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domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sinai</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sunni</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">taba</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">tourism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">اسرائيل</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ايران</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">سلفي</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">سنه</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">سياحة</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">سيناء</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">شيعة</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">طابا</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">مصر</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">يهود</category><title>سلفي ردا على مهاجمتهم السياحة الايرانية وليس الاسرائيلية : الاسرائليين كلهم بيسكنوا طابا ودي بلدهم اصلا</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;&quot;&gt;يرتعب السلفي ويحذر ويهدد من قدوم الشيعة مصرا ويرفض السياحة الايرانية الى مصر تحت مسمى منع المد الشيعي ... ولكن حين يسأل المتحجرة عقولهم منهم عن موقفهم من السياحة الايرانية والسياحة الاسرائيلية في مصر --- هكذا تكون حجتهم: &quot;ديه مش حاجة جديدة وبعدين الاسرائيليين بيقعدوا في طابا وديه بلدهم اصلا&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: sans; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15.390625px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Ultraconservative Salafi protesters shouted anti-Iran slogans and waved a Syrian&lt;br /&gt;rebel flag&amp;nbsp;during a protest at the residence of Iran&#39;s top diplomat on April 5, 2013.&lt;br /&gt;Protesters criticise&amp;nbsp;the Egyptian government&#39;s attempts to improve ties with Tehran.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2013/04/02/egypt-restricts-iranian-tourists-from-visiting-shia-sites/#dnePhoto/0/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: sans; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15.390625px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Iranian tourists visit the Temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor on April 2, 2013&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: sans; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16.5px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: sans; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15.390625px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;(AFP Photo)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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</description><link>http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2013/04/blog-post.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Fouad GM)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjTSooDA9hF2cUGwFlPYZa_X2-ys9BhaAh8D3Niyhzu9nGsNlBitjdsF2_6verrDXciGFDSZ6XtO67UtTnam2_JJkhLqVvw1Wj9Oth772mB_1LioHUK3p3PbVow2NXKNGAmuCrtqGOdG2y/s72-c/628x471.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>5</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-122142256056896343.post-7709868059492723597</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 03:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-24T20:02:38.896-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">algeria</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ban ali</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">democracy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">dictatorship</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">egypt</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">jasmine revolution</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">jordan</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">libya</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">revolution</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sidi bouzid</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">social struggle</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">tunisia</category><title>Fouad GM for MEPEI: Is Sidi Bouzid really unprecedented in the Arab World?</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;In &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mepei.com/in-focus/4131-is-sidi-bouzid-really-unprecedented-in-the-arab-world&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;my article for MEPEI&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;, I argue that the events of Sidi Bouzid are not born from a vacuum and are not as &#39;unprecedented&#39; to the course and heritage of social struggle in the Arab World as much as Western and isolationist/defeatist Arab media reports - although the outcome and the overthrow of Ben Ali may be unprecedented.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;  line-height: 16px; font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: normal; &quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mepei.com/plugins/content/imagesresizecache/a03252349508af3b5d5179020c8b2c30.jpeg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://mepei.com/plugins/content/imagesresizecache/a03252349508af3b5d5179020c8b2c30.jpeg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px; &quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: left; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;--------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: left; &quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;“The most spectacular thing about the events in Tunisia is that they make everything uncertain, but they also make everything possible”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Tunisians made history last week—fact. Never have we seen an Arab dictator flee his country and roam the skies begging for refuge like we did with Ben Ali on Friday night. Never have we tweeted the ill-fate of an Arab dictator’s junta like we did last week. And never have we witnessed a decades-old police state toppled from below in this fashion. In fact, for many Arabs, this may even be the first time they use the expression ‘former president’ in reference to a living man!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Undeniably, the Jasmine Revolution and, even more remarkably, the society’s reactions to post-Ben Ali lawlessness indicate the maturity of a deep-rooted social struggle in the absence of a charismatic revolutionary figurehead and without the political intervention of the national army. Furthermore, it proved to be a true grassroots movement and the culmination of a cumulative struggle against socioeconomic inequalities and repression of freedoms, not merely a response to an electoral debacle or a single incident by select social forces. More importantly, the Tunisian revolution was sparked by disenchantment and desperation amongst the most deprived social classes in the most peripheral regions of the country before ‘conquering’ the capital and engaging the professional middle classes and the Diaspora.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Another aspect brought to the forefront by events in Tunisia was the role of the media. Under Ben Ali, Tunisia ranked amongst the most repressive environments for journalists and was notorious for its severe restrictions on freedom of expression and the flow of information. However, despite the instrumental role traditional and post-traditional media played in the events of Sidi Bouzid, this revolution was unlike Iran’s ‘Green Revolution’ of 2009: Twitter, Facebook and YouTube were not at the core of the Tunisians’ social struggle. For the Tunisian protester, new social media were not the ‘battlefield’ but a channel to express revolutionary fervor and provide a regional and international audience with otherwise scarce information from the real ‘battlefield’—the streets of Tunisian towns and cities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;In other words, the Jasmine Revolution was ‘twitterized’ but was not a ‘twitter revolution.’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;In short, the events of the past month demonstrate that the dynamics of Tunisian society were ripe and mature enough to escalate into a social struggle that voiced the grievances of the regions and social groups at the centre and the periphery alike.  The desire for change and the intolerability of humiliation, repression and deprivation overcame fear of Ben Ali’s notorious security apparatus. Tunisians of both genders, of all age groups and from all walks of life took to the streets with aspirations that had outgrown the usual outlets—the homes, salons and Facebook accounts of Tunisians at home and abroad.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; &quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Uprooting the Revolution&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;However, the significance and maturity of the Tunisian revolution pose an important question—is Sidi Bouzid really an unprecedented event in the Arab world? To what extent is the Jasmine Revolution particular to Tunisian society?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;The toppling of Ben Ali’s regime from below and the revolutionaries’ persistent struggle to eliminate the ruling party and get rid of the corrupt ruling junta are, beyond the shadow of a doubt, regionally unprecedented. But is the social dynamic behind the events of Sidi Bouzid ever so ‘unique,’ ‘particular’ and ‘new’ to Tunisia and the Arab World?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;The question implies that social revolutions are a rarity in human history and are more so in the Arab world—a claim few social scientists and historians will oppose. But the assertion that Sidi Bouzid is unprecedented in the Arab World also implies a certain assumption that the Tunisian revolution is borne in a vacuum and is not the result of a cumulative social process informed by the political dynamics, protest movements and intellectual heritage of Arab and Tunisian social struggles.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;The view that Sidi Bouzid is ever so unique and ‘new’ to the Arab World is perhaps a product of neo-orientalist and self-orientalizing discourses which continue to view social dynamics in non-Western societies with suspicion and, therefore, fail to acknowledge that a cumulative heritage of social and intellectual activism exists in these societies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;The result is evident in the coverage of the Tunisian revolution by mainstream Western media. “Holidaymakers evacuated!”, “Civil war looms in Tunisia!”, “Will Tunisia turn Islamist?”, “Can Tunisia change?” are examples of the coverage offered to the average reader in the West. Analysts who received news from Tunisia with a glimpse of hope that believing it could lead towards democratic change credited Western sources for instigating the revolution. Some gave Julian Assange the credit, claiming that Wikileaks’ revelations triggered the revolution. Others wrote that the Tunisian revolution was an inevitable outcome of the information revolution and new social media. Some even credit US democratization policies for Sidi Bouzid. Despite their differing interpretations and their divergent analyses, they all share a total disregard of the political and intellectual heritage, the inbred social dynamics and the pan-regional social struggles which led to the events of Sidi Bouzid and the Jasmine Revolution.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Skeptics have no faith in Tunisian society and question its ability of produce change without help and guidance from the West. More positive analysts can only explain Sidi Bouzid’s success and its reforming potentials by connecting the revolution to this or that Western intervention.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; &quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;The Jasmine Revolution contextualized&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Lebanese academic and political thinker, Fawwaz Traboulsi offered an alternative explanation. Commenting on its potential to inspire change and protests elsewhere, Traboulsi described the Jasmine Revolution as “simply the culmination of a series of popular uprisings [demanding the right to] a decent living, employment and freedom.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mepei.com/in-focus/4131-is-sidi-bouzid-really-unprecedented-in-the-arab-world#_ftn1&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none; color: rgb(2, 105, 179); &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;It is in this light that we can contextualize the Tunisian revolution. The events of Sidi Bouzid can be contextualized in their Tunisian and Arab social contexts by refuting the assumption that Sidi Bouzid is an extraordinary event or that the social dynamics at the heart of the revolution are as novel and original as many will have us believe. In fact, Sidi Bouzid can be seen as the product of a long history of inbred social dynamics dating back to the early decades of the twentieth century and cross-cutting with social struggles, protest movements, uprisings and revolutions throughout the Arab World.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;It is in this spirit that labor unions, political activists and protest movements expressed solidarity with Tunisian protesters weeks before the final escalation and the downfall of Ben Ali. Most notably, throughout the past four weeks, Algerian unionists repeatedly expressed “solidarity with the brave social struggle of the Tunisian people” at a time when they themselves were mobilizing protestors against unemployment, rising prices and the housing crisis.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Similarly, activists in protest movements in Egypt contested the argument that the events of Tunisia are indeed peculiar and specific to Tunisia and expressed dismay at the increasingly vocal discourse prevalent amongst both isolationist state-run media as well as defeatist elements from within activist circles. While the former presented the events of Tunisia as a specific response to a peculiar variant of tyranny,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mepei.com/in-focus/4131-is-sidi-bouzid-really-unprecedented-in-the-arab-world#_ftn2&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none; color: rgb(2, 105, 179); &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;[2]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt; defeatists lamented the backwardness of Egypt’s reformist movement. In response, one Egyptian activist wrote in frustration: “the Tunisian revolution is only a more mature model of the social struggle in Egypt [...] it is an extension of the revolution we’ve worked towards for more than six years.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mepei.com/in-focus/4131-is-sidi-bouzid-really-unprecedented-in-the-arab-world#_ftn3&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none; color: rgb(2, 105, 179); &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;[3]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; &quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;An inspiration&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Recognizing that social struggles and protest movements contribute to a shared pool of experiences, achievements and accumulative cognition over time and across political boundaries, it is natural to assume that the Jasmine Revolution will have an impact on the social dynamics of, and will inspire protesters in, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Jordan and Sudan—perhaps even in Iran and beyond.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;In other words, the Jasmine Revolution itself will become a ring in a chain—indeed it already has.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;The events of Sidi Bouzid have already inspired activists and protest movements driven by Maslowian demands elsewhere in the Arab World. Rioting Algerians have looked to their neighbor for inspiration and at least one Algerian is reported to have set himself on fire protesting unemployment and mistreatment by the authorities and imitating Mohammad Bouazzizi whose self-immolation on December 17 triggered the Sidi Bouzid uprising. Rioters in Libya continue to protest the housing crisis in their country; Jordanians protest rising prices; and Moroccans are expressing anger at the poor state of public transportation in the country. Similarly, the Northern Sudanese opposition leader, Hassan Turabi, was arrested after calling for an uprising against al-Bashir days after a historic referendum on the south’s independence.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;In Egypt, three cases of self-immolation have been reported within 24 hours. Significantly, the three victims are not known for any political activism and demonstrate the wide array of social groups suffering disenchantment and desperation. The first victim, a 49-year-old restaurant owner from the port city of Isma`iliya, set himself on fire in front of the Egyptian parliament on Monday in protest against the government’s decision to lift subsidies on essential commodities, including bread&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mepei.com/in-focus/4131-is-sidi-bouzid-really-unprecedented-in-the-arab-world#_ftn4&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none; color: rgb(2, 105, 179); &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;[4]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;. Less than 24 hours later, a Cairene lawyer set himself on fire in the same location&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mepei.com/in-focus/4131-is-sidi-bouzid-really-unprecedented-in-the-arab-world#_ftn5&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none; color: rgb(2, 105, 179); &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;[5]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;hours before reports of similar incident involving a 25-year-old unemployed Alexandrian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mepei.com/in-focus/4131-is-sidi-bouzid-really-unprecedented-in-the-arab-world#_ftn6&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none; color: rgb(2, 105, 179); &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;[6]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;In short, the Jasmine Revolution has evidently provided angry Middle Easterners suffering extreme class and regional disparities; the recession of productive and labor intensive sectors of the economy; a state of joblessness; rising prices of essential commodities; deteriorating infrastructures; uneven development; rampant corruption; and state repression with a ray of hope and a momentous boost. Rooted in the a long history of social struggles dating back to the Egyptian Bread Riots of 1977, Sidi Bouzid has become a new milestone in Arab societies’ struggle for social justice and democracy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; &quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mepei.com/in-focus/4131-is-sidi-bouzid-really-unprecedented-in-the-arab-world#_ftnref1&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none; color: rgb(2, 105, 179); &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt; Fawwaz Traboulsi, « الأمل بالياسمين » (Jasmine Hopes), As-Safir, 18 January 2011 [&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/eByjGn&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none; color: rgb(2, 105, 179); &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;http://bit.ly/eByjGn&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; &quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mepei.com/in-focus/4131-is-sidi-bouzid-really-unprecedented-in-the-arab-world#_ftnref2&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none; color: rgb(2, 105, 179); &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;[2]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt; Shayma’ Abdel-Hadi, «الخصوصية السياسية و الاقتصادية و الاجتماعية و الاعلامية في التجربة التونسية»  (The Political, Economic and Social Peculiarities of the Tunisian Experience), Al-Ahram, 15 January 2011 [&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/g9Yea2&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none; color: rgb(2, 105, 179); &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;http://bit.ly/g9Yea2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; &quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mepei.com/in-focus/4131-is-sidi-bouzid-really-unprecedented-in-the-arab-world#_ftnref3&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none; color: rgb(2, 105, 179); &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;[3]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt; Facebook note, Mohamed Motasem El Haiwan, on 16 January 2011 [&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://on.fb.me/dVc3e1&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none; color: rgb(2, 105, 179); &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;http://on.fb.me/dVc3e1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; &quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mepei.com/in-focus/4131-is-sidi-bouzid-really-unprecedented-in-the-arab-world#_ftnref4&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none; color: rgb(2, 105, 179); &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;[4]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt; Al-Masry Al-Youm, 17 January 2011, [&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/gfF5kx&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none; color: rgb(2, 105, 179); &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;http://bit.ly/gfF5kx&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; &quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mepei.com/in-focus/4131-is-sidi-bouzid-really-unprecedented-in-the-arab-world#_ftnref5&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none; color: rgb(2, 105, 179); &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;[5]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt; Shorouk News, 18 January 2011 [&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/fdBwqy&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none; color: rgb(2, 105, 179); &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;http://bit.ly/fdBwqy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; &quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mepei.com/in-focus/4131-is-sidi-bouzid-really-unprecedented-in-the-arab-world#_ftnref6&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none; color: rgb(2, 105, 179); &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;[6]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt; Youm7, 18 January 2011, [&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/gs1gyS&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none; color: rgb(2, 105, 179); &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;http://bit.ly/gs1gyS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2011/01/fouad-gm-for-mepei-is-sidi-bouzid.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Fouad GM)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-122142256056896343.post-5066324445553347948</guid><pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 17:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-22T10:13:36.227-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">aljazeera</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">beirut</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">corruption</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">economy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">inflation</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">neoliberal</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">poverty</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">prices</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">regulation</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sectarianism</category><title>لبنان : غلاء لا يرحم , تلاعب التجار بالاسعار , امتيازات احتكارية , و تواطؤ الدولة</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;تقرير سلام خضر عن الغلاء و ارتفاع اسعار السلع الاساسية الغير مسبوق في لينان ... في لبنان تتضافر عانصر عدة و تتكالب على مواطن اخضع لعقلية طائفية جعلته متلقي للمعلومة و الخبر و الاصطفاف السياسي من زعاماته و ليس إلا ... النتيجة: غلاء لا يرحم , تلاعب التجار بالاسعار , امتيازات احتكارية , و غياب (أو تواطؤ) اجهزة الدولة الرقابية فيما تبقى المداخيل جامدة و حقوق العامل مباحة&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;object style=&quot;height: 293px; width: 480px&quot; width=&quot;480&quot; height=&quot;293&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/N2s1cWIbmFU?version=3&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowScriptAccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/N2s1cWIbmFU?version=3&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; width=&quot;480&quot; height=&quot;293&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;تم بث التقرير على قناة الجزيرة اليوم السبت 22 كانون ثاني / يناير 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;احببت ان اضيف الى تقرير سلام خضر بعدَا آخر , الا و هو الاستثمار الأجنبي و الاغترابي الذي تجلبه الزعامات السياسية ذاتها و التي تنتج اقتصادَا ريعيَا يرتبط بالخارج و يهمش الداخل بسكل متطرد ... النتيجة ان بيروت صارت جنة للسواح و المستثمرين و الزوار ... و كابوسَا و مقبرة لطموحات مواطنيها ... و قد كتبت معلقَا على جانب من تلك المأساة تحت عنوان &quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2010/04/like-stranger-in-beirut-they-bought.html&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;كالغريب في بيروت: باعوا المدينة و اشتروها&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&quot; في تعليقي على عملية انتقال الملكيات في الوسط التجاري في بيروت ما بعد الحرب و ما انتجه ذلك من اغتراب قصري و تهميش قمعي لمواطني هذه الاحياء العتيقة و اللبنانيين بشكل عام&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 16px; &quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2466/3726230544_7b73754e58.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2466/3726230544_7b73754e58.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 375px; &quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;الفقر و التعتير و العوَز و العشوائية بلبنان لا تقتصر على المناطق و الاقاليم و الضواحي و انما تتسم به احياء وسط بيروت نفسها&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2011/01/blog-post_22.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Fouad GM)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2466/3726230544_7b73754e58_t.