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Showing posts with label Follow Up. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Follow Up. Show all posts

Wednesday, 4 December 2013

#Mosireen presents : The law that Criminalizes #Jan25

Posted on 12:38 by Unknown

Ladies and gentlemen , here is Mosireen’s latest production : The law that criminalizes #Jan25.

Personally I believe that no protest law can not stand against the revolution or uprising of the people when they are extremely frustrated and angry.

And by the way yes it is called 25 January revolution and 30 June is one of its stages and its waves.

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Monday, 2 December 2013

Read the Draft Constitution 2013 Now (Ar)

Posted on 14:57 by Unknown
Here is the final draft of the Draft Constitution 2031 uploaded online by diplomat Ashraf Swelam today in Arabic.
مشروع الدستور - لجنة الخمسين by Ashraf Swelam

There has not been a full English translation for the draft Constitution but some wire services highlighted the major points in Constitution. 
Reuters' Aswat Masrya made Factbox reports about the major points in the draft constitution in general and in specific the articles about police and army.
Here is special AP story about the major points in the draft Constitution.
I am currently studying it.
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Saturday, 30 November 2013

Please Do Not Consider them Egyptians , Do Not Treat them as Egyptians !!

Posted on 15:12 by Unknown
It is not enough that the Syrian refugees suffer a lot in Egypt and that they are deported after being humiliated in Alexandria and Behaira police stations for trying to leave the country , now they are tortured too !!

This photo is from Karmouz police station where a group of Syrian refugees are detained for attempting to migrate to Europe illegally. This is a photo was taken last week at the police station by Dr. Taher Mukhtar , an Egyptian doctor and activist in Alexandria.
Flogging as well torture are already prohibited last time I checked in the Egyptian law.
We know that this is the usual treatment for Egyptians in the police stations but these are refugees for God sake who fled death in their own country and were ready to die in the sea to flee this country as well  !!
I feel angry, ashamed and sad.
Latest thing from Syrian refugees detained in Alexandria and Behaira's police stations is that a group of them  have all started a hunger strike in order to make their voice heard by the international community. They want one demand : They want to leave Egypt for some European country preferably Sweden.
Already two groups of them have been detained in Alexandria and Behaira for more than 2 months refusing to be deported to Syria again and it seems that no other country wants them.
Things are getting worse for them especially that winter is here. The Syrian women and children refugees in Idku Police station are put in some sort of tent that can't resist rain. I do not know where the UNHCR from this. Here is a video I got from there showing the refugees cleaning that tent from rain.


Our minister of foreign affairs is holding a meeting with human rights organizations allegedly on Tuesday to discuss what they can do for the Syrian refugees in Egypt. Well I advise the MOFA instead of talking to human rights activists , they should talk to the ministry of interior and urge that ministry to stop humiliating the refugees and torturing them .. they are not Egyptians for God !!
By the way I can not ignore this fantastic report about the hard times the Syrians are witnessing Egypt especially after 30 June made by Yosri Fouda's Last Talk investigate team.It was aired on ONTV last Wednesday. I wish it was translated in English.

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Posted in Alexandria, Citizen Journalism, Egypt, Follow Up, Human rights, Media, Politics, Syria, Video | No comments

Friday, 29 November 2013

And it seems the government in #Egypt got its own #Anonymous group

Posted on 05:23 by Unknown
Hours after the arrest of Alaa Abdel Fatah from his house and the confiscation of his laptops and mobile phones , we found these strange two messages on his sister Mona Seif’s twitter account "@Monasosh".
Here is a screen shot for the account before it was suspended (Photo sources : Al Masry Al Youm , Bel Trew and Miriam Bent Omran)

  1. Tweet No.1 : Attention what will be written on Mona Seif does not represent her as her account has been hacked by Anonymous an we will announce the reasons later with all my respect !! "We will and then my respect !?
  2.  Tweet No.2 : Cyber Terrorist, 0xomar , Risk Rock , Nile Fox, Soumy Nina ,Anonymous founders 
  3. Here is Cairo dear citizens , the nation's leader will address soon !! "WTH" 
  4. Anonymous welcomes you , no for traitors or agents !! 


