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Quran Marriage and Muslim nuns 2007-07-27 05:00:00 From time to time due to ignorance some strange things appear in one place and move to another place in way not less strange like those things themselves Here I am thinking about the strange new mode in Pakistan that people talked about from some time ,the Quran
Marriage It seems that in some places in Pakistan Girls marry the Quran !! Do not even ask but as far as I understood the Girls who marry the Quran are not supposed to marry any human being till the day they die , already young men are scared even to propose to them otherwise they will be cursed In other simple description we got here may be the first case of Muslim
nuns , they marry the Holy Quran , I do not how exactly as the Holy Quran is a book Of course those who did this are saying that it is an example for the complete devotion to God despite there is it was clearly obvious order in the Islam sorry there is a clear obvious prohibition of monasticism in Islam , in fact I don't how those ladi
Some people don't learn from their mistakes 2007-07-31 16:37:00 العربية نت - واشنطن تبحث تقديم مساعدات عسكرية لمصر بقيمة 13 مليار دولار The news in Arabic says that Washington is thinking in giving a military aid to Egypt that is equal to 13 billion dollar in next 5 years in order to create an Arab force that can counter the Iranian force The United States want to create an Arab force from Egypt and the Gulf against the axis of evil twin Syria and Iran , strangely I don't know why they include Syria , with my all respect the Syrian army is well known to be not as powerful as the Iranian , may be they are considering the fighting spirit of the dear Syrians and this is something we can not deny that the Syrians are one hell of fighters and warriors Anyhow I believe that history repeats itself , you know the song history repeating , it is the same thing , I feel that we are again in the 1950s and 1960s but our role as Egypt,the official state is changed The United Kingdom in the mid of the 19 Read more:people
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Theological war between the Egyptian Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church 2007-07-31 08:52:00 The RomanCatholicChurch
is one which started the fight more publicly when It announced that it was only righteous church of Jesus on the earth that it owns the keys of redemption ,well the EgyptianOrthodox
Church had to fire back Pope Shounda in his lesson last Wednesday denied that Saint Peter was the Jesus Original disciples and the spokesperson of the apostles which made the Catholics in Egypt very angry from Pope Shounda Pope Shounda is building his assumption on the fact that there is nothing in the Bible says that Saint Peter went to Rome , but on the other hand the Catholics say also the other 11 apostles were not mentioned either in the Bible so why the Pope of Alexandria puts ST.Peter in his mind ?? And that on the same way there was no proof that St.Mark did not come to Egypt either !! of course the Catholics did not leave the opportunity without underestimating St.Mark As you see this is just another theological war between the Coptic Orthodox churc Read more:Theological
Polls results 2007-07-31 07:49:00 First of all the first poll : Do you think the congress will decrease the amount of the American aid to Egypt ?? The answers were : Yes ,they will Who cares ?? Bush will stand against them 33 voters shared in this poll The results
were: 42% "14 voters" believed that they will 30% "10 voters" did not care 27% "9 voters" believed that Bush will stand against them well anyhow I don't think the decreasing the annual amount of aid or increasing it because it turns out the United States is going to give us 13 billion dollars as military aid in the next 10 years to confront Iran Source Now to the second poll , the longest poll I had in my blog Will Gamal Mubarak be the next president of Egypt ?? The answers were : Sure he will May be who knows ?? No way 329 visitors participated in that poll which actually was for several months now The results were as follows 49% "160 voters" believed he will 29% "97 voters" believed that it was no way 22% "72 voters" believed that it Read more:Polls
Save the river Nile 2007-07-30 03:52:00 We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children A Native American proverb On Friday the 13th of July ,I went on a walk early in the morning then in a small tour in the car just before the prayer And I stopped to take some perfect shots to the Nile and the other side of Cairo countering the Zamalak Island from the Nile City towers side , it looked so great the two giant towers from one side and the wonderful old Imbaba bridge Yet I was shocked when I found the garbage in the Nile along to the shore and its water floating , it was surprising , here I was standing in Zamalak , a high class area , or may be it is used to be high class area , the location were I was standing was just near the Bulgarian Embassy or Ambassador house ,you know the villa , the Spanish casa style Anyhow beside taking photos for the beautiful scene I insisted on taking several shots to see the level of disrespect to the Nile ,the river which we were blessed to have ,I mean I