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-122142256056896343.post-8907761419753274787</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-21T09:30:08.976-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">apparition</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">egypt</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">hussain</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">hussayn</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">hussein</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ibrahim eissa</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">imam</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">reform</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">revolution</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">الحسين</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">كرامة</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">مصر</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">معجزة</category><title>الحسين يظهر لمريديه في مصر: مدد يا سيدنا حسين و حي على الثورة</title><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4044/4411211327_0a3085621d.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 334px;&quot; src=&quot;http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4044/4411211327_0a3085621d.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;تقليديَا يحتفل المصريون بالمولد النبوي الشريف و رأس السنة الهجرية و موالد الأئمة و الأولياء ممن ليس لهم اضرحة و مزارات في المحروسة بمواكب مهيبة و خيَم الضيافة و حلقات الذكر و الشعر و الإنشاد الصوفي حول ما بات يعرف بـ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small; &quot;&gt;&quot;كعبة أهل مصر&quot; أو&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small; &quot;&gt; المشهد الحسيني في القاهرة&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large; &quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;هل ظهر سيد شباب أهل الجنة و سيد الشهداء و الثوار سيدنا الإمام الحسين مشاركَا المصريين احتفالهم برأس السنة الهجرية بالفعل؟ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;منذ شهر أو اكثر قليلَا&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt; جاب &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;موكب مهيب&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt; شوارع القاهرة الفاطمية احتفالَا برأس السنة الهجرية بعد مغادرة المشهد الحسيني الذي قال روّاده ذاك ان &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://shabab.assafir.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=1757&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;التيار الكهربائي انقطع و ظهر الإمام منيرّا&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt; امام ا&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;لمئات من المريدين اثناء صلاتهم عليه امام ضريح الرأس الشريف في القاهرة ... الحيرة و نقاشات العلماء و المشايخ و روَاد المشعد الحسيني تمحورَت حول ما اذا كان الحسين قد ظهر بالفعل علمَا بأن المصريين - مسلمين و مسيحيين - أكثر اعتيادَا لكرامة ظهور العذراء مريم&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;و لكن يفوت المصريين و الحسينيين منهم بشكل خاص السؤال الأهم ... لو كان الحسين قد ظهر بالفعل فهل أتى ليشم هواء القاهرة الملوَث أم ليتناول خبزَا يعجز الكثير من المصريين عن شرائه اليوم؟ أم ربما اتى لإبلاغ اكثر مشايعيه ولاء في العالم رسالة ثورية أبيَة؟ هل أتى الحسين - روحي له و لثورته الفداء - مستنهضَا همم شعب اعتاد الطيبة حتى صارت هبلَا؟ هل ظهر الحسين ليذكَر المصريين ان تشريفهم باستضافة الرأس الأشرف تكليف لا تشريف؟ أم ربما أتى ليقول لمشايخ الهشّك بشَك و نواب و أمناء سر اللبان و البون بون ان كل يوم عاشوراء و ان كل أرض كريلاء؟&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;ربما حان الوقت لقراءة &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;كتيّب &quot; دم الحسين: القصة الكاملة لقتل الحسين والانتقام من القتلة &quot; لكاتبه ابراهيم عيسى الذي يدرس فيه الثورة الحسينية على طغيان يزيد مقارنَا الأخير بعصر مبارك في مصر و هو الكتاب الذي &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;لم أزل انتظر الفرصة لقراءته&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2011/01/blog-post_21.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Fouad GM)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4044/4411211327_0a3085621d_t.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-122142256056896343.post-6883481253060975976</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 04:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-15T20:47:11.083-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ben ali</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">democracy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">egypt</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mubarak</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sidi bouzid</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">tunisia</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">تونس</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">سياسة</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">مبارك</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">مصر</category><title>معلش ياما دوَشتك ... عارف ملكيش في السياسة ... بس  أعمل ايه؟</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;قليل جدا من فيديوهات الشباب المصري المطالب بالاصلاح و الديمقراطية تعجبني ... بس ده كان رائع ... جمع أهم ثلاث عقبات امام الحركة الاصلاحية في مصر وواجههم&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;object style=&quot;height: 293px; width: 480px&quot; width=&quot;480&quot; height=&quot;293&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/vAw0C1FGSp8?version=3&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowScriptAccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/vAw0C1FGSp8?version=3&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; width=&quot;480&quot; height=&quot;293&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;أولَا - يجابه الفيديو مشكلة كل مصري مدرك ان البلد من سيء الى أسوأ و يتخاذل و يتمادى في الخمول السياسي بدعوى القلق على الأهل و الولد و الحبيب و لقمة العيش ... أيوة ... كلنا عندنا أهل و عيال ... و أم و تربية أجيال ... بس كمان السكوت مش هيسبلهم لا علام و لا وظيفة بعد العلام ... و لا أكل و لا شرب و لا عيشة كريمة الا و هيسرقها ابن الحرام&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;و زي مبيقولوا اليومين دول ... اذا لم تثوروا اليوم فلا ثورة غدا ... واذا جلستم في منازلكم اليوم فلا منازل لكم غدا ... وإن ارتضيتم الموت أحياء ... فأنتم الغد موتي بلا كفن&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;يعني ياما كل منقبَل بالقليل هيحرمونا منه و يصبح أقل ... و اذا قبلنا الموت عجزة و متخاذلين مش بعيد يمنعوا عنا حتى الموت&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;ثانيَا - الفيديو كان رائع في أنه مزج بين التظلمات العمالية و المطلبية و الفئوية المشروعة و خلفياتها السياسية من خصخصة بلا رقيب و اموال بلا عديد و فساد بلا قيود&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;ثالثَا - كل ده مهوَاش مكلب معيشي بس ... مهو أصل محمد البوعزيزي في سيدي بوسعيد اللي ولَع في نفسه و خالد سعيد  في الأسكندرية اللي فقد اعز ما يملك ... مهو أصلهم مماتوش عشان لقمة العيش ... ماتوا عشان حرمانهم من لقمة العيش كان جزء من حرمانهم من الكرامة و عزة النفس و الحرية ... الشهيد البوعزيزي موَلعش في نفسه يأسَا من البطالة و انما اعتراضَا على المذلة ... المخبرين مقتلوش خالد سعيد و لا السيد بلال و لا غيرهم من شهداء السجون و اقسام الشرطة في مصر لأنهم مجرمين ... لأ ... قتلوهم عشان قالوا لا للمذلة و المهانة&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;المشكلة عويصة ... بس تونس اثبتت لنا حاجة مهمة ... الجبابرة اللي قاعدين متسلطنين ... و على العروس مستكنيصين ... و وراء جيوش الأمن و المخابرات محتميين ... ما أهونهم ... مسمعتوش زين الهاربين بن علي و هو بيقول لشعبه العظيم &quot;فهمتكم&quot;؟ ايوه الله ... ما أهونهم ... ديَتهم شعب أبَي ... ديتهم ثورة حرة ... دينتهم ان الفقير يرفض فقره و قهره و ظلمه ... و ان الـ&quot;ميسور الحال&quot; يعرف انه مهان و مستباح و رخيص ... ايوه ... حتى ان كنت ابن بابي و مامي ... حتى ان كنت سايق عربية و ابن سلطح بابا ... أخرتك معاهم ضابط يشاكسك و التاني ينفخك و التالت يقتلك ... و اما تطلع ابن بارم ديله ... يعتذروا و يقولوا صاحب سوابق ... يا حرام ... مات بالع كيفه&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2011/01/blog-post_15.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Fouad GM)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-122142256056896343.post-6170028861911653795</guid><pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-08T10:46:33.968-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">caricature</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cartoon</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">coptic</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">egypt</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mubarak</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">muslim</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sectarian</category><title>Caricature offers an alternative explanation for sectarianism in Egypt</title><description>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/hs014.snc6/166486_155957154454157_104224996294040_277214_2485089_n.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 550px; height: 413px;&quot; src=&quot;http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/hs014.snc6/166486_155957154454157_104224996294040_277214_2485089_n.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sameh Samir offers an alternative explanation for rising sectarian conflict in Egypt. The Egyptian state, represented by the archetypical policeman (mustache, attire, rank and helmet), uses religion to scare Muslims of Copts and Copts of Muslims.</description><link>http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2011/01/caricature-offers-alternative.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Fouad GM)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-122142256056896343.post-1377456286029986090</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-07T04:45:18.546-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">coptic</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">egypt</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">madad</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mounir</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sectarian</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sufi</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">terrorism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ارهاب</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">رسول الله</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">محمد منير</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">مدد</category><title>محمد منير : رسالة صوفية ردًا على الإرهاب</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:large;&quot;&gt;رغم اصراري ان الوقت ليس وقت &quot;مسح گوخ&quot; و لا &quot;تبويس لحى&quot; و رغم اصراري ان الحل ليس دينيا على الإطلاق و اقتناعي التام ان المشكلة مشكلة تحلل المجتمع المصري و استبداد مؤسساتي و ان الحل يجب ان يتضمن مواجهة عنيفة و جذرية لهذه الاخفاقات الهيكلية ... بس بصراحة الأغنية ديه فعلًا معبرة عن شعوري&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:large;&quot;&gt;&lt;object style=&quot;height: 293px; width: 480px&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;390&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/t1fRa0OBOhc?version=3&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowScriptAccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/t1fRa0OBOhc?version=3&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;390&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:large;&quot;&gt;غناها الأسطورة محمد منير و هوابن النيل و النوبه و ناسها الطيبيين المظلومين المهمشين المنسيين اللي محدَش بيتضامن مع حقوقهم المدنية او الثقاقية او الاقتصادية . غناها منذ عقد ردًا على احداث 11 أيلول/سبتمبر و ركز فيها على عدد من الرسائل اللي هي لب القضية في رأيي ... و طعّم هذه المقاطع المليئة بالمعاني باستنجاد جميل و لجوء و خشوع متواضعين للحبيب محمد طالبا منه المدد و لعون -- طبعًا للأخوة اللى &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2011/01/another-alien-conspiracy-fb-group.html&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:large;&quot;&gt;حرموا شعار الهلال و الصليب&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:large;&quot;&gt; و ادانوا مبادرات التضامن مع اقباط مصر اثر هجوم رأس السنة الارهابي فطبعًا طلب المدد من رسول الله كفر و التواضع مع جنابه الأعظم شرك -- و لا حول ولا قوة الا بالله&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:large;&quot;&gt;الأغنية جزء من البوم منير الصوفي الوحيد و هو الأول الذي غناه الأسطورة المصرية بعد عودته من حج بيت الله الحرام&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:large;&quot;&gt;ملخص الأنشودة&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;color:#FF0000;&quot;&gt;العدل في الميزان لكل خلق الله&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;color:#FF0000;&quot;&gt;الدم كله سواء ... حرام بأمر الله&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;color:#FF0000;&quot;&gt;الحرية ... على الأرض السلام و بالناس المسرّة&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2011/01/blog-post_07.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Fouad GM)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-122142256056896343.post-4824977809404842611</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 08:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-05T16:45:54.665-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">alexandria</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">church</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">coptic</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">democracy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">denial</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">egypt</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">idealist</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">qidissin</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">reform</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sectarian</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">terrorist</category><title>Some Ramblings : Post-Alexandria Reflections</title><description>I didn&#39;t realise this was going to be so long when I first started to reflect -- so, grab a coffee, light a cigarette or pour yourself a pint and come chill to some of my ramblings and reflections on the terrorist attach on the Alexandrian Coptic Church and the debates that followed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;********************************&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Understandably, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2011/01/bloody-start-to-new-and-critical-year.html&quot;&gt;Alexandria terrorist attack&lt;/a&gt; has triggered immense debate amongst the more vocal and technologically-savvy in Egypt and within the diaspora. Like their compatriots, Egyptian Facebookers, bloggers, youtubers and tweeters have struggled to come to terms with the event and its reprecussions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many descended into an aggressive wave of sectarian conflict: accusations, excommunication and even exchanging threats -- as &#39;alien&#39; as this sounds to Egyptian idealists and denialists, this is not unlike Egyptians. Egyptian schoolchildren, a friend reported on his FB status yesterday, marched around their neighbourhood chanting anti-Coptic slogans, supposedly, &#39;in response&#39; to Copts&#39; protests in which they vowed to &#39;avenge&#39; the dead, threatened to &#39;slay&#39; Muslims and &#39;redeem the Cross.&#39;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copts and Muslims in Egypt reacted rather similarly when Al-Qaida attacked Our Lady of Salvation in Baghdad and considered it a threat to the Coptic Church in Egypt -- Copts even declared the establishment of a &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2010/11/blog-post.html&quot;&gt;Coptic Al-Qaeda&lt;/a&gt;&quot; to retaliate against any possible attack against theit church!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let&#39;s not go too far: days before the terrorist attack, I was invited to a family friend&#39;s Christmas dinner party in Sheffield -- the hosts were Egyptian Muslim and so were most of the guests. Nevertheless, socialisation and political debates after dinner turned into a row between Christians and Muslims who disagreed on the role of religion in society and argued as to whether or not Egypt was an &#39;Islamic country&#39;. They were all -holders, mostly MDs, all over 50 years of age, not young, not radical and certainly not poor or ill-educated! The others&#39; reaction? Calm them down, separate them and close the topic . Typical : &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;دع الفتنة نائمة&lt;/span&gt; and pretend all is good. Instead of dealing with the situation and allowing the debate to continue, a policy of Sad El-Hanak was applied and Om Ali and tea were served for dessert!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In another Egyptians-in-England Christmas dinner, I overheard a few whispering -- they were discussing whether or not it&#39;s Islamically-permissable to wish Christians a Merry Christmas. The conclusion: yes, it&#39;s permissable in Christmas as it marks the birth of a prophet acknowledged by Islam; but come Easter and season&#39;s greetings become haram!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Egyptians on Facebook are no different: many got bogged down in an aimless debate on whether or not it is Islamically-permisable to use the Cross on your Facebook status, in slogans condemning the attack or in visual representations of national unity .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can call all of that &#39;alien to Egyptian society&#39; all you want, but these are educated, literate, well-off and Facebook-savvy Egyptians  -- they are the créme de la créme of Egyptian society, graduates of top universities, drive the fanciest cars in town, shop in Europe and send their kids to universities in America!.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Idealists and denialists (who are most certainly the more visible majority) on the other hand have overtaken Facebook employing hundreds of creative ways to externalise responsibility and throw the blame on some non-Egyptian evil. Their techniques were rather colourful: thousands of &quot;Crescent and Cross&quot; profile pictures; Egyptian flags; and millions of statuses and FB groups, pages and causes condemning the &#39;foreign&#39; attack on &#39;all of Egypt&#39;, expressing outrage at the &#39;alien&#39; mentality behind it, and pointing fingers towards Israel, the USA and Al-Qaida. Some even posted &#39;documents&#39; that &#39;reveal&#39; a secret &#39;Zionist&#39; plan to divide Egypt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good-hearted as their intentions may be , Egyptians&#39; idealism and denialism has been my target in recent posts and has led me  to see prospects of reform and democracy with pecimism and scinicism. -- this inspired &lt;a href=&quot;http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2011/01/manning-up-and-growing-some-balls-for.html&quot;&gt;my post&lt;/a&gt; two days ago . An &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.al-akhbar.com/node/982&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; by Wael Abdel Fattah in the Lebanese Al-Akhbar inspired a little bit of optimism in &lt;a href=&quot;http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2011/01/wael-abdel-fattah-nye-attack-reveals.html&quot;&gt;my post today&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*****************************&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nonetheless, not all is negative: some constructive debate has taken place in the wake of the heinous terrorist attack. In fact, &lt;a href=&quot;http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2011/01/manning-up-and-growing-some-balls-for.html&quot;&gt;the aforementioned post&lt;/a&gt; was inspired by a debate which evolved around a friend&#39;s note on Facebook.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another interesting debate has taken place between me and a dear relative of mine. Although we come from different generational backgrounds and live thousands of miles apart, our disagreements in the past week have been expressed in utmost respect and with constructive intentions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have decided, after consulting with her, to respond to two of the issues which we debated publically. I shall refer to her in his blog as A.N.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Firstly, in response to my criticism of the opinion that the terrorist attack and sectarianism is ever-so &#39;foreign&#39; and &#39;alien&#39; -- A.N attributed my opinion to my &#39;young age&#39; and that I did not live the struggle for independence in the early twentieth century, the 1952 Revolution , the Israeli invasions in 1956 and 1967 or the violent 1970s. This, according to A.N explains why I am unable to appreciate the possibility of external forces as the perpetrators of the terrorist attack&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Secondly, I &#39;disliked&#39; a Facebook Cause claiming that &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.causes.com/causes/560243-real-egyptians-christians-muslims-love-one-another?m=9e4cc0c7&amp;amp;recruiter_id=8170454&quot;&gt;REAL Egyptians (Christians &amp;amp; Muslims) love one another&lt;/a&gt;&quot; which A.N was promoting -- &lt;a href=&quot;http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2011/01/manning-up-and-growing-some-balls-for.html&quot;&gt;my argument&lt;/a&gt; was, &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;real&lt;/span&gt; Egyptian society, even &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;real&lt;/span&gt; Islam and the &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;real&lt;/span&gt; Coptic Church are not innocent and are not unrelated to the terrorist attack that targeted Al-Qidissain on New Year&#39;s Eve. In response, A.N asked me to define what a &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;real&lt;/span&gt;, good, patriotic Egyptian is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*****************************&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here&#39;s my response to the two points:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Firstly, as flaterring as being called &#39;young&#39; may be -- I disagree that young age makes one essentially and intrinsically unable  to comprehend and analyse events which he/she has not lived in person. If that was the case, we would not have medievalists and scholars of antiquity amongst us! I therefore do not hold the belief that my young age disqualifies my judgements of events or makes my opinions and views any less informed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a &lt;a href=&quot;http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2010/10/blog-post.html&quot;&gt;previous post&lt;/a&gt; a few weeks ago, I expressed some of my positions towards the classical argument that &#39;because you live abroad&#39; then you essentially &#39;don&#39;t know enough&#39; and cannot make an &#39;informed judgement&#39;. I believe the same stands for age and time. So, if A.N&#39;s opinions count although she hasn&#39;t lived in Egypt for decades, then I don&#39;t see why mine don&#39;t even though I wasn&#39;t physically around when Israel invaded the Sinai.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No arrogance intended, but, as a social scientist and almost-PhD-holder with a particular focus on early modern sociology, al philosophy and political-economy, I believe I am qualified enough to study and understand the events of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, perhaps even more than some of those who &#39;lived&#39; these events: one might have lived an event but been kept ill-informed thanks to the limited access to information for which the Middle East is notorious! One might have lived a certain era so deep that they are genuinly unable to separate fact from the myths and conspiracy theories of the time. One might even live a certain era but be unformed of the opinions of other social classes and communities -- especially if you come from an aristocratic-turned-bourgeois family like ours, in a society as classist as Egypt!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This brings me to A.N&#39;s second point: how do I define a real, good and patriotic Egyptian.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My answer is rather simple: you cannot define a person, let alone a nation!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Egyptians are workers, professionals, thieves, beggers, poverty, gated communities, peasants, city-swellers, ba7raweya, sa3ayda, sayadeen, badw, beber/amazigh, 3arab, qebt, nubians, African blood, Arab heritage, Turkish roots, Levantine, Greek and Italian origins!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What counts is that a certain social order, social contract, social conduct and a state coordinated their living together. A social order guaranteed a degree of coherence, respect, civility, commitment, rights, duties and sanctity of life, property and honour (perhaps Ibn Khaldoun&#39;s &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;Muqaddima&lt;/span&gt; might offer a good explanation).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The social contract has collapsed and the civility long-gone: it all started over a century ago -- has come to an absolute end decades ago. That&#39;s why A.N&#39;s father left Egypt; that&#39;s why she&#39;s where she is now and I&#39;m where I am; and that&#39;s why millions of Egyptians want to follow our path -- Egypt only became an emigration country two decades ago. but, according to studies, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ined.fr/en/&quot;&gt;the increase in the rate of Egyptians emigrating&lt;/a&gt; is higher than other sending-developing countries (excluding Iraq and Afghanistan). Egypt is currently &#39;exporting&#39; more emigrants (as a percentage of population) than traditional-sending countries, India and Pakistan!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can deny it all we want. We can pretend that the Crescent and the Cross as &#39;naturally&#39; in harmony in Egypt all we want. And we can certainly point fingers to Iran, Al Qaida or Israeli-directed GPS sharks and other conspiracy theories all we want. And, actually, we might even be right -- Israel, or Al Qaida or whoever else might be beneficiaries. Hell, they might have even funded or planned the attack. But Egypt is not an innocent victim, it&#39;s a fertile ground which breeds frustrations, hatred and terrorism thanks to a precarious social order and a failed state.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately, our theories on how &#39;alien&#39; and &#39;foreign&#39; sectarianism is conceals a sad reality: Egyptian society has failed to nurture a commitment to development, an aspiration for a decent living, a promise for a better future. Failed to protect human life, provide social justice and has certainly failed in creating a citizen with a stake in this land, nation and country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you ask me, the problem is NOT one of poverty or ignorance. The lower classes might be poor, and they certainly harbour rather conservative views on sectarian, religious and social issues, and they are quite xenophobic when it comes to &#39;the non-white other&#39; in general. But the &#39;real&#39; issue is the Egyptian middle class. Despite their &#39;education&#39;, &#39;culture&#39;, &#39;travels&#39;, &#39;exposure&#39; and endless richesse, the middle class harbours endless contradictions -- from genuine, well-articulated and disguised backwardness, sectarianism and xenophobia to an admirable ability to pretend &#39;everything is alright&#39;. And when everything is not alright, then it must be &#39;something foreign.