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Follow Up : Pre 4th of May Strike
2008-04-29 19:11:00
This is the main national news of the day The Muslim Brotherhood group is going to participate in the 4th of May strike  to celebrate the President's birthday in the most suitable way. I think the MB thought that it would not harm either ways they will be arrested and they will be attacked and after been accused of planning the 6th of April strike even when they had no hand it ,so it is either ways The MB had to participate in this strike , we can't deny that its popularity was affected by the decision which many disapproved and considered as evidence on the unclear MB nature of having under the table deals with the regime , still we were all surprised with the unjust military court rule in the infamous MB members trial. Anyhow I welcome them , some people do not want them , on the contrary I want them to join the strike because in the end they are Egyptians and this is strike for Egyptians to participate in On the other hand the puppet parties like Al Wafd started ...
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The day routine
2008-04-29 18:25:00
The IDF launched an operation against the Palestinians in Gaza and as usual most of those who were killed in that operation were civilians; including the family of Abu Maateq at Beit Lahia ; a mother and her five children who did nothing wrong except may be they were Palestinians eating their supper when they found the IDF attacking and shelling their home !! Only one little girl  7 years old Shaima survived the attack taking her share from wounds and losing her mommy and her sisters ; the oldest one in her sister was 5 years old, her sisters were aged from 1 to 5 years old "1,2,3 and 5" This is a slide Show containing very shocking images. The photos of the little girls  in the morgue are terrible ,at first I thought that I am used to seeing these photos thanks to the IDF routine killing of civilians especially children and I will not be not sad with eyes on the break of crying but I think I am just a human , I could not take it especially when I see the body o...

Follow UP : The Canadian Agrium blackmail
2008-04-28 18:11:00
The Canadian Agrium does not want to give up and stop operating its toxic factory in Damitta , the factory is not operating anymore but the greedy company is trying to have the last word despite the refusal of the people of Damitta and its governor.Last week the CEO of the Canadian company had talks with the prime minister ,strangely the meeting was attended by the Canadian Ambassador , I know that the company is Canadian but why he attends a meeting like this ?? Is the Canadian Ambassador with the company against the people ?? Is the Canadian Ambassador in Cairo agrees on polluting our environment for the sake of his native company !!??A question : would Mr. Ambassador agree on having a similar factory with similar wastes in his own country , threatening the Canadian environment , threatening its forests,rivers and oceans !!?? If the situation was vice versa , Agrium is a huge Egypt ian company and it wants to build a factory that will threat environment , will the Canadian people ...
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What we eat around the world
2008-04-28 11:18:00
This is a very nice and interesting pictorial report about the diet of average families around the world . Take a look to the size ,diet and price of the family. Egypt is represented here by the Ahmed Family from the working class consisting from 12 persons ,their food expenditure in the week is L.E 387.85 that is $68.53 . Looking to their food I knew that some of it is subsided Click here Anyhow we are much lucky than other people in the world , you can see that in the report. Technorati Tags: Egypt,World ,Photos,Food,eat,Society ,cultu res,Economy,international
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The Jubilee of the UAR: on a personal level ?Nahed Riyad?
2008-04-28 11:08:00
Today is Sham Al Nassim "The Spring day in Egypt " and so I will keep it light today :) The union between Egypt and Syria whose 50th anniversary passed in Silence in both countries and very few people remembered ; was not a fiasco on the public’s level like the political level, on the contrary it depended on how the idea was appealing to the people in the first and last place, the charisma of Nasser and how the Arab Nationalism was as rebel as a wild horse like the Syrian Poet Nizar Qabbani once described played an important role to unify the feelings of two people to accept the idea of becoming one. I do not know why I remember a lady that I have never seen in my life whom I only heard about when I began to read more and more about this important event. Mrs. Nahed Riyad, An Egyptian Cairiene lady who was born in 1930s , she was a friend to my grand mother from the French School “Saint Vincent et Saint Paul” ,a sweet brunette petite young girl whom in...