Is it the Irony of fate or what ?? 2007-07-29 14:34:00 Strange news I read today , very strange ,it is more ironic ,you see it turns out that the Presidential Palace at Kobba is threatened by the Groundwater !!!! Seriously and the President is scared on the gardens of the palace as they have collections of rare plants from all the over the world that he asked the immediate help of the Agriculture,irrigation and environment ministers !! It is at the same time people across the country are suffering from water shortage in the middle of hot summer ,it is at the same time people are fighting to get water Before anyone goes and tells me the importance of that Palace I will tell that I know it very well and there is a real care for the Ex-Royal ,Presidential now palaces there will be problem This is not a good time to publish such news , I mean this sounds from luxury , three ministers and planet experts where as the people are fighting from clean glass of water !! This reminds with me with Marie Antoinette I am afraid You can Read more:Irony
I am so thirsty ,guide me to the Sabil 2007-07-29 05:22:00 I am so thirsty girls , guide me to the Sabil "The water well" عطشان يا صبايا دلونى على السبيل An old Egyptian folk song "Sabil" is a water well used to be built in the Islamic age in public square , you can till now find it in Turkey and in Greece المصرى اليوم The thirst revolution is continuing in Egypt , escalating to the limit that you can expect much more anger that can reach to revolution and strike if the government does not solve the problem fast and permanently , because people can't take it any longer Unfortunately the Egyptian government seems to be in vacation despite the orders of the president , it seems to me they think that as soon as the heat wave decreases people will forget their thirst !! well they are very optimistic ,really because not only we are still going to have another two hot summer months to come August and September but also we should not forget that the holy month of Ramdan is just on the d
Travels with Smarty! 8/1/07 2007-08-02 20:38:00 Travels
with Smarty! 8/1/07 Mark Fiore on the American military aid to Egypt and Saudi Arabia , it is so funny and agrees on what I was saying before I love the part he hinted to the Iranian-Iraqi war I love the way he draws Mubarak with it ,it is so funny not to mention what he considers him Technorati tags: Mark Fiore, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, American aid, Military aid, politics, cartoon, comics, mideast, middle East
Some good news at last: Cairo University is the only Arabic university among the best 500 in the world 2007-08-02 20:07:00 I remember from couple of years when I was in Cairo
University that most professors were so sad when the list came and Cairo University , the first National Arabic
University was not there in the list,it was sad from them as professors and for us as students ,well students who are really care and know how important this university to Egypt and what it presented from Graduates who built this nation and shared in building this modern world Well it turned in the last two years we made it to the list ,yes we are in the same place and it is low one but it is good then nothing We are in the 403 rd place from the best 500 university in the world We are the only Arabic University Seven Israeli Universities made it to the list and I am surprised ,the Israelis got excellent Universities and research facilities Where as 5 African Universities made it to the list, 4 in South Africa IN the best African Universities list we are the third in the continent after two South African universities Wel
When Amina Razek turns in to Nadia El-Genndy 2007-08-02 02:26:00 If anyone is not going to be in the next cabinet ,I am sure that he will be the minister of Justice Mahmoud Mari' e ,I am sure of that , the man really caused lots troubles with the judges , made things worst , of course when they chose him in the first place as punishment to the Judges . The regime thought that it can control the judges through him ,to weaken them but instead his choice made the judges more stronger and more persistent to get back their rights The man is so so so rude and arrogant , seriously so rude that you make you wonder how on earth he was chosen as councilor judge in the first place !!?? Already there was no friendship or no connection between him and the Judges' club what so ever , you will be surprised to know there are other channels between the Judges' club and the regime"directly the presidency" , it was rumored that one of these channels was the E.I itself , where as the channel of the minister was already closed since day one he swore the oath , again Read more:turns