&#39;</description><link>http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2011/01/some-ramblings-post-alexandria.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Fouad GM)</author><thr:total>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-122142256056896343.post-4130795056039940153</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 23:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-05T15:55:23.323-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">alexandria</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">church</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">coptic</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">egypt</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mokhles</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">muslim</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sectarianism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">terrorism</category><title>Another &#39;alien&#39; conspiracy? FB group condemns a joint prayers on January 6</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;I&#39;m not sure if &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=183241365039372&amp;amp;set=at.119968654699977.15773.117660498264126.829165380&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;this&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt; is actually for real or it&#39;s some joke but check &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=183241365039372&amp;amp;set=at.119968654699977.15773.117660498264126.829165380&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;this&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt; out!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;THIS is OBVIOUSLY &#39;alien&#39; to Egyptian society -- of course &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/Dr.Tamer.shaban&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Dr. Tamer Sha`aban Ali&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt; (as his Zionist name indicates) and other organisers and commentators on &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=183241365039372&amp;amp;set=at.119968654699977.15773.117660498264126.829165380&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt; are not &#39;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2011/01/some-ramblings-post-alexandria.html&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;REAL Egyptians&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&#39; nor are they &#39;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2011/01/some-ramblings-post-alexandria.html&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;REAL Muslims&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&#39; ... Of course this is a conspiracy -- &#39;foreign&#39; hands have infiltrated the country and caused the bombing weeks after having sent the GPS-directed sharks to eat up tourists in Sinai ... The reason? Simple, it&#39;s because &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.masrawy.com/News/Egypt/Politics/2011/january/5/safwat_terrorist.aspx&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Egypt is a pioneer in all fields of life&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;, speaker of the Upper House told Egyptians.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;color:#333333;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;color:#333333;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; &quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUy5lMHrnmDfa5YXDbocvnk65U9mRIbcH5L4dMN6WLJ1aIRfnHtuOFhkK2e9j5nknUo3wnlX2KCq9fxlXeUMbQvBbAnLXe5wF-xa7MFSMpai2kXgRMEcPf8VFIK2K6gve8czXOR3aEih25/s1600/mokhles_banner.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUy5lMHrnmDfa5YXDbocvnk65U9mRIbcH5L4dMN6WLJ1aIRfnHtuOFhkK2e9j5nknUo3wnlX2KCq9fxlXeUMbQvBbAnLXe5wF-xa7MFSMpai2kXgRMEcPf8VFIK2K6gve8czXOR3aEih25/s400/mokhles_banner.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558852236380484178&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 292px; height: 392px; &quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/ElmokhalesTv&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;El-Mokhles TV&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;, one of the organisers of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;campaign against the joint prayer of solidarity on January 6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt; hosts a number of links like &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://islammemo.cc/hadath-el-saa/tafgeer-alexandria/2011/01/03/114541.html&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt; which propagate conspiracy theories about Coptic organisations with links to Zionism and accuses them of perpetrating the terrorist attack. The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;page administrators also conducted a short survey on their status at 02:42 on Tuesday asking participants &#39;Who do you think is the biggest beneficiary from the Alexandria attack -- Copts? Muslims? the State? Other?&#39; The results are shown in the screenshots below: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;color:#333333;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; &quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidZKufWGdVJw3bfnRCDYFnLZZIOkVA17UYosO-jADmcZbYoRMe0dZNrNj3uT5lOW_TJ5J6jTRmbD0XbnYx1_VkpkloKoBRDZC_wEJsmEfWL2hrV3pT-KmWFkEdDP6J3if74P-PAwNc93zc/s1600/mokhles03.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidZKufWGdVJw3bfnRCDYFnLZZIOkVA17UYosO-jADmcZbYoRMe0dZNrNj3uT5lOW_TJ5J6jTRmbD0XbnYx1_VkpkloKoBRDZC_wEJsmEfWL2hrV3pT-KmWFkEdDP6J3if74P-PAwNc93zc/s400/mokhles03.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558852252372533410&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 273px; &quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;color:#333333;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;color:#333333;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; &quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS5g8dUZdMHYLt1C5hyphenhyphen-lKtoTCitylwNDnlewOj9ECxQfU9kDGN5gZn3bFweFbuvCRoEwh0mVR2UKcuAA0LDJTIpWy91NjYfus8xIx5-T_jRJVR8KPLCGhoU5a-is-lRt8e1YBK70v5BAP/s1600/mokhles02.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS5g8dUZdMHYLt1C5hyphenhyphen-lKtoTCitylwNDnlewOj9ECxQfU9kDGN5gZn3bFweFbuvCRoEwh0mVR2UKcuAA0LDJTIpWy91NjYfus8xIx5-T_jRJVR8KPLCGhoU5a-is-lRt8e1YBK70v5BAP/s400/mokhles02.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558852246678858626&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 270px; height: 400px; &quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;color:#333333;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Another post on the page asked whether the attack targeted the Al-Qidissain Church or the mosque across the street. Again, the result was very &#39;alien&#39; to Egyptians although the respondents weren&#39;t : the attack targeted the mosque of course -- the explosion occured 3 metres away from the mosque and 8 metres away from the church, and yet, the victims were predominantly Christians, go figure!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;color:#333333;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; &quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjueLvXHShjNEaStx84AIaSt1orVQY_v6wRXempj-XtfxS3SNbPDPT0KmyEowTPQEk8-I-qt5WRNoCBz6y_d1WOUwo28BLCbmsh-CK1eRaSUrzSM2Ik4ZlKrGL2M98yQQqimp9MLCGJ1n5h/s1600/mokhles01.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjueLvXHShjNEaStx84AIaSt1orVQY_v6wRXempj-XtfxS3SNbPDPT0KmyEowTPQEk8-I-qt5WRNoCBz6y_d1WOUwo28BLCbmsh-CK1eRaSUrzSM2Ik4ZlKrGL2M98yQQqimp9MLCGJ1n5h/s400/mokhles01.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558852244151916642&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 327px; height: 400px; &quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Of course, this all points to one thing -- of course they don&#39;t point to the rapid spread of hate speech and conspiracy theories in a socially-decaying Egyptian society; nor does it point towards a failed state and a culture of repression and counter-repression. If any thing, they point towards &#39;foreign&#39; hands and &#39;alien&#39; ideas that are conspiring against Egypt -- maybe Zionist or American, but maybe Iranian or Shi`a given the new wave of regional hate-speech and incitement.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Sigh. I leave it in your hands to judge.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;In the meantime, this is getting too much for me -- they say the sand in Alexandria is splendid this time of the year. Anyone wanna join me? I think I&#39;ll go for a head-burying henak.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2011/01/another-alien-conspiracy-fb-group.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Fouad GM)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUy5lMHrnmDfa5YXDbocvnk65U9mRIbcH5L4dMN6WLJ1aIRfnHtuOFhkK2e9j5nknUo3wnlX2KCq9fxlXeUMbQvBbAnLXe5wF-xa7MFSMpai2kXgRMEcPf8VFIK2K6gve8czXOR3aEih25/s72-c/mokhles_banner.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-122142256056896343.post-5468920528257033275</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-07T03:55:04.108-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">coptic</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">egypt</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">negm</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">poetry</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">resistance</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sectarian</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">أحمد فؤاد نجم</category><title>مصطفى حلمي عن تفجير الاسكندرية : ينصر دينك يابطل</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(255, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt; There has been much ambiguity as to who the real author of this poem is. Most sources I have come across online attribute it to Ahmad Fouad Negm although the style is significantly different to Negm&#39;s -- my assumption was that Negm produced this poem hastily in response to the NYE terrorist attack.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;However, it has come to my attention after consulting with commenters on this post and others online as well as after contacting Mostafa Helmy and accessing the original &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=491618921763&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;note on his Facebook page&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt; that the poem is indeed authored by 28-year-old Mostafa Helmy -- not Ahmad Fouad Negm.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;First of all, I would like to express my solidarity with Helmy against plagiarism -- part of a general trend of disrespect and disregard of intellectual property rights common amongst Egyptians in general and the Egyptian online community in specific. Secondly, I would like to apologise to Helmy (as well as Negm) for having taken part in propagating the poem as a work of Ahmad Fouad Negm for the past day or two.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Finally, I would like to apologise to my readers for misinformation -- Most importantly however, I wish to thank those who commented on the post in public and in private for correcting my information.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Please keep up reading, interacting and contributing to my blog and others&#39; -- it&#39;s the only way so-called &#39;citizen journalists&#39; can continue to express opinions guided by your opinions and knowledge.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;************************************&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-weight: bold; line-height: 25px;font-family:Georgia,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ينصر دينك يابطل&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; 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text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 225px; &quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-ash1/v234/247/105/516706083/n516706083_1200936_9420.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:large;&quot;&gt;ينصر دينك يا بطل&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;قتلت ناس عُزًّل كتير&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;ستات، شيوخ وكمان عيال&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;ازحت عنا خطر كبير&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;دي ناس بتقول الله محبه&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;والمحبه دي شئ خطير&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;إقتل بطرس وإقتل مينا&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;اللي إخواتهم ماتوا في سينا&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;واللي ولادهم رقصوا فـي فرحك&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;واللي فـ ميّتم بيعزّينا&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;إقتل ماري وطنط تريزا&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;دول ناس مافيهومشي ولا ميزه&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;دايمًا كده يبتسموا في وشك&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;ويقولوا اهلاً خطوه عزيزه&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;وإقتل برضه عمّك حنا&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;في اي خناقه بيحوش عنّا&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;غاوي يصّلح بين الناس&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;ولا يمكن يوّرد على جنّه&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;وإقتل سامي ناجي نجيب&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;اصل الإسم صراحه مريب&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;يمكن يطلع واحد منهم&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;او داقق على إيده صليب&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;ولا اقولّك...إضرب شبرا&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;والكيت كات وميدان الاوبرا&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;فجّر واحده في كل مكان&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;خلّي جيرانهم يصبحوا عبر&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;لينا رب إسمه الكريم&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;ها يجي يوم تعرض عليه&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;تقف امامه و يسأل الشخص ده عملك إيه؟&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;بأي ذنب تقتله&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;وفين ومين وإزاي وليه؟&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;إبقى قول لي يا بطل&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;ها ترد يومها..&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;وتقول إيه؟&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2011/01/blog-post.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Fouad GM)</author><thr:total>7</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-122142256056896343.post-8520679742929553872</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-05T03:20:50.790-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">alexandria</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">church</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">civil war</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">conflict</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">coptic</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">egypt</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">extremism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">martyrdom</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">muslim</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sectarian</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">terrorism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">وائل عبد الفتاح</category><title>Alexandria attack reveals the fragility of the Egyptian state and the precariousness of social order</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;I have always been a fan of Wael Abdel Fattah&#39;s coverage of Egyptian affairs for the Lebanese daily &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.al-akhbar.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;Al-Akhbar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;, but his coverage of the recent &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2011/01/bloody-start-to-new-and-critical-year.html&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;terrorist attack on Al-Qidissain Coptic Orthodox Church&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt; in Alexandria on New Year&#39;s Eve simply topped it up. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.al-akhbar.com/node/982&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; was published a day after I published a &lt;a href=&quot;http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2011/01/manning-up-and-growing-some-balls-for.html&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; criticising an Egyptian middle-class-in-denial. In my post, I argued Egyptians must admit that the attack was not as &#39;alien&#39; or &#39;foreign&#39; as they would like to assert and that the root causes of social conflict (sectarianism included) are entrenched in a decadent political system and a rotten social order.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;At the end of my &lt;a href=&quot;http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2011/01/manning-up-and-growing-some-balls-for.html&quot;&gt;previous post&lt;/a&gt;, I asked if there were Egyptians with the balls to admit the ills of society and polity at the root of this heinous terrorist attack. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.al-akhbar.com/node/982&quot;&gt;next morning&lt;/a&gt;, Wael gave me my answer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 18px; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;Wael published &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.al-akhbar.com/node/1031&quot; style=&quot;color: blue; text-decoration: underline; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;another article&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt; on Tuesday, 4 January 2011, discussing the sectarianisation of Egyptian society and the ascent of Christian fanaticism and a discourse of martyrdom among Egypt’s Copts in the wake of the attack – another must-read!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.al-akhbar.com/system/files/imagecache/465img/p02_20110103_pic1.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; 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 style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;Below are excerpts from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.al-akhbar.com/node/982&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;his article&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt; published on Monday, 3 January 2011.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; line-height: 20px;  font-weight: 500; font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; line-height: 20px;  font-weight: 500; font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;الموت في انفجار كنيسة القديسين لم يكن حادثة إرهابية عادية، لكنه لعب خطر على بناء المجتمع في مصر. وسواء كان الجناة «أفعى» لها رأس في الخارج وجسم في الداخل، أو وحش محلي يكبر في السر منذ سنوات، فإن قنبلة المسامير أشعلت الفتنة التي لم تعد تنام طويلاً. أشعلتها ومعها شعور بالخطر تحركه كثير من عواطف الفزع من الموت، وقليل من عقل يقفز فوق النار الطائفية&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; line-height: 20px;  font-weight: 500; font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot; line-height: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: 500; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot; line-height: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: 500; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;بداية من الرئيس إلى أصغر ضابط في الشرطة، يبحث نظام حسني مبارك عن أفعى تسرّبت من التجمعات الأمنية، وأشعلت السنة الجديدة كلها. سنة «الحسم» بدت حاسمة فعلاً في كشف «رخاوة» في جسد الدولة. وبعد ساعات من انفجار كنيسة القديسين، هاجم ملثّم نقطة شرطة وقتل شرطياً وسرق سلاحه الرسمي. وفي سياق الاحتجاج على الانفجار، قطع أقباط طريق الاوتوستراد، ومنعوا مرور السيارات. «الطريق» و«السلاح» هما من رموز الدولة التي تحاول استدعاء المجتمع لنصرتها في المحنة بحديثها عن الأفعى، والمجتمع خارج السيطرة، يشعر بالخطر، ويدافع بفوضوية عن تماسك ما. كل العناصر موجودة في حال الدفاع ضد الخطر: في المقدمة تعصّب يرفع شعارات دينية. الأقباط يصرخون بشعار تهتز له الكنائس: «بالروح بالدم نفديك يا صليب» و«مهما يعملوا فينا... العدرا ها تقوّينا». المسلمون في العادة يردّون في العلن بهتافات «الله أكبر»، وفي السر بشماتة ساذجة: «لكي يتوقفوا عن الاحتفال برأس السنة في دولة مسلمة». صوت التطرف الإسلامي خافت، لم يكن أمامه إلا البحث عن عدوّ خارجي. أشار الدكتور محمد سليم العوا مثلاً بإصبع الاتهام إلى «الموساد» ليلتقي مع الدولة في بحثها عن الأفعى، وليغسل يديه شخصياً من صنع موجات تحريض ضد المسيحيين ومعهم في مصر. دعوات صنعت له نجومية أخيرة، تأتي في سياق وضع توازن مع الكنيسة ونجومها. العوا لمع أخيراً لأداء دور في تحجيم قوة الكنيسة عن طريق عناصر من خارج المؤسسة الدينية &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot; line-height: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: 500; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot; line-height: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: 500; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot; line-height: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: 500; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;رجل دين عادي، مثل الأنبا بيشوي، يترك موقعه الكهنوتي ويتحدث قبل أسابيع من الانفجار كزعيم سياسي عن ضيافة المسيحيين للمسلمين في مصر. ثم يفجّر قنبلته بالحديث عن آيات القرآن الكريم التي تكفّر المسيحيين، ويتساءل عن وجود الآية من عدمه، لتمرّ فكرته في إطار كلام عن تحريف القرآن&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot; line-height: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: 500; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot; line-height: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: 500; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;الدولة تتحلل، بينما يكاد مخزون العنف ينفجر في مواضع خطرة هذه المرة&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot; line-height: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: 500; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot; line-height: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: 500; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot; line-height: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: 500; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;هتفت جموع مسيّسة ضد أسطورة الأمن التي لم تعد مهتمة إلا بتأمين المقاعد العليا، بينما أمن المجتمع مشروخ ومفزع. الهتافات اتهمت الدولة وأمنها مباشرة بالإرهاب «يا بو دبورة ونسر وكاب... إنتو الي عملتوا الإرهاب». ورأت أن المجتمع يحمي مصر وليس الدولة في رسالة «قولوا للحاكم جوا القصر إحنا الي بنحمي مصر» ... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;  font-weight: 500; line-height: 20px; font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;قنبلة رأس السنة أزالت أقنعة متعددة، لم يعد فيها مقبولاً إنكار الدولة: ليس هناك مشكلة طائفية. مصر وطن خال من التعصّب. وبعد كل فتنة يقبّل الشيخ القسيس و«اللي في القلب في القلب يا كنيسة... أو يا جامع» ... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;  font-weight: 500; line-height: 20px; font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;بعد التصوير يعود المسلم إلى البحث عن قلعة للمسلمين ويختبئ المسيحي تحت خيمة الكنيسة. هي حرب أهلية غير معلنة، لكنّ تفاصيلها أصبحت واقعاً يومياً يزداد ضراوة&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;  font-weight: 500; line-height: 20px; font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;  font-weight: 500; line-height: 20px; font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;  font-weight: 500; line-height: 20px; font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;حياة على الهوية لم تصل إلى درجة تكوين ميليشيات، لكنها أصبحت عادة، في المدرسة وإشارة المرور، والصراع على التجارة، بل ومنافسات بناء دور العبادة. الجديد أن الدولة، التي تشيخ مع حكامها، تتعامل بالهوية، وما لا يعلنه المسيحيون هو أنهم يشعرون بضعف الهمّة في حماية الكنائس رغم تلقّي التهديدات، لأنها (التهديدات) تخصّ مسلمين وتسبّب للضباط المسلمين شرخاً في الوعي&lt;br /&gt;هذا عنصر جديد أضيف إلى التمييز التقليدي المتوارث، منذ أن تراجعت رغبة المجتمع كله في الدولة المدنية الحديثة التي لا فرق فيها بين مسلم ومسيحي ولا بين بحراوي وصعيدي أو غني وفقير. لا فرق في الحقوق الأساسية، ولا توزيع مناصب حسب الحصص الطائفية&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;  font-weight: 500; line-height: 20px; font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;  font-weight: 500; line-height: 20px; font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;«وحدة عنصري الأمة»&lt;br /&gt;السخافة ليست في الشعار. ولكن في أنه كان مرفوعاً في ثورة 1919، لحظة تكوّن الأمة المصرية، وانصهار الطوائف في دولة حديثة لا تعترف باللون والجنس والدين. وبعد ما يقرب من 100 عام، عندما يُرفع الشعار نفسه، فإنه إشارة إلى تغلغل الطائفية إلى حدّ تشتعل فيه حرباً أهلية تحت كل سرير وفي كل زاوية ولا يشعر المجتمع بالنار. الرصاصات والقنابل تعميد للكراهية، وصور الشهداء تكريس للفرقة والانشقاق&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;  font-weight: 500; line-height: 20px; font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;  font-weight: 500; line-height: 20px; font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;عندما يكون ضحايا المذبحة «شهداء المسيحيين»، فهذا يعني أن هناك انتقاماً آتياً أو دماً معلّقاً يخصّ طائفة ضد طائفة أخرى&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 115%;font-family:&amp;quot;;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; 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style=&quot;color: blue; text-decoration: underline; &quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYktkBH30Tvu1wZhcmdms6hcDP6t1mhRqi2aCl_y_bU0vHQ7yLPvz2Pam79wNQ-NwLC5faBRAKWn4jW7vcxIegcrMVIDOKvafZ230ljxgB_nt9ywndwz9pRuleg0rDoG1A5EoPocLzO4x-/s320/akhbar01.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558645065130050514&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 205px; height: 320px; &quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;Click on the image for &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.al-akhbar.com/node/982&quot;&gt;the source article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 115%;font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:10;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2011/01/wael-abdel-fattah-nye-attack-reveals.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Fouad GM)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYktkBH30Tvu1wZhcmdms6hcDP6t1mhRqi2aCl_y_bU0vHQ7yLPvz2Pam79wNQ-NwLC5faBRAKWn4jW7vcxIegcrMVIDOKvafZ230ljxgB_nt9ywndwz9pRuleg0rDoG1A5EoPocLzO4x-/s72-c/akhbar01.