 1966 witnessed the death of two men in Egypt; Sayed Qutb and Ali Abdel Raziq. One is now famous, the other largely forgotten, except by scholars. Of the two, Qutb influenced Egypt and the world more, albeit negatively, while Abdel Raziq had the potential to transform his country, and perhaps others as well. The most critical events of Abdel Raziq's life occurred 40 years before his death.
In August 1925 a committee of Azhari learned men convened to place one of their own on trial. The seven charges leveled against the man, Ali Abdel Raziq (1888-1966), were vague and amounted to nothing more specific than "insulting" Islam and the early Caliphs. The most serious was turning the Shari'a into a spiritual rather than a legal concept. As expected, he was found guilty. The penalty was to strip him of the honorific title of 'Alim (learned), potentially leading to his loss of a government stipend to serve as Qadi, or Islamic judge. In today's Egypt he would have faced prison. Yes, Egypt has gone backwards in the last century.
What prompted the trial of Ali Abdel Raziq was the publication of a short monograph titled "Islam wa Usul Al Hokum" ("Islam and the Foundation of Governance").The scholar made a simple assertion; that nowhere in the Qu'ran or the Hadith was the Caliphate mandated or even recommended. He further stipulated that it is a human creation used mostly to bolster tyrannical rule and is of no particular use in the current world. Abdel Raziq was no secular radical. A pious and observant man, he strongly urged his fellow Muslims to follow the tenets of the faith and lead life according to its laws and strictures. Today, we accept the Azharis' reaction as expected, an indication of how the discourse about religion and governance in Egypt and surrounding region has come to be set and dominated by Islamists. Although the trial has faded from the popular imagination, it remains a watershed mark in the history of Egypt and beyond, and a warning sign of subsequent problems.
Abdel Raziq stepped into a firestorm less because his book "attacked" Islam, but because it upset the Egyptian King Fu'ad and his supporters. After Mustapha Kemal Ataturk abolished the Caliphate in 1923, Fu'ad thought to acquire added legitimacy by becoming a Caliph. He sat on a thorny throne (he was seen as a stooge of the British and attacked for his inability to speak Arabic) and he needed to stand up to the nascent nationalist Wafd party. He imagined the Caliphate as his ticket to a more comfortable reign. The dominant political ideology at that time was Egyptianism, which asserted a territorial definition of the nation and one that superseded religion, and also celebrated the uniqueness of the Egyptian stock and the need for national rulers. Fu'ad was in its ideological cross hairs. He gave tacit support for the push for a "Caliphate Conference" during which his supporters imagined he would be declared Caliph. Al Azhar, then as now, was always supine to the ruler. Most of the Muslim scholars outside Egypt did not wish to be entangled in what they saw as a purely Egyptian boondoggle. When the conference was finally held in 1926, it was a shabby affair, dominated by Egyptian sycophants of the monarch, and poorly organized to boot. The failure of the conference was a also a symptom of a new change in the region, the rise of the House of Ibn Saud and the resulting hostility between it and Egyptian rulers (Fu'ad would never fully recognize Saudi Arabia). Still, it marked a change, which continues till today, where a variety of men ranging from opportunistic political leaders to jail birds would seek to unify the Muslims and bring back greatness by subjecting them to their rule. The idea of the classical "Caliphate" died with the Mongol sacking of Baghdad. The modern version rose on the weakness of the Ottoman Empire. The treaty of Küçük Kaynarca (July 21 1774) between the Ottoman Empire and Russia was humiliating in a variety of ways. Not only did the Ottomans relinquish territory in the Crimea, populated mostly by Muslims, but it also allowed the Russians to intervene on behalf of the Eastern Christians in Ottoman provinces. The decent but hapless Sultan Abdel Hamid I came upon the idea that the Crimean Tartars ought to pledge allegiance to him because he was their "Khalifa", thus doing an end-run around the Russians. Furthermore, other Ottoman provinces, such as Egypt, were restive and this notion gave him legitimacy against the local usurpers. For the next 150 years, the weaker the Ottomans got the stronger the claim to the Caliphate became. The Caliphate does not beat in every Muslim heart as some Western scholars claim, it was a cudgel used to coerce them, as Abdel Raziq insisted.
The reaction to Abdel Raziq's trial was dispiriting. Some at the time defended Abdel Raziq, but on purely procedural grounds. No one advanced credible scholarly arguments based on the Qur'an and Hadith to debunk his claim. No prominent religious scholar undertook a systematic defense or refutation of his thesis. The civilian politicians were not much braver. Sa'ad Zaghloul, the lion of Egyptian nationalism and leader of the Wafd party, was ailing in the last few months of his life, and more or less acquiesced to the Azharis. Some of Abdel Raziq's relatives were prominent in the Liberal party; yet the party was keen on keeping good relations with Fu'ad and offered hardly any defense.
None of the secular political leaders in Egypt, and no prominent religious leader, rose to his defense on principle. Few intellectuals took up his cause. More interestingly, no credible scholarly arguments based purely on the Qur'an and Hadith were ever advanced to debunk his claim. It is tempting then to argue that Abdel Raziq lacked popular appeal and therefore was "inauthentic". This is certainly the charge brought against him by many Islamists today. But it is difficult to sort out cause and effect in his lack of popular appeal. The rise of groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood was prompted in some part by his ideas and environment that gave rise to him. Their appeal was often populist, even demagogic, and socially reactionary. But the success of men such as Hasan Al Banna, who came to prominence only a few years after the trial, was due less to his ideas (he had few original ones) than to his political acumen and ability to elicit support from the rulers, even while simultaneously conspiring against them. Today's Islamism is difficult to attack because it has retreated into a posture of group identification, viewing itself not merely as a current within Islam, but as the very essence of it.