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Happy Easter ....but
2008-04-27 13:34:00
Happy Easter to all the Eastern Christians who celebrated it through this weekend and today Warning : The following is direct attack on the Pope Shounda III ,so if you are a devoted Egypt ian Orthodox Christian , Please bear in your mind I respect your religion and Church but the following is not an attack against your religion Still I feel so sad and angry from what the Pope Shounda said and did this Easter from praying for Mubarak to have longer life !! and warning his people from listening to those vandals over the Internet who will be sent to hell !!?? For your information there were restricted orders to the Islamic and Christian religious men from the regime to warn and make the people scare from joining the 4th of May strike. For the Muslims this is something usual ,I know from long time that the speeches of the Emam in the Mosque in our neighbourhood are approved by the security , so I do not care much for what they said , not to mention that the religious men in Islam d...
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The El-Ghad X-Generation
2008-04-27 12:58:00
The El-Ghad party was thought to be destroyed after the unfair imprisonment of its founder and leader Dr.Ayman Nour and the struggle and fight over the leadership between Nour's front and the regime's front yet I think it came out of the ashes just like phoenix  , the liberal party is not dead yet and it is operating effectively thanks to the younger Generation s in the party. The generations which joined the party after the arrest of Ayman Nour , who joined his front in the party. To prove what I am saying I found out that many of the young people who were arrested because of the 6 April strike are member in El-Ghad party. You also should remember both Israa Abdel Fatah and Balal Diab are members in the El-Ghad party I just notice this and I thought I would share it with you. I think Ayman Nour is proud of his children in the party. Anyhow Here is the clip from Mona El-Shazely's interview with Balal Diab , I share the prediction of Mona that this young man will be s...
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Even the POWs
2008-04-26 13:02:00
Even the injured POWs in wars are not cuffed in their hospital beds!! The photo is not from war field and it is not for an enemy trooper but it is for an Egypt ian in Mahalla injured and currently is accused by the security forces of vandalising the city !!! This is against the law in Egypt just a nice question : Where will he go and he looks so ill ?? Technorati Tags: Egyptians,POWs,Photos,Mahalla,6 April Strike,News,Citizen Journalism,democracy,Human rights,Mideast,Middle East
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Fouad is free.
2008-04-26 12:26:00
Fouad El-Farahan ,the Saudi Blogger who was arrest since last December in Saudi Arab ia was Free d :) Congratulations for Fouad and his family. Hopefully all the other bloggers detained in the Arab world will be free soon and return to other families especially Tarek from Syria . Technorati Tags: Saudi Arabia,Fouad Al Farahan,Blogging,Middle East,News,Freedom of Expression,Mideast,Arabs,blogging,blogs,S yria,Tarek Biassi
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Follow Up : Pre-4th of May updates.
2008-04-26 12:00:00
Ok here are the updates and news concerning the upcoming 4th of May Strike insh Allah. The main official parties declared that it will not participate in the Strike , these main official parties are Al Wafd and the Progressive unionist party I do not know yet about the the Nasserite and Karma parties but I think they may decline under the security pressure. The MB position from the strike is not clear yet ,as usual they will postpone it to the last moment , I think now after the unfair imprisonment of their members they should participate still this group has its own calculation. Kafya announced that its official participation in the upcoming strike officially opposite to what some newspapers announced today. The regime is fighting the Strike in a pro-active way ,warnings and attacks in its official media outlets. I feel that the regime may block Facebook in the end of the time despite the fact the technology minister denied this and also let's not forget th...