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-122142256056896343.post-4922971347757035696</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-04T05:22:22.570-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">alexandria</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">egypt</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">riot</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sectarian</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sidi bouzid</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">tunisia</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ارهاب</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">انتفاضة</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">تونس</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">سيدي بوزيد</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">مصر</category><title>While Tunisians and Egyptians riot, Morjane and Abol Gheit convene to &#39;consult&#39;</title><description>Egyptian Foreign Minister is expected to visit Tunisia to take part in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.al-akhbar.com/node/969&quot;&gt;twelfth session of the joint Egyptian-Tunisian Committee for Political Consultation&lt;/a&gt;. According to official sources, the committee will discuss &#39;bilateral cooperation&#39; and regional and pan-Arab dossiers of mutual concern.&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:FavV6nC1e7vKTM:/url?source=imgres&amp;amp;ct=tbn&amp;amp;q=http://www.tunisiaonlinenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/benali_mubarak.jpg&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=qOUiTc7dMNSJ4Qbml8iEAg&amp;amp;ved=0CAUQ8wc&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFuZvp7qAbESWCbIS-7YAGNJRitSQ&amp;amp;t=1&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:FavV6nC1e7vKTM:/url?source=imgres&amp;amp;ct=tbn&amp;amp;q=http://www.tunisiaonlinenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/benali_mubarak.jpg&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=qOUiTc7dMNSJ4Qbml8iEAg&amp;amp;ved=0CAUQ8wc&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFuZvp7qAbESWCbIS-7YAGNJRitSQ&amp;amp;t=1&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:78%;&quot;&gt;During their 29 and 23 years in office, US allies Mubarak and Ben Ali have faced little formal opposition&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the meantime, Tunisian activists continue to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0249621c-0d1f-11e0-82ff-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1A3aQh6fC&quot;&gt;riot in Sidi Bouzid&lt;/a&gt; protesting corruption, dictatorship and regional and class disparities. Their Egyptian counterparts have &lt;a href=&quot;http://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2011/01/tunisia-uprising-it-is-still-on.html&quot;&gt;persistently expressed solidarity&lt;/a&gt; even as Egypt marked &lt;a href=&quot;http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2011/01/bloody-start-to-new-and-critical-year.html&quot;&gt;the start of a new year&lt;/a&gt; with a shock of unprecedented magnitude and, as a result, phenomenal social, political and sectarian momentum.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the meantime, the Tunisian regime has been busy repressing the uprising, using excessive force to &#39;quell&#39; the &#39;unlawful&#39; acts of so-called &#39;agents of foreign plots&#39;, and employing &#39;international&#39; expertise to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.al-akhbar.com/node/1033&quot;&gt;censor activists&#39; internet access&lt;/a&gt;. Likewise, the Egyptian regime is, as usual, &lt;a href=&quot;http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2011/01/manning-up-and-growing-some-balls-for.html&quot;&gt;externalising the terrorist attack&lt;/a&gt; on the Alexandrian Al-Qidissain Church and singing along with a bourgeoisie-in-denial. &quot;The attack on the Al-Qidissain Church is alien to Egyptian society&quot; they claim. The attack &quot;bears the hallmarks of a foreign plot&quot; aimed at causing sectarian strife which, they persistently tell us, is &#39;foreign&#39; to Egypt and a &#39;distortion&#39; of religious teachings.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR0XyhftahERIcVgy7sEqZnjkEQ2iurLQaTi2__lwo55minK7HiMctGhQiEFE8tFo-ZDREuLCjpTR_358kZ6_GzyrI8RRp9KXIpC-WIi-m2jqa4TXs2a8YJYXdf3cjsURZP7L8RwUkQH_Y/s1600/tunisia-egypt.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 540px; height: 175px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR0XyhftahERIcVgy7sEqZnjkEQ2iurLQaTi2__lwo55minK7HiMctGhQiEFE8tFo-ZDREuLCjpTR_358kZ6_GzyrI8RRp9KXIpC-WIi-m2jqa4TXs2a8YJYXdf3cjsURZP7L8RwUkQH_Y/s400/tunisia-egypt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558297866942506546&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:78%;&quot;&gt;While Tunisians riot for the third week in a row, Egypt is witnessing daily clashes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:78%;&quot;&gt;between Copts, Muslims, pro-democracy activists and the police since New Year&#39;s Eve&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It&#39;s therefore not a surprise that, while both regimes struggle to quell mounting opposition and externalise the roots of social discord and dismay, they find &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.al-akhbar.com/node/969&quot;&gt;common ground and a reason to &#39;consult&#39;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2011/01/while-tunisians-riot-and-egyptians.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Fouad GM)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR0XyhftahERIcVgy7sEqZnjkEQ2iurLQaTi2__lwo55minK7HiMctGhQiEFE8tFo-ZDREuLCjpTR_358kZ6_GzyrI8RRp9KXIpC-WIi-m2jqa4TXs2a8YJYXdf3cjsURZP7L8RwUkQH_Y/s72-c/tunisia-egypt.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-122142256056896343.post-7671148364280564820</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 23:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-02T17:37:40.173-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">alexandria</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">christian</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">coptic</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">egypt</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">intelligentsia</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">islam</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">middle class</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">muslim</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">religion</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sectarian</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">terrorism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">الأسكندرية</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">القديسين</category><title>Manning up and growing some balls ... For Egypt&#39;s sake</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;A friend of mine wrote a short &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/notes/ahmd-ghrbyt/fy-antzar-jwdw/10150119958090673&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;Facebook note&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt; which he ended with the provocative (even blasphemous) phrase:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px; &quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px; &quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px; &quot;&gt;طزّ في الهلال قبل الصليب . و ماحدّش يكلمني عن &quot;الدين&quot; الصحيح&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px; font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;blockquote style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:large;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;(tr. screw the Crescent as well as the Cross ... And do not talk to me about &quot;real&quot; religiosity)&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px; font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;blockquote style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px; font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;blockquote style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;His remark comes in context of &lt;a href=&quot;http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2011/01/bloody-start-to-new-and-critical-year.html&quot;&gt;the heinous attack&lt;/a&gt; on the Coptic Orthodox Church of Al-Qidissain Mar Murqus and Mar Butrus in Sidi Bishr, Alexandria. The attack took place shortly after midnight as a 1000+ congregation gathered in the church for midnight mass on new year&#39;s eve &lt;a href=&quot;http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-video-reveals-horrors-of-alexandria.html&quot;&gt;causing shock and terror&lt;/a&gt; on a scale unprecedented since the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxor_massacre&quot;&gt;1997 Luxor massacre&lt;/a&gt; (bearing in mind, the former targeted the lucrative tourism industry empowering the state whereas the latter targeted Egyptian Copts).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;Egyptians&#39; reactions have followed a usual, predictable and rather &#39;conservative&#39; pattern ranging from expressing outrage at the attack to expressing solidarity with the Coptic community. The more daring, pointed their fingers at the failure of Egypt&#39;s repressive&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt; security apparatus; linked the attack to the precarious political situation in the country; or called for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=265923111677&quot;&gt;dismissal of Minister of Interior&lt;/a&gt; Habib El-Adly or holding him accountable for torture, the perpetuation of the State of Emergency and for the repeated failures of the security apparatus in preventing terrorist attacks or bringing the perpetrators to justice.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://farm1.static.flickr.com/105/266876258_0ea0247001_z.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm1.static.flickr.com/105/266876258_0ea0247001_z.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 480px; height: 351px; &quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;The Coptic Orthodox Church hosts an annual iftar in Ramadan as a complimentary show of national unity, another example of the &quot;Crescent and the Cross&quot; denialism [source: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/elhamalawy/266876258/&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;3arabawy on FlickR&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;].&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;The usual response has been the same since the turn of the twentieth century: an outburst of the famous slogan &quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:large;&quot;&gt;عاش الهلال مع الصليب&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&quot; (Long Live the Crescent and the Cross). On the other hand, while expressing outrage at a terrorist attack; the alleged kidnapping of a convert from one faith to the other; or sectarian clashes here and there ... Egyptian&#39;s are accustomed to repeating a number of lame phrases with little or no meaning. These include &quot;there must be foreign hands behind this heinous crime&quot; because &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&quot;Egypt is known for the coexistence of its &#39;two components&#39;, Christians and Muslims&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;; &quot;this is a distortion of genuine religiosity&quot;; and &quot;religion doesn&#39;t preach such a crime against innocent people&quot;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;The more &#39;political&#39; will point fingers towards the USA or Israel and accuse them of &quot;meddling in Egyptian affairs&quot;; &quot;inciting sectarian hatred&quot;; and &quot;attempting to divide the otherwise-inseparable Egyptian nation.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;This is not just a popular view, but also an institutional one which the Egyptian Coptic Church, the Muslim establishment and the government work together to propagate. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-video-reveals-horrors-of-alexandria.html&quot;&gt;press conference&lt;/a&gt; held in the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral of Saint Mark in Abbasiya, Cairo by Pope Shnouda III, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar and Minister of Religious Endowments is a case in point. President &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7Gcp30pGE0&quot;&gt;Mubarak&#39;s speech&lt;/a&gt; in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on Al-Qidissain Church in Alexandria is another case in point.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Mubarak: The attack bears the hallmarks of the sinful hands of external forces [...] who targeted our nation, Muslims and Christians alike [...] The terrorist attack is &#39;foreign&#39; to us! And left the blood of our innocent martyrs mixed on the streets of Alexandria.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians changed their Facebook profile pictures and statuses to correspond to the terrorist attack. Images of Crescents and Crosses coloured with the red-white-and-black colours of the Egyptian flag flooded the social networking site and tens of thousands of Egyptian flags replaced Egyptians&#39; profile pictures. Some, Muslims and Christians alike, even used pictures of Coptic churches and sacred iconography in place of their profile pictures.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;Once again, &quot;Long Live the Crescent and the Cross&quot; dominated Egyptians&#39; reactions to the attack &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;whose magnitude is yet to be realised. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;Needless to say, it is slightly refreshing to see that some still resort to notions of national unity and a legacy of coexistence (even if it&#39;s just mythical) in response to such an attack.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;But I do wonder, how much thought has the average Egyptian put into the attack? How much thought have these innumerable people who use Crescent-and-Cross slogans, images and symbols given to the causes of the attack and its repercussions?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;Very little it seems.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;Little has been learnt from the previous attacks against Egypt&#39;s Christian community and t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;he noticeable &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eipr.org/report/2010/04/11/757&quot;&gt;escalation of sectarian strife&lt;/a&gt; in Egypt since 2008 has been allowed to go on despite occasional outbursts of condemnation by Egypt&#39;s middle classes. How come so little has been said of the innumerable &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;online forums and Facebook groups issued &lt;a href=&quot;http://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2011/01/did-you-or-did-not-you-publish-bloody.html&quot;&gt;repeated terror threats and incited&lt;/a&gt;? Interestingly, when a number of these forums and groups surfaced to the attention of the online Egyptian middle class, they were immediately reported to online administrators and were eventually closed down - but no conclusions were made; debate was barred; and no lessons learnt!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;Even worse, very little thought and certainly-insufficient attention has been paid to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Baghdad_church_attack&quot;&gt;attack on the Syriac Catholic Church of Our Lady of Salvation&lt;/a&gt; in Baghdad in October 2010 by Al-Qaida&#39;s Islamic State in Iraq which declared the attack a &#39;warning&#39; to Egypt&#39;s Coptic Church.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;Which brings me to the real issue. Yes, I believe the attack might well have been the doing of Al-Qaida. Yes, it might well have been funded by external sources. And yes, it might well contribute to the further fragmentation of Egyptian society which might further the strategic gains of this foreign country or the other.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;But why did &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;the perpetrators of the numerous sectarian clashes of the past three years find it justifiable to attack Egyptian Christians and their churches? Why did Al-Qaida&#39;s &#39;ever-so-foreign&#39; brand of terrorism and it&#39;s &quot;false interpretation of Islam&quot; appeal to some Egyptians?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;On the other hand, why did &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;angry Christian protestors view this as a &#39;Muslim attack&#39; against &#39;the Christian community&#39;? Why did they not subscribe to the official narrative that this is a &#39;foreign attack&#39; on &#39;Egypt as a whole&#39;? Why have angry mobs demanded Pope Shenouda III not receive the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar? Why has the slogan &quot;with our souls, with our blood, we redeem the Cross&quot; dominated young Copts&#39; protests? And why have Coptic youth throughout the country expressed their &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.copts-united.com/Arabic2011/Article.php?I=676&amp;amp;A=28284&quot;&gt;desire to be martyred&lt;/a&gt; in defence of the Cross?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;Clearly the glamourous slogans of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&quot;Long Live the Crescent and the Cross&quot; along with the externalisation of responsibility are not as convincing for Egyptians as they are omnipresent.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;One might be a man of faith. One might be convinced that religion preaches benevolence. One might even believe that religion unleashes the good in man and not the heinous, hateful and vengeful. You might be confident that an attack like that on the Al-Qidissain Church is not an act of Islam, but an act of terror. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;But if you harbour such convictions, you need not wait for an alibi to prove your faith&#39;s innocence. In fact, you, more than anyone else, should be seeking the real cause behind sectarian violence.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;It is high time for Egyptians to stop burying their heads in the soft sands that are engulfing their country. It&#39;s high time for Egyptians to stop using colourful and glamorous veils tainted with words and sentiments of an artificial national unity to blind themselves from the evidently internalised sectarian conflict within Egyptian society. It is time we ignore the benefit foreign powers might gain from internal divisions and focus on why these divisions exist and how they go violent.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;For these reasons, I couldn&#39;t agree more with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/notes/ahmd-ghrbyt/fy-antzar-jwdw/10150119958090673&quot;&gt;Ahmad Gharbieh&lt;/a&gt; ... TOZZ ... I do no care for the Crescent, nor do I give a sh*t for the Cross !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;I care to see a more aware and a more proactive Egyptian middle class: one that does not view sectarian violence as &quot;a distortion of religion&quot; or &quot;a Zionist plot&quot; ... I care to see an Egyptian middle class that does not hide behind the ridiculousness of &quot;Long Live the Crescent and the Cross&quot; to disguise a culture of political apathy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;Enough propaganda, enough lovey-duffy bullocks and let&#39;s face our issues before Egypt descends into endless &#39;Lebanonisation&#39; - or should I say, &#39;labwanisation&#39;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;Instead of upholding artificial notions of national unity, I insist on aspiring and working towards an &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;Egyptian middle class with the balls to acknowledge the deep structural imbalances in Egyptian society and the entrenched political failures of over a century! Let there be an Egyptian middle class with enough courage to hit the nail on the head and tackle these structural imbalances and failures.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;Let us leave the Crescent and the Cross aside and lets address the role of religious institutions in public life; tackle the question of citizenship and citizen rights. Let us reform a political system that thrives on dealing with society in a segmented form; let us reform a security apparatus that skillfully terrorises citizens and tortures them but categorically fails to defend public life and private property from petty criminals, organised crime and terrorism. Let us address the structural imbalances in the relationship between the institutions of the state and the severe regional and class disparities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2011/01/manning-up-and-growing-some-balls-for.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Fouad GM)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/105/266876258_0ea0247001_t.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-122142256056896343.post-2479770845749014283</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 18:17:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-02T11:01:43.165-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">azhar</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">car bomb</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">church</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">coptic</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">egypt</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">explosion</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">muslim</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">pope</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sectarian</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">shnouda</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">terrorism</category><title>A new video reveals the horrors of the Alexandria attack</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;A new video emerged on Facebook showing the moments of the explosion and the horror and terror in front of Al-Qidissin Church during a midnight mass on new year&#39;s eve.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;object height=&quot;224&quot; width=&quot;400&quot;&gt;  &lt;param name=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowscriptaccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/v/178963072125826&quot;&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/v/178963072125826&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; height=&quot;224&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;   &lt;/object&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/user/freedom4copts&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;Freedom4Copts Youtube Channel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt; has also revealed a video of the joint press conference which included Pope Shnouda III, Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church; Grand Imam Sheikh Ahmad Al-Tayyib, Sheikh of Al-Azhar; Imam Sheikh Dr. Ali Goma`a, Mufti of Egypt; and Minister Mahmoud H. Zaqzouq, Minister of Religious Endowments. The press conference was held in the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral of Saint Mark, the seat of the Holy See of Saint Mark in Abbasiya, Cairo, Egypt which the the two Sheikhs and Minister visited to show solidarity with the Church and express condolences to the Coptic community. The visit was scarred by the chants of angry protesters in the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral who demanded justice, revenge and asked the Pope not to appease the government, Muslims or the Islamic religious establishment.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;object style=&quot;height: 293px; width: 480px&quot; width=&quot;480&quot; height=&quot;293&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/KIL3udkYpfA?version=3&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowScriptAccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/KIL3udkYpfA?version=3&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; width=&quot;480&quot; height=&quot;293&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;color:#000000;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; &quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aljazeera.net/mritems/images/2011/1/1/1_1033168_1_34.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.aljazeera.net/mritems/images/2011/1/1/1_1033168_1_34.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 390px; height: 310px; &quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:x-small;&quot;&gt;Egyptian police forces tightened security measures around churches following the Alexandria attack&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-video-reveals-horrors-of-alexandria.