Anonymous welcomes you ! No for traitors and agents  
The profile and header "By Miriam"
The hackers claimed to be an Anonymous group and they had a Facebook page that does not exist anymore : Back Anonymous
Mona’s twitter account is suspended now.
Mona’s Facebook account was also hacked and is currently suspended.
Again it is interesting that all the laptops at Alaa’s house were confiscated. One can imagine that Mona once signed in from one of these laptops.Most people including me believe that
Mona is the founder of the No for Military trials Campaign in case you do not know. 
First time to know that Anonymous is working with the government against those bad activist traitors !!
The No for Military trials Facebook Page was also hacked as well from several hours ago but the campaign’s activists gained control once again on it.
Speaking about he is being investigated at Cairo Security directorate. He is facing charges of inciting unauthorized protest , assaulting a police officer during the protest and stealing a walkie-talkie !! Oh yes !! Alaa is allowed to have three lawyers including his father. His family is currently with him. He is also being detained in a CSF camp.
And I have to ask myself because I can not recall that I saw Alaa Abdel Fatah in the first place in the videos or the photos or even read that he was there , was Alaa in the protest in the first !?
BY the way I can not get access to Blogger.com either since morning some users in Egypt are reporting the same thing , some do not. I tried to get access to the dashboard from three different browsers after cleaning the cache as well from the iPad and still no use. My ISP is TEData and currently  I am back to use Hot Shield once again !!
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Thursday, 28 November 2013

#FreeAlaa Hashtag is back once again

Posted on 15:58 by Unknown
This was a long day and I have just returned back home ready to write about what happened in the universities especially in my university Cairo university that lost one of its students today , I returned to read Manal Hassan saying that her husband Alaa Abdel Fatah was arrested from their house.
Police broke into our house arrested @alaa and beaten me. They stole both our laptops and both our mobiles.
— لا لدستور العسكر (@manal) November 28, 2013

blood stains in our bedroom where police have beaten @alaa اثار الدم في غرفة نومنا بعد ان ضربته الداخلية pic.twitter.com/DZZEKQwHz3
— لا لدستور العسكر (@manal) November 28, 2013
Not only he was arrested but Manal was physically assaulted by the police force. They also confiscated their mobile phones and laptops. Luckily their  son Khaled  was sleeping in another room.
There was an eye witness living in the same street who saw the arrest of Alaa . This time he was arrested by special forces !!  !!

قبضو على علاء عبد الفتاح قدام عينى 5 عربيات شرطه و اكتر من 40 عسكرى و كان غيه عمليات خاصة كل ده عشان واحد قال رأي على النت احااااااات