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Syrian 'Reactor Site' Photos Faked
2008-04-25 23:34:00
Because I did not buy it easily the first time they announced !! Bush is trying to replay the Iraq game with Syria , Lebanon instead of Kuwait, Hezbollah instead of Al Qaida and now the North Korean Nuclear reactor for non peaceful uses instead of WMD "I think N.Korea had it shares also in this fairy tale" Already I do not know what Bush is trying to do now , he has only few months in the office and clearly the world and the middle east especially is in no need for more tension , Iraq is enough. It is no wise to attack Syria because Syria of Al Assad is not Iraq of Saddam Anyhow I found these photos in Jeff Rense Conspiracy theory website, it is not bad to check these sites ,You can find sometimes truth www.data4science.net Syrian 'Reactor Site ' Photos Faked Click on the link and check the photos I do not have to comment , the Syrian Ambassador and blogger in  the United States said it well , it is ridiculous talk  Technorati Tags: Syria,North Kore...
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Scream Balal
2008-04-25 12:37:00
The official media has left Israa alone and started its attack since last week indirectly against the daring university student who embarrassed the prime minister in Cairo University. The story started last week when Ahmed Nazif was a guest of a lecture in Cairo University as part of its centennial  celebration of its inauguration. Nazif spoke with the students , I do not care what he said because it is in the end repeated boring speech about what he is doing to the country , the  challenges we are facing and the importance role of youth "I was surprised to find someone actually listening to him " anyhow during his boring lecture ,a very interesting thing happened , a young student broke the silence in the hall when he scream "Release the detainees , release the detainees Release Egypt Release the youth who stood beside you in Davos* The University is great , the education process in Egypt is great,the bread loaf and democracy are there ,...
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Who is exactly the bigot here ??
2008-04-25 10:56:00
Israel's UN ambassador calls Jimmy Carter 'a bigot' , I do not why and how dare he to say such a bad false accusation , what Carter had done to become bigot , and for which party he is biased to?? Is this the new charge after being anti-Semitic !!?? This shows you  how biased and unwilling to Peace Israeli officials are . They only want Peace according to their terms . Carter since the beginning made it clear that he went to sit down with Hamas and the Syrians to find a way to put an end to the missiles and the attacks against Israel !! Is it because the man treated Hamas and the Syrians as humans !!?? is it because he attacked the inhuman siege of Gaza and described it as a crime ??? Is it because the man is talking about Fair Peace that suites all parties?? Or is it because he managed to reach to near Peace initiative Promise from Hamas  when everybody failed !!?? Technorati Tags: Jimmy Carter,Palestine ,Hamas,Israel,UN,USA,Amer ica,United States of America ,Syr...
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The Jordanian 4th of May
2008-04-25 00:00:00
To my dear Jordanian friends is that true that there is a call for strike in Jordan in the Facebook on the 4th of May 2008 because of the increase in prices ?? wow our President Mubarak's birthday will be a regional one , if this happens it will be a real historical strike in two countries. I do not know much about the internal affairs of Jordan but I know one thing Egypt is really the leader of the Arab world. Technorati Tags: Jordan,Egypt,4th of May,Arab,Regional ,Mideast,Facebook,Democr acy,Economy,citizen Journalism,Middle East,Mubarak
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Do not blame Israa !!
2008-04-24 23:45:00
Israa Abd El-Fatah was released yesterday at 8.30 PM and strangely she made an appearance in the national TV that same day in El-Bit Batik ,I have not watched but as soon as I knew she made appearance in that pro-regime TV show I knew that what she would say would shock many. As I expected the girl appeared on the TV show saying that she was sorry regretting what she had done and that she did not expect it would go this far. I know it is shocking but let's agree something ; she is not an actual activist nor political leader , she is a simple Egypt ian girl who spent couple of weeks in a nightmare in jail , I will not dare to guess what happened to her there or what kind of pressure was practiced upon her or what kind of blackmail she and her family suffered from in order to be free from jail. Do not judge Israa now. Do not expect her to speak now about her terrible experience. Do not expect her to become an activist. Israa will come in TV shows now thanking the officials from ...
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No country for old women !!