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Prince William invites Harrods heiresses to Diana memorial service 2007-08-01 17:33:00 PrinceWilliam
invites Harrods
heiresses to Diana
memorial service This is really a classy act from Prince William
, well for sure he did not forget that he spent that summer of 1997 with the Fayeds and I think he reached to age where he can understand the anger of Mohamed El-Fayed from his family Anyhow I won't speak about Diana and Dodi now nor the conspiracy theories regarding their murder here nor their doomed love but I will speak about the young heiress I don't know but I am surprised that the Egyptian Press did not find its way to Paris Hilton's friend in London or her sister , but I remember in her father only interview with an Egyptian Channel "Dream TV" he said that he did not want media near Jasmine whom by the way looks like her father Jasmine works as a fashion designer by the way ,also Camilla , you know rich girls like Fashion The one who is said to be going to the memorial service is Camilla , the hard brain daddy girl , the Paris Hilton Friend Camilla
From East to West of Egypt , the smell of anger 2007-08-01 12:30:00 People in Egypt
are having one hell of a summer , summer of anger
,it is so frequent to hear that there is a protest here or a strike there and it is no longer in Cairo only In fact it is more common to hear there is a large unorganized protest in villages led by the people themselves outside Cairo in the Governates Just take an example of Tuesday ,a huge protest in Donshawy , then there are still strikes for the water shortage in West Delta , in Cairo there were strikes in front of the Parliament and in front of the Cabinet but with no sign of hope Strangely that has been the daily routine in the news and that's why I stayed away from politics, the new thing today is the anger wave reached to its peak in the east to west of Egypt on both borders , oh yes on both borders first of all in Al-Arish , the police again clashed with the People of Al-Arish ,after their protest on the destruction of their homes on the borders for the sake of the securit
The New Nazis in Siwa 2007-08-01 07:04:00 A theft happened from couple of days in Siwa and so the heads of the tribes took one of the suspects to the police station where he was met by another infamous torture party in order to make him confess that he did it , but he did not and so the sadistic officers put on him inflammable substance and then .. they throw a match on him .......they burned him alive , the kid who is less than 20 years suffered from huge burns , I believe it could reach to the 3rd degree he was going to die and so to escape any criminal charges the officers ordered a detective "It is not in the same rank as the detective in the U.S , it is lower in Egypt" to get rid from the body , they thought he was dead and thus he put him in some sort of a bag and crossed the Libyan borders to leave the kid dying in the high way of Bani Ghazi , the kid was saved by the divine miracle when he was found by an Egyptian driver also from Siwa whom transferred him again t Read more:Nazis
Search for the water 2007-08-05 22:04:00 Now all those who got brains in their minds in Egypt are searching for the reason of the sudden shortage of water
across Egypt this summer The main reason of course to be blamed is the poor water infrastructure , the reason which made us wonder where all these millions billions that were spent on the watering and irrigation projects go in the last 25 years But it turned out that there are other reasons , possible reasons The Golf playgrounds , in the last couple of years many Golf playgrounds were opened in the new communities ,compounds and resorts Already there are very important environmental concerns about the Golf playgrounds Another thing I don't know what this fashion suddenly appeared in Egypt , Golf playgrounds , Egyptians don't play Golf , I am sorry even the aristocrat class in the pre-revolution era did not play Golf ,King Farouk did not play Golf , it is a Nouveau riche stupid fashion, do not forget in the last 25 years Social climbers exceeded so much in Read more:Search
The Maadi Crocodile and the Camal Serial killer 2007-08-05 08:58:00 Seriously these days we hear in Egypt strange stuff, it became a daily routine and in the end you will wonder what happened to this country and its people !!?? Do you remember the Maadi serial killer ?? The man who killed nobody but got the name of a serial killer for attacking the butts of girls in Maadi ,the man that till now the police could not catch and suddenly the media forgot him and he became a folk myth proving that the whole thing could be a government fabrication , a public stunt to keep the people from following serious stuff well now we had the Maadi Crocodile
!! Suddenly last month we heard that there is a Nile Crocodile on loose Swimming in the Nile terrifying the Nile fishermen !! Do not ask from where this crocodile suddenly appeared , already I know there are crocodiles in Lake Nasser which are really terrifying the fishermen who got bored from asking the government's help , but how on earth the Crocodile will swim all that way including crossing the Aswan high Dam Read more:Serial