— GALAL RAAFAT (@GalalRaafat) November 28, 2013
Galal Raafat : They arrested Alaa Abdel Fatah in front of my eyes. 5 police vehicles and more than 40 soliders , all this these because someone said his opinion online
Already last Wednesday the public prosecutor ordered the arrest of Alaa Abdel Fatah and April 6 Youth founder Ahmed Maher for inciting the No for military trial protest on Tuesday.
By the way some say that Alaa was not officially notified and did not receive anything from the prosecutor’s office as he has to be informed. Already Alaa announced that he would hand himself over to the prosecutor’s office on Saturday in a statement published on Wednesday.
Post by Ahdaf Soueif.
Dr. Laila Soueif , his mother and long time activist has stated that they do not know where Alaa was taken to. Dr. Laila was in the morgue with the body of late Mohamed Reda , the Cairo University student shot today in Campus during the clashes between students and security forces.
Mona Seif , his sister confirmed that they managed to allocate him in some CSF camp.
Now personally I think there is a pre-made scenario concerning Alaa as in the past two week there was a campaign against him started with fake Mossad membership document leaked online “oh yes”  then you got the campaign against his views about Sheikh El Sharawy. It is not a big secret that Alaa does not respect the late Sheikh and he called him names on his twitter game. The media whether Press or TV took that tweet insulting El Sharawy and began attacking him specifically last week. So yes the media in Egypt is turning Alaa in to the bad Mossad atheist anarchic spy and people buy this.
Today by the way at about 6 PM the MOI sent an email to journalists with the tweet which called people to join the protest.
إيميل من وزارة الداخلية، الساعة 6 مساء بخصوص علاء عبد الفتاح pic.twitter.com/bnYNrNeerL
— Ahmed Ragab (@Ahmed_Ragab) November 28, 2013
Again the No for military trials campaign is the one that called for this protest before anyone.
This is not about a freaking unauthorized protest with my all due respect.
Now all the TV channels are attacking Alaa saying that he is working to bring down the Egyptian State.
By the way anyone is tweeting anything in English is attacked. Manal was attacked madly and systematically , I do not know if we are talking about group thinking or some sort organized action.
Alaa should return back to Manal and Khaled.
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Wednesday, 27 November 2013

#NoMilTrials : To Protest or Not to Protest

Posted on 06:58 by Unknown
Today a group of protesters and  activists tried to defy the government and the ministry of interior by organizing another protest against both " The military trials for civilians in the Constitution" and "The protest law". The protest is organized by Thowar Front. "Revolutionaries Front" 
Now the Ministry of interior is claiming that late Jika's father was the one who applied for a permit for this protest. Ironically no one from the activists asked for a permit in the first place and nobody can reach Mr. Salah Jaber, Jika's dad to confirm this.
The official statement of MOI says that some activists apply for the permit but did not say who these activists are. Ironically according to the law you should apply three days prior to the protest not only the same day.
Interestingly the MOI spokesperson refused to reveal to Daily News Egypt report Fady Ashraf the organizers that applied for permits.

MOI spokesman refused to disclose the names of the protest organisers

— Fady Ashraf (@fadyashraf21) November 27, 2013
Jika is believed to be killed by the MOI during Mohamed Morsi's rule. No one was held accounted for his death up till now. 
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Sunday, 24 November 2013

And the Anti-Protest Law is issued !!

Posted on 13:11 by Unknown
And Egyptian interim president Adly Mansour has issued the infamous Protest law today. Here is what I originally wrote about that protest law last month.
Amazingly I remember that deputy PM Ziad Bahaa El Din hinted out last month after his meeting with political parties that the law would be discussed in the new elected parliament but it turned to be an empty promise unfortunately. The Conservative/Deep State/Pro-Military/Pro-Police branch won after all.
Now here is an English preview for the law from Ahram Online. Also here is a collection of tweets from HRW Egypt director Heba Morayef about the law in English after the break.
Here is the original text in Arabic.
Anyhow revolutionaries are not stopped by this law , actually they are breaking it next Tuesday as . The final voting on the draft constitution will be allegedly on Tuesday.
revolutionary groups are organized a protest against the military trials for civilians in the constitution in front of the Shura Council where the Constitution Committee holds its sessions
BY the way for those who are supporting the Protest law and say that we should learn from civilized democratic countries that got a law to organize protesting and so on , well I tell them one thing : Give us the same freedom , the same democracy , the same accountability and the same respect of human rights before speaking about law that actually is against the right of protests.
Now here is the video of the day. A former Police general tells the police force to activate the law even ‘by the shoe’ aka ‘hit the protesters by shoes’ and TV host Dina Abdel Rahman reminds him that this “shoe” talk is the one that made as backward nation !!
By the shoe !!
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Tuesday, 19 November 2013

