Faisal’s Tobril

So Hassan Nasrallah comes out on television and says that he did not expect the magnitude of Israel’s response and that if he knew that so much destruction would ensue, he would not have kidnapped the two soldiers.
Okay.
Does that make the Israeli attacks, in terms of size and magnitude, and the destruction they caused in […]

Hussam El-Hamalawy, a friend and a “The Arabist” Contributor, has this link to a video on “street activism“. I hadn’t seen it before and found it quite interesting.
What interested me most was the bit near the end. The group of young people that the Journalist/Reporter talked to were, as far as I could tell, AUC […]

So today in the morning, and while I was ironing a shirt, I heard something quite interesting on television. It was actually my grandmother (I’m staying with my grandparents these days - long story), who wakes up quite early, watching an Egyptian soap.
Since she’s a bit hard-of-hearing, old age and such, the volume was set […]

Disclaimer: Proposed, sometimes detailed, solutions to Egypt’s problems coming your way.
“Were I President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, things would be very different.”
It makes me smile; the number of times I have heard the previous statement… both from myself and others. And so, in the spirit of wasting my time and working on something […]

This may seem like a weird post as you, if you, read along so let me just warn you that all that follows is merely my twisted view of things I see.
Whilst I would have normally placed this post on my “Too-sensitive-for-everyone-to-read-blog-which-I-post-on-and-is-different-from-this-blog” I’ve decided I didn’t care enough if people get annoyed or pissed off […]

I logged on to my account at wordpress this morning with a plan to write something about Egyptian politics and what I’d do were I president or in some way in charge of this country.
Of course, I don’t start writing the moment I hit the PC, so I went over to Manal and Alaa’s to […]