More information about the Siwa torture victim 2007-08-04 17:23:00 Well first of all this post includes more data correction for what was mentioned in the Previous post regarding what had happened in Siwa Oasis ,there are many mistakes , I am sorry about but believe me I took this information
from the media It turned that the theft that happened was the theft of electric cables three weeks ago,the heads of the tribes helped the police and promised to get who ever would be a suspect on the condition that they release the innocent and arrest the guilty First the victim
name is Yahia Abdallah Ahmed , 24 years old , a farmer in the Siwa Oasis , his uncle is the head of the tribe "El-Zanyam", Yahia was a suspect and the police requested him and so his uncle ordered his father immediately to the Siwa police station When the young man arrived to the station the head of the investigation department himself interrogated him with his deputy , both of them kept pushing him to confess that he was the one who stole the cables despite he did
Egyptian illustrators in Drawn.ca 2007-08-03 23:31:00 I may not be an illustrator and my drawing sucks but I love illustration so much and I guess you knew that I love design and art too so it is not a strange thing to find a website like Drawn in my bookmarks Without any further introduction yesterday I was so happy to find a post about the Egyptian
illustrators , those talented ,very talented young illustrators in the front page of Drawn these young artists just like any talented Egyptians need more attention Technorati tags: Illustrations, cartoons, Cartoonists, comics, drawn, design, illustrators, graphics, Egyptians, Culture, arts
As if there were no unemployement in Egypt 2007-08-03 21:44:00 Reason and logic say that if you have no unemployment then you should open your door for imported employment ,this is what Reason and logic say But if you are in a country with the highest unemployment rate in the region that exceeds every year and with a trouble economic situation you should do not go for the imported employment of course again this is what the Reason and logic say but because now in Egypt
it seems Reason and logic are in vacation especially when it comes to economy And that's why : There is Indian and Bengal Employment in Port Said in the free zone working in the textile factories ,working beside the Egyptian workers taking higher wages than them with no different what so ever in their production There are Italian workers in Mohendessin putting the shops signs now !!?? I understand why we accept the existence of white collar imported employment , in fact we need it in certain fields BUT Imported Blue collars ?? what is wrong with this count
Metropolis 1927 2007-08-03 21:09:00 Before Star wars and Forbidden Planet there was Metropolis
1927 I found about this treasure film by accident ,already I know that I saw scenes in it the promo of the famous TV Show "OSCAR" in the channel Two when I was a kid I began to dig more and more about it because I love the following : Art Deco of the 1920s style The Futuristic films The political-social films The Sci-Fi Films The visual effects in the films The wonderful story Black and white film You will be surprised that this silent film was may be the first Sci-Fi presented in the history of the cinema in the world and you will be surprised more with the visual effects and techniques that were used in that film It is enough to know that it was the most expensive film produced back then , as far as I read this film costed what it is equal 200 million dollars in year 2005 back at its time Strangely it was not produced in Hollywood , no Hollywood did not produce these kinds of films , it was produced in German
The real face of the Lebanese sectarian appeared at last 2007-08-08 13:15:00 Seriously I never trust any of the civil war princes in Lebanon , like the Gameyals ,Jonbalt and Geagea , there is too much blood on their hands and they do not regret it , there is too much hate inside them towards the other sects and they are trying hard to hide ,but they can't ,it is in their language and is in their actions , it is too obvious You want a living proof ,well you only had to watch an episode of a political TV show on LBC where they hosted former President "Amin El-Gameyal" from the phalanges who lost the elections in the Metn Christian populated area"his base" to Aoun' FPM candidate Dr.Kamel,if you remember I told you before that the former president went mad when he knew the final results of the elections that he accused immediately of having an election fraud,well this was before he knew the reason behind his loss It turned out that the Lebanese
Armenians were the reason behind the loss ,this minority was the one behind the 48% of Dr.Kamil , the mi