A variety of Western scholars seem entranced by the idea that "Islam" is unique and special and Muslims require a different set of rules from the rest of humanity. These range from the immensely learned to the utterly romantic to the opportunistically careerist. But sensible people, especially decision makers, need not attune too closely to this stuff. As one of Sayed Qutb's former bosses called his later work, this is mostly "Kalam Fadi". Empty talk.
— Maged Atiya
June 19 1926Posted: June 19, 2016 Filed under: Egypt, Egyptian Politics Leave a comment
The procession started from a Red Sea port toward Mecca as it had done for nearly a century. The carrier (Mahmal) contained the covering for the Holy Ka'aba (Kiswa) . It had been a tradition since the rise of modern Egypt in the 1820s to provide this annual change of covering. Some say the tradition dated back to the twelfth century. But in 1926 things had changed in Arabia. Abdel Aziz Ibn Saud and his band of Wahabis were now uniting much of the peninsula under his rule. Some of these Wahabis objected to the music and celebration accompanying the procession. The Egyptian police escort responded with a customary delicate touch. They opened fire and killed upwards of two dozen men. Then continued on their merry way. Back in Egypt, grumpy King Fu'ad was furious at the temerity of the victims. He asked the British, who held sway in Arabia and to a lesser extent in Egypt, to allow him to become King of the Arabs (he spoke a bit of Arabic). A conference was being organized in Egypt at that time to make him Caliph of all Muslims, a prospect that was met with no appetite among most Muslims, save Fu'ad's sycophants. The British demurred and then offered a flat out No. Fu'ad would not recognize Saudi Arabia for the rest of his life. In fact, he sent a mission to Yemen to see if he can stir up trouble for the new "Saudi" Kingdom there. His son Farouk would recognize Saudi Arabia in a flourish of Islamism that characterized his rule. A rising young community organizer, Hasan Al Banna, would be photographed kissing the hand of the Saudi King, A noted intellectual at the time, Salama Moussa, predicted that all this nonsense would come to a very bad end. A year into his reign, Farouk pulled an interesting stunt. He was visiting Luxor's Valley of the Kings. The noted Egyptologist Howard Carter was ready to receive his Majesty and guide him. He prepared explanations of such Pharaonic symbols as the "Key of Life" and "Key of Happiness". Farouk would not listen, He pulled out a copy of the Qur'an and kissed it, "This is the key of life; this is the key of happiness", he chortled as he hastily went back to his car.
The rest is, as they say, history. A very bad history indeed, at least for Egypt.
— Maged Atiya
Of Two KingsPosted: June 11, 2016 Filed under: Egypt, Egyptian Politics 2 Comments
Two young men came to rule at an early age in the unstable and occasionally violent Middle East. The first was Farouk of Egypt, who became King at 16. The second was Hussein of Jordan, who became King at 17. The circumstances would seem to favor Farouk; but in a demonstration that character is destiny, Hussein would die on his throne of cancer, beloved by his people, while Farouk passed away under murky circumstances in Italy, sometimes reviled by his former subjects. Egypt is not in a happy state today, and as to be expected there is some nostalgia for the seemingly better and elegant age of Farouk. That should not blind us to his flaws.
Farouk came to the throne of Egypt in 1936 in a country that was developing a nascent and powerful nationalism (Egyptianism of the 1920s) and with the economy in relatively good shape. The developing parliamentary democracy was far from perfect, but it showed real promise to foster the growth of a native and somewhat liberal order. The people gave him adulation and affection. The political leaders had secured a formal independence from outside powers for the first time in centuries. All the politicians recognized his royalty and right to the throne.
What did Farouk do with fortune's gift? First, he surrounded himself with ignoble sycophants. His first act was to demand a bizarre coronation that undercut Egyptian nationalism; and sulk when objections rose up. He tried to rig the first election under his rule (1938), setting a pattern of sectarianism, violence and corruption that was to beset the nation for decades to come. That debacle was totally unnecessary; he simply could not abide becoming a constitutional monarch. He looked for baubles. Not merely the Harry Winston diamonds he could not afford, but also irrelevant intangibles such as becoming a "Caliph of All Muslims". A young man with unlimited appetite and unconstrained ego, he was never content with Egypt, as if the country was too small for his desires. He wanted to become a leader larger than his nation and that led him to many dangerous dead ends. His flirtation with Islamists would end up costing his ministers their lives, and his country's politics its decency. Against all reason he wanted to become a leader of the Arabs. In the end, his demise was sealed by a disastrous involvement in the conflict between Arab and Jewish nationalisms, one having little to do with Egypt. He was too clumsy to even coup-proof his tiny army, flirting foolishly with different factions. The youngest and most impetuous among the officers saluted and sent him on his way at 32, looking far too old for his age. What followed was decades of misrule for Egypt, and exile or worse for those who loved it.
King Hussein came to the throne with a double trauma. His beloved grandfather was shot in front of him. His father was mentally ill. The country he ruled was a sliver of desert with no national feelings or a history of geographic or cultural unity. To the west rested Israel, brimming with ill-intent for his kingdom. To the east loomed Iraq, which soon was to murder his kinsmen and its royals. To the south grew the House of Ibn Saud, which ejected his great grandfather from his homeland of the Hijaz. Further afield, Nasser of Egypt had set his cross-hairs on him. "Uneasy lies the head" hardly describes his ordeal. But at the root of it Hussein was a decent man. Again, character is destiny. A descendant of the Prophet, he saw no need to play up his Muslim credentials, and in time built a reservoir of tolerance in his country. He could have harbored resentment against the Ibn Sauds, but he showed no sign of it. He had a greater birthright than Nasser to being proclaimed a "leader of the Arabs", but he avoided all such entanglements, to the benefit of his country. The single exception was a big one. He followed Nasser into the disaster of 1967 to the detriment of all involved. Still, he built one of the best and most professional armies in the region. Not the largest, but one that kept its nose out of royal affairs. This is no small feat in the Levant, where every other country saw its army descend to militia status and incompetence. Jordan stands as a reprimand to all who argue that Middle Eastern states collapsed due to "artificial" borders. The fault was not in the map lines but in the character of the rulers. Hussein was wily when Farouk was foolish. Hussein was disciplined when Farouk was capricious. Hussein was patient when Farouk was hasty. Hussein built a country. Farouk destroyed a 150 year throne.
