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Follow Up : The Zaitoun massacre
2008-05-31 21:53:00
It started to make headlines in international newspapers as the four Christians massacre in Egypt . With my all respect all those campaigns in the radical Christian blogs do not help at all because for the first time the Egyptian police takes seriously and does what it should do : Serious investigation. For the first time the police conducts a serious investigation and rolled out the possibility someone lunatic killed those people , I will not speak about the possibility of a terrorist act because it is not , it is a straight crime. More details are published in the newspapers today especially Al Dostor . The details more and more prove that it was some kind of mafia , or a crime organization style murder. You want the truth , can you handle the truth ?? as I hinted it is more about the Gold shop owner , the jeweller , late Mr.Makram , May God bless his soul ; it turned that he has another side we do not know just like person in this earth , it turned out that he was usurer fa...
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A drop of life you are wasting
2008-05-31 12:32:00
In our holy Quran "Allah" SWT says "We create from Water everything life."All the experts are saying that we are heading towards a Water Crisis in the future , all the experts are saying that all the wars in the future especially in our regions will be not for oil or land or even Peace but for Water. It is something you can understand easily , water is the most important thing in life ,it is the essence of life .But of course we do not listen to all these warnings , they are just newspapers talk . Here I am not talking about environmental issues but I am speaking about a national security issue in Egypt .Last summer most Egyptians were shocked to know that there are other Egyptians in the valley who do not have access to Clean water , despite all the years of repetitive "In the time of President "X" all Egyptians have access to clean water and electricity !!" Those Egyptians do not have access to clean water where as a minority of Egyptians in the north Coast use water for their swi...
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Boycott Dunkin Donuts in UAE
2008-05-30 14:37:00
Dunkin Donuts ,the America n Donuts famous chain has pulled an ad featuring Rachel Ray in the TV because she was wearing an Arab scarf or Keffiyeh after the criticism of some Conservatives in the main stream media. They thought that Ray was wearing a "traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad" Now believe it or not Non Arabs in the United States are angry because they think that it is against freedom , how can a Keffiyeh be a source of danger and a TV commercial is pulled because of it , I mean I would not have noticed what she is wearing except after this. Keith Olbermann called for a boycott to Dunkin Donuts calling the chain the worst person !! I feel so angry despite I am not a Palestinian , but may be because I am an Arab. I have enough from this disgusting hate to us. What Palestinian terror they are speaking about those ignorant fanatics ?? That colourful traditional head scarf is wore in all of north and East o...
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I am just saying
2008-05-30 10:23:00
I found this photo for Suzanne Mubarak , the current first lady of Egypt and I could not believe the facial resemblance ... Suzanne Mubarak first lady of Egypt in 2006 Ex-Queen Nazli Sherif of Egypt in Rome 1965 attending her son King Farouk of Egypt's funeral .I will leave it to you P.S I do not compare Suzanne Mubarak on any other side except the facial resemblances , the first lady is much respectable from the first Queen , this is something I can not deny Technorati Tags: Suzanne Mubarak,Queen Nazli,Nazli Sherif,Nazli Fouad,King Farouk,1965,Egyptian Royal Family,History,Middle east,Mideast,Hosni Mubarak,Gamal Mubarak,First lady

Stop this madness
2008-05-30 10:22:00
Ok I can't take no more from this madness ,I was planning to post something either about Palestine or about Egypt regional political position but I think it is my role to stop this madness.Last Wednesday at 12 AM Cairo local time, Zeitoun neighbourhood in Cairo was a witness to a strange crime I think Cairo and Egypt did not see like it for a long time , it could be the first from its circumstance , I heard about it from my grand ma who watched it in the 6 News on National TV , I was amazed when I found that our ETV sent a reporter to the accident scene , but then my grand ma told me that it was a terrible unique one ; two persons killed four person in a Jeweller shop ; the owner and his aides and ran away. At the middle of the day , in front of all those people in a working day "Wednesday". Immediately I considered it as an arm robbery in the middle of the day due to the bad economic situations in Egypt , already there are not so many arm robberies in Cairo but I expect them to...