#Nov19 in #MohamedMahmoud #2013 : A big long day

Posted on 02:41 by Unknown
And it is the 19th November !!! And only God knows what will happen on that busy day , we got sad anniversaries , pharaoh's birthday and a football match.
Here is a live blog for the long day.It seems that it would start earlier. 
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Monday, 18 November 2013

#18Nov : Jika's Rally to commemorate Mohamed Mahmoud clashes

Posted on 07:28 by Unknown
And the activists as well Pro-Revolutionaries began their event commemorate Mohamed Mahmoud clashes. It is one day earlier to avoid any political trap or clashes tomorrow. Tonight's event is exactly a rally from Martyr Jaber Salah aka Jika's house to Mohamed Mahmoud street. Jika was killed in Mohamed Mahmoud street clashes in 2012.
Here is a live blog for the event. 
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Wednesday, 13 November 2013

#Hala’ib Triangle in Photos : Camels Market in #Shalateen

Posted on 13:01 by Unknown
Here is the third part of the Hala’ib triangle in photos series. After the amazing photos of Shalateen port and the village of Abraq in Shalateen , this time it is about the famous Camels market in the city of Shalateen.
The Camels market is one of the most famous landmarks in the city. It is the biggest market for camels in Egypt. The camels come from Sudan in a long trip led by their herders. Their temporary stop is at that market in Shalateen waiting to be sold to the camel merchants that come from all over the country in a long trip.
Now this time the photo slide show is a mix of photos by photographer Yasser El Rasoul and famous Photo journalist/dear friend Hossam el-Hamalawy.
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Monday, 11 November 2013

Crucify Abdel Zaher and Abu Terika "Updated"

Posted on 07:51 by Unknown
Welcome to the land of non Stopped Drama. Yesterday Ahly SC scored the Africa’s Champions league , everybody was happy and overjoyed to the level that most people forgot the fact the two footballers that gave us that precious win were actually Pro-Islamist Pro-MB.
Some of them did not give a damn for what Ahmed Abdel Zaher did the R4bia sign after scoring the second Ahly Goal and even claimed that he was not referring to Rabaa but rather to the 4 goals he scored in the championship. ‘It turned out that he scored only 3 goals” 
Oh yes Abdel Zaher joined that list of athletes doing the Rabaa sign.
Abdel Zaher doing the 4 fingers thing
Abdel Zaher said after the game that he did the R4bia sign to pay respect to the martyrs whether from the Muslim brotherhood or from the police. The young man was a brave enough to admit it. Soon enough a photo circulated online showing the young player visiting the Rabaa sit in before its disastrous dispersal.

Of course some people including me wondered after Abdel Zaher’s goal what would happen to him and whether he will join the Kong Fu players in the blacklist or not. I believed that he would get away with it.
And man I was wrong as he is being crucified right now. The drama started after the end of the game the minister of sports Taher Abu Zeid refused to salute him.Later Abu Zeid downplayed what happened because in the end his club won the championship.


