I don't know how helpful this is but the main facebook group for the protests is:
"We are all Khaled Said" http://www.facebook.com/elshaheeed.co.uk
People are apparently setting up vigilante groups to police their own areas but this is largely in Cairo.
Telecoms have been largely disabled by the state but again its best to contact the group and others through twitter and facebook as they are working through proxies
other good contacts on twitter:
@Alshaheeed (note three es)
Also e-mail [log in to unmask]
These are secularists asking for an end to police brutality and I suggest some kind of communication with them as they have been organising through the group sonce Tuesday the 25th.
I shall also forward this on to the group.
Yours
Omar
> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 12:31:45 -0500
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [ARCH-JUSTICE] Fwd: Major looting now occuring in Egypt-help needed
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> Apologies for cross-posting-
>
> This is an update from Sarah Parcak, a specialist in Egyptian
> archaeology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. This is some
> of the news she is getting out of Egypt, and the reports are
> disheartening...
>
> She has already contacted US Govt/state dept officials, people involved
> in protecting global heritage, The Archaeological Institute of America,
> and academics, asking them to set customs and other agencies on "high
> alert".
>
> If anyone has any further information about the situation in Egypt
> please share. The hope is to raise awareness and get more concrete
> information.
>
> Thank you all.
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Sarah H Parcak <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:42 AM
> Subject: Major looting now occuring in Egypt-help needed
>
>
> Dear All:
>
> Things are escalating. I just received this information directly
> (on Facebook) from Egyptologists and members of the Supreme Council for
> Antiquities (SCA) who are witnessing the situation:
>
> "Verified by Mohammad Megahed: Immense damages to Abusir and Saqqara,
> all magazines and tombs which were sealed were entered last night. Only
> Imhotep Museum and adjacent central magazines protected by the
> military. In Abusir all tombs opened. large gangs digging day and night
> everywhere"
>
> The damage is *vast*.
>
> It seems that some of the storage magazines at South Saqqara and Abusir
> have been looted-hard to say how much was taken and the extent of the
> robbing. SCA representatives are only today able to check on the
> museums/storage magazines, but early reports suggest major looting. If
> you all could please contact anyone who can help and put them on "high
> alert" for Old Kingdom remains and Egyptian antiquities in general, and
> please spread the word to law enforcement officials worldwide.
> Egyptian looters (who may be encouraged by outside Egypt entities) may
> try to use the general confusion to get things out of the country.
>
> Other bad news: prisons in Qena and Armant (next to Luxor) have been
> emptied, so people fear major looting will occur in that region.
>
> Reports still abound for major looting in the Alexandria Museum---but
> those reports are hard to confirm. The violence has been worse in
> Alexandria, and there have been few police reports there.
>
> I have posted this on Facebook to the Restore + Save the Egyptian
> Museum! page.
>
> I will continue to update you as I get more information. I am not sure
> if the Italians can send the Carabinieri...anything would help.
>
> Things appear to be getting very bad, and this suggests they will get
> much worse.
>
> Best wishes,
> Sarah
>
> Sarah H. Parcak, PhD, FSA
> Assistant Professor, Dept. of History and Anthropology
> Director, Laboratory for Global Observation
> University of Alabama at Birmingham
> 1401 University Blvd
> Birmingham, AL 35294
> Phone: (205) 996-7982
> Fax: (205) 996-7977