It is not too harsh to judge Farouk as the inferior of the two men.
— Maged Atiya
What If The June 1967 War Never Happened"Posted: June 5, 2016 Filed under: Egypt, Egyptian Politics, History, Syria 2 Comments
What if Israel held back in June of 1967 and the tensions tied down?
That war started a cascade of events that still shape the current Middle East. It is impossible to sort out all the various threads and counterfactual alternatives had the war not happened. The best we can do is focus on a few of the broader issues.
It is not fanciful to say that the war killed Nasser. Stress from dealing with the defeat, and its after effects, such as the 1970 "Black September" Jordanian civil war, shortened the life of the man. He passed away at 52, a very young age by the current standard of Middle Eastern autocrats. Where would Egypt, and the broader region, be if he lived to ripe old age, or even into his 60s. One possibility is that Nasser would have finally given in to Soviet pressure to move Egypt so close to its orbit as to be another Cuba. Nasser would be an aging Castro, and Cairo would sport traffic jams with 1950s American cars. Equally likely Nasser would have not given in, as his entire political and emotional persona was tied up with keeping "foreign" bases out of Egypt. An opening to the US would have been in the offing for a couple of reasons. First, the 1968 election in the US brought in Nixon; Henry Kissinger's sponsor. The two men would have itched to deliver a strategic blow to the Soviet Union. Second, Nasser did not replace Zakaria Mohieddin (America's man among the Free Officers) as Vice President until after the 1968 student riots. He brought in Sadat to appease the Islamists. Had Zakaria remained close to Nasser he would have likely pushed for better relations with America, and perhaps economic liberalization to offset the stagnation of the mid 1960s. There were also other forces at work. By 1967 Arabism was failing Nasser and tiring him. The Yemen conflict with Saudi Arabia was economically debilitating. The relations with Algeria, Iraq and Syria all had deteriorated. He had already made enemies of most of the other Arab countries. He was also fearful of any penetration of the Army by the Muslim Brotherhood. Without Arabism or Islamism to provide the outline of policy, Nasser was likely to fall back on the Egyptianism of the 1920s, with its deeply Anti-Arab sentiments. The closest actual historical parallel would be South Korea of the 1960s. Would authoritarian Egyptianism have been tamed into something resembling a liberal order? Perhaps, especially if an opening to the West occasioned liberalization of the economy.
What would have happened to Palestine had the West Bank remained in Jordanian hands? It is possible that King Hussein, ever the wily operator, would have moved to create a confederation that would ultimately result in a friendly Palestinian state, especially as Nasser's Arabism cooled and the need to use the refugee issue against Israel lessened. It is also possible that the rising Palestinian population within Jordan would have de-stabilized the Hashemite Kingdom. In both cases, the Palestinian national aspirations would have found a better outcome.
Beyond Egypt and Palestine, the 1967 war helped the rise to power of a wily General by the name of Hafez Al Assad. If he remained an army man from a small Latakia clan, Syria would have evolved in a very different direction. The messy politics post union with Egypt would likely have taken a very Lebanese direction. Lebanon, in turn, could also have averted its civil war, which was the outcome of the increased Palestinian population in the country, and meddling by the Syrian regime.
And what of Israel? Where would the country be had it not won a major victory that boosted its pride, enlarged its borders and altered its politics. Would it have emerged as an economic powerhouse in the region anyway, or would the Labor party have kept it a narrowly socialist economy? Would the country have retained the left-of-center ethos of the early Zionists, or in time moved rightward anyway? What would be the evolution of an Israel; smaller, within less secure borders, less cocky and in the shadow of a less hostile Egypt?
But of course the 1967 war did happen. The last half century brought momentous changes to the region. Will the next half century be spent in reversing those changes, or ameliorating their effects? We may never know the answer, until June 4 2067.
— Maged Atiya
Descent of Men (Egypt Edition)Posted: May 26, 2016 Filed under: Egypt, Women Leave a comment
The outlines of the case are simple. The mob came to the home of a Christian man accused of dishonoring a Muslim woman by offering his love. They torched some nearby homes of other Christians. The mob dragged out his mother, disrobed her and paraded her naked through the streets. The police arrived much too late to prevent the spectacle. The Governor of the province (Minya) blamed the entire matter on the Muslim Brotherhood. There is no evidence that the crowd was demanding the return of Morsi, nor that they had just put down their copies of Sayyid Qutb and sprang into action fired by the zeal of his writing. In any case, had the crowd been composed of partisans of the Brotherhood the police would likely have shown more alacrity and less restraint.
Naturally, many will file this case under the heading of "Sectarianism". And it does qualify for that perennial and tiring problem of religious bigotry in Egypt. But this observer wishes to call another aspect to attention; that of misogyny. The bias against women in Egypt is one that transcends the religious divide and has profound and retarding effect on the nation. What we have witnessed in the last decades is nothing less than the descent of Egyptian men. Even if all the Christians were to disappear from Egypt, the underlying illness captured in this episode will continue to haunt the country.
First, why should an affair between a Muslim woman and a Christian man be more offensive than one between a Muslim man and a Christian woman? It is not the religion but the gender. It is not for this observer to sort out whether misogyny is built into "Islam" or merely a construct of its interpreters. Islam, like any religion, is capacious enough to contain whatever good or ill its faithful can crowd into it. In any case, no religion has a monopoly on misogyny. The point is that the events contain many tell tale signs of the dangers such feelings pose to the country, and of the prevalence of those feelings among many, including Islamists, secular authoritarians, nominal progressives and every shade in between.
