Faisal’s Tobril

So I discovered lately that I was gravely mistaken in accusing, or even thinking that, the Government of Egypt follows traditional centralization techniques when it comes to power, as per the unwritten laws of authoritarian governments.
Why?
Hossam El-Hamalawy discusses the issue of Egyptian Security Forces apprehending, incarcerating and torturing leftist activists of El-Arish (Capital of the […]

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 […]

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 don’t know the history of this author nor do I have any information regarding her knowledge of Egyptian politics or anything of the matter (possibly because I’m at work and don’t have the time to research).
Her article is interesting never-the-less.
I find myself in agreement with many of the points she makes.

My good friend Ahmed El Droubi has been released!
Thank Goodness. You've been missed Droubster!