Last night Sports TV hosts “Mostly ignorant Pro regime regardless of who heads the country” were attacking him. Ahmed Shobeir , the famous sports TV host and former NDP member described Abdel Zaher as “Half intellectual” !! Oh yes “Half intellectual”
Today We found out that the Ahly SC administration decided to suspend Abdel Zaher from playing in Morocco referring him to investigation. Rumors already circulating that he won't continue in Ahly club next winter. Updated on 12/11/2013 : Ok it is official Ahly SC decided not only to suspend Abdel Zaher from playing but they put him up for sale. This is too much.
The Olympic committee is speaking about suspending him from playing football professionally for the rest of his life because of the Rabaa sign !!
Abdel Zaher scored a goal and we were qualified to participate in the Clubs’ World Championship for God sake !!!
Abdel Zaher is on the verge of being crucified for real.
Even Mohamed Abu Tarika did not survive that campaign. I do not know if it is true or not but some say that Abu Tarika refused to salute the minister of Sports because he represented “a coup government”. You can imagine how some react after reading this online.
Some Pro-military/Pro-Mubarak supporters  have started their campaign already against none other than Abu Tarika claiming that he is a hypocrite who used to be honored by Alaa and Gamal Mubarak and yet refused to salute the minister of sports Abu Zeid. Fat Mido aka Ahmed Hossam is attacking Abu Terika on twitter claiming that he was still receiving orders from the MB guide "He is currently detained" and that the renowned player should be punished for refusing to receive the medal. Pathetic Mido is jealous.
The conspiracy theorists now are claiming that Al Ahly SC is being infiltrated with MB as its players are pro-Islamists and its Ultras groups are funded by Khairat El Shater !!
Well I do not care what Abu Tarika does or did because actually after making our sad people happy for all those years nothing else counts. All what I know that Abu Tarika took the people's side after Port Said's massacre and he remembered the 72 boys last night.
Anyhow those people are considered true minority because let’s admit the majority of Egyptian people love Abu Tarika to the level that he can be a serious rival to El Sisi over popularity. “Actually he can beat the general after all the people love him whether revolutionaries or Islamists or Pro-Mubarak/Pro-military" 
Why do people fear a sign !? Do they think that fighting ideas like that the Muslim brotherhood and Islamists in general will vanish !? You will not fight extremism in this way
It is getting sillier more and more.
For God sake last night was from the rare moments that Egyptians overcame their political differences.
Back to football I believe that Ahly Club will lose in Morocco. 
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Sunday, 3 November 2013

And The Military court gives Mohamed Sabry Suspended Jail Term

Posted on 13:29 by Unknown

An Ismailia military court sentenced Sinai based journalist and dear friend Mohamed Sabry a suspended six months in jail for filming military areas in Sinai.

Sabry, a Sinai based journalist and a member of the “No to military trials” campaign was arrested in January 2013 and was accused of filming military areas on the borders.

This is the third military court’s verdict concerning an Egyptian journalist issued by a military court in less than a month. He is also the first journalist from Sinai to be prosecuted in front of military court. Sabry was arrested in time of Morsi too.

By the way Sabry’s camera, a Canon 6D was confiscated since his arrest and has not been returned to him yet.

On 5 October, a military court sentenced Sinai-based Al Masry Al Youm newspaper journalist Ahmed Abu-Deraa. Six months in jail. That sentence was later suspended. Abu Daraa was accused of publishing false news and rumors about military operations in Sinai. Abu Daraa praised the military judiciary after his release !!

Last 30 October, another military court sentenced Al Watan newspaper journalist Hatem Abu Nour to a year in prison on Tuesday over allegations that he impersonated military personnel. Abu Nour’s story is very strange because we did not know about it except after his sentence.

Searching online you will find that Hatem disappeared from last August and his brother accused the MB to stand his disappearance then !!

The too close to the military and security apparatuses newspaper Al Watan is now demanding its journalist release.  

The military trials for civilians have been causing a controversy recently as human rights activists demand to ban the military trials for civilians in the upcoming amended constitution.

It is one of the major points the army is insisting in the constitution. For record the Freedoms and rights committee is against it.

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Sunday, 27 October 2013

Dear CBC Why Serious Face ? He did not speak about the Emperor For God Sake !!

Posted on 15:08 by Unknown
I 'm the clown ..
Why did you stand up !?
Why did you get scared !?
I neither have a sword in my hand nor a horse below me !!
How Strange... 
                                                                                                                 Salah Jahin
I remember these words as soon as I heard that CBC TV network issued a statement last night regarding Bassem Youssef's controversial third season premiere that is causing controversy in Egypt. The Statement was read by Lamees El Hadidy. The CBC network apologizes for some of what was said in Bassem Youssef's show last Friday.