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Fouad GM)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-122142256056896343.post-3162693893142648465</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 17:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-02T10:16:19.596-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">car bomb</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">coptic</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">democracy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">dictatorship</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">egypt</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mubarak</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">new year</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">poetry</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">reform</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sectarian</category><title>John Insan : my silence killed the Alexandria victims</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;color:#333333;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 16px; font-size: -webkit-xxx-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;font-size:130%;color:#000000;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px; font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:11px;&quot;&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;object width=&quot;480&quot; height=&quot;293&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/Bnmjtwn3RfU&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;version=3&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowScriptAccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/Bnmjtwn3RfU&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;version=3&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; width=&quot;480&quot; height=&quot;293&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;The Alexandria victims&#39; funerary mass held in Mar Mina Monastery amidst loud&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;chants &quot;with our blood, with our souls, we redeem the Cross&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: right;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;كتب &quot; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=490498038534&amp;amp;id=1077677945&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;جون الانسان&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt; &quot;عن  الخمول السياسي و الصمت عن الحق و العدالة في مصر ... كتب عن القاتل الحقيقي و المسئول الفعلي عن جريمة كنيسة القديسين ليلة رأس السنة في الأسكندرية ... كتب يلوم نفسه و المجتمع ... كتب فقال&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;أنا من قتلت هؤلا&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;أجل&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;أعترف بذبح كل من مات&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;ذهبت اليوم الى الأسكندرية معزيا&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;تأكدت بأني منذ الدهر قاتلا&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;أنا ذلك المتطرف الأرهابي&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;أجل من قتل هؤلاء الأبرياء&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;ذبحتكم بيداي عارية كانت او مسلحة&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;أوقفني الجميع صارخين أنت مريض سكر&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;أنت لا تصلح للتبرع بالدم&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;صرخت أنا دمائي ملوثة&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;أنا دمائي مزيفة&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;أرجوكم خذوا دمائي وبدلوا هويتها&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;أنا قاتلا لأني مصريا&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;أجل&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;لاني كاره حاقد مشوها&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;انا مصريا&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;لاني لا اعرف الا الدماء والاحتقان&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;قتلتكم بصمتى عن الحق&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;وذبحتكم بثورتي على العنف&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;بصمتى وبثورتي ذبحتكم&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;صمت عن قادة دين يبحثون عن مجد&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;وحينما جائت ثورتي عارمة كانت تحمل أغراضا&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;قتلتكم لأني لازلت اكتب على هذا الموقع الكاذب&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;هذا الفيس الزائف &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;قتلتكم لأني أبحث كل يوم عن كلمات تهدئني وتدفن جثثكم&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;قتلتكم لأني سكتت عن أباطرة يذبحون حريتنا&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;وحينما تكلمت صرخت مع معارضين فاسدين&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;أجل&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;أنا قتلت هؤلاء الأبرياء &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;لأني لازلت أستمع لنفس الزيف&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;وأغني تلك الاغاني المعلبة الفاسدة&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;قتلتكم لأني سارعت لدفنكم&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;لكني كنت ادفن حقيقتكم&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;لستم شهداء ولا ضحايا&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;أنتم بشر لازالوا يحلمون&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;قتلتكم لأني لازلت اعبث بالكلمات&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;قتلتكم لأني أبحث عن عبارات تهدئني وتميت ضميري&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;قتلتكم لأني لم اغير إلا صورة بروفايلي&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;لأني لم أغير إلا حالة الاستيتيوس خاصتي&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;لأني لم أثور إلا بلافتات مغرضة تعبر عن أحزاب وحركات&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;قتلتكم لأن ثورتي وصمتى تحمل أجندة مصالحي&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;قتلتكم لأن دمائي وعقلي ملوث بالكره&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;قتلتكم لأن رئيس دولتي ورؤساء الديانات عرائس كره&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;لأن الديانات معالجة بالفساد&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;مسمومة بالكراسي&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;يصمتون.. ويتكلمون.. ويحرضون.. ويزيفون.. ويصرخون&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;حسب الأجندة&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;أجل مازلت أصمت فاسدا&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;أستمع وأصمت فاسدا&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;لازلت اصيح واثور فاسدا&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;وابكي فاسدا&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;وأنعي فاسدا&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;واخيرا.... انا من ينصر فاسدا&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;كل المصالح والسياسات معلبة بالنفاق&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;بالعهر والقتل والحقد&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;قتلتكم لاني مازلت استمتع بحزني على صوركم&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;مازلت أستنزف نفسي بالبكاء عليكم&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;قتلتكم لأني أعزي أهلكم&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;وأحيانا البس الحداد ممتنع العزاء عليكم&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;قتلتكم لأني أبحث عن أمل في التغيير&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;قتلتكم لأني أؤمن بأن الغد شريف&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;قتلتكم لأني أحلم بمصر التي ماتت...... منتصرة&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;قتلتكم أنا بيداي&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;أجل&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;أنا من ذبحت أجسادكم وأنتظرت الدم&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;أجل أنتظرت الدم وأنتصرت الى الحقد&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;قتلتكم لأني لم يهمنى من دمائكم إلا صور ولقطات&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;لم يعنيني إلا نقل الأحداث للجماهير&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;ملعونة دمائي لا تكفي فدائكم&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;ملوثة وفاسدة&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;دمائي لن تحييكم لم تشفيكم&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;مشاركتى تهدئني لكن لا تروي حياتكم&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;كنتم حالمين رائعين&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;وأنا فاسد أنتظر النبيذ والرقص برأس السنة&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;فأنا بينما تشرب الارض دمائكم كنت أشرب نبيذ فسادي&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;رقصت من الفرح والعهر&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;وسقطت أجسادكم ترقص من الإنفجار&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;فردت أذرعي أرقص بينما طارت أعضائكم مبتورة&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;أجل قتلتكم ولا يعنيني إلا دموع نرجسيتي &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;أبكي كي أشعر أني أحس&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;بينما لا تستطيعون البكاء &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;لأنكم لستم بموجودون&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;قلت انكم شهداء وتارة كفرة&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;لكنكم انتم لستم بموجودون&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;أنا القاتل أنا القاتل&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;يــــــا كل أجهزة الدولة المعنية النظيفة والفاسدة&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; 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margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face=&quot;&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;  margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2011/01/john-insan-my-silence-killed-alexandria.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Fouad GM)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-122142256056896343.post-980515243958332884</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 04:17:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-01T22:11:35.198-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">alexandria</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">car bomb</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">church</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">coptic</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">egypt</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">explosion</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">new year</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sectarian</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">terrorism</category><title>2011 for Egyptians : a bloody start for a critical year</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;Egyptians welcome the new year, 2011, with a massacre of unprecedented political and social significance. Following a year of tense relations between Muslims and Christians in Egypt, Egyptians bid 2010 farewell less than half an hour before a deadly attack targeted a congested Coptic Orthodox al-Qiddissin Church in the Sidi Bishr neighbourhood of Egypt&#39;s second-largest city, Alexandria [&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=31.2632412&amp;amp;lon=29.992075&amp;amp;z=18&amp;amp;l=0&amp;amp;m=b&amp;amp;search=el%20kedeseen%20church&quot;&gt;map&lt;/a&gt;].&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://media.idahostatesman.com/smedia/2011/01/01/00/44-APTOPIX_Mideast_Egypt_Church_Attack.sff.standalone.prod_affiliate.36.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://media.idahostatesman.com/smedia/2011/01/01/00/44-APTOPIX_Mideast_Egypt_Church_Attack.sff.standalone.prod_affiliate.36.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 512px; height: 351px; &quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:x-small;&quot;&gt;The car exploded in front of the church as worshippers emerged from a New Year&#39;s Mass (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.idahostatesman.com/2010/12/31/1472622/explosion-hits-egypt-church-injuries.html&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:x-small;&quot;&gt;source&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:x-small;&quot;&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;The attack sums up a year which characterised by tensions between the Church and the Muslim community over allegations of extra-legally imprisoning and torturing converts to Islam and, recently, an Al-Qaida threat against the Coptic Church. I, referred to the heightened tensions between Copts and Muslims in Egypt amidst political turmoil at this critical phase of Egyptian history as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2010/11/blog-post_24.html&quot;&gt;&#39;the bagamisation&#39; of society&lt;/a&gt;. I first used this expression jokingly, but eventually it became a token of my anger and frustration at&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt; the prevalent state of affairs: a situation in which Egyptians are driven and kettled into primordial ties and enchained by unbreakable bonds of fear and loyalty at risk of &#39;excommunication&#39;. As a result, an Egyptian is bogged down into stupidity, meaningless conflicts aggravated, and attention diverted from the imminent questions of democracy, political reform and social justice.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center; &quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://media.star-telegram.com/smedia/2011/01/01/10/218-611Mideast_Egypt_Church_Attack.sff.standalone.prod_affiliate.58.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://media.star-telegram.com/smedia/2011/01/01/10/218-611Mideast_Egypt_Church_Attack.sff.standalone.prod_affiliate.58.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 512px; height: 341px; &quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:x-small;&quot;&gt;Blood splattered the facade of the church, a painting of Jesus inside, and a mosque across the street&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:x-small;&quot;&gt;(more photos of the attack and the clashes that followed can be found &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/01/01/2737753_christians-police-clash-after.html#article_photos&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:x-small;&quot;&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:x-small;&quot;&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;A rare and amateur video released hours ago shows the congregation in the Coptic midnight mass inside  the al-Qiddissin Church of Saints Mark and Peter when the unexpected struck: a car bomb exploded outside the church killing 21 people as worshippers hurried outside the church. The incident sparked &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/01/01/2737753_christians-police-clash-after.html&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;violent sectarian clashes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt; between angry Christians and the neighbourhood&#39;s Muslims as well as between Christian mobs and anti-riot police almost immediately after the attack.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;object width=&quot;480&quot; height=&quot;293&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/TnwPvEcRERQ&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;version=3&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowScriptAccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/TnwPvEcRERQ&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;version=3&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; width=&quot;480&quot; height=&quot;293&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; font-size: 13px; &quot;&gt;Footage courtesy the al-Qiddissin Church&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;An eyewitness quoted by a number of online and print forums said he saw two men leave the car and head for the charitable hospital across the street from the church before the car exploded destroying the facade of the church. According to Michel Nasr, the car bore the phrase &quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://forums.moheet.com/showthread.php/206024-%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%AB-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%AF-%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%81%D8%AE%D8%AE%D8%A9-%D9%85%D9%83%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%A8-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%87%D8%A7-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D8%A3%D8%AA%D9%89&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;and the rest will come&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&quot; on the back. According to Nasr, who also spoke to the state-owned Nile News TV as well as a number of Coptic diaspora satellite channels, angry Christian mobs attacked Muslims in retaliation immediately after the attack causing a number of casualties before tens of anti-riot police trucks arrived and highways leading in and out of the 4-million-person city were shut down by state security police.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;Despite attempts to reveal the circumstances of the tragic event which comes at an acute political stage in Egyptian political life as well as heightened sectarian tensions, the Egyptian government refuses to reveal any information to the public and has restricted journalists&#39; access to information leaving a large vacuum which unverified testimonies and speculation have readily filled.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;object style=&quot;height: 293px; width: 480px&quot; width=&quot;480&quot; height=&quot;293&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/jwmp6089-Dw?version=3&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowScriptAccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/jwmp6089-Dw?version=3&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; width=&quot;480&quot; height=&quot;293&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:x-small;&quot;&gt;Another eyewitness, Mina Sami, narrates the incident&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;According to another eye witness, Mina Sami (the video above), the attack against the church was in fact threefold: according to Mina, after the first car bomb exploded between 00:30 and 00:45 CLT, the clergymen directed the worshipers out of the church using the back doors fearing the main entrance may be too dangerous for a mass evacuation. Mina claims that upon exit from the back doors however, another car bomb exploded. The episode was repeated a third time when worshippers were directed to a small emergency exit on El-Essawi Street.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;According to his testimony, the attack also involved a dozen or so vandals penetrating the crowds and vandalising the computer rooms, archives and stained glass facade of the church as worshippers hurried out of the church. The vandals, Mina asserts, were arrested by angry Christians who presented them to the Priest of the al-Qiddissin Church who checked their IDs and determined they were in fact Muslim men before handing them over to state security. State security have made no statement and nothing has been heard of the alleged vandals so far.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;As usual in cases deemed &quot;sensitive&quot; and of &quot;particular importance to state security&quot;, the Egyptian government continues to provide the public and the media with little or no information and operates its usual heavy-handed policing policies. The lack of information has left public opinion informed only through unverified testimonies, rumors and speculation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;Egypt&#39;s Coptic community is due to celebrate Christmas on Friday, January 7 according to the Coptic or &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_calendar&quot;&gt;Alexandrian calendar&lt;/a&gt; which will probably be accompanied by a show of force by the police including intense security measures around churches and public places and might involve a number of arbitrary arrests aimed at reassuring the Coptic community, appeasing the Church and diffusing vengeance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgp67p9L55FBOr9pSm0yb3tpjWpkChkAGDeO5tgakii_HlbwiXFMgjLzIZMcuY_Wt_N9bl7sNVACdePnVQZ8YSZ8nxcxIjVyL_DBuIwM-dbvqpfmCg5yQD9rXxdpVqlgHKiGoaujHvy5Cr/s640/our_lady.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgp67p9L55FBOr9pSm0yb3tpjWpkChkAGDeO5tgakii_HlbwiXFMgjLzIZMcuY_Wt_N9bl7sNVACdePnVQZ8YSZ8nxcxIjVyL_DBuIwM-dbvqpfmCg5yQD9rXxdpVqlgHKiGoaujHvy5Cr/s640/our_lady.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 488px; height: 336px; &quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:x-small;&quot;&gt;The attack on parishioners at Our Lady of Salvation in Iraq in October 2010 has led to worldwide condemnation and featured highly in Christmas prayers and papal/patriarchal speeches this year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;The attack is expected to be the work of Al-Qaida-related groups. Al-Qaeda vowed revenge against Egypt&#39;s Coptic Church amidst popular allegations that the Church is holding a number of converts captive in remote monasteries. Al-Qaida launched a deadly attack against worshippers in the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Baghdad_church_attack&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;Syriac Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of Salvation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt; in Baghdad, Iraq [&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11664020&quot;&gt;photos&lt;/a&gt;]. Al-Qaida sources said the attack is only a warning to Egypt&#39;s Coptic Church that &quot;it too will be targeted&quot; in retaliation for &quot;holding Muslim sisters in captivity and forcing them to denounce Islam and convert back to Christianity.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;The Egyptian Coptic Church has raised great concern and caused immense anger and sectarian strife in the past two years following the mysterious disappearance of a number of women (especially wives of priests) who allegedly converted to Islam. The church was almost immediately accused of imprisoning the converts in its remote desert monasteries in an attempt to force them to convert back to Christianity. Although none of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2010/09/camilia-shehata-egypts-new-religious.html&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;these allegations&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt; are substantiated, Al-Azhar records and the threatening intonation of the Coptic Church&#39;s top clergymen have left little room for doubt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2011/01/bloody-start-to-new-and-critical-year.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Fouad GM)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgp67p9L55FBOr9pSm0yb3tpjWpkChkAGDeO5tgakii_HlbwiXFMgjLzIZMcuY_Wt_N9bl7sNVACdePnVQZ8YSZ8nxcxIjVyL_DBuIwM-dbvqpfmCg5yQD9rXxdpVqlgHKiGoaujHvy5Cr/s72-c/our_lady.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-122142256056896343.post-4206611426815043236</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 01:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-14T17:47:38.999-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ahmadinejad</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">diplomacy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">egypt</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">iran</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">jordan</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">rapprochement</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">saudi arabia</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">US cables</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">wikileaks</category><title>Jordanian-Iranian relations: Wikileaks and the making of diplomacy in the Middle East</title><description>&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;&quot;&gt;&quot;Jordanian-Iranian rapprochement is a result of Wikileaks and their revelation of Jordan&#39;s mild positions towards the Iranian dossier in contrast to the Saudis and the Egyptians&quot;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;&quot;&gt;From the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;&quot;&gt;Monday, December 13, 2010&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);   -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:&#39;Simplified Arabic&#39;, &#39;Arabic Transparent&#39;, &#39;Traditional Arabic&#39;, Arial, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, &#39;AGA Arabesque&#39;, NaskhTT, &#39;Akhbar MT&#39;, &#39;Courir New&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh&#39;, &#39;Mudir MT&#39;, &#39;Simplified Arabic fixed&#39;, Tahoma, Andalus, &#39;Monotype Koufi&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Extension&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Special&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Swashed&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Variants&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Thuluth&#39;, &#39;Simplified Arabic backslanted&#39;, &#39;Traditional Arabic Backslanted&#39;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;table border=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;2&quot; cellspacing=&quot;2&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot; bg border bordercolordark=&quot;#000000&quot; bordercolorlight=&quot;#ffffff&quot; style=&quot;text-align: right;color:#000000;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; &quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;storytitle&quot;   style=&quot;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 221); border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 221); border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 221); border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 221); font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(0, 51, 153);  text-align: center; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;  font-family:&#39;Simplified Arabic&#39;, &#39;Arabic Transparent&#39;, &#39;Traditional Arabic&#39;, Arial, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, &#39;AGA Arabesque&#39;, NaskhTT, &#39;Akhbar MT&#39;, &#39;Courir New&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh&#39;, &#39;Mudir MT&#39;, &#39;Simplified Arabic fixed&#39;, Tahoma, Andalus, &#39;Monotype Koufi&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Extension&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Special&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Swashed&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Variants&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Thuluth&#39;, &#39;Simplified Arabic backslanted&#39;, &#39;Traditional Arabic Backslanted&#39;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;&quot;&gt;الاردنيون يستعدون للقاء قمة نادر بين الملك عبدالله الثاني والرئيس احمدي نجاد&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;storythirdtitle&quot;   style=&quot;font-weight: bold; color: rgb(128, 0, 128);  text-align: center; overflow-x: auto; overflow-y: auto;  font-family:&#39;Simplified Arabic&#39;, &#39;Arabic Transparent&#39;, &#39;Traditional Arabic&#39;, Arial, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, &#39;AGA Arabesque&#39;, NaskhTT, &#39;Akhbar MT&#39;, &#39;Courir New&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh&#39;, &#39;Mudir MT&#39;, &#39;Simplified Arabic fixed&#39;, Tahoma, Andalus, &#39;Monotype Koufi&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Extension&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Special&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Swashed&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Variants&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Thuluth&#39;, &#39;Simplified Arabic backslanted&#39;, &#39;Traditional Arabic Backslanted&#39;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;&quot;&gt;بسام البدارين&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; align=&quot;center&quot; title=&quot;111&quot; alt=&quot;111&quot; style=&quot;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;    style=&quot;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;color:#A52A2A;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 