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Jimmy in Fox
2008-05-29 20:24:00
Our own Gamal Mubarak or Jimmy made another exclusive interview in World Economic circus with Fox News "how it can exclusive and already he made several interviews here and there !!" As you can see the reporter won't be from Fox if she did not ask Mubarak JR about Iran, this is the first question , already I do not know why he is speaking about Iran , it is an external issue and he is not official member in the cabinet . Another thing I noticed that he always uses the word "Challenge" over and over ,whether in his Arabic or English interview ; Iran is Challenge , Peace Challenge , economic challenge , there is always a challenge facing this man !!!?? Again I found him aggressive judging on his body language. What can I say ?? Enjoy the show of your favourite Jimmy in your favourite GOP Channel Technorati Tags: Fox News,Fox,Media ,Video ,World Economic Forum,Sharm El-Sheikh,Gamal Mubarak,Egypt ,Hosni Mubarak,politics,interantional,democracy, News
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60 years : A Road Map
2008-05-29 19:38:00
David Ben-Gurion made it clear in 1948 when he said A Christian State should be established {in Lebanon }, with its southern border on the Litani river. We will make an alliance with it. When we smash the Arab Legion?s strength and bomb Amman, we will eliminate Transjordan too, and then Syria will fall. If Egypt still dares to fight one, we shall bomb Port Said, Alexandria and Cairo ? And in this fashion, we will end the war and settle our forefathers? account with Egypt, Assyria and Aram That was David Ben-Gurion from 60 years ago; it was not just a plan for a war or for country but it is like a new map for the Middle East 60 years before the new Middle East maps even appear. That old plan was full of confidence despite the fact the Zionists were not actually armies but gangs , that old plan was full of old history despite that then it was in the 20th century, that old plan was full of biblical terms with emphasis to old prophecies despite the fact that founders of Israel , that fir...
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Mengistu the red
2008-05-29 12:48:00
Yesterday I read in the news that Ethiopia's Supreme Court sentenced former ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam to death in absentia for his role in the Red Terror. I really laughed because this is the first time I read something about Mengistu.Pardon my ignorance but I only hear his name when my family brought up the famous funny presidential moments of President Sadat. President Sadat used to refer to Mengistu as red Mengistu due to his Marxist beliefs. President Sadat used to attack him a lot. Anyhow putting a side the nickname given to him , I think red is not only symbol of Marxism but for blood in his case. The sad thing in the red terror is that it is not the Mass murder operation in Africa ,it is repeated over and over. Just FYI I believe that we should pay attention to Ethiopia after all it is from our national security to secure the Nile ,already Mohamed Ali Pasha and his grand son Ismail pasha understood that. Technorati Tags: Mengistu,Ethiopia,dictators,dictatorship, Af...
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More and more scandals
2008-05-28 19:09:00
Poor Bush !! He is trying to leave good memory in the White House  but in vain . The former press secretary Scott McLellan at the White House in the Bush administration is releasing a very controversial book at about his years in service in the White house with Bush. Already Some excerpts were published in politico this morning and let me tell you that this book will be the talk of the world not the town only. The Bush former loyalist is attacking the White House while Bush is still there !! From the invasion of Iraq to Katrina to CIA Scandal to  pre-presidential years. The America n political  Websites and blogs are crazy about it and I am not amazed . You can pre-order his book from Amazon here Amazon.com: What Happened Regardless of what is said ,a side topic , this is what I call Freedom of expression.In my country if someone plans to publish a similar book like this , he will be either sent to jail ,defamed or won a ticket to London where he will be ju...
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President Carter and the Israeli Nukes
2008-05-28 17:38:00
President Carter is continuing on breaking all the taboos and is saying the truth about the Israel Nuke arsenal , of course many people do not like this , truth hurts sometimes but here is the former president of the United States is saying what we have been saying as Arabs for more 60 years ; watch out for the Israel Nuke arsenal people !! They have 150 nuclear assorted weapons from bombs to rockets to submarines ,you name it but no one care , the IAEA does not inspect nor demand an inspection nor the EU and America n administration impose sanctions on Israel !! Thank you again President Carter for saying the truth , we do not need anything except the truth , we do not want you to condemn the inhuman siege of Gaza , but just say the truth. 150 Nuclear assorted weapons and what is hidden can be greater like the Arabic classic proverb !! With my all respect the IAEA should stalk Israel instead of Stalking Iran, Syria and all other Arab countries with Nuclear ambitions with Isr...