The Muslim Brotherhood, and Islamists in general, maybe innocent in these events, but not in others. They have sought to reform society by imposing the will of of one half on the other half. Women are "protected" by the paradoxical acts of gently covering hair which lacks nerve cells and savaging genitals which have them in abundance. Their vision of an upright land where every woman is invisible and silent contradicts all evidence of what makes a free and prosperous society. Nor are the so-called revolutionaries innocent of such feelings. Few want to remember the case of a CBS reporter stripped and nearly raped in the midst of the euphoria celebrating "freedom" from a supposed dictator. To the victim of the assault it must have seemed that every male celebrant is a potential oppressor or worse. The military, the vaunted protector of "mother" Egypt's integrity and honor is also not immune to misogyny. It saw fit to poke between the legs of young women to prove the decency of its men. Sexual freedom and autonomy of women remain a proxy for rebellion. The religious authorities, both Muslim and Christian, are entirely male. They will undoubtedly rush to make sure that the ordeal of one old woman does not mar "brotherly" feelings among Egyptians of differing faiths. Every woman who lives in or visits Egypt can attest that harassment can come from such a wide variety of sources that it transcends ideology.
All that brings us to a grim conclusion. It hard to see how Egypt can progress when in a crowd of hundreds of men not one had enough Shahama to cover the nakedness of an old woman. Even the beasts of Dr Moreau have tried and cried "Are we not men?".
— Maged Atiya
My Reston – How to Report on EgyptPosted: May 22, 2016 Filed under: Egypt, Egyptian Politics 3 Comments
James (Scotty) Reston was a great journalist, the best in many generations according to many in the profession. Himself an immigrant, he served as an ideal introduction to the value of the press in a free country for those unfamiliar with it. Here is the beginning of his dispatch from Cairo on a fateful June 4 1967
An alarming fatalism seems to be settling on this city. Cairo does not want war and it is certainly not ready for war. But it has already accepted the possibility, even the likelihood, of war, as if it had lost control of the situation.
There is very little relationship here between word and action, The Government seems to be provoking trouble without preparing for the consequences. Except for a few workers filling and piling sandbags in front of one or two public buildings, there is no evidence of civil defense.
Few soldiers appear in the streets, and the Cairo airport is more open to attack than even La Guardia in New York. The newspapers talk incessantly of war but make no effort to protect their own property. There is no public debate on the issues. There is no organized political opposition to question the Government's course of action, And there is no voice of protest in the press.
This is not because Cairo does not have brilliant journalists. The editor in chief of Al Ahram, el-Sayed Mohammed Hassanein Heikal, is a worldly, intelligent and handsome man. He has built his paper into the most powerful voice in the Arab world.
His a confidant of President Gamal Abdel Nasser and prides himself on his independence from a Government he could have joined long ago. But he expresses absolutely no doubts about the present drift to war, either in public or in private.
Cairo today is not one but a series of separate communities, each viewing the emergency in a different way. The people stand apart from the issues as if they had nothing to do with events, as indeed they do not.
For those who experienced these fateful days, Reston's precise and restrained tone can still evoke the shivers of that time. Today's foreign journalists could learn a trick or two about mastering the right combination of accuracy, empathy and clear vision. Egyptians could read this dispatch and look inward in recognition and possible redemption.
— Maged Atiya


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Uno is a story from inner-city Oslo about David, a twentyfive-year-old with few prospects for the future. His days are spent hanging around with petty criminals at an inner-city gym. Still,... See full summary »
Directors: Aksel Hennie, John Andreas Andersen | Stars: Aksel Hennie, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Bjørn Floberg, Espen Juul Kristiansen
Votes: 3,459
12. Cold Lunch (2008)
90 min | Drama
Bird droppings on a work shirt lead to extreme unintended consequences.
Director: Eva Sørhaug | Stars: Ane Dahl Torp, Pia Tjelta, Aksel Hennie, Bjørn Floberg
Votes: 741
13. Fallen Angels (2008)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Murder and trouble hits Veum when he meets up with classmates in the rock-band Camp, when he resumes contact with a former flame Rebecca, now wife of his buddy. A Varg Veum mystery by best-selling crime novel by Gunnar Staalesen. Staalesen.
Director: Morten Tyldum | Stars: Trond Espen Seim, Per Kjerstad, Bjørn Floberg, Pia Tjelta
Votes: 1,662
14. All That Matters Is Past (2012)
105 min | Drama
Two brothers in their 40s are found dead in the forest. By their side lies a woman, very weak, but still alive. "All that matters is past" is the story of how Janne meets William after many... See full summary »
Director: Sara Johnsen | Stars: Maria Bonnevie, Kristoffer Joner, David Dencik, Maria Heiskanen
Votes: 465
15. Kristin Lavransdatter (1995)
180 min | Drama
Kristin is the daughter of a prominent landowner in medieval Norway. She grows up in total harmony with the ideals of the time: strong family ties, social pride and devout Christianity. She... See full summary »
Director: Liv Ullmann | Stars: Linus Aaberg, Gisken Armand, Berard Arnø, Bernhard Arnø
Votes: 839
16. Upperdog (2009)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
As young children, half-siblings Axel and Yanne are adopted to Norway. They are separated on arrival, he to material wealth on Oslo's west side, she to an average family on the east side. ... See full summary »
Director: Sara Johnsen | Stars: Hermann Sabado, Agnieszka Grochowska, Mads Sjøgård Pettersen, Bang Chau
Votes: 1,301
17. Folk flest bor i Kina (2002)
85 min | Drama, Comedy
Most people live in China. But who lives in Norway?
Directors: Thomas Robsahm, Martin Asphaug, Arild Fröhlich, Sara Johnsen, Magnus Martens, Hans Petter Moland, Terje Rangnes, Ingebjørg Torgersen, Morten Tyldum | Stars: Ingar Helge Gimle, Kim Haugen, Bjarte Hjelmeland, Trond Høvik
Votes: 752
18. Mirush (2007)
100 min | Crime, Drama
The story of 15-year old Mirush. He travels to Norway to find his father, as he left the family in the lurch when Mirush was small. Now his dad is running a restaurant in Oslo's backyards ... See full summary »
Director: Marius Holst | Stars: Enrico Lo Verso, Nazif Muarremi, Glenn Andre Kaada, Ramadan Huseini
Votes: 475
19. Cry in the Woods (2004)
106 min | Crime, Thriller
An unfortunate bank robber takes an escaped mental patient, wanted for murder, as hostage.