2008-04-24 20:45:00
With an apology to No country for Old men "by the way the title was changed in Egypt because it seemed to be offensive to our traditions and culture that respect old people despite the fact if you read this post you will know that this just an assumption and no one respects old people in Egypt as it should be anymore" Amal Fahmy , a Media icon not only in Egypt but in the Arab world and I would dare to say not only in the Middle East but in the Whole World. Amal Fahmy is from the early generations that worked in the Egyptian Radio even before the revolution. Her program "On the corner" is from the longest running programs in the Egyptian Radio since the 1950s till now. She was from the people who discovered Abd El-Halim Hafiz in that program and even appeared in his film "Nights of Love" in 1950s as the famous Amal Fahmy ,this woman hosted the stars of the Arab world in her show from Presidents to ministers to celebs to Queens like Queen Farida , th...
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Follow Up : Israa
2008-04-24 10:25:00
Israa is currently as I hinted before in the Qantar women Jail in Qalyubia Governate. She is said to be in the Crimes section with criminals , not with the political prisoners according to her lawyer Mr.Amir Salam!!Also I read in Masrawy.com that Israa is sick , she was transferred to the jail's hospital, she is suffering from high blood pressure "hypertension" I hope she is fine now and that she will be released soon To be fair today Al Masry Al Youm Chief in editor Magdi Al-Glad wrote a very power criticising column concerning her Update#1:I found another news in Masrawy.com saying that she was released from jail by the orders of interior minister after the rapid and dangerous deterioration in her health still I could not find any confirmation concerning this news from any reliable sourcesUpdate#2 : Israa was freed last night at 8:30 PM Cairo Local time according to the news Technorati Tags: Israa Abd El-Fatah,Women,Egypt,Cairo,Protest,democr acy,Freedom,citizen Journalism,Egypti...

The new Governates maps
2008-04-23 20:33:00
I do not know but I think some people will be interested to see the new maps of the new Governates , the new borders of the Governates. Anyhow here it is from the Egyptian Government portal , look I criticise the government all the time but fair is fair their electronic portal is not bad in fact it is good. It is a PDF file in Arabic includes six maps , the first one is for all the Governates that had been changed ,the second is for the new Governate of Helwan , the third is for Giza,the fourth is for Cairo, the fifth is for 6 October and the sixth is for the Arab Republic of Egypt :) Technorati Tags: Maps ,Egypt,Governates,Giza,Cairo,Helwan,6 October,Websites,Portal,E-Government,Mide ast,Middle East,Africa,National

Interesting fact Mr.Carter
2008-04-23 18:51:00
Former U.S President Carter , the Peace Maker said a very interesting fact in his lecture in the AUC at Cairo last Thursday "I wish I were there". He spoke about the American aid to Egypt as it started in his time. He said that President Sadat did not request any sum of money at all , he did not request any weapons at all , all what he had requested was the Wheat for the Egyptian people as they were exhausted from War and the population was increasing year after year and that's what he took from the Americans : Wheat. So from this I understand that Mubarak changed the rule and requested financial and military aid starting from Reagan's cabinet !!?? Egypt is the second country after Israel in the size of the annual American aid . The sum of money we took from the Americans can build a whole nation.As Egyptian people the American aid is useless to us "not the Wheat" but the money, we do not see any change because of it. Now the American aid is used by the ...
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What you know !!??
2008-04-22 20:54:00
A new spy was caught in the United States , he was accused of spying and giving secrets of nuclear weapons, fighter jets and air defense missiles to Israel during the 1980s !!! His name is Ben-Ami Kadish; as you see he is a Jew and he believed that he was helping Israel according to his confessions. The FBI reached to him I think through Jonathan Jay Pollard as it turned out both men were reporting to the same Mossad handler. Connecticut-born U.S. citizen ; Kadish worked as a mechanical engineer at the U.S. Army's Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center at the Picatinny Arsenal in Dover, New Jersey. He started to spy from year 1979 to 1985 still his contact with the Mossad did not stop there , the last contact between was last March through the phone, it seems to me that when ever he knows a valuable information he shared with that handler who is very interesting personality "oh boy as if you are reading a novel for John LeCarre." The Israeli Mossad H...