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If You know the reason
2008-05-28 17:29:00
Q : why had the Egypt ian government renewed the activation of the Emergency laws for another two years ?? A: Because the future terrorism law does not include any protection to the regime for the strikes, it does not recognize strikes as an act from terrorism banned by law where as under emergency laws it can be banned by the orders of the President "Despite the fact it will be illegal " Q : what is the significance of the two years period ?? A: After two years ,we will be in 2010 , the end of president's Mubarak presidential period ,where it is expected than he will not renew and will abdicate and his son Gamal will take over It seems that the strikes are now the new threat facing the Mubarak regime scaring them after the success of the 6th April strike "this is a success, this fear". Now on a daily basis in Egypt there are strikes across the nation mainly in the factories and there are protests some where in front of something. The culture of Strikes ...
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Food Diary of the Guardian : Cairo
2008-05-28 16:59:00
There is a special report in the British Guardian newspaper about Food prices crisis in the world , Yesterday I found out it was Cairo's turn in the report. Chris McGreal and Jack Shenker did a fantastic job in transferring the bitter image of the situation in Egypt , already no Official media journalist dares to transfer the image like this from the working low class Jack Shenker is sharing with the whole world the diary and the diet of an Egyptian simple working class family "The Arabys" in one single week. Chris McGreal posted a podcast and a video with a feature about the bread shortages ,hunger and unrest in Egypt. Please read it, listen to it and watch it because the coverage is fantastic , I tell you that Al Ahram does not dare to publish something like this , after all Al Ahram and co. say that the latest economic decisions came to save the class of the Arabys and Hoda "featured in McGreal report" !! I just want to clear something the food prices cr...
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Follow Up : The Jewish delegation
2008-05-26 22:13:00
This is a follow up to my post " Then Compensate everyone including the Egypt ians"  as I have found more information relevant to the the topic. It turned out this delegation is formed from a group of Egyptian Jews who are living in Canada "it makes it Canadian", this delegation was going to stay in Alexandria ,already the association of the Jewish community is there. They were invited by the Israel i Embassy. They were not planning to demand a compensation for their nationalized properties but they were going to demand the Jewish antiquities from old Torahs which is in the custody  of the high supreme council of antiquities, the thing which also Egyptian state refuses and I am with that refusal.These stuff were found in Egypt and they are Egyptian and should stay in Egypt . For God Sake in the same way Egypt is entitled to restore its statues from Syria , you know the ancient Egyptians invaded old Syria and there are many ancient Egyptian antiquities the...
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The new face of Lebanon
2008-05-26 20:08:00
The new president of Lebanon Michel SolimanGeneral Soliman in the 12th elected President of Lebanon since the independence. Here are some family photos for him and his family after being a president Here is with his mother Josephine , I think she is so so so happy that her son Michel became a president Here is with his family , the first family in Lebanon now for the next 6 years From left to right His wife , the Lebanese first lady Wafaa, then his daughter Rita , then him , then his second daughter Lara and his son CharbelGood luck to Michel Soliman , already I liked his balanced speech yesterday in the Lebanese Parliament. This is man may be like what America and Israel wished him to be , he mentioned Shabaa farms as a Lebanese occupied land that he would work on restoring it back . That meant too much to me because it is important that we should forget Shabaa is a Lebanese land Also I respected him so much when he stressed the fact that Lebanon will not be a substituted country f...