Director: Erich Hörtnagl | Stars: Lars Bom, Kristoffer Joner, Laila Goody, Stig Henrik Hoff
Votes: 901
20. Junk Mail (1997)
83 min | Comedy, Thriller
A lazy postman puts his nose where it doesn't belong.
Director: Pål Sletaune | Stars: Robert Skjærstad, Andrine Sæther, Per Egil Aske, Eli Anne Linnestad
Votes: 1,793
21. Lime (2001)
92 min | Family, Drama
Director: Nathilde Overrein Rapp | Stars: Rita Kvist, Kristoffer Berre Alberts, Mina Martine Lystad, Kjetil Nilsen
Votes: 132
22. Kubisten (2007)
9 min | Short, Drama
Director: Joachim Rønning | Stars: Espen Eckbo, Hilde Louise Asbjørnsen, Thor Knai
Votes: 34
23. The Radio Pirates (2007)
85 min | Comedy, Family
Karl Jonathan Grannemann moves with his dad to the fathers childhood home in Skjelleruten a little city on the country, a city where the child is overprotected by the adults, the child has ... See full summary »
Director: Stig Svendsen | Stars: Anders Hermann Clausen, Anna Dworak, Gard B. Eidsvold, Per Christian Ellefsen
Votes: 94
24. Fast Forward (2000)
Short, Crime
Director: Morten Tyldum | Stars: Mads Bjørkli, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Aksel Hennie
Votes: 5
25. Spenn (2001 TV Short)
25 min | Short
A father is struggling to keep a good life with his son. His last business project was a flop. He is about to loose everything when two men with a gun turns up and makes him a proposal.
Director: Jens Lien | Stars: Bjørn Sundquist, Aksel Hennie, Jørgen Langhelle, Ferdinand Falsen Hiis
Votes: 22
26. Kjøter (2006 TV Movie)
Director: Marius Holst | Stars: Bjørn Floberg, Hildegun Riise
Votes: 26
27. Little Miss Eyeflap (2009)
11 min | Short
Breaking with her own culture, a Norwegian-Pakistani girl escapes the force marriage her family has planned for her.
Director: Iram Haq
Votes: 35
28. Sorrow's Child (1998)
20 min | Short
Director: Unjoo Moon | Stars: Erik Aude, Jesse James, William Sanderson, Evan Scott
Votes: 9
29. Save the Children (2003)
6 min | Short
Eli (8) and Tarals (5) sell lottery tickets to benefit blind children in Africa
Director: Terje Rangnes | Stars: Luis Engebrigtsen Bye, Rosa Engebrigtsen Bye, Trond Høvik
Votes: 33
30. Panther Martin (2005)
8 min | Short, Drama, Family
Young Martin and his father are at last out in a row boat fishing, when Martin starts paying back for lost contact, reminding the father of the bad things he said and did before they divorced.
Director: Terje Rangnes | Stars: Fridtjov Såheim, Henrik Giæver
Votes: 15
31. Better Off (2002)
6 min | Short
Director: Jarl Holstand | Stars: Trond Fausa, Bjørn Jenseg, Eva Sannum
32. I Killed a Cyclist (2001)
6 min | Short, Comedy
A young boy throws an apple from his balcony. In mid air he realizes the apple will hit a cyclist below him. What will be the consequences?
Director: Mikkel Brænne Sandemose
33. Kaptein Sabeltann - Filmen om filmen (2014)
46 min | Documentary
Director: Lars Andreas Hellebust | Stars: John Andreas Andersen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Terje Formoe, Lisa Marie Gamlem
34. U -Trippel (1996–1997)
29 min | Documentary
Stars: Jon Haukeland, Lisa Marie Gamlem, Øystein, Lars Aasen
Occupied (2015– )
45 min | Drama, Thriller
The minister of Norway, Jesper Berg is kidnapped. Berg and the Norwegian government is pressed by Russia and the EU to start the oil production in Norway.
Director: Erik Skjoldbjærg | Stars: Henrik Mestad, Eldar Skar, Ane Dahl Torp, Vegar Hoel
Votes: 122
Occupied (2015– )
45 min | Drama, Thriller
Djupvik is evicted from the Russian HQ by Sidorova's harder successor. PM Berg attempt to relocate the illegal Russians, which Moskow won't take back, to Arctic Spitzbergen, but Russian ... See full summary »
Director: John Andreas Andersen | Stars: Henrik Mestad, Eldar Skar, Ane Dahl Torp, Ragnhild Gudbrandsen
Votes: 66
Occupied (2015– )
December Part 2
44 min | Drama, Thriller
PM Berg has been hiding out in a foreign national residence from the Russian's. Things don't according to plan and he ends up in a helicopter being taken to a place that might lead to his downfall.
Director: John Andreas Andersen | Stars: Henrik Mestad, Eldar Skar, Ane Dahl Torp, Ragnhild Gudbrandsen
Votes: 69
U -Trippel (1996–1997)
Episode #2.5
Three young people in prison.
Director: Cathrine Irgens Nilsen | Stars: Christian, Arne Einar, Øystein
Occupied (2015– )
45 min | Drama, Thriller
PM Jesper Berg desperately tries to stage a 'normal' Norwegian national day on May 17 to convince the people he didn't accept a Russian occupation but just a temporary transition, but even ... See full summary »
Director: Erik Skjoldbjærg | Stars: Henrik Mestad, Eldar Skar, Ane Dahl Torp, Vegar Hoel
Votes: 100


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|February 6, 2014 03:00 PM EST
DUBLIN, February 6, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/ngdx6w/video_ad_tech) has announced the addition of the "Video Ad Tech Systems: Inventory Clearing, Trafficking, Spend and Business Operations Analytics: 2014 - 2016" report to their offering.
