Egypt: No More Natural Gas to Israel
An Egyptian court has banned the export of natural gas to Israel.
On May 8th Economy Arabia wrote: read more »
The Lady With the Police Baton
Okay, so here's the thing. Your car gets hit from the rear, you step out and call the police, but end up with a lady swinging a police baton at your face wanting to kick your ass. You're threatened to get a chronic injury if you call the cops... and guess what? She's a police officer's daughter.. to my knowledge at least. She also said swearwords to the man, and what's worse is that she insulted the divine entity. read more »
Response to Martin Kramer on Ann Lambton
Martin Kramer had a post today on the MESH blog at Harvard pointing out that all the Ann Lambton obits (like this one) glossed over her advisory role in the 1953 US-British coup. A valid and timely point to make, but I think he went a bit too far in saying that Western scholars are shut out from Iran, and that this is because the government is afraid of Westerners exposing the weakness of the regime. With typos corrected, here’s my reply: read more »
لن نترك المحلة تواجه القمع وحدها - زيارة إلى المحلة لفك الحصار
Start: 2008/04/11 - 11:00
إخواننا في المحلة الكبرى يواجهون منذ يومين أكبر حملة قمع وترويع، لقد نزل أهالي المحلة لوسط المدينة ليتظاهروا سلمياً ضد الفساد والغلاء فواجهتهم قوات الأمن بالعنف، بالقنابل المسيلة للدموع والأسلحة النارية، ونتج عن هذا القمع الأمنى المنفلت عشرات الجرحى، وعلى الأقل حالة وفاة مؤكدة وموثقة لطفل، ثم تم القبض على المئات من أهالى المحلة وبدأ توزيع التهم عليهم بشكل عشوائى، وتح read more »
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كمان تاج اخدته من عند بلو
هل توافق علي حذف خانة الديانه من البطاقه الشخصيه؟ read more »
Blowing the feast happiness
What happened yesterday in Morning was so terrible that no could have imagine it . No one imagine that some one would blow a Mosque , the house of God while the People were praying the Eid "Feast" peacefully !! read more »
Ahmadinejad to become the Haj Ahmadinejad
Ahmadinejad arrived to KSA as an invited pilgrim oh yes he was invited in the last CCG meeting in which he attended for the first time in a historical move by the King Abdallah in excellent move.
Of course it comes with in the Peaceful phase the region is living now. read more »
Resident Lions for Evil Lambs
A couple of weeks ago we decided to go to the cinema in order to see "Resident Evil", but the cinema was "Complet" then, so we decided to see "Lions for Lambs" instead. It stars Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, and Tom Cruise. So the cast was enough to expect an acceptable movie. You know, we have our own scale to rate movies. A movie can be either Good, or a Computer Movie, which is the one that doesn't worth the money paid in the cinema ticket, a Computer Movie is one of those movies that you can see after downloading a pirated version of it on your PC.
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OPEC Summit aside
Apparently an oil company consortium led by Brasilian company Petrobras has announced the conclusion of well tests that indicate the deep water Tupi field to be enormous. When the field comes online (it will require the cutting edge of oil drilling technology), it could place Brazil in league with the other major new world fuel producers (like Venezuela, Canada and the States) and potentially the world. In fact it stands to more than double Brasil’s proven reserves ranking it above Norway. read more »
Oil prices: unstable subsidizers
As OPEC looks set to request assurances that demand wont decrease (hah!) as especially the US and Europe pursue other sources of energy in return for investing significantly in expanding production capabilities, someone finally looks at what these prices mean to people other than the gas excreters and guzzlers swimming in dollars and debt, respectively. read more »
Egypt: Nothing Moves People As Much As Religion
The late Naguib Mahfouz once said: “If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.” It continues to move the social and political mechanics of the people, the future of Egyptian politics and the consciousness of our nation's bloggers alike. These are the current issues of Egypt illustrated through their words. read more »
The Age of Insufficiency
One thing i like about oil prices so close to $100 is the fact that it’s forcing a lot of people to stop and think about our dependence on petroleum. There is so much coming out these days that it’s difficult to keep track of. Micheal Klare has an interesting piece in the Nation that looks at prospects for the end of the Age of Petroleum. read more »
ركوب فؤادة علي عتريس باطــــل
معرفش مين صاحب فكرة أن الأخوان ناجحين سياسيا وأذكياء، ولا حتي أعرف من المسئول عن ترويجها. وما دعاني لتذكر هذه الفكرة الساذجة ما أثير مؤخرا حول إصرارهم علي وضع فقرة تخص عدم تولي المسيحي والمرأة لمنصب الرئيس في برنامجهم. read more »
Torture and Authoritarianism
Hossam has a long, impassioned (as always) post in light of the recent 3-year prison sentence against the Boulaq officers who tortured and sodomized a microbus driver. The case became a0″ public” issue when bloggers broke the story and published a video of the abuse. read more »
Will Gamal Mubarak take over the country ?
I think yes
and by a democratic elections too .
what a mess .
Book Review: The Boiling Years
This is a book by Mohammed Hassanein Hekal (famous Egyptian journalist\ex-Cheif editor of Al Ahram newspaper and was Jamal Abdel Nasser's political advisor ).
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I raq, she rants
A friend of mine referred me to this blog on living in Iraq. I have to confess I haven't really been paying much attention to the details of the situation there, and have been especially concerned about what Iraqis themselves think. This is what at least one Sunni partisan thinks. Read. A woman who makes me forget that I ever thought writing style was important. I guess passion is important too. Passion, or hatred?
Egyptian Blogoshpere Review - 8 October 2007
The Egyptian Blogger Amr Gharbeia, sent an Email on the Egyptian Bloggers Mailing List today asking us to participate in Global Voices Online, by translating some of the Egyptian Blog Posts written in Arabic during the last few days into English, in order to help the Egyptian Blogospher get more coverage there. So, I'll give it a try here and looking forward to hearing your feedback. I'll select some posts from the Egyptian Blogs I am subscribed to in Google Reader, and will write a brief about each post if needed and then translate parts of them.
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In Memory Of The 6th Of October War (Yom Kippur War)
It has been 34 years since the 6th Of October War (Yom Kippur War).
If anyone searches the Internet for info about the war or asks a foreigner what they know about that war, the result is one thing... The Israelis won!
As for us Arabs\Muslims, we believe we won (at least us Egyptians won on our side).
Why Foreigners think we lost the war?
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