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Zemanta
2008-04-22 20:45:00
Zemanta is Firefox add on which adds to blogging platforms like blogger,wordpress and Typepad more options from adding articles from wikipedia and from all the internet ,photos from flickr , links based on words and even labels. It is a great add on , but there are short comes1. It is for Firefox only.2. It is for English language only.3. It only works when you write specific number of characters. "300 Characters"4. I hate that Zemified buttonTo tell you the truth I rarely use the HTML editor of blogger.com because I use instead Windows Live Writer all the time , even in my wordpress blogs , it was only recently I began to use the rich editor in wordpress because they developed it so much , not to mention the attractive GUI , still I love WLW because of the plugins features , you can add endless stuff in your post through it but fair is fair I think Zemanta is not that badBy the way I am not only testing Zemanta in this post but I also testing the scheduled post feature in Draft blo...

The UAR Trivia
2008-04-22 14:52:00
This is very late post, please pardon me, I should have posted before, but I wanted to find a very special stamp I proudly own which was issued from 50 years ago for this occasion , already I saw it in that nice Syria n blog from 2 months ago and I know that I have it. I wanted to add it here and this is why it took all that time because I kept searching for it over and over till I found it, it is never too late to share it with you, this is number one reason of why I am posting this post now Reason Number two I need these light nice info from the past, I do not know why may be it is nostalgia By the way this comes in the memory of the independence of Syria These are funny light information about the United Arab Republic: Among the members of the Syrian military group  that worked against the Union was Hafiz Al-Assad; he worked against the Union while being stationed in Egypt and he was detained by the Egyptian authority after the break up in 1961 . "Strangely Mu...
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UAR Stamp [Flickr]
2008-04-22 14:20:00
Kodak Agfa posted a photo: From 50 years ago this stamp was issued for the declaration of the United Arab Republic between Egypt and Syria
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On the Earth's day : A victory for Ras El-Bar
2008-04-22 09:57:00
Ok today is the Earth's day , the 22nd of April , many blogs around the world is dedicating their posts today to speak about environmental issues and this is what I will do , I will speak about very good news , very promising to all the green world supporters. The people of Damitta have won the battle against the ugly Agrium factory. The factory stopped its operations and the news is saying that they will announce tomorrow the transfer of the factory to another place. Yes they will leave Damitta; Ras El-Bar is saved folks The bad news they are going to transfer to another location on the coast of the Red Sea to pollute the area there and threaten nature and sea life there. Anyhow I am happy for Damitta and its people. Already I think what happened there is historical , for the first time the people succeeded in doing something like this to stand against a company and against a terrible regime and succeed . I am so happy because actually the people of Damitta they were the...
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Another stupid presidential decree
2008-04-21 22:21:00
President Mubarak issued another stupid presidential decree in the weekend . Mubarak decided to divide Egypt more and more municipally , he divided the Governates in to another new Governates , new Governates came to life like the 6 of October Governate  and Helwan Governate !! Some areas were taken from their old Governates and included in other Governates. People are very angry especially the locals , you may have heard that the people at the Baharia Oasis were so angry and protested , about 5000 citizens in this very far away place because of the new arrangement that made them follow the Mania Governate instead of Giza ,  of course the interior ministry had to deal with the protests by its way , they sent their infamous anti-riots forces there , thank God the army was not involved. The Security forces went there to secure the iron mines , oh yes we got Iron mines and the security was afraid that they would be closed The people protested because according to the Pr...