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Sorry Comment moderation is back
2008-05-25 20:05:00
I feel so sad to turn my comment moderation on again for the same reason I turned on in the first time , I can't accept all this ill harassment , I can't take any more nonsense from sick person who no surprised idolized dictators and tyrannies and disrespect other races. I am sorry ,really sorry but I do not have that type of personality to answer these insults from that sick rude crazy person I apologize for any inconvenience
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One more year
2008-05-25 19:36:00
The emergency law is expected to be renewed for another one year by the orders of Mubarak and approval of the Parliament !! It seems that it will never expire !!?? Already I heard a very fearful future scenario from an activist friend that Mubarak wants the two laws : The future terrorism law and the current emergency law to work in parallel at the same time  so there would be no gaps !!?? Look I do not know how correct is that theory but I can't deny that Mubarak and his regime will not refuse such ultimate control. For your information the Terrorism law was supposed to substitute the emergency law after the later was active for the last 27 years since the assassination of President Sadat . The government was supposedly to finish the terrorism  law this month but it did not . Thank God there is pseudo terrorism act here and there to justify the renewal ,it is better to be clear ,it is good they stop to fool around with the people , because people are not longer f...
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Then Compensate everyone including the Egyptians
2008-05-25 18:49:00
I read that there are a group of Jews who used to live in Egypt pre-1960 are demanding the Egyptian government to pay a huge sum of money "millions of US$" as a compensation for the nationalisation of their properties in Egypt. It is not the first time I read this , in fact from time to time I find in the media there is a certain Jewish association which is going to sue to the Egypt for a compensation but this time it is making a lot of noise with the expected meeting that is going to take place in Alexandria "I read that it was cancelled and the delegation  from Canada was not coming for compensation !!" Look whether this is true or not I just want to say something ;the Jews of Egypt were not the ONLY people who were nationalized. It was everyone from the A rich class of Pre-1952 era whether Egyptians or Foreigners ; of course Foreigners were nationalized in 1956 including the Jewish Foreigners especially French. When the laws of land ownership limitation ...
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At last there will be a President for Lebanon
2008-05-24 12:31:00
I can't believe that at last Michel Soliman will be the President of Lebanon at last and I can't believe that Presidential palace will receive him with his family tomorrow. On the other hand  I do not think that that will be the happy ending of the conflict in Lebanon because as long as Hezbollah got its arms ready for Israel , Syria is not under the American control and the political leaders in Lebanon are from the kind of Jumblatt,Geagea and Gemayel; Lebanon will always live in the shadow of the civil war. Already you can see Paris now is criticizing the Doha agreement saying that it did not reach to nothing regarding the arms and telecommunication network of Hezbollah , Washington welcomed the agreement in a very weak way. The 14th of March team had to reach an agreement with opposition because they were in the weaker position , they lost the ground and they could not play more diplomatic games with opposition because Lebanon reached the point with no return from two ...
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Ayman Nour and Samir Kuntar
2008-05-24 11:53:00
Samir Kuntar is the most famous Arab political prison in the Israel i  jails, he has a life sentence to serve in Israel that crosses 100 years, already the Lebanese Druze did military operations in which the Israelis considered terrorist acts “To be honest I read his case from the Israeli and Arab perspective and to be honest I do not know whom I shall believe”. Samir is considered the oldest Lebanese prisoner in the Israeli Prisons and he is on the top of the Hezbollah Lebanese prisoners list to be free in exchange with the Israeli captured two Soldiers “Do you remember them??”. The Israelis refuse to let him free in the POWs exchange operations except for information about Aron Arad . Ayman is a liberal politician, who had ambitions to make a change in his country, after a controversial career in Political arena, he decided to have his own liberal party and even to run for Presidency after believing the illusions of free multi party presidential ...
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You know what they say about Karma
2008-05-23 15:26:00
Back to the America n Race elections, I have been away from it some time now but I can't keep myself away from it.  Do you remember the controversy that happened in American when the statements of Obama former Pastor Wright came to media with all its controversy from God damn America and the white people Vs. black people .. Obama acted wisely and denounced it . Not only was Obama facing Wright statements but also Louis Farrakhan endorsement ,again Farrakhan controversial statements regarding Israel ,Jews were another test for Obama in which I think he passed with huge success as it turned in the end. Well I believed like many people that who ever brought those statements was from the other opposite camps whether from Hilary or from McCain. Hilary and her camp with all the battles they leashed against Obama failed and it is matter of time when she raises the White flag , already now Obama is searching for someone to become his VP for the big race. Now McCain is facing the...