5px; font-family:Times New Roman;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;center&quot; style=&quot;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; &quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://alquds.co.uk/data/2010/12/12-13/13qpt91.jpg&quot; border=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; &quot; /&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 11px; font-family:tahoma;color:#6633332;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table border=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;2&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot; bgcolor=&quot;#ffffff&quot; bordercolor=&quot;#000000&quot; bordercolordark=&quot;#000000&quot; bordercolorlight=&quot;#ffffff&quot; style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;display&quot; style=&quot;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; font-family: &#39;Simplified Arabic&#39;, &#39;Arabic Transparent&#39;, &#39;Traditional Arabic&#39;, Arial, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, &#39;AGA Arabesque&#39;, NaskhTT, &#39;Akhbar MT&#39;, &#39;Courir New&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh&#39;, &#39;Mudir MT&#39;, &#39;Simplified Arabic fixed&#39;, Tahoma, Andalus, &#39;Monotype Koufi&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Extension&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Special&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Swashed&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Variants&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Thuluth&#39;, &#39;Simplified Arabic backslanted&#39;, &#39;Traditional Arabic Backslanted&#39;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; &quot;&gt;عمان ـ &#39;القدس العربي&#39;لا يمكن اعتبار تسريبات ويكيليكس كلها ضارة بالحكومات العربية فقد ساهمت في تقارب نادر جدا خلال الساعات الـ 48 الماضية بين عمان وطهران، لم يكن ليحصل وفقا للمراقبين لولا الوثائق المسربة التي تظهر فرقا كبيرا في الموقف من الملف الايراني ما بين الحكومة الاردنية ونظيراتها العربية وتحديدا المصرية والسعودية&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;display&quot; style=&quot;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; font-family: &#39;Simplified Arabic&#39;, &#39;Arabic Transparent&#39;, &#39;Traditional Arabic&#39;, Arial, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, &#39;AGA Arabesque&#39;, NaskhTT, &#39;Akhbar MT&#39;, &#39;Courir New&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh&#39;, &#39;Mudir MT&#39;, &#39;Simplified Arabic fixed&#39;, Tahoma, Andalus, &#39;Monotype Koufi&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Extension&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Special&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Swashed&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Variants&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Thuluth&#39;, &#39;Simplified Arabic backslanted&#39;, &#39;Traditional Arabic Backslanted&#39;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; &quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;وحصة الاردن حتى الآن من وثائق ويكيليكس انحسرت عمليا بورقتين الاولى تتحدث عن الموقف الاردني من الضربة العسكرية لايران، والثانية تتحدث عن انطباعات بعد مباراة بين فريقي الفيصلي والوحدات&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;display&quot; style=&quot;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; font-family: &#39;Simplified Arabic&#39;, &#39;Arabic Transparent&#39;, &#39;Traditional Arabic&#39;, Arial, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, &#39;AGA Arabesque&#39;, NaskhTT, &#39;Akhbar MT&#39;, &#39;Courir New&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh&#39;, &#39;Mudir MT&#39;, &#39;Simplified Arabic fixed&#39;, Tahoma, Andalus, &#39;Monotype Koufi&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Extension&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Special&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Swashed&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Variants&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Thuluth&#39;, &#39;Simplified Arabic backslanted&#39;, &#39;Traditional Arabic Backslanted&#39;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; &quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;بالحالتين تأثرت عمان، فقد نقلت التسريبات عن الموقف الاردني معارضته الشديدة لاي عمل عسكري ضد ايران وتحذيره من ان ذلك سيقود لتعقيدات كبيرة تطال الجميع في المنطقة&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;display&quot; style=&quot;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; font-family: &#39;Simplified Arabic&#39;, &#39;Arabic Transparent&#39;, &#39;Traditional Arabic&#39;, Arial, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, &#39;AGA Arabesque&#39;, NaskhTT, &#39;Akhbar MT&#39;, &#39;Courir New&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh&#39;, &#39;Mudir MT&#39;, &#39;Simplified Arabic fixed&#39;, Tahoma, Andalus, &#39;Monotype Koufi&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Extension&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Special&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Swashed&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Variants&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Thuluth&#39;, &#39;Simplified Arabic backslanted&#39;, &#39;Traditional Arabic Backslanted&#39;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; &quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;طهران فيما يبدو، لم تفوت الفرصة فسارعت لارسال مبعوث رفيع المستوى للقصر الملكي الاردني هو رحيم مشائي المدير الخاص لمكتب الرئيس الايراني احمدي نجادي، وهو عمليا اول مسؤول ابراني بارز يزور عمان منذ سنوات طويلة جدا&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;display&quot; style=&quot;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; font-family: &#39;Simplified Arabic&#39;, &#39;Arabic Transparent&#39;, &#39;Traditional Arabic&#39;, Arial, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, &#39;AGA Arabesque&#39;, NaskhTT, &#39;Akhbar MT&#39;, &#39;Courir New&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh&#39;, &#39;Mudir MT&#39;, &#39;Simplified Arabic fixed&#39;, Tahoma, Andalus, &#39;Monotype Koufi&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Extension&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Special&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Swashed&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Variants&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Thuluth&#39;, &#39;Simplified Arabic backslanted&#39;, &#39;Traditional Arabic Backslanted&#39;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; &quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;مشائي استقبل بحفاوة بمكتب الملك عبد الله الثاني ورتبت معه جولة مباحثات رسمية وكانت المفاجأة بتبادل حديث ايجابي بينه وبين العاهل الاردني عبد الله الثاني حسب بعض المصادر&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;display&quot; style=&quot;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; font-family: &#39;Simplified Arabic&#39;, &#39;Arabic Transparent&#39;, &#39;Traditional Arabic&#39;, Arial, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, &#39;AGA Arabesque&#39;, NaskhTT, &#39;Akhbar MT&#39;, &#39;Courir New&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh&#39;, &#39;Mudir MT&#39;, &#39;Simplified Arabic fixed&#39;, Tahoma, Andalus, &#39;Monotype Koufi&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Extension&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Special&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Swashed&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Variants&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Thuluth&#39;, &#39;Simplified Arabic backslanted&#39;, &#39;Traditional Arabic Backslanted&#39;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; &quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;المفاجأة الاهم احضرها معه مشائي وهي دعوة شخصية ورسمية للملك الاردني لزيارة طهران من الرئيس نجاد، وهي اول دعوة من نوعها بين بلدين ربطتهما دوما خلافات سياسية جذرية وعلاقات باردة للغاية&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;display&quot; style=&quot;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; font-family: &#39;Simplified Arabic&#39;, &#39;Arabic Transparent&#39;, &#39;Traditional Arabic&#39;, Arial, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, &#39;AGA Arabesque&#39;, NaskhTT, &#39;Akhbar MT&#39;, &#39;Courir New&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh&#39;, &#39;Mudir MT&#39;, &#39;Simplified Arabic fixed&#39;, Tahoma, Andalus, &#39;Monotype Koufi&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Extension&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Special&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Swashed&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Variants&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Thuluth&#39;, &#39;Simplified Arabic backslanted&#39;, &#39;Traditional Arabic Backslanted&#39;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; &quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;وعمان ردت على الخطوة الانفتاحية بأفضل منها فقد نقلت وكالة الانباء الرسمية بترا عن الملك ترحيبه بعقد قمة اردنية - ايرانية ستكون لو حصلت قريبا نادرة جدا، والمثير ان الملك رحب بالقمة سواء اعقدت في عمان او طهران، مما يعني ضمنيا قبول الدعوة والاستعداد لتوجيه مثلها&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;display&quot; style=&quot;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; font-family: &#39;Simplified Arabic&#39;, &#39;Arabic Transparent&#39;, &#39;Traditional Arabic&#39;, Arial, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, &#39;AGA Arabesque&#39;, NaskhTT, &#39;Akhbar MT&#39;, &#39;Courir New&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh&#39;, &#39;Mudir MT&#39;, &#39;Simplified Arabic fixed&#39;, Tahoma, Andalus, &#39;Monotype Koufi&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Extension&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Special&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Swashed&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Variants&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Thuluth&#39;, &#39;Simplified Arabic backslanted&#39;, &#39;Traditional Arabic Backslanted&#39;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; &quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;هذا التسارع الهائل في التواصل بين البلدين برأي المراقبين، لم يكن ليحصل لولا الوقائع التي سربتها ويكيليكس عن تحذيرات عمان في اللقاءات المغلقة من ضرب ايران، ومن الواضح انه تواصل يحاول احتواء تردي العلاقات وتدهورها منذ اقترحت عمان التحذير من الهلال الشيعي، خصوصا وان السفير الاردني في طهران الشيخ نوح القضاة قضى سنوات في ايران وهو يحاول كشخصية دينية ابقاء مستوى التوتر الدبلوماسي والسياسي عند مستواه القائم ومنع اي تدهور اضافي&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;display&quot; style=&quot;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; font-family: &#39;Simplified Arabic&#39;, &#39;Arabic Transparent&#39;, &#39;Traditional Arabic&#39;, Arial, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, &#39;AGA Arabesque&#39;, NaskhTT, &#39;Akhbar MT&#39;, &#39;Courir New&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh&#39;, &#39;Mudir MT&#39;, &#39;Simplified Arabic fixed&#39;, Tahoma, Andalus, &#39;Monotype Koufi&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Extension&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Special&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Swashed&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Variants&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Thuluth&#39;, &#39;Simplified Arabic backslanted&#39;, &#39;Traditional Arabic Backslanted&#39;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; &quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;وهناك ثمة فضيلة اضافية، فمستوى الاهتمام السياسي والاعلامي الذي تعيشه البلاد لليوم الرابع على التوالي بقصة الوحدة الوطنية بعد الاحداث الاخيرة اثر مباراة الفيصلي والوحدات يمكن ايضا رده لتسريبات ويكيليكس، وفقا للمحلل والحقوقي نضال منصور، الذي قرأ كغيره الوثيقة الثانية التي تخص الاردن بالتسريبات وتتمثل في انطباعات السفير الامريكي قبل سنوات عن مباراة بين نفس الفريقين&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;display&quot; style=&quot;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; font-family: &#39;Simplified Arabic&#39;, &#39;Arabic Transparent&#39;, &#39;Traditional Arabic&#39;, Arial, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, &#39;AGA Arabesque&#39;, NaskhTT, &#39;Akhbar MT&#39;, &#39;Courir New&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh&#39;, &#39;Mudir MT&#39;, &#39;Simplified Arabic fixed&#39;, Tahoma, Andalus, &#39;Monotype Koufi&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Extension&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Special&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Swashed&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Variants&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Thuluth&#39;, &#39;Simplified Arabic backslanted&#39;, &#39;Traditional Arabic Backslanted&#39;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; &quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;حسب التسريبات تحدث السفير الامريكي عن &#39;بلطجة&#39; تستهدف الاردنيين من اصل فلسطيني خلال المباريات، لكن السلطات اهتمت جدا بما حصل بعد المباراة الاخيرة الجمعة الماضية في محاولة واضحة لنفي تهمة التواطؤ ضمنيا او اظهار الجدية في التعاطي مع مشكلات كرة القدم التي تهدد الوحدة الوطنية&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;display&quot; style=&quot;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; font-family: &#39;Simplified Arabic&#39;, &#39;Arabic Transparent&#39;, &#39;Traditional Arabic&#39;, Arial, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, &#39;AGA Arabesque&#39;, NaskhTT, &#39;Akhbar MT&#39;, &#39;Courir New&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh&#39;, &#39;Mudir MT&#39;, &#39;Simplified Arabic fixed&#39;, Tahoma, Andalus, &#39;Monotype Koufi&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Extension&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Special&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Swashed&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Variants&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Thuluth&#39;, &#39;Simplified Arabic backslanted&#39;, &#39;Traditional Arabic Backslanted&#39;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; &quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;وبالنتيجة انتهى الامر بأول لجنة تحقيق رفيعة تشكل لدراسة مشكلات المدرجات خصوصا خلال مباريات الفيصلي والوحدات&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;display&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; font-family: &#39;Simplified Arabic&#39;, &#39;Arabic Transparent&#39;, &#39;Traditional Arabic&#39;, Arial, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, &#39;AGA Arabesque&#39;, NaskhTT, &#39;Akhbar MT&#39;, &#39;Courir New&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh&#39;, &#39;Mudir MT&#39;, &#39;Simplified Arabic fixed&#39;, Tahoma, Andalus, &#39;Monotype Koufi&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Extension&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Special&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Swashed&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Variants&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Thuluth&#39;, &#39;Simplified Arabic backslanted&#39;, &#39;Traditional Arabic Backslanted&#39;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;display&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; font-family: &#39;Simplified Arabic&#39;, &#39;Arabic Transparent&#39;, &#39;Traditional Arabic&#39;, Arial, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, &#39;AGA Arabesque&#39;, NaskhTT, &#39;Akhbar MT&#39;, &#39;Courir New&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh&#39;, &#39;Mudir MT&#39;, &#39;Simplified Arabic fixed&#39;, Tahoma, Andalus, &#39;Monotype Koufi&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Extension&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Special&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Swashed&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Variants&#39;, &#39;Decotype Naskh Thuluth&#39;, &#39;Simplified Arabic backslanted&#39;, &#39;Traditional Arabic Backslanted&#39;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; &quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2010/12/jordanian-iranian-relations-wikileaks.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Fouad GM)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-122142256056896343.post-3720628612263895192</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:14:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-13T14:43:11.103-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">discrimination</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">domestic worker</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">lebanon</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">migrant worker</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">racism</category><title>The story of Niri, a foreign domestic worker in Lebanon</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Listen to the story of Niri, a foreign domestic worker in Lebanon. Just a taste of what its like to be a migrant or migrant-domestic worker in Lebanon.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Click &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://antiracismmovement.blogspot.com/2010/12/story-of-niri-domestic-worker-in.html&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;HERE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt; to listen to &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://antiracismmovement.blogspot.com/2010/12/story-of-niri-domestic-worker-in.html&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;the story of Niri&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;[ Thanks to the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://antiracismmovement.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;Anti-Racism Movement&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt; ]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cpcml.ca/images2009/Women/090308-LebanonBeirutIWD-01.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.cpcml.ca/images2009/Women/090308-LebanonBeirutIWD-01.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 458px; height: 300px; &quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;  font-weight: bold; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;&quot;&gt;Beirut: Lebanese protest against the abuse of foreign domestic workers in Beirut on March 8, 2009.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;  font-weight: bold; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;&quot;&gt;Placard in Arabic reads &quot;On International Women&#39;s day we support the rights of foreign domestic workers.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;  font-weight: bold; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;&quot;&gt;(thanks to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cpcml.ca/&quot;&gt;Marxist-Leninist Daily&lt;/a&gt; of the Communist Party of Canada)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;  font-weight: bold; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;  font-weight: bold; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2010/12/story-of-niri-foreign-domestic-worker.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Fouad GM)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-122142256056896343.post-5237439699811076410</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 11:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-12T06:10:08.798-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cairo</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">civil society</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">egypt</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">global voices</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">informal settlement</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mokattam</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">slum</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">youth</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">zelzal</category><title>7ekayat min el-Mokattam: empowering Egypt&#39;s less-heard youth</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;line-height: 14px; font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDjDMBojltQ&quot;&gt;this video&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;  line-height: 14px; font-family:arial;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/mahmoud.saber&quot;&gt;Mahmoud Saber&lt;/a&gt; sheds some light on &quot;El-Mokattam Blog Tales&quot;, a civil society project to empower young men and women from the temporary-turned-permanent &quot;Earthquake Victims&#39; Resettlement Project&quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=30.0286404&amp;amp;lon=31.2891912&amp;amp;z=15&amp;amp;l=0&amp;amp;m=b&amp;amp;search=%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B2%D9%84%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%84%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%82%D8%B7%D9%85&quot;&gt;Masaken El-Zelzal&lt;/a&gt;) on the El-Mokattam Hills east of Cairo through art. The project aims at capacity-building and explores and trains youth from El-Zelzal the use of digital photography and the skills of internet-writing providing the most ambitious, yet least socially-mobile the means to express themselves and have their voices heard globally.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;line-height: 14px; font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;line-height: 14px; font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;In this video, Nesma Geweily of the Namaa Initiative &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;  line-height: 14px; font-family:arial;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;explains more about El-Mokatam Blog Tales [video in Arabic, with English subtitles].&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;  line-height: 14px; font-family:arial;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;  line-height: 14px; font-family:arial;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;object style=&quot;height: 260px; width: 427px&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;390&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/rDjDMBojltQ?version=3&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowScriptAccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/rDjDMBojltQ?version=3&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;390&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;line-height: 14px; font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;line-height: 14px; font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;The project is part an initiative by Namaa Initiative in partnership with&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;  line-height: 14px; font-family:arial;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt; the NGO &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alwan-awtar.org/&quot;&gt;Alwan &amp;amp; Awtar&lt;/a&gt;. It is also supported by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;  line-height: 14px; font-family:arial;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;the &lt;a href=&quot;http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/&quot;&gt;Rising Voices&lt;/a&gt; initiative of &lt;a href=&quot;http://globalvoicesonline.org/&quot;&gt;Global Voices&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;  line-height: 14px; font-family:arial;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;  line-height: 14px; font-family:arial;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;More details on the project can be found on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/projects/mokattam-blog-tales/&quot;&gt;El-Mokattam Blog Tales page&lt;/a&gt; on the Rising Voices/Global Voices website. Here is &lt;a href=&quot;http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/blog/2010/07/27/video-introduction-to-mokattam-blog-tales/&quot;&gt;another video&lt;/a&gt; [in English] featuring Nesa Geweily introducing the project earlier this summer when the project was formally launched.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;  line-height: 14px; font-family:arial;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;  line-height: 14px; font-family:arial;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;El-Zelzal is a particularly marginalised settlement which developed in the early 1990s as thousands of Cairenes fled their homes in the wake of the 1992 earthquake and the collapse of a number of budget-accommodation apartment buildings built using shoddy building materials and and insufficient use of steel reinforcement bars. The neighbourhood developed on Al-Hadaba Al-Wosta (The Middle Plateau) of the Mokattam Hills just above the earlier state-planned-turned-informal settlement of Mansheyyet Nasser. Together, they are referred to as El-Douweika.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;  line-height: 14px; font-family:arial;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;  line-height: 14px; font-family:arial;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;The inhabitants suffered yet another natural disaster in 2006 when a landslide left their homes destroyed, or under threat from an avalanche of rocks from Mokattam&#39;s upper plateaus where tope-end residential and luxury developments are taking place. Large parts of the neighbourhood were forcefully-evacuated in a brutal show of force and its social fabric once again shaken.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;  line-height: 14px; font-family:arial;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 14px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://v2.lscache6.c.bigcache.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/23481383.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://v2.lscache6.c.bigcache.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/23481383.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 454px; height: 340px; &quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 14px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;Cairo&#39;s landscape is scoured with &#39;unfinished&#39; or unpainted apartment buildings which are intentionally left on concrete and red brick form to avoid government taxation levied on &#39;finished&#39; and &#39;luxury&#39; residential properties. The aesthetics of these buildings is characteristic of many urban slums, informal settlements and peripheral neighbourhoods inhabited by the less affluent and the city&#39;s aspiring newcomers. This photo is from Masaken El-Zelzal, El-Douweika.