"CBC will continue to be supportive of the basics of national sentiment and popular will, and is keen on not using phrases and innuendos that may lead to mocking national sentiment or symbols of the Egyptian state," a CBC statement said.
On Twitter, the official CBC account also said that the board of directors also had reservations about some of the content on Friday's episode of El-Bernameg.
Amazingly how CBC thought that mocking Morsi in the past reason was freedom of expression when he was officially the head of the state and the commander in chief of the Egyptian armed forces. 
It is getting silly for real.

 The debate has not stopped and needless to say the TV hosts that were mocked and criticized in the show went mad  for real. Already not less 5 complaints against Bassem Youssef have been reported to the prosecutor general including a complaint by C List actress Ghada Abdel Razek and another complaint by El Sisi for presidency campaign.
Of course I can not ignore that State commissioners authority's recommendation to the administrative court last Thursday to retry Bassem Youssef for insulting the president as a symbol of Egypt.
In that episode Bassem Youssef's show , the world renowned satirist did not speak about the Naked emperor directly or mocked him. He only spoke about the Naked emperor's hypocrite entourage !!
The Egyptian people , the true people I saw in the streets in the past 24 hours were not offended nor angry as it is being shown in the media.
FYI the CEO of CBC and its owner Mohamed Al Amin attended the shooting of that episode and it seemed that he was okay with it. 
Journalists say that the commanders of the Egyptian army were angry from the episode and that's why Mohamed Al Amin got allegedly some angry calls in the morning forcing him to issue that statement.
Anyhow Col. Ahmed Ali , the official spokesperson of armed forces denied officially that El Sisi or any commander had spoken about Bassem's show in a pinned statement on his official Facebook page. The Colonel's groupies of course are cursing Bassem. The colonel was featured shortly in the show by the way in case you did not notice. Of course I still believe that we can find him as a guest in the show in the future.
 It is worth to mention that the Pro-Sisi supporters claimed that the general was more than welcoming to be mocked if it pleased the public according to some shady untrusted website in Canada !!
So now after gagging voices like Reem Magued "who got no TV show in the new season plan in ONTV for the first time" and even comic shows like Youssef's are not allowed because suddenly we discover that we should not laugh from the symbols of the State !!
The TV , radio and press all had this disgusting tune to shut any voice to speak about the emperor in a disgusting way. Now we are being lectured that we should not mock our national icons or dare to speak about army from near or far or its commanders. Now we are being lectured that we should not dare to speak from near or far in this time about El Sisi. I wonder what will happen if he is elected as a president !!
I thought that 30 June was to assert on the freedom of expression we got back on 25 January !! 
In the end I have nothing to end this post except by this clip from "Good luck and good night"

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Monday, 21 October 2013

Mosa’ab El Shamy Presents : The funerals of Al Warraq Wedding

Posted on 14:19 by Unknown

Dear friend and talented renowned photographer Mosa’a El Shamy attended the funerals of the sad and misfortunate wedding of Al Warraq. He was not there alone , he accompanied his camera with him and got us some sad pictures from those sad moments. 

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Monday, 7 October 2013

Mosa'ab El Shamy presents : #Oct6 Protests

Posted on 06:04 by Unknown
Renowned Photographer Mosa'ab El Shamy was in the streets yesterday documenting the protests as well the clashes between the Pro-Morsi supporters and security forces mainly in Dokki.

The latest death toll we have got official is 51 dead and over 200 injured. Again it is a chaotic scene in Zanihom morgue with bodies all over the place. Most people justify yesterday killings with today's attacks in Sinai and Ismailia.
Back to El Shamy's documentation , the young fantastic photographer did it and took a snapshot that becomes an internet sensation whether nationally or internationally.
Speechless

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Wednesday, 18 September 2013