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Follow Ups: The Badr I Vessel
2008-04-21 21:23:00
Because some think that the missing vessel was found , the son of the captain spoke  again after the incident of the French Yacht and how the French Navy interfered to rescue the crew and the passengers and to arrest the pirates by the orders of Sarkozy. People till now the Badr I Vessel is still missing and the families of the crew know nothing about their men at all , whether the Egypt ians or the other Arab nationalities on the board of the vessel. The son of Captain El-Battouy suspects that the Vessel was taken by the American Navy from the Red Sea. To tell you the truth I think the disappearance of this vessel has something to do with its cargo , I do not think that it was carrying only cement cargo , except of course it was attacked and stolen by cement pirates !! To refresh your memory please check these links from the archive: Egyptian X-Files : Badr I Egyptian X-Files : The Badr I saga continues Follow Ups : The University strike and the Badr I vessel ...
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Follow Ups : The Shaha victim
2008-04-21 20:34:00
Do you remember the Shaha boy who died because of torture in a police station last year ?? The family believed that he was killed because of the torture but the official medical examiner said otherwise leading to the closing of the case in the favour of the police.  well good news people the mother of the boy , the simple maid from the country side did not give up even after all that time , even after all the offers and threats she received. The General attorney ordered last Sunday the re-opening of the case despite that the first attorney in Mansoura closed the case. This is victory because the General attorney is higher than the district attorney. There is still hope for justice. To refresh your memory please check these posts : The Shaha boy updates. More Videos of the Shaha Boy. More about the Shaha Boy. Technorati Tags: Shaha boy,follow up,citizen Journalism,democracy,National ,human rights,middle east,mideat,Africa
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Follow Up : Israa
2008-04-21 19:46:00
Ok people here is what I have read about Israa Abd El-Fatah , you know that she is missing and no one expect the security authorities knows where exactly she is. I read in the newspapers today that she is currently in the Qantar Women Prison ,her arresting warrant was reissued after the General attorney decided to release her thanks to the emergency laws. It turned out that Israa is the first woman to have a warrant by her name specifically from 27 years , the last women to have this warrant were in the infamous September  1981 arrests !! It seems that Israa is a real danger in the security point of view!! Today morning I was going to cry when I found out that the mother of Israa Mrs. Fatima Ahmed Rashed had published a plea in the first page of Daily Masry El-Youm to President Mubarak , his wife and the interior minister to release her daughter !! It is kind of sad and heart breaking , the peaceful lady wants her daughter back. From a Mother with broken heart on h...
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Dear Perez
2008-04-20 19:26:00
Thanks to my new visitor from Alexandria , I knew that the most hated blogger in Hollywood Perez Hilton , the so-called Queen of Media opened his fire on Egypt and its government because of the imprisonment of some homosexuals in Egypt from couple of weeks "pardon me for not following the case extensively like the western media because I felt that the Straight Israa and others from straight men and women imprisonment was much important and disgusting" . I will not go through what this ignorant idiot said in his sick blog where his gay fans base were happy about but I will say one thing I am so happy , in fact I am thrilled that Egypt my country is no longer in Perez Hilton's list of countries to be visit,I am so honoured in fact. Dear Perez go to hell P.S : where is Zahi Hawas from the crab Perez said in his sick video ?? Technorati Tags: Egypt,News,Gays,homosexuals,video,Society ,Media,Egyptian Life,Mideast,Middle East

H&M and Juicy Couture at last in Egypt
2008-04-20 18:30:00
I can't believe it at last H&M and Juicy couture are in Egypt !!! Oh boy oh boy oh boy !! H&M has now an official branch in City Stars and Juicy Couture is available in some ladies high class shop in Heliopolis , for those who interested , the Juicy Couture Pet collection is there !! Strangely I saw the opening of the Juicy Couture in Egypt in some English Life style magazine and I was surprised that all the ladies who were in the opening where above 40 years old !! Juicy Couture is made for much younger girls , this is the policy and its target market. Already Juicy is known to be expensive in the United States. Look I do not hate that these fancy brands to come and open branches in Egypt but now !!?? our economic situation is not the perfect one , of course these brands are target the very rich class in Egypt , this small class. On the Web : H& M Eg website You know sometimes I feel that one day we will have a real hunger revolution a very strong one that wil...
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