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This extensive video ad tech research report is segment-by-segment portrait of the sector's economic fundamentals, growth trajectories, media CPMs, serving CPMs, formats supported, business models and marginal performance yielding net revenue. Each segment (video ad networks, trafficking platforms and programmatic technologies) is analyzed against monthly and annual unduplicated inventory, sources of supply and demand, percentage of spend by format (in-stream, in-banner, display and overlay), including domestic and international undertakings.
Video Ad Networks, Tech Platforms and Programmatic Systems Manage $7.2 Billion in 2013 Spend
Video ad networks, trafficking platforms and programmatic systems processed $7.2 billion in 2013 multi-screen media spend, an annual increase of 43.6%, as quantified in an inventory, monetization and operations revenue report produced by the author.
The report, Video Ad Tech Systems: Inventory Clearing, Trafficking, Spend and Business Operations Analytics: 2014 - 2016, delivers a segment-by-segment portrait of the sector's economic fundamentals, growth trajectories, media CPMs, serving CPMs, formats supported, business models and marginal performance yielding net revenue.
Each segment (video ad networks, trafficking platforms and programmatic technologies) is analyzed against monthly and annual unduplicated inventory, sources of supply and demand, percentage of spend by format (in-stream, in-banner, display and overlay), including domestic and international undertakings.
Video ad networks cleared 17.2% of video spend, trafficking platforms delivered the equivalent of 55.9% of sector share, and programmatic systems handled 26.9%.
The digital video advertising industry's roaring momentum toward workflow efficiency and big data utilization--enriching inventory transparency and audience demographics--has resulted in a marketplace rapidly closing the monetization gap across the video ad tech ecosystem, synchronizing inventory and media spend growth.
As buyers increasingly adopt a range of programmatic tools to better manage cross-platform demand, publishers are responding with selling tools and issuing RFP's that address complex criterions for desirable automated trading outcomes.
The digital video advertising sector is poised to return $4.4 billion in total net revenue (excluding AOL/Adap.tv and Google's properties) by year-end 2016.
The Q & A Forums are important complements to this data-rich study, with insights tendered by the sector's foremost innovators: Adobe Primetime, BlackArrow, Blinkx, BrightRoll, Collective, FreeWheel, LiveRail, Martini, DG/MediaMind, Mixpo, SET Media, Rocket Fuel, SpotXChange, Videology, Vindico, Visible Measures, YuMe, Inc. and others.
This concentrated inventory, spend, business operations and sector analytics report is an investment vehicle for agencies, brands, publishers, operators, consulting practices, tech media services firms, VCs and investment banks, commented research director Paul A. Palumbo.
Key Topics Covered:
Executive Summary
Digital Video Advertising Terminology And Definitions
Introduction To The Digital Video Advertising Ecosystem 2014 2016
Section One
Q & A Forum: Executive Exchange
- Blinkx
- Jun Group
- Martini
- Ndn (News Distribution Network)
- Setmedia
- Sundaysky
- Tremor Video
- Visible Measures
- Yume Inc
Section Two
Q & A Forum: Executive Exchange
- Adobe Primetime
- Adrise
- Blackarrow
- Dynamix
- Dg/Mediamind
- Freewheel
- Jwplayer
- Mixpo
- Pointroll
- Vindico
Section Three
Q & A Forum: Executive Exchange
- Brightroll
- Collective
- Kitara Media
- Liverail
- Madison Logic
- Rocket Fuel
- Spotxchange
- Videology
Companies Mentioned:
- Adobe Primetime
- Adrise
- Blackarrow
- Blinkx
- Brightroll
- Collective
- Dg/Mediamind
- Dynamix
- Freewheel
- Jun Group
- Jwplayer
- Kitara Media
- Liverail
- Madison Logic
- Martini
- Mixpo
- Ndn (News Distribution Network)
- Pointroll
- Rocket Fuel
- Setmedia
- Spotxchange
- Sundaysky
- Tremor Video
- Videology
- Vindico
- Visible Measures
- Yume Inc
For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/ngdx6w/video_ad_tech
Media Contact: Laura Wood, +353-1-481-1716, [email protected]
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What are Max and Leo wearing in act 2, scene 9?
2. What formation does the goose-stepping, storm trooper chorus form during the big dance sequence in Springtime for Hitler in act 2, scene 3?
3. What does Max give to Leo in act 2, scene 9?
4. What historical character is NOT part of Springtime for Hitler?
5. Who is directing the dancers in their audition for Springtime for Hitler in act 2, scene 2?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the character of Ulla, the archetype of the "dumb blond" is brought into the show. However, in many ways, Ulla defies that particular stereotype. Write an essay about how Ulla manages to simultaneously embody the stereotype while being her own character.
Essay Topic 2
Choose one of the following to write about:
1) The significance of Roger hugging Ulla and not Carmen at curtain call.
2) The people who will be hurt by Max and Leo's scheme.
3) The rituals and singing that Max and Leo must do to appease Franz for the rights to his play.
Essay Topic 3
Franz Liebkind is a strange character for Jewish men such as Max and Leo to be associated. This essay will explore the character of Franz:
Part 1) How is Franz introduced? What is he wearing?
Part 2) What are his feelings about Hitler? What does he hope to accomplish with Springtime for Hitler?
Part 3) What are signs of his mental instability?
Part 4) How does Franz change throughout the course of the play?
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|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|Jan 20, 2009
|Filing date
|Jul 16, 2003
|Priority date
|Jul 16, 2002
|Fee status
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|Publication number
|Stefan Gruhl, Jens Mueckenheim
|Original Assignee
|Alcatel-Lucent Usa Inc.