#NU : Talk to me about the State of law

Posted on 15:42 by Unknown
Next week study will start in all Egyptian universities except one university : Nile University.
Yes Nile University whose students fought for two years to restore their university and yet they could not to get back whether during SCAF’s rule or during Morsi administration.
Nile University already got two court rulings last April 2013 from the High administrative court to reallocate the land and buildings allocated to Zowail City of science and technology to NU and to consider NU as National university.
Needless to say this court rule to reallocate the land and the building to NU was totally ignored and instead ousted President Morsi issued a decree with a law to found the Zowail city. Again the State continued to defy the court ruling like in the days of Mubarak.
Now Morsi and his administration are gone , things have not changed so much. NU has not restored its land or its buildings.
Minister of higher education Hossam Eissa promised to solve the problem of Nile University and said that he respected the court ruling giving back the buildings and land to the NU. He presented suggestions but Zowail and his university totally refused.
Anyhow earlier this week we found out that the CSF and army are protecting and guarding the Zowail city of science in first day of school standing against the NU students and their families who came to protest how court ruling are being defied. 
Army unit protect ZCS "Eslam Farouk"


Already I do not understand why Dr. Zowail is insisting on his position. Ironically his spokesperson offered couple of millions of pounds to NU as a compensation. Well instead of giving the NU those millions, they could invest those millions on new buildings and Egypt will have two universities like NU and ZCS instead of one.
Of course Zowail got his own lobbyists now in the current government starting with none other than Ahmed El Muslimani , the interim president’s media advisor. After all El Muslimani believes that Israel was trying to foil Zowail’s project through NU !!
The story of NU describes how state of  law is actually an optional thing for the regime to use it whenever it likes for its reasons.
The students continued their sit in at NU 'Nancy Fanos"
The Nile University sit in is still on despite all the army and CSF units. Those students will not give up their rights that will return one day. 

TO NU students : Please do not give up rights and fight till the end, you are an inspiration to all of us.
Update : Hossam Eissa promised to issue a decision regarding the NU tomorrow. We will wait and see.
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Saturday, 7 September 2013

The Sad end for the #SpyStork

Posted on 15:30 by Unknown
I do not know if it is fate or what, but it seems that the story of Menes in the land of the Nile is extremely sad story.
After it was accused of espionage and spent a day in Egyptian detention , he was released in to a protectorate to fly free only to meet its end !! He was hunted down and eaten by an Egyptian Nubian family in the south !!!



It is a sad true story stranger than fiction , the story of the Spy stork in the land of the Nile.
RIP Dear Menes.
Late Menes
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Tuesday, 3 September 2013

The Stork is Free !! Our #Spybird

Posted on 13:27 by Unknown
Ok this is a follow up for the Spy Stork story. It turned out that the Hungarian Stork is called Menes and it has become the most famous stork in the history of modern Egypt. After all how many storks are detained for espionage and how many storks got visits from animal rights groups in detention while detained humans are denied from this right !!??
Menes is released and is moved Salugah & Ghazal Protected Area, near Aswan.
Here is the free bird.
:)
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Sunday, 18 August 2013

Mahmoud Gamal ElDin Presents .. Chaos in #Cairo

Posted on 14:30 by Unknown
Dear friend and photographer Mahmoud Gamal El Din was brave enough to be in the streets of Downtown Cairo last Friday as well Saturday. He took over 100 shots for what happened on those two days.

Everyone lost on that day but people do not want to admit it.
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Saturday, 17 August 2013

And It has just started but I fear We do not know that yet

Posted on 14:54 by Unknown

I do not know to say or write but it feels so heavy. At I knew that Egypt before August 14 was different than after August 14 and it is not a change for better but rather worse,the living proof was yesterday.

First I could not complete the live updates because I was sick , I had a fever and I could not complete. It was from the mercy of God to sleep while this on going tragedy taking place. It is hard for anyone to see his country falling in to piece and to see his own people killing each other.

Second I have a testimony which I have to share as a citizen journalist before being a professional journalist. I was on the verge of spending the day at my work down Al Galaa Street as the clashes between the Muslim brotherhood protesters but me and my real great colleagues found a way out taking back streets.  Our plan was to take the Sabatiya popular area and then cross the old Imbaba bridge to Imbaba as 15 May bridge and October bridge were all blocked.