Please go to the Egyptian POWs.net immediately 2007-08-07 14:35:00 Please if you understand Arabic ,I ask to go to visit the Egyptian
POWs.net immediately , exactly the the film section and to be accurate just visit this new page in the film section At last I found the very important Al-Jazeera documentary "Top Secret: The Way to Atlit" , this documentary can be a strong evidence itself as it includes the confessions of the Israelis whether from the historians and war veterans It is in Arabic now but I am working on adding English subtitles to it This is the first documentary about the Egyptian POWs and it was rarely aired after its first show time in Al-Jazeera Technorati tags: Egyptian POWs, history, 1967, 1956, wars, human rights, war crime, Israel, Egypt, documentary, Al-Jazeera, TV, media Read more:Please
Aquafina Egypt is from the tap water too 2007-08-06 23:03:00 Of course you heard the news saying that Aquafina, the mineral water
of Pepsi is not mineral after all , it is regular normal water from the tap , this is in America folks not in Egypt
The news found its way to Egypt and now the General attorney decided to investigate their water source in Egypt ,well it turned out that it is not different from their in America , again tap water , ironically I like this water brandThis did not stop here , it turned out that the company is collecting back thousands of the water bottles back to factory in a very rare move in EgyptAnyhow the big surprise in Egypt now is that "Nestle" company is also using tap water yes it turned out they are going to mention their source too , anyone lives in Egypt will know how popular Nestle water in it , it is like Evian , oh man I saw Dr.Mustafa Mahmoud himself from two years ago in Metro market "at Gamat El-Doul"buying more than six bottles from this water brand !! Man when our water filter was broken we were livi
The online Description of Egypt 2007-08-06 22:45:00 I can't believe myself seriously , this is a treasure I found by accident , I don't know why on heaven and earth they did not announce it more publicly The Bibliotheca Alexandria opened a website that includes the magnificent encyclopedia of the Description of Egypt
"Le Description de l' Egypte" online
for free , The whole original book in French with the complete set of text and wonderful graphics about the history of Egypt I believe some of you may not be familiar with "Le Description de l' Egypte" ,mes amis c'est un francais grand livre ,sorry my friends this was a great French book made by the scientists and researchers who came with Napoleon's expedition about modern and ancient Egypt This book was the first in the modern age to describe Egypt whether its history ,its ancient history , we are talking here about the first nucleus of the Egyptology or its society , the society of that time , the French were very interested in the Egyptian life at that time
Lebanon rivals claim poll victory 2007-08-06 02:06:00 Oh Lebanon
my favorite small country in the Arab world , I wanted to speak about the first Lebanese annual anniversary of the grand Lebanon July 2006 war but I was busy in several stuff including celebrating our own revolution ,still I can't keep myself away from the Ciders country more than that. I come back to Lebanon through the polls results that are causing lots of stir in the country .The poll was about who was going to be the successors of the two assassinated anti-Syrian Pro-government politicians late Pierre El-Gemayel and Walid Eido The main battle was on who will take the place of late Pierre JR, in the area of Metn , the Christian populated area , where the battle was between Amin El-Gemayel, the father of Pierre JR and former president and Kamil El-Khoury Michel Aoun's candidate of the FPM The battle was on the Christian chair on the Parliament ,El-Khoury won in the elections yesterday proving that the FPM is winning more hearts and minds in the Christian str Read more:rivals
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Review : Jesus Lost tomb 2007-08-11 10:05:00 I think I promised you that I would talk about The Jesus
Lost tomb as soon as I put my hands on it and as a woman of her word I will insh Allah I downloaded the controversial documentary through the P2P to be honest , an excellent DVD version from the original first airing on the discovery channel as I don't expect to be aired at all in Egypt "already the press and Egyptian orthodox Christians considered it another Israeli Zionist attempt to defame Jesus and the middle east "well it will be also considered very critical not only for the Christians but the Muslims in the region as they have their share on the theory that the film makers want to prove" If I want to be logic to speak about it then I must take the same path they used to prove their point of view in the documentary that is the scientific path , the language of Science , the language of mind and modern time , they were very clever in using this path because they wanted to p