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (6), Non-Patent Citations (2), Referenced by (8), Classifications (47), Legal Events (3)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This application claims priority of European Application No. 02254975.2 filed on Jul. 16, 2002.
The invention relates to a data, and to an apparatus or a mobile communication system, and a computer program for carrying out the method.
In wireless data packet switched networks, and especially in code divisional multiple access systems (CDMA) like the universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS) or the time division multiple access system (TDMA) like general packet radio systems (GPRS) hierarchical routing is used for mobility support.
In case of packet switch exchange, in the connectionless mode of a telecommunication systems, the packet data are queued and generally buffered, respectively, in a distributed manner at the respective route network subsystem (RNS) and in the backbone network, e.g. in the serving radio network subsystem (SGSN). The distribution of the data is out of control and defined by flow control mechanisms, which are subject to individual parameter settings.
In the case depicted in
During hand-over, the mobility support at node SGSN results in a new packet path to RNS#2. Given that packet forwarding is activated, i.e. RNS#1 forwards the buffered packets to the new destination, this will lead to two different packet paths to the target RNS#2. Dropping the buffered packets at RNS#1 is not an option for reliability performance. Therefore, packets may become reordered at the new target RNS#2, which contains the buffer of the bottleneck air-link. Then, Without reordering, the MS receives out of sequence packets after hand-over.
In this case the transmission control protocol (TCP) receiver in the MS will "slowly" receive some packets, and request erroneously TCP retransmissions resulting in spurious retransmission, which erodes the transmission control protocol (TCP) throughput and wastes system resources. Due to the higher network delays this becomes more critical for inter-RNS/inter-SGSN hand-overs where more than one SGSN is involved.
In UMTS this problem could be partly solved using the loss-less serving radio network subsystem (SRNS) relocation procedure as specified in the current third generation partnership project (3GPP) UMTS standards. Because this procedure works on the radio link control (RLC) layer tight requirements on timing, buffering, etc. must be fulfilled to fully avoid packet reordering. However to significantly relax these requirements a method would be necessary that handles packet reordering on a higher layer than RLC. In GPRS there is no such procedure defined in the standards. Here, a method is necessary to handle the reordering effects in general.
In response to the concerns discussed above it is the object of the present invention to provide especially a method and an apparatus which allows reordering on a higher layer than radio link control layer in a wireless data packet switched network.
The inventive solution is obtained by a data packet ordering method according to claim 1, by an apparatus and/or a mobile communication system according to claim 9, and by a computer program defined in claim 10
Preferred and/or advantageous embodiments or refinements are subject of the respective dependent claims.
The present invention, in particular, refers to a data packet ordering method in a mobile communication network employing hierarchical routing with data packet forwarding comprising the step of providing at least one data message encompassing a predefined sequence of data packets, forwarding at least one of said data packets of the sequence via a first network element over a first transmission path to a user equipment, whereby a part of the data packets are temporarily buffered in the first network element during transmission, establishing a second transmission path, while forwarding the data packet sequence, such that the remaining data packets of the sequence not yet transmitted over the first path are forwarded via a second network element, forwarding of the data packets buffered in the first network element to the second network element for providing all data packets comprised by the data packet sequence to the user equipment, receiving and ordering of the data packets within said second network element according to the packet data priority given by the data packet sequence, forwarding the ordered data packets to the user equipment.
Highly advantageous, the inventive method, particularly in case of handover, allows a significant enhancement of the packet data performance by mitigating the impact of TCP congestion control effects, which would normally occur due to loss of packet order during handoff between different network elements. Because the inventive method solves the problem of packet reordering on a higher layer, the requirements on loss-less SRNS relocation, which works on the RLC layer, can be significantly relaxed.
According to a further advantageous refinement of the inventive method, the data packets received by the second network element are assigned to separated data queues in the second network element depending on their priority in the data packet sequence. Thus, a preselection of data packets received is achieved, on which basis the ordering or reordering process can be completed.
In this regard, the assignment is established and/or the priority is evaluated on the basis of a preset data packet identifier. The packet identifier parameter is preset to identify data packets of different and destination address and port address within the second network element. Thus far, the identifier advantageously makes use, as appropriate, of both parameters being known of the data packets due to the standardized or at least quasi standardized nature of the transmission protocols applied in the state of the art communication systems and parameters being defined on the basis of the inventive method. In a preferred embodiment for example a priority indicator or priority identifier is defined characterizing those data packets from those network elements and/or received over those paths having higher priority to be sent to a mobile station or user equipment than others.
The latter identifier parameter, particularly can be used in an additional further development of the invention, wherein the data packets received by the second network element over the second path or over a third path via the first network element or over other paths via other network elements are buffered in separated data queues depending on which path and/or from which network elements the data packets are forwarded to the second network element.
Advantageously, for forwarding the data packets of each data queue, the data packets received by each data queue are worked through in a first-in, first-out manner, and the data queues themselves are worked through in an order depending on the priority of the data packets, which for instance can be determined on the basis of the priority indicator mentioned above, with regard to the data packet sequence comprised by the respective data queue.
According to a further embodiment of the invention the ordering step comprises the sub-step assigning a received data packet to a data queue on the basis of corresponding data packet identifier information, and sequential ordering of the received data packets by applying data packet identifier information.
With regard to the foregoing aspect of the invention, the assignment of the received data packets is performed by generating and/or identifying a data queue on the basis of the source address, the destination address and the port address of the received data packet being encompassed by the inventive identifier, and wherein the sequential ordering is carried out on the basis of priority sequence number.
The invention together with additional features and advantageous thereof will be best understood from the following description.
It is shown:
Starting from the situation described in connection with
The first packets, which have not been sent to the mobile station so far due to hand-over, come from the old network element (RNS#1). To preserve the packet order, those first packets shall be prioritized. When no more packets are received from the old network (RNS#1) element, then it shall be continued with serving the second level priority queue, which holds for instance the internet protocol (IP) packets forwarded from the network element next higher in the routing hierarchy (SGSN or equivalent). This network element has already started rerouting of the new packets towards the new lower level network element.