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Mark your calendar : Strike No.3
2008-05-23 12:15:00
Mark your calendar for the next strike in Egypt : On the 5th of June 208 Oh yes the 5th of June can be the third strike Egypt would see after the 6ht of April Strike and the 4th of May Strike. To tell you the truth I like the date , it is meaningful , our historical big defeat !! I did not receive any invitation yet in Facebook about , but I found talks here and there in the Websites and blogs People in Egypt are extremely angry from the Government's latest economic decisions to escalate prices in oil and taxes . If our people ,the Egyptians want a real change then they should stay at home on the 5th of June , which will be Wednesday ,this will send a big slap to the regime Technorati Tags: Egypt,Strike,Democracy ,Economy ,Prices,cit izen Journalism demcocracy,Life,Society,National ,Politics ,Middle East,Mideast,6th of April strike,4th of May

On the draft of a defeat : The Nakba of wording
2008-05-22 23:25:00
The name is the Nakba and if you are a frequent visitor to Arab blogs or Arab speaking English newspapers and magazine Websites, surely you met it in the past two weeks and you knew it was about Palestine ; it is term commonly used in the Arab world to describe the occasion of the loss of Palestine and founding of Israel . Nakba means in English Calamity. Its full name is Nakba 48, beside war of 48Of course you do not need to know or to guess why in the Arab world we called it Calamity or catastrophe; it is a catastrophe when millions of people are forced to leave their land so it would be occupied by another people and the world was watching and approving. Still I hate this name; in fact I hate the tradition of calling our defeats with names from the vast Arabic vocabulary because it did not change the fact that it was a defeat. If you treat it like a defeat then you can come over it and few years later you will have a victory, if you treat like a defeat it is a confession from your ...
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After 7 days ...
2008-05-22 20:54:00
After 7 days from today Egypt officially will stop working with the infamous emergency law; it will be expired and unless there will be explosion some where to be called by the government a terrorist act , Egypt for the first time in Mubarak rule will be free from it . Do not be so happy because there will be another law which is the Anti-terrorism law , I do not know if the regime will act so fast in the coming days to pass the law so quickly in the parliament and this is so easy taking in to consideration that the majority in the Parliament is from the NDP and more important that when the NDP wants a law to pass they make it pass whether we like or not even if it is against the constitution . Anyhow if nothing is imposed after 7 days as an alternative ,I will consider it as a trick from the regime to appear as a freedom lover regime in front of the west because I can't believe that this regime will live one second without it, it is like oxygen to  it , through it Mubarak ...
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His childhood memories
2008-05-22 19:20:00
My dear friend N.American Princess "who is actually a sweet and original Egypt ian Princess" reminded of something I wanted to write about from two weeks ago , again the Lebanese issue made me forget it. Gamal Mubarak made an appearance in the National Egyptian TV on its first channel in the political pro- regime talk show "Honestly" {Of course nothing honest in this show from the beginning till the ending}. As usual he was wearing his lucky blue shirt "may be he wears for fear of envy !!???"  and was speaking with all enthusiasm about our wars with Israel;the TV show was during the celebrations of Sinai Liberation and its title was about Youth and Liberation ..so it was natural thing to find young Gamal Mubarak who crossed the 40 years old and did not serve his military service for some mysterious reasons speaking about the wars !! Anyhow I did not stop at what they were saying except one thing ; the Childhood war memories of Mr.Gamal Mubarak in...
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A little giggle
2008-05-22 18:04:00
What ever you are suffering from in this dull big world , nothing can cheer you heart and soul except an innocent smile of a Child , nothing can me laugh except a giggle of a baby a nearly 50,000,000 views in YouTube , I downloaded to my computer and I can't stop myself from watching it. another one I love in YouTube Babies laugh on a strange thing but may be because they are not complicated like us , may be because they are still normal and innocent. Technorati Tags: Video ,You Tube,babies,laugh,giggle,media,internatio nal
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It is so late for that ; where have you been the past 8 years ??