Giuliani's daughter backs Obama, then backs off 2007-08-10 16:33:00 This is so funny , imagine your own daughter does not support your nor your party and supports your political rival and your rival party !! It seems that Giuliani
's daughter Caroline favored Obama
as a President more than her father before changing her opinion publicly , she seems that she does not want to be the first daughter ,this surprises me in her age But may be she is paying back to her dad after his old treason when he was married to her mom Or MAY BE SHE is smart Newyorker girl who knows that Obama is really better than her own daddy Of course Rudy made her leave the Obama facebook group and now she is in the Giuliani's team otherwise she won't get a penny from him as easy as that Giuliani's daughter backs Obama, then backs off - USATODAY.com Technorati tags: Rudy Giuliani, Obama, America, Presidency, elections, news, facebook, geek
Anonymous commenters: Thank God you are visiting an Egyptian Blog 2007-08-10 08:06:00 Really sometimes I feel that we are in bless in Egypt compared to other countries for the Internet censorship , I mean comparing to country like Syria and the regime's decisions to limit the Internet usage or blogging to what the Egyptian
regime's decisions then we are in heaven I mean look to this decision the Syrian regime had taken , the translation says that "according to the Syrian ministry of Culture and telecommunication all the Syrian publishing sites must publish the complete names and emails of the writers and commenters ,if not then there will be a warning to the owner ,then there will be a temporarily withholding then complete withholding" !! Wow it did not stop here as the minister of Culture and Telecommunication "I thought that they are separate ministries , I mean in most countries they are !!" defended his decision claiming it is for the protection of the country "of course" and reliability of the news ...bla bla bla The minister s Read more:Thank
Somewhat if that man marries that woman 2007-08-09 16:23:00 I don't know why the press and news website in the Arab world are so curious about the marriage of famous actress Laila Eloui and businessman Mansour El-Gamal Is it because she is an actress and he is a businessman , the famous combination ?? or is it because she is younger than him ?? or ...is it because he is the uncle of Khadija El-Gamal "Mubarak" now ,the wife of Gamal Mubarak ?? oh yes the groom Mahmoud El-Gamal a 63 years old widower millionaire living in Belgium is the brother of Mahmoud El-Gamal ,Khadija El-Gamal's father The marriage was supposedly a secret but the independent newspapers and the tabloids knew about and since than the media circus began , already Laila is a very beautiful actress and surely the tabloids will love some much to find out that she married secretly to some old business man , oh boy this is the will be the talk of the town but to marry someone related to Gamal Mubarak , well this is the real talk of the town. Ironically w Read more:woman
Can we repeat the Turkish Scenario in Egypt?? 2007-08-09 01:30:00 Of course you saw just like what happened in Turkey from two weeks ago , when the Justice and Development party won for the second time the elections and Regab "Recep" Tayyip Erdogan became a prime minister for the second time to the Secular country. It was so impressive whether from the democratic process or the respect of the law but most important is the Islamic party won for the second time in the hardcore secular country to prove to the west that there is no fear if Islamic parties came to rule AKP seemed to learn from the mistake of its parent party Welfare party and seemed to understand that they are facing many challenges ,in fact they came in a very critical time in the history of Turkey with the invasion of Iraq and the growth of the Kurdish threat from one side and the negotiations to join the EU from another side On both levels that are very important to the Turkish
citizen , the AKP succeeded and kept Turkey as a main power in the region , powerful player and here we are t Read more:Egypt
Send them to the UNICEF 2007-08-14 10:56:00 I found these disturbing , very disturbing images ,I could not wait to post them , they must be spread everywhere , please do it , please send them to the UNICEF
The photos that prove the continuous lying habit of the interior ministry ,the photos of the 12 years kid who was dead as a result of torture The photos are shocking , too shocking,I was going to post them but I do not have much time ,here is the link from dear Wael Abbas who is thankfully posted the photos with the statements of the mother in his website , unfortunately it is in Arabic These photos were taken 12 hours before the boy's death , he was still in Pain The photos at Misr Digital Please someone forward this to the UNICEF May ALLAH "SWT" give patience and strength to that strong really Egyptian peasant lady against those tyrannies Technorati tags: Egypt, Democracy, Police torture, children, violence, politics, human rights, middle East, north africa
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