Update: Press Syndicate issued a statement dated Oct. 11th protesting Tantawi’s fatwa During a religious celebration co-memorating the eve Quran descended from heaven, Mohamed Sayid Tantawi, sheikh of Azhar mosque preached a crowd of state officials including President Mubarak, finding religious grounds for whipping rumors spreaders 80 times This comes as editors and journalists of independent […]

Here is the latest! Bamha victims torn between agony and hope, resort to boycotting Muslim neighbors. Read previous updates here and here. To those interested in the Bamha Case: Some light in the Darkness  Hi, Here’s a last update I’ve just recieved: 1. Yesterday, the victims dropped the charges against all the attackers, without changing […]

مراقب مصري قام، مشكورا، بترجمة هذه التدوينة الى اللغة العربية ونشرها هنا بعنوان الى كل من هو مهتم بما حدث في العياط: اخبط راس أمك في الحيط I received the below message today from an Egyptian who personally spoke to some of the victims and the bottom line is: someone wants this to go untold. Are we […]

This is a hilarious post by Egyptian blogger Asad. Although it is a very short real life experience he went through at a main road checkpoint, it clearly depicts the black comedy of our police state – Egypt. Original Arabic post here, and my English translation below: Beard follow-up card Asad, May 16, 2007 Last […]

I always get confused upon reading such reports. The word “confession” is glued to my mind with “torture”. How do we know what they tell us is true?  

Exactly as he fucked up before with his new release (back then) video (clip) on the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and his support to Hamas in Palestine. Today, he asks the ‘mujahedeen’ of the ‘ummah’ to go support their ‘brothers’ in Lebanon and Palestine. Last time he spoke, the Hamas government and the Egyptian MBs came out and denied any […]

    وصباح الخير يا سينا.. ورسيت مراسينا.. على رملة شط سينا أغنية لعبد الحليم بحبها قوي.. ليس بسبب الأغنية بحد ذاتها ولكن فقط لأنها تتغنى بسيناء الجميلة دائما أردد أنني لا أريد العيش في القاهرة المزدحمة، الملوثة، المتوترة.. وان موطني الثان ان قدر لي الاختيار سيكون سيناء.. والثالث سيكون أمريكا اللاتينية اليوم ومنذ أولى […]

Sharm El Sheikh 23-24 July 2005 Bidding a fellow member of the Quatro farewell before he flies to London, I arrived home after midnight. At almost 2 am I received an sms from another friend who is his own Al Jazeera agency -always on top of events- informing of the Sharm Sheikh bombings although he […]