2008-05-21 22:20:00
The Egypt ian official media has nothing to speak along with the pro-regime media in Egypt except the cold shoulders and showers also Mubarak and Son gave to G.W Bush in Sharm El-Sheikh these days over and over; it seems as if they liberated Iraq , well unfortunately they did not. Mubarak did not attend Bush's word nor his son only his daughter in law was there listening Bush attacking the Middle East rulers above them her father in law saying the following : "Too often in the Middle East, politics has consisted of one leader in power and the opposition in jail" Bush did not mean anyone except Ayman Nour of course , and surely Mubarak did not know the speech of Bush but he was angry from the America n's president early interview and he had a meeting with Bush the day before the speech in Sharm El-Sheikh , it seems that that meeting was not as smiling  as the two men were in front of the cameras . Mubarak speeches are always prepared in advance ,so the attack ...
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On the draft of a defeat ?Palestine 48"
2008-05-21 20:28:00
Some of you may have asked why I did not write anything about the Nakaba 60th anniversary in the past few weeks , well I did not publish anything in the past two weeks but I did write something , it is another series , just my 1956 series , my 1967 series , my 1973 series and my 1958 UAE series "some of them I did in a way that I do not like , I think that I could better especially in the 1958 UAE series" there will be insh Allah special series for 1948 , the year 1948 , the war year , the Nabka year. I think such occasion deserve a standalone series because that year changed the world not only the middle East. I did not publish anything in the past two weeks for the following reasons : 1- I am ready for the Nakba occasion since last month and I was planning to remember in the proper way not the usual sad crying over the spelling milk way. 2- What happened in Lebanon changed my plans. 3- Again repeating part of No.1, I did not want to remember in the same sad pathet...
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Another Rumour
2008-05-21 18:56:00
I heard some rumour , we can't know for sure if it were true or false but this is the nature of the rumour The Rumour is : There are certain shops in City Star ;whose clothes' price tags cross the L.E 1000 ; which actually are cover for money laundry !!?? The source of this rumour is from those who work in City Stars. Technorati Tags: Egypt,City Stars,malls,Shopping,Society ,Egyptian Life,Citizen Journalism,economy,mideast,middle East,Africa
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Please watch it carefully
2008-05-20 22:00:00
Please watch Gamal Mubarak's interview with France 24 in English and also in Arabic In the English interview Watch him carefully , watch his body language. Watch carefully the facial expression of Andrea Sanke who interviewed him in Paris , I have the feeling that she was not convinced with what he was saying. Already he did not give her a full direct answer on what she asked him and she asked lots of good important questions. In the last part he was so nervous ,so nervous , this man can lose his temper so easily Now to the Arabic interview First of all he is the first Zamalak Club fan to describe himself as Abu Tarika !!?? Second since when he has this humour ? Third the guy asked him a simple question and he started to speak about his policies !!?? Already I think the Arabic interview was after the English because I think the interviewer Tawfik "from the main Arab news anchors in the channel" started his interview with humour to make things smooth after...
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And why was he there?
2008-05-20 20:58:00
I was not surprised like many fellow Egypt ians to find Gamal Mubarak in the circus of Sharm El-Sheikh " WEF" , after all it was his circus with Ahmed Nazif. I was not surprised with his hyper active Media activity there , with his interviews with France 24 Arabic and English "For the record , he recorded it in Paris in his unjustified visit " , with Al Arabiya and with the national Egyptian T.V I was some how astonished on how bold he became to speak in international affairs and criticize attack G.W Bush boldly , it seems that Bush gave him a cold shoulder too ,Americans do not like to put their bet on a losing horse , the Shah lesson taught them this. Still it is not a surprise he needs this to increase his popularity in the Egyptian street "As if he has any in the first" But I was surprised to find him in one of the session with Ehud Barack !! I got no problem to find him in a session with Tony Blair , Blair is outside the office , what is he doi...
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