Further more, especially with regard to the first embodiment of the invention, some further assumptions have to be made. First of all it is assumed that the used TCP (transmission control protocol) is able to accept one single reordering without problem. This applies to the majority of TCP implementations currently deployed. Furthermore, the forwarding paths in the terrestrial Network are fast, i.e. forwarding from both buffers of at least the first IP packet is faster than the transmission of any IP packet over a new radio link. Finally, it is assumed that the higher level network element forwards all stored and newly incoming packets in a FIFO (first in, first out) manner to the new lower level network element, i.e. firstly stored packets, secondly new arriving packets.
The inventive method utilizes the path information to queue the packets in RNC_NEW separately. Queue #1 contains all packets arriving from path (b) that carries the previously buffered data of the old queue #0 from RNC_OLD marked by (1). Queue #2 contains the packets received from path (c) that carries the newly packets from SGSN marked by (2).
Both queues work in a first in, first out (FIFO) manner, i.e. the firstly received packets will be also sent first. Therefore, no further treatment of the packets and particularly no active reordering procedures is necessary in these queues. The service discipline in the new destination RNC_NEW for multiplexing these two queues is strictly priority based scheduling: Whenever the mobile station gets serviced, queue #1 gets priority resulting in queue access (3), over queue #2. Access (4) to queue #2 only occurs when queue #1 is empty.
Thus, the allocation of the received data packets into queue #1 or queue #2 can be done by the following two ways:
This strategy heuristically ensures the priority of data path (a) and (b) over data path (c) reducing the negative impact on TCP performance due to IP reordering
The basic principle described above can be enhanced to more than two queues. For example, for inter-SGSN/inter-RNC hand-off it might be sensible to use three different queues, because there are now three separate network elements involved. In this scenario the allocation of the queues in the new RNC could be as follows:
In the flow chart according to
The algorithm is performed in the new RNC for every received TCP packet irrespective if it is from the old RNC or the new RNC. The single steps in detail are as follows:
It shall be noted that the deletion of queues is not separately described here and may e.g. be done when a queue becomes empty.
The proposed algorithm is activated on occurrence of a inter-RNC hand-off. It shall be de-activated a certain time-period after the activation. The duration of this time-period is target of optimization with the following constraints:
Similar to preferred embodiment #1 the same algorithm as described above can be also used in case of more than two different TCP packet routes. For example, during inter-SGSN/inter-RNC hand-off, three separate network elements are involved.
A reordering scheme as described above especially in connection with embodiment #2 is very robust for timing of packet arrivals at the destination node and it is also capable of resolving reordering from several distributed routing actions in sequence. Therefore, neither the number of forwarding routes nor the precise reasons for the reordering is important. Particularly the handling of sequential hand-off procedures for fast moving mobiles is easy, because buffered data is aggregated into a single queue at each hop and only the content of this single buffer is subject for forwarding.
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Postoperative residual block after intermediate-acting neuromuscular blocking drugs
Version of Record online: 20 DEC 2001
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.2001.01921.x
Volume 56, Issue 4, pages 312–318, April 2001
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Hayes, A. H., Mirakhur, R. K., Breslin, D. S., Reid, J. E. and McCourt, K. C. (2001), Postoperative residual block after intermediate-acting neuromuscular blocking drugs. Anaesthesia, 56: 312–318. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.2001.01921.x
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- Neuromuscular blocking drugs;
- atracurium;
- rocuronium;
- vecuronium;
- Antagonists;
- neuromuscular relaxants;
- Monitoring;
- neuromuscular function
The frequency and duration of postoperative residual neuromuscular block on arrival of 150 patients in the recovery ward following the use of vecuronium (n = 50), atracurium (n = 50) and rocuronium (n = 50) were recorded. Residual block was defined as a train-of-four ratio of <0.8. An additional group of 10 patients received no neuromuscular blocking drugs during anaesthesia. The incidence of postoperative residual neuromuscular block was 64%, 52% and 39% after the use of vecuronium, atracurium and rocuronium, respectively. Similar numbers of patients were not able to maintain a sustained head or leg lift for 5 s on arrival in the recovery ward. The mean [range] times to attaining a train-of-four ratio of ≥0.8 after arrival in the recovery ward were 9.2 [1–61], 6.9 [1–24] and 14.7 [1.5–83] min for vecuronium, atracurium and rocuronium, respectively. None of the 10 patients who did not receive neuromuscular blocking drugs had train-of-four ratios <0.8 on arrival in the recovery ward. It is concluded that a large proportion of patients arrive in the recovery ward with a train-of-four ratio <0.8, even with the use of intermediate-acting neuromuscular blocking drugs. Although the residual block is relatively short lasting, it may occasionally be prolonged, requiring close observation and monitoring of such patients in the recovery ward.


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Location: Reston, VA About the Job At the Reston office, you?ll be joining a talented group of engineers building Echo360?s media capture and processing systems. As a Software Engineer on the Capture Team, you will work on products from inception, through development, and6/12/2016 Reston, VA Save This Job
Category: Domestic Minimum Experience: 3 - 5 years Required Education: Bachelors Degree Job Description AGI?s team delivers high quality orbit data and safety of flight information and supports and benefits customers through the integration, implementation, and use of AGI?s6/11/2016 Long Beach, CA Save This Job
Summary BioNano Genomics is looking for a talented, versatile engineer or scientist to contribute to the development of automated sample preparation solutions for the IrysPrep workflow. This position will work closely with external partners, who will be designing and6/11/2016 San Diego, CA Save This Job
If you are seasoned in infrastructure and think it would be exciting to join a tight knit team of Ruby and Scala specialists then this job is for you. As a Senior Software Engineer on the SecDev team at Zendesk, you will work on a small team of extremely talented engineers who6/8/2016 San Francisco, CA Save This Job