It was 5 PM. We passed by a vigilante checkpoints where locals were holding machetes and  swords as well empty bottle glasses were brought. I saw an army helicopter standing still in the air in the direction of Ramsis street.

We went to Sabatiya , a popular area full of workshops. Despite they are mostly closed on Friday yet the locals in the poor formed vigilante checkpoints against swords and machetes were there. Despite they did not let other cars to pass without inspection , we passed smoothly. I think they saw bunch of ladies unveiled in the car and thought they can not be Muslim brotherhood supporters. In one of the checkpoints they forced two women wearing black Niqab to leave their tuktuk and step aside.

I do not know what happened to those ladies.

In one of the areas of Sabatiya , I saw a mob , an armed mob from locals around a police van used to transfer detainees as well CSF conscripts. I did not understand what was happening there. In our trip we saw some locals careless for the battles taking place couple of blocks away. I saw those locals playing dominos in the cafes giving their back to the TV sets.

Moving to the great republic of Imbaba , we met even more popular checkpoints. There were clashes there especially in the Nile Corniche. Moving to Sphinx square we found groups of MB supporters handing to somewhere. As soon as we left , we heard that clashes erupted there.

In Agouza , I found near where I live huge noise coming from Agouza Charity Hospital “Following the Ministry of health”. When I went there I found locals from popular area nearby the hospital rushing with an injured man to another hospital in Imbaba while another man was announced dead. The people said that the Muslim brotherhood protesters killed him in the clashes in Nile street. The family of the deceased soon brought up the swords as well empty bottles crate to the street and head to Nile street to complete the battle.  

I forgot to take my camera and it was the wisest thing to happen with all these suspicious armed vigilantes in the checkpoints.

I did not feel that worried on January 28 , it was completely different. It is much worse by all degrees.

It was a sad day.

We are used to blood and death that most people are indifferent to the huge death toll we have in the past 3 days , over 1000 Egyptians are killed !! Of course many people believe that the majority of those dead Egyptians are Muslim brotherhood terrorists who should not only get killed but to rot in hell. Yes it got to this degree in fact many people believe that security forces have been merciful with the Muslim brotherhood.

I am afraid its implications were not taken in consideration in whoever planned for it whether the Muslim brotherhood or the security forces or the regime. Violence brings violence. Starting with the dispersal of the sits in and there has been true political and social assessments for the political or security decisions taken !! We are heading towards diplomatic crises with half of the world in time of economic crisis while adopting Nasser 1960s rhetoric !! 

The Nasserite Nationalist wave Egypt by all strength sponsored by the current regime is facing Islamism Nationalist wave that getting angrier and angrier by time. It is double radicalization from all sides.

You can not speak now when Egypt is fighting its greatest wars , the war of terrorism !! You are either traitor or MB agent , actually they are same thing now. You do not dare to speak about human rights or civil rights in this time otherwise you are traitor as well.

Unfortunately people do not realize that the latest country to declare this war has not won it yet and that country is the so-called leader of the free world.

People of Egypt now believe the TV channels and TV figures that they once disbelieve. The Mubarak era’s figures are back with their ugliness with their anti-25 January revolution narratives.

The same disease the MB was suffering from has spread like in the Egyptian society.

I am afraid that there will be more blood spelled till all the people realize there is no other way than political solution. Of course that is a very optimistic scenario another scenario is we can have a light version from Algerian scenario where we enter a war against Islamists. That scenario will end with the army generals’ rule from behind scenes with puppet presidents and parties in the front along with highly nationalist spirit and iron curtain and control on media.

There was once a Lebanese thinker that said that Lebanese people did not admit that they were having a civil war except after two years , well I believe we are heading towards something ugly and nobody wants to admit it.

It has started and most Egyptians do not know that it started.

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