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;  line-height: 14px; font-family:arial;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;  line-height: 14px; font-family:arial;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2010/12/7ekayat-min-el-mokattam-empowering.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Fouad GM)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-122142256056896343.post-6664910744372749492</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 01:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-07T19:49:05.385-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">14 آذار</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cinema</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">film</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">lebanon</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">wikileaks</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">الحريري</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">حزب الله</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">سينما</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">فيلم</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">لبنان</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">وثائقي</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ويكيليكس</category><title>لبنان بين واقعية الدراما و اكاذيب الواقع</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; dir=&quot;RTL&quot; style=&quot;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;text-align:right;line-height:normal;direction:rtl;unicode-bidi:embed&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;   style=&quot;  ;font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;انتجت شركة ( &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; dir=&quot;LTR&quot;  style=&quot;color:blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ortv.co.uk/&quot;&gt;ORTV&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt; ) التي يملكها السعودي عبد الرحمن الراشد شريطها «الوثائقي» (المشكوك في أهدافه السياسية !!) العام الماضي و المعنوّن «&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.al-akhbar.com/ar/node/214694&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;جريمة في بيروت&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;» . مفاد الفيلم تورّط «حزب الله» وسوريا في اغتيال الرئيس رفيق الحريري ... أما اليوم فيستعدّ الكاتب والمخرج السوري منذر حويجة لإنجاز فيلم روائي طويل بعنوان «&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.al-akhbar.com/ar/node/217159&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;لبنان حجر شطرنج&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;» . و وفقا &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.al-akhbar.com/ar/node/217159&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;لمقال وسام كنعان في الأخبار&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt; فان الفيلم المزمع تصوير مشاهده بين بيروت و دمشق يتناول اغتيال رئيس الحكومة السابق عبر قصة متخيّلة تعتمد على كتاب «اغتيال الحريري... أدلّة مخفية» للألماني يورغن كاين كولبل الذي ناقض رواية القاضي الدولي ديتليف ميليس و الرئيس الأسبق لفريق التحقيق الدولي.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;   style=&quot;  ;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; dir=&quot;RTL&quot; style=&quot;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;text-align:right;line-height:normal;direction:rtl;unicode-bidi:embed&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;   style=&quot;  ;font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;و الملفت للنظر في هذا السيل اللا متناهي من الأفلام و الروايات و القصص التي تتناول قضية اغتيال الرئيس الحريري انها , و رغم انها اعمال سينيمائية او روائية , الا انها تحاول اماطة اللثام عن حقيقة قرر اللبنانيون تناسيها و إن احتشدوا سنوياً في تظاهرات فلكلورية حاملين يافطات حزبية و مرتدين «فولارات» آخر موضة مزينة بكلمة الـ«حقيقة» وهم يهللين و يصفقين لرؤساء احزابهم التي تواطأت و تهاونت في مقارعة مرتكبيي الاغتيالات السياسية بالقانون و العدالة منذ القرن التاسع عشر !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;   style=&quot;  ;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; dir=&quot;RTL&quot; style=&quot;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;text-align:right;line-height:normal;direction:rtl;unicode-bidi:embed&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; dir=&quot;RTL&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;line-height: normal; direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-family:Georgia, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.almustaqbal.org/admin/images/big/2687617.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.almustaqbal.org/admin/images/big/2687617.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 485px; height: 367px; &quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal; &quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; dir=&quot;RTL&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;line-height: normal; direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal; &quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;display: inline !important; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal; &quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center; display: inline !important; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal; &quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; align=&quot;center&quot; dir=&quot;RTL&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center; line-height: normal; direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed; display: inline !important; &quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;   style=&quot;font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;دعاية «كرمالك» و «لعيونك» تحتل سماء لبنان لعدة ايام قبل منتصف شباط من كل عام قبل ان تتحول الى طيارات ورق يلعب بها الأطفال و الواح خشب يأوي اليها الشغيلة السوريين و المهجريين المنسيين&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; dir=&quot;RTL&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;line-height: normal; direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal; &quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; dir=&quot;RTL&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: right; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal; &quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; dir=&quot;RTL&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: right; display: inline !important; &quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;   style=&quot;  ;font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;ففي الحقيقة , اصبح «خيال» الدراما و «مخيلة» الرواية هما «الحقيقة» التي تنافيها اكاذيب المسرحية التنكرية المسماة بـ «السياسة اللبنانية» .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; dir=&quot;RTL&quot; style=&quot;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;text-align:right;line-height:normal;direction:rtl;unicode-bidi:embed&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;   style=&quot;  ;font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;و لعل &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2010/12/wikileaks-revealing-realities-of.html&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;التسريبات المتتالية التي يفضحها موقع « ويكيليكس »&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt; بشكل شبه يومي فيما يخص الشأن اللبناني تثبت ذلك . ففضائح مداولات المسئولين اللبنانيين الـ(غير)ـمحترمين في كواليس «عش الدبابير» في عوكر تثبت ان الوفاق و حكومته « ضحك على الذقون » . و ان التوافق المزعوم بين الطوائف و احزابها ما هو الا غشاء «شيك» يليق بشعب ألِف و تمرس دفن الرأس في الرمال كالنعام . أما الدولة و مؤسساتها ووزارائها و الجماعة السياسية المنادية بها فما هم الا نكت لا يليق الخوض فيها الا على برنامج «أهضم شي» .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;   style=&quot;  ;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; dir=&quot;RTL&quot; style=&quot;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;text-align:right;line-height:normal;direction:rtl;unicode-bidi:embed&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;   style=&quot;  ;font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;و لا شك ان ما خفي كان أعظم . فلعل اليوم الذي تتسرب فيه مراسلات السفارات المصرية و السعودية و الفرنسية و الايرانية و غيرها من سفارات لاعبيي الشطرنج في لبنان قد دنا.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot; dir=&quot;RTL&quot;   style=&quot;  ;font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;و الخلاصة ؟ اصبحت الدراما و الرواية هما المسرح الأقرب للحقيقة و الملجأ للباحث بجدية عنها . اما «الواقع» فقد اصبح هو ذاته الفيلم و المسرحية الساخرة&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;  ;font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt; .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot; dir=&quot;RTL&quot;   style=&quot;  ;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;  ;font-family:Georgia, serif;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 18px; &quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: right; line-height: normal; display: inline !important; &quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot; dir=&quot;RTL&quot;   style=&quot;  ;font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;و لا اعتقد ان كثيرين سيجادولنني في هذا الاعتقاد اللهم الا المتحفظون على اسعمالي لإسم «اصبح» الناسخ و كأنني ادعي ان « الواقع » اللبناني شهد يوماً لم يكن هو فيه مسرحية&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; dir=&quot;RTL&quot; style=&quot;text-align: right; line-height: normal; direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed; display: inline !important; &quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;   style=&quot;font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/13578312&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; dir=&quot;RTL&quot; style=&quot;text-align: right; line-height: normal; direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed; display: inline !important; &quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;   style=&quot;font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal; &quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; ;font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; dir=&quot;RTL&quot; style=&quot;text-align: right; line-height: normal; direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed; display: inline !important; &quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;   style=&quot;font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal; &quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2010/12/blog-post_07.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Fouad GM)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-122142256056896343.post-5755406892007662328</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 02:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-06T21:24:18.482-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">hamadeh</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">hezbollah</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">lebanon</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">murr</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">nasrallah</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">wikileaks</category><title>WikiLeaks reveal that, in Lebanon, there is no minister, no defense, no nation, no enemy and there is even no people</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;On December 2nd, Al-Akhbar published a WikiLeaked diplomatic cable emanating from the US embassy in Beirut. The cable, dated 11 March 2010, briefed the US State Department on a meeting between embassy officials and Lebanese Minister of Defense (MoD), Elias el-Murr. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.al-akhbar.com/ar/node/216464&quot;&gt;full text of the cable&lt;/a&gt; was published by the opposition, leftist Al-Akhbar.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In their meeting, according to the cable, Minister of Denfence Elias El-Murr &quot;expressed his growing concern that a Hizballah war with Israel is imminent&quot;. El-Murr also echoed accusations by Amine Gemmayel, Walid Jumblatt and other Lebanese politicians regarding alleging that &quot;the Shia, and in particular senior Hizballah members, have been acquiring land or renting homes in the Christian areas of Jezzine, Jebel Rihan, Junieh, Zahle as well as in Druze areas.&quot;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The most alarming, and perhaps shameful part of the communication between the MoD and US Embassy staff is his disclosure of the internal affairs and political stance of the Lebanese army regarding issues of a domestic, international and defense nature. Firstly, El-Murr disclosed his firm belief and commitment that the Lebanese army &quot;should not get involved when Israel comes.&quot; Then, he offered the US a few pieces of advice, perhaps hoping they&#39;d be passed on to Israel:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;  line-height: 21px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Courier;font-size:13px;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Making clear that he was not responsible for passing messages to Israel, Murr told us that Israel would do well to avoid two things when it comes for Hizballah One, it must not touch the Blue Line or the UNSCR 1701 areas as this will keep Hizballah out of these areas. Two, Israel cannot bomb bridges and infrastructure in the Christian areas. The Christians were supporting Israel in 2006 until they started bombing their bridges.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Not only that, El-Murr went on to brief the Americans on the state of affairs within the army expressing his concern for the 1st and 2nd Brigades of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) stationed in the Beka&#39;a &quot;hoping&quot; they wouldn&#39;t be totally cut off from LAF Headquarters near Beirut &quot;while Israel is conducting operations against Hizballah in the Beka&#39;a.&quot;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yesterday, Khalid Saghiyeh commented on the &#39;leaked&#39; cable on El-Murr&#39;s communication with the US Defense Attaché in Al-Akhbar. Under the title &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.al-akhbar.com/ar/node/217094&quot;&gt;Murr-Leaks&lt;/a&gt;&quot; he wrote:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Indeed, the gems of the minister of defense that only reveal themselves within the corridors of the American embassy, tell us that there is no minister, and there is no defense, and there is no nation, and there is no army, and there is no enemy, and there is even no people.*&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Saghiyeh satirically adds:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;  -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt;Welcome to the Minister of National Defense, Elias al-Murr, in the world of WikiLeaks, where the army, according to the Murr theory, is a mere channel allowing the Christians to blow their sectarian bottled up feelings against the Muslims. Indeed, according to the sectarian dissection of the army, and this is a free of charge service normally offered by ministers of defense to the ambassadors of the major countries, there is a need to start special, exclusively Christian, forces because the Christians are “perfect” for carrying out the task of fighting the terrorist Shi’is or Sunnis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Welcome to the Minister of National Defense, Elias al-Murr, in the world of WikiLeaks, where sectarian division knocks on the doors of racism. Indeed, the Shi’is in the army, according to the testimony of the defense minister in front of the empire’s delegate [i.e. Michele Sisson], are a potential source of threat. And, unlike their Christian colleagues, they are joining the army “for salary and food.” *&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It was only last week when these revelations were made by WikiLeaks. At the beginning of this new week, WikiLeaks had more to reveal.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This time, it was then-Telecommunications Minister, Marwan Hamadeh who, according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/150105&quot;&gt;another US Embassy cable&lt;/a&gt;, had tipped the US and Saudi Arabia and informed them of Hezbollah&#39;s secret fiber-optic network in 2008. This, according to the date on the cable, was only weeks before the street battles known to most as &quot;The Events of May 7.&quot;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;According to the cable, Hamadeh had requested a special meeting with &quot;Charge&quot; to pass on the information:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);   line-height: 18px; font-family:&#39;Courier New&#39;, courier, monospace;font-size:14px;&quot;&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;Requesting a special meeting with Charge, Telecommunications Minister Marwan Hamadeh decried the establishment of a complete fiber optics network by Hizballah throughout Lebanon. The GOL has been sharing this information widely among friends of Lebanon, to include the governments of France, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and the UAE. Hamadeh sees only two choices for the GOL: approach the UN Security Council, or use the &quot;cover&quot; of March 14-friendly municipalities to cut the lines.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Guardian notes that, Hamadeh, who escaped an attempt on his life in 2004, warned &quot;friends of Lebanon&quot; that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/05/lebanon-warned-allies-hezbollah-telecoms&quot;&gt;Iran Telecom was &quot;taking over the country&quot;&lt;/a&gt; in 2008.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;No doubt, many will discount the information as invalid, not true, inaccurate or even fabricated. An aide of El-Murr has already told the press that in response to their questions about El-Murr&#39;s alleged communications with US diplomats in 2008. George Soulage told the AFP &quot;The information posted by WikiLeaks is not complete and is not accurate. The aim behind this is to sow discord in Lebanon.&quot;  --  A typical Lebanese &quot;get-away&quot; clause.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;What this clause really reveals though is something much deeper about the Lebanese political system: while everything may be done to weaken a domestic opponent and rally foreign powers against them, this is always done under cover. In public, &quot;consensus&quot; and &quot;consociationalism&quot; reign. When that appearance is disturbed by a &#39;leakage&#39; of information from this source or the other, the response is always the same: it&#39;s a fabricated lie aimed at sowing disorder in an otherwise-harmonious Lebanon where political factions compete only in parliament and through debate; and where sects and confessions do not sow social hatred and violence.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2010/12/wikileaks-reveals-lies-and-hypocrisy-of.html&quot;&gt;Hanibaael put it&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;http://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;Lebanon Iznogood&lt;/a&gt;, WikiLeaks seems to be revealing more about the lies and hypocrisies of the &#39;consensus&#39; government than most studies have in years.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/11/23/1290535112905/Wikileaks-cables-breakdow-008.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/11/23/1290535112905/Wikileaks-cables-breakdow-008.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 433px; height: 444px; &quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;A breakdown of WikiLeaks cables, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/11/23/1290535112905/Wikileaks-cables-breakdow-008.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;available here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt; from The Guardian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;* Article appeared in Arabic, translated by the media digest service, Daily Briefing, provided by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small; &quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;Mideastwire.com&quot;&gt;Mideastwire.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small; &quot;&gt; on December 6, 2010.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2010/12/wikileaks-revealing-realities-of.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Fouad GM)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-122142256056896343.post-5030185309336043568</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-12T05:24:49.913-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">الأمن الداخلي</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">الحمرا</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">بيروت</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">سوريا</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">شغيلة</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">عمالة</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">قتل</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">لبنان</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">هجرة</category><title>عزاء لكل عربي ارتجل شوارع عالمنا العربي فهان على الأوطان و رجالات الدولة</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;    style=&quot;font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#333333;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:13px;&quot;&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; dir=&quot;RTL&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal;direction:rtl;unicode-bidi:embed&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;   style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;كتب صباح اليوم&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot; dir=&quot;LTR&quot;   style=&quot;font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;   style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.al-akhbar.com/ar/node/216623&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;رضوان مرتضى في الأخبا&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;AR-EG&quot;   style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.al-akhbar.com/ar/node/216623&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;ر&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt; فأبكاني ... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;   style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;ابكاني على مصير عبد الناصر الأحمد (سوري الجنسية) و ما لاقاه على يد رجالات القانون و العدالة في لبنان على بعد امتار من البيت الذي سكنته طوال العام الماضي في بيروت ... ابكاني على رخص الانسان الراجل على قدميه في شوارع العالم العربي ممن لا يمتطون الـبي ام دبليو و البورش ... ابكاني مصير عبد الناصر المهذب المحترم المكافح ضد ظلم الانسان و قهر المال ... ابكاني مصير اخي و ابن جلدتي عبد الناصر الأحمد لأن المصير الذي لاقاه لاقيته من قبل في شوارع القاهرة و بيروت و تونس قبل ان تأتي الواسطة و البورش لينقذاني&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;   style=&quot;font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt; ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; dir=&quot;RTL&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal;direction:rtl;unicode-bidi:embed&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;   style=&quot;font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; dir=&quot;RTL&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal;direction:rtl;unicode-bidi:embed&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;   style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;أسفا عليك يا ابن الاثنين و العشرين ... اسفا على المقتول بلا ذنب ... أسفا على المخضب بدماء ساءلت غدرا و قهرا&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;   style=&quot;font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; dir=&quot;RTL&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal;direction:rtl;unicode-bidi:embed&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;   style=&quot;font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; dir=&quot;RTL&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal;direction:rtl;unicode-bidi:embed&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;   style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;يعلق احد قراء الأخبار على المقال متسائلا &quot; هل ياترى دم رفيق الحريري افضل من دم هذا الشاب بالنسبة لاهله ..... هل سوف تتدخل امريكا وجماعة 14 اذار وتطالب بالجنة تحيق ومحكمة دولية .....هل من سوف يتفوه بكلمة من الاعلام اللبناني غير النيو تي في بخصوص هذا الموضوع .&quot; و لكن السائل يؤكد انه ليس في انتظار الجواب, فالجواب معروف سلفا&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; dir=&quot;RTL&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal;direction:rtl;unicode-bidi:embed&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;   style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;و لكن هذه الآراء و ان عكست وجهة نظر اصحاب الضمائر الحية من ابناء لبنان الا انها ستعجز عن العلو فوق الصوت الأعم الذي سيجد لهذه الجريمة البشعة ما يبررها و ما يفسرها . و رغم ان الحادث وفع منذ اقل من 18 ساعة الا ان هذه الآراء التبريرية قد بدأت في التوالي تباعا و منها &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cedarnews.net/lebanon_beirut-6&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;هذه المقالة على موقع Cedar News&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt; و التي تعتبر الجريمة &quot; اشكالا &quot; ... و الـ&quot; اشكال &quot; سببه ان المغدور به لم يمتثل لأوامر عناصر مكتب مكافحة السرفات الدولية الذين نزلوا من سيارة مدنية في ثياب مدنية و لم يعرفوا عن هويتهم ... الأقاويل بدأت تتطاير &quot; انه أكيد هيدا السوري ما معه اوراق ثبوتية &quot; كما قال لي احد &quot; الأصدقاء &quot; صباح اليوم !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; dir=&quot;RTL&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal;direction:rtl;unicode-bidi:embed&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;   style=&quot;font-family:&amp;quot;;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;يا الله! ما اشبه اليوم بالأمس ... فمنذ قرابة الـ8 أشهر و انا ساكن بيروت &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.elnashra.com/news-1-443194.html&quot;&gt;قتل و سحل و صلب شاب لبناني-مصري في قرية كترمايا&lt;/a&gt; في جبال الشوف ... و لأكثر اللبنانيين من مختلف الطبقات و الانتماءات الطائفية فالجريمة الغوغائية ليست هكذا, انما هي رده فعل شعبية ضد &quot; شغيل مصري &quot; قتل أما و اولادها بدم بارد متناسيين حق المتهم في محاكمة عادلة ... متناسيين انه لبناني الأب ... متناسيين ان العدل لا يكون بسحل الشباب في الشوارع و صلبهم في ميادين القرى و التمثيل بجثثهم وسط زغاريد النساء و عويل الأطفال ... بل ان أم صديق لي و في ايماءة و لفته طيبة منها لطمأنتي (مقتنعة ان اعتراضي على جريمة كترمايا كان من منطلق اني مصري مقيم في لبنان آنذاك) قالت لي &quot; ما تخاف ... منك متله ... يعني مش لأنه انك مصري بس منك شغيل ع طرمبة بنزين و منك مجرم &quot; !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; dir=&quot;RTL&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;color:#000000;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; font-weight: normal;  font-family:Georgia, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.s-oman.net/avb/attachment.php?attachmentid=382553&amp;amp;d=1269795741&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.s-oman.net/avb/attachment.php?attachmentid=382553&amp;amp;d=1269795741&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 380px; height: 496px; &quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);  &quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);  &quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;و يوثق &quot; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://marcovilla.instablogs.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;ماركو فيللا&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt; &quot; لبعض الانتهاكات التي تعرض لها عمال و شغيلة سوريون في لبنان على مدونته بتاريخ 9 مايو/أيار 2009 تحت عنوان &quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://marcovilla.instablogs.com/entry/syrian-workers-in-lebanon-the-continuing-list-of-shame/&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;العمال السوريون في لبنان : قائمة الخزي و العار المستمرة&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&quot; و التي يسرد فيها ابرز الانتهاكات &quot; التي تعرضت لها هذه الفئة من ضحايا العنصرية و عقدة التعالي و الكبر لدى اللبنانيين . و يبدأ مقاله بالزعم أن : اللبنانيين يتظاهرون بالحضارة و الحضارة و الأناقة و التطور و التي يرون ان ساحة ابرازها الأهم هس التعالي و التطاول و انتهاك حقوق اللاجئيين الفلسطنيين و القتل و سوؤ معاملة العاملات و الخادمات الآسيويات اضافة الى انتهاك آدمية العمال الوافدين من دول الجوار , لا سيما سوريه&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);  &quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; dir=&quot;RTL&quot; style=&quot;text-align:right;direction:rtl;unicode-bidi: embed&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;   style=&quot;line-height: 115%;   font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif;color:black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:medium;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2010/12/blog-post.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Fouad GM)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-122142256056896343.post-8815839011515461546</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-28T12:54:19.214-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">adhl</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">guardianship</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">islam</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mahram</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mihrim</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">saudi arabia</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">women&#39;s rights</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">محرم</category><title>Saudi women sue their mahrams for forcibly keeping them single</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Despite the appalling state of women&#39;s rights in Saudi Arabia, the biggest challenge women face in the conservative monarchy is male guardianship over women. Women cannot travel, gain admittance to a public hospital, live independently or &quot;even buy a phone&quot; without the guardianship and consent of a &quot;mahram.&quot;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://delhi4cats.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/saudi-women-symbol.png?w=380&amp;amp;h=599&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://delhi4cats.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/saudi-women-symbol.png?w=190&amp;amp;h=300&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 300px; &quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Most importantly for single women, they cannot marry without the consent of their guardians. Nevertheless, more women are challenging their guardians in court for &quot;purposefuly turning down marriage proposals&quot; and &quot;forcibly keeping their daughters and sisters single&quot; - a practice known as adhl.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;From their Cairo Office, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i558UV3UUzoNkEcXLB8Fp-DEe13Q?docId=b516580836824aa494d52fcab4e35c46&quot;&gt;the Associated Press reports&lt;/a&gt;: the 42-year-old Saudi surgeon remains single, against her will, while her hefty salary keeps going directly to her father&#39;s bank account.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2010/11/saudi-women-sue-their-mahrams-for.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Fouad GM)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-122142256056896343.post-2593323909854841187</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-24T09:36:58.870-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">christian</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">citizenship</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">coptic</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">egypt</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">election</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">minority</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mubarak</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sectarian</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">انتخابات</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ديمقراطية</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">طائفية</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">قاهرة</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">مصر</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">مواطن</category><title>حرب البجم الطائفية قبيل الانتخابات البرلمانية المصرية : من التصعيد الكلامي و الاعلامي الى اشتباكات عنيفة لا مستفيد منها الا النظام</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;و هكذا تحولت حرب البجم من حرب كلامية تصعيدية الى حرب مسلحة ذات ابعاد أمنية ... و الرابح؟ النظام الذي سيخرج منتصرا للاسلام من المسيحيين و حصن المسيحيين من المسلمين ... فهل هي مصادفة ان تتزامن هذه الأحداث البجمية البغيضة مع الاستعدادات الأخيرة للانتخابات النيابية الأكثر أهمية مما سبقها لأهمية البرلمان القادم في تحديد هوية مرشحيي الرئاسة في الانتخابات الرئاسية المرتقبة العام القادم؟&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: rgb(51, 51, 51); &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;color:#333333;&quot;&gt;&lt;object style=&quot;height: 292px; width: 480px&quot; width=&quot;480&quot; height=&quot;292&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/TjwldJkye9s?version=3&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowScriptAccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/TjwldJkye9s?version=3&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; width=&quot;480&quot; height=&quot;292&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;font-family:arial;color:#333333;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;جانب من مظاهرات شارع نصر الدين&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;color:#333333;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;color:#333333;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;محمد العريان وسالم أبو رخا يكتبان&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;font-family:arial;color:#333333;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://elbadil.net/%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%B9%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%85%D9%86-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%82%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B7-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7/&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;المصدر : البديل الجديد&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;color:#333333;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;color:#333333;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: rgb(34, 34, 34); &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: rgb(255, 0, 0); &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;الأمن يهاجم اعتصام للأقباط أمام كتيسه العمرانية في الخامسة صباحا..وغاضبون يقطعون شارع نصر الدين بالهرم&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: arial; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;المدارس تغلق أبوابها أمام الأطفال خوفا من المواجهات وآلاف الأقباط يتجمهرون أما كنيسة القديس سوريال&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;color:#333333;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: rgb(34, 34, 34); &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: rgb(255, 0, 0); &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;المتظاهرون يهتفون “بالروح بالدم نفديك يا صليب..وشاهد عيان يتهم الأمن بإلقاء مواطنين من فوق كنيسة العذراء واحتجاز أطفال بداخلها&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: arial; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;مصادر طبية لرويترز : حصيلة المواجهات قتيل و20 جريحا والأمن استخدم الهراوات والقنابل المسيلة للدموع&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;color:#333333;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: rgb(34, 34, 34); &quot;&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: arial; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;تفجرت من جديد أزمة كنيسة العذراء وكبير الملائكة ميخائيل بشارع الإخلاص بالطالبية ووقعت اشتباكات عنيفة بين الأمن والأقباط في أكثر من مكان بالجيزة وقال شهود عيان أن عشرات من سيارات الأمن المركزي حاصرت الكنيسة صباح اليوم وذلك ردا على تظاهر مئات الأقباط اعتراضا على محاولة البلدية إزالة سلم بالمبني الإداري الملاصق للكنيسة بدعوى عدم الحصول على ترخيص لبنائه ، ومنعت قوات الأمن مظاهرة أمام مبني محافظة الجيزة واعتدت علي المتظاهرين ، وقطع المتظاهرون شارع خاتم المرسلين ووضعوا صناديق القمامة أمام السيارات ، ردد المتظاهرون هتافات معادية للحكومة وقالوا ” بالروح بالدم نفديك يا صليب … والصحافة فين الإرهاب اهه”  بعد تردد أنباء عن سقوط قتيلين&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;فيما تجمع الآلاف أمام كنيسة رئيس الملاك الجليل سوريال والشهيد العظيم مارماينا بعد فض تجمعهم في نصر الدين  ..وتدخل مرشحون لمجلس الشعب لتهدئة الأقباط الغاضبين وترددت أنباء عن الوصول لاتفاق مع الأمن لفض الاعتصام .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;وقال حنا فتحي يوسف احد شهود العيان للبديل أن المناوشات بين البلدية و الأقباط بدأت منذ ثلاثة أيام عندما هاجمت قوة من البلدية مقر بناء الكنيسة وصادرت جزء من أدوات البناء مشيرا أن الكنيسة حاصلة على ترخيص ..فلماذا يتم مهاجمتها ؟ وهل بناء سلم للكنيسة سيضر أحد ؟ وقال موقع أقباط متحدون أن نحو 20 عربة أمن مركزي اقتحمت  كنيسة السيدة العذراء والملاك ميخائيل بالإخلاص بالعمرانية في الساعة الخامسة والنصف صباحًا ، وأطلقت قنابل مسيلة للدموع على المسيحيين الذين تجمعوا داخلها استعدادا للتظاهر وحماية الكنيسة من البلدية&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;وقالت مصادر أمنية وطبية لرويترز أن شخصا قتل يوم الأربعاء وأصيب 20 آخرون في اشتباك بين متظاهرين وقوات مكافحة الشغب في مدينة الجيزة عاصمة محافظة الجيزة غربي القاهرة. فيما قال شهود عيان للبديل أن قتيلين على الأقل سقطا ..وقال حنا فتحي أنه رأى قوات الأمن تلقي اثنين من الأقباط من فوق الكنيسة “وهو مالم يتسن للبديل التأكد منه&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;وقال مصدر أمني أن قوات مكافحة الشغب استخدمت العصي والقنابل المسيلة للدموع ضد المتظاهرين الذين كانوا يحتجون على أمر بوقف البناء في مبنى خدمات تابع لكنيسة بالمحافظة وان المتظاهرين ردوا بقذف القوات بالحجارة.وأضاف أن الشرطة حاولت تفريق المتظاهرين بعد أن أغلقوا لنحو ساعتين شارع الأهرام المؤدي إلى المنطقة الأثرية غربي القاهرة. وقال مصدر طبي أن المصابين نقلوا إلى مستشفى أم المصريين القريب لعلاجهم&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;وأشار شاهد عيان أن قوات الأمن اعتقلت ما يقرب من 25 من المواطنين الذين تجمعوا حول الكنيسة وان الاشتباكات نتج عنها سقوط أكثر من 15 مصابا بين الأقباط بعضهم في حالة خطرة مشيرا إلى أن الأمن يحتجز أطفال داخل الكنيسة..وقال حنا فتحي ” أخويا مينا بين المصابين اللي تم نقلهم المستشفى بس أنا دلوقتي اللي يهمني هي الكنيسة أخويا كده كده هيخف ” وتساءل فتحي “كنيسة طالعة بتصريح وفاضل السقف يحاولوا يهدموها ليه ماهو يا البلد دي تدينا حقنا يا إما يفتحوا لنا الباب نسافر ”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);  font-family:Georgia, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://elbadil.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/P241110_10.09_011-430x250.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://elbadil.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/P241110_10.09_011-430x250.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 430px; height: 250px; &quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;من ناحية أخرى قام اكثر من 200 من الأقباط المتواجدين بالكنيسة بعد مهاجمة الأمن لها بالتوجه إلي مبني محافظة الجيزة للتظاهر فمنهم الأمن واعتدي علي بعضهم ، وقطعوا شارع خاتم المرسلين بمنطقة نصر الدين لمدة ساعة  ووضعوا صناديق القمامة أمام السيارات  ومازالت الاشتباكات قائمة حتى الآن&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;وقال شهود عيان أن الاشتباكات حالت دون وصول عدد كبير من الأطفال على مدارسهم بينما أغلقت بعض المدارس أبوابها أمام الأطفال معلنة عن أجازة خوفا من تصاعد الأحداث&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;وكان عدد من أهالي العمرانية قد بدءوا في التوافد على كنيسة السيدة العذراء ورئيس الملائكة ميخائيل منذ ثلاثة أيام بعد تردد أنباء عن الخلافات بين الحي ورعاة الكنيسة حول أعمال البناء الجديدة في الملحق الإداري التابع لها وشارك المعتصمون في أعمال البناء بعد أن قامت قوات الأمن بالتحفظ على سيارات المواد الخراسانية الجاهزة ومنع دخول أية سيارات لمواد البناء شارع الإخلاص الذي تقع فيه الكنيسة&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;وفي محاولة منهم لاستيعاب الغضب  قام الأهالي بتعليق لافتة كبيرة للرئيس مبارك يعلوه الملاك ميخائيل والسيدة العذراء ومكتوباَ عليها “مطرانيه الجيزة كنيسة رئيس الملائكة الجليل ميخائيل والسيدة العذراء .. شعب الإخلاص بالعمرانية يؤيدون راعى الوحدة الوطنية وقائد مسيرة السلام , بنحبك يا رئيس كل المصريين ونؤيد خطوات الحزب الوطني” وموقعة هذه اللافتة باسم شعب الكنيسة&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;وكان سمير بهنان أحد الأقباط المتواجدين بالكنيسة قد قال لموقع أقباط متحدون أن المحافظ طالب الآباء الكهنة بإرسال التعديلات الجديدة وتقديم طلباَ رسمي بها ليحصلوا على الموافقة, إلا أنهم لا يملكون الوقت لتلك الإجراءات ومما ساعد على ذلك عدم تواجد الأنبا ثيئودوسيوس أسقف عام الجيزة داخل مصر لأنه متواجد الآن في ألمانيا , وأضاف بهنان أن الأقباط لا نهبوا ولا سرقوا ولا حرقوا منازل أحد بل أنهم أرادوا التعبير عن غضبهم بشكل حضاري فقاموا بوقفة سلمية , وأوضح أن هناك عدداَ من العمال المسلمين يشاركون فى أعمال بناء الكنيسة&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;وقال خادم بالكنيسة ” كنا  نتمنى أن يساعدنا رجال الأمن لا أن يقفوا ضدنا , ونحن نحب كل الناس وأخوتنا المسلمين لأن هذه هي رسالة المسيحية ولكن هذا لا يمنع حقنا في الحصول على مكان نصلى فيه خاصة أن أقرب كنيسة تقع على بعد خمسة كيلو مترات&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;color:#333333;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;font-family:arial;color:#333333;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2010/11/blog-post_24.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Fouad GM)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-122142256056896343.post-347183019161932321</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-23T17:46:48.487-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">afghanistan</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">business</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">entrepreneur</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">intercontinental</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">kabul</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">lebanese food</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">lebanon</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">rabbani</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">taliban</category><title>Random Ramblings : a taste of Lebanon ... In Kabul</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;I started off my evening today when I came across &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aawsat.com/details.asp?section=4&amp;amp;article=596456&amp;amp;issueno=11683&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;this piece&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt; on the Saudi-owned Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat. The article is seventh in a series of articles entitled &quot;The Endless War: The Birth Pangs of Afghanistan&quot;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;   style=&quot;  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aawsat.com/details.asp?section=4&amp;amp;article=596217&amp;amp;issueno=11682&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Yesterday&#39;s article&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;, the sixth in the series, spoke of women journalists and TV anchors and their fears of imprisonment behind burqas and in their husbands&#39; houses if the Taliban would come back to power. But today&#39;s article was much more interesting - at least to me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;The article, subtitled &quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aawsat.com/details.asp?section=4&amp;amp;article=596456&amp;amp;issueno=11683&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;The Intercontinental: A Witness to History&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&quot;, tells the story of Kabul&#39;s famous five-star &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.intercontinentalkabul.com/&quot;&gt;Intercontinental Hotel&lt;/a&gt; *&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt; on Kabul&#39;s imperial &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=34.536629&amp;amp;lon=69.1252577&amp;amp;z=17&amp;amp;l=0&amp;amp;m=b&amp;amp;search=intercontinental%20kabul&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Khiyabun Bagh-e Bala&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt; (Boulevard of the Upper Gardens). The article explains how the then-trendy hotel stood witness to some major turning points in modern Afghan history - first, falling to the Soviets who transformed it into a headquarter for their command in Afghanistan in the 1980s; then a command centre for the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;mujahidin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt; forces of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Shah_Massoud&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Ahmad Shah Massoud&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;. After Massoud&#39;s defeat in the mid-1990s and the invasion of Kabul by the Taliban, Intercontinental Kabul became a hotbed for Ossama Ben Laden and Al-Qaeda&#39;s so-called Afghan-Arabs, the warriors who volunteered to join Al-Qaida in the struggle against the Soviet invasion before becoming the biggest threat for the United States. The Intercontinental today has become home to international journalists, international businessmen and US and Western politicians and statesmen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2009/11/kabul_city_number_one_part_5.html&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Adam Curtis wrote&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt; more on &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2009/11/kabul_city_number_one_part_5.html&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;BBC Blogs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt; about the history of the Intercontinental Kabul and its building during the reign of modernising dictator and King Muhammad Zahir Shah.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);   font-family:Georgia, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/intercontinentalcolouralt.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/intercontinentalcolouralt.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 360px; &quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;The Intercontinental Kabul in the 1970s, prior to the Soviet invasion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;The article instigated and intrigued me to a few more readings on Afghanistan and guess where I ended up? Another article on the Saudi-owned Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat about another posh hotel in Kabul. This time, the hotel is the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.heetalplazahotel.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Heeta Plaza Hotel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;The article, also from today&#39;s newspaper, is entitled &quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aawsat.com/details.asp?section=54&amp;amp;article=596311&amp;amp;issueno=11682&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Lebanese Restaurant: A Magnet for Foreigners in Kabul&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&quot;. It tells the story of a Lebanese restaurant that has attracted Kabul&#39;s visitors. The Lebanese entrepreneur behind the project, Kamel Hamada, is a Lebanese émigrée from the Druze-majority town of Ba`aqlin, in the Chouf range of Mount Lebanon. The restaurant lies metres away from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.heetalplazahotel.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Heetal Plaza Hotel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;, a five-star hotel owned by business tycoon and son of former Afghan President, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbani&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Burhanuddin Rabbani&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Rabbani is currently the leader of Jamiat-e Islami Afghanistan. Formerly, he served as president in post-Soviet Afghanistan between 1992 and 1996 beforeserved as the political head of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Islamic_Front_for_the_Salvation_of_Afghanistan&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt; (UIFSA), an alliance of various political groups who fought against Taliban rule in Afghanistan. Today, the Rabbani family are more renowned for their international business enterprises and partnerships.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Aaaaaanyway. Leaving my ramblings about the mixture of religion, tradition, militias, arms, politics and private business gains aside ... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Like the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.heetalplazahotel.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Heetal Plaza Hotel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;, Hamada&#39;s &quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);  font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.internations.org/guide/view/6257&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Taverna du Liban&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&quot;, is located in the upper class neighbourhood of Wazir Akbar Khan*.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);   font-family:Georgia, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3122/3198139129_15d84709d8.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3122/3198139129_15d84709d8.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 275px; &quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Villa on sale in Wazir Akbar Khan, Kabul (by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/34394326@N04/&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;naweed2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;According to Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat, Hamada started his business in Kabul, under the Taliban. He proudly and jokingly remarks that he liked the challenge and &quot;after all, the Taliban had no enmity with Hummos, Tabouleh or Baba Ghannouj.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;The fall of the Taliban in 2001 and the emergence of new economic activities and classes in the capital city after their demise, reflected positively on Hamada&#39;s restaurant which has become the most famous and most prestigious restaurant in town. The restaurant has become the &quot;coolest&quot; hangout in town today. Guarded by bouncers with kalashnikovs, &quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);  font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.internations.org/guide/view/6257&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Taverna du Liban&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&quot; is frequented by foreigners working for international agencies as well as NATO forces as well as the Afghan elite.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);   font-family:Georgia, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aawsat.com/2010/11/22/images/daily1.596311.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.aawsat.com/2010/11/22/images/daily1.596311.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 280px; &quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Traditional street-side kebab-sellers in Kabul (Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;The interesting thing the article barely touches upon, is the impact &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);  font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.internations.org/guide/view/6257&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Taverna du Liban&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;and its likes have on the poorer immigrants and less fortunate Afghans running kebab stalls on the streets of the capital. For many of them, livelihood in the country was disrupted and migration to the city hampered by the economic grip of business tycoons and their foreign partners. Their only hope was finding a place in a parasite economy that developed on the economic peripheries of Kabul. And since 2001, many made a living off of kebab stalls and small traditional street-side restaurants. The aspiration was to overcharge the occasional yet lucrative foreigner.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;I wonder if Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat can even tackle such a question?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;* Does anyone else see a resemblance between the Intercontinental in Kabul and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/fouadgm/5021214151/in/set-72157624890269807/&quot;&gt;Holiday Inn&lt;/a&gt; in Beirut?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;** &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=34.5432396&amp;amp;lon=69.1804362&amp;amp;z=15&amp;amp;l=0&amp;amp;m=b&amp;amp;search=wazir%20akbar%20khan&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Wazir Akbar Khan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt; is an upper-class neighbourhood and home to Kabul&#39;s bourgeoisie and foreign embassies since the first half of the twentieth century. It is also the setting for a large part of Khaled Hosseini&#39;s novel, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kite_Runner&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;The Kite Runner&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://reflections-of-a-nomad.blogspot.com/2010/11/random-ramblings-taste-of-lebanon-in.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Fouad GM)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3122/3198139129_15d84709d8_t.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></item></channel></rss>