Egyptian Chronicles

What About The Dignity of Egyptians inside Egypt ??

2009-11-21T18:33:00.001+02:00

Mubarak said in his speech in front of the people’s assembly and the Shura Council that the Egyptian citizens abroad are the responsibility of the state and that the dignity of Egyptians is from the dignity of Egypt !!

I do not know what to say except that Mr. President none of this could have happen if we are enjoying our dignity as Egyptian citizens inside Egypt in the first place !!?? Please tell these words to the victims of police brutality , please them again to thousands of Egyptians abroad who haven been humiliated enough around the globe because of your economic policies for 28 years. Mr. President please these words to the families who lost their members on the borders with Israel , on the board of flight 990 , on the board of Al Salam ferry and on the board of Badr I.

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Alaa Mubarak strikes Again

2009-11-21T17:32:00.001+02:00

It seems that Alaa Mubarak has a lot to say from that bloody night in Khartoum that left so shaken and so furious , last night he did it again and called a live night news show ; this time it was the official Al Beit Batik.

This time it was much long , he was ballistic and you have something interesting quotes more than the previous time with his famous line “ They were treating us as if we are Jews killing people in Gaza”

Alaa was very angry and he told them he wanted more time on air to express his anger , he would use his right as the President’s son.He was angry from Ibrahim Eissa's Op-ed last Friday in which his brother Gamal and Ahmed Ezz were attacked. Eissa wrote that Gamal and Ezz took the first jet to Cairo leaving the rest of the Egyptians in hell. Alaa was angry despite he was not mentioned at all from near or far , he believed that this attack meant that he and his brothers were cowards despite they left with the national team in the morning. For the record most Egyptians including me thought that the Mubarak brothers left earlier thanks to the telephone call of MP Mustafa Bakery from Khartoum in that night.

It is ironic because if Alaa Mubarak bought Al Dostor earlier last night he would know that Eissa does not hate him at him as he wrote in his Op-ed “ 12 Reasons to love Alaa Mubarak”

Also if he reads Al-Dostor and other opposition newspapers , does not he read

Alaa Mubarak continued his attack on Algeria in a strange way considering his position as the first son. Alaa does not want any relation with Algeria from any kind and he attacked the generals and Pasha of Algeria !!!! Alaa will not even accept the apology of the President !!?? “What do you want then ??”

Alaa also said that if we are going to play with Algeria again in the African national Cup , there will be no woman or child , it will be man to man I believe !!

I love this quote

I told “Papa” that we are going to with the national team

I also I love the fact that he does not know the name of Khairy Ramadan and kept calling him Mr.Khalid !!

Anyhow Gamal Mubarak must hate himself because in two phone calls only Alaa won a lot of popularity among the public regardless of what you and I think about him and his family.

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Livni in Morocco

2009-11-21T16:52:00.000+02:00

Israeli former FM minister and current opposition leader Tzipi Livni is currently visiting Morocco where she spoke in some summit for leaders from Africa and Middle East.

I do not know if the Arab media highlighted this or not but let’s say that despite there is no official relation between Israel and Morocco , unofficially the the relations between the Moroccan regime and Israel are historical. It is enough to know the road to Camp David started in Morocco under the patronage of late King Hassan where Moshe Dyan used to meet Sadat’s special envoy Hassan El-Tohamai. Strangely no one has ever dared to criticize the late king or the current King too.

How could they invite Livni ?? What about her disgusting role in Gaza ?? That stupid conference was held under the patronage of Mohamed VI whom If I am right the head of Al-Quds committee !!??

I wonder if anyone dared to ask Livni about the settlements and the Gaza blockade.

On the other hand I must salute the Moroccan people who protested against her.

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A Hysterical Blogger

2009-11-21T02:05:00.001+02:00

When Israel used to attack Gaza and the Egyptian regime did not do what is supposed to do ,I expressed my views on this blog a and I was being called hysterical for 4 weeks ; it made me sad for while but I did not lose my faith and later I felt that I am doing the right thing.

I am proud of what I did then and I still believe that the Egyptian regime did not act as it should as the ruling regime of EGYPT.

Now in this Egyptian-Algerian crisis I have been called hysterical too and honestly I do not know why !! I understand who called me hysterical during the Gaza war and why and I respect them but I do not know why I am being called hysterical now. I believe that my role is to show the truth and to defend my country and people whose voices were not heard for real for a long time and this is what I am doing ; trying to tell the world and more important to the Algerians our version of the story may be they will listen to us , may be they will understand that they are being manipulated by their regime. I am not hysterical and believe it or not several times I keep myself from blogging when I feel that I am nervous and I can be biased. There are several times I deleted whole posts because I feel that I am not that objective and I am biased in it.

If You follow my blog , you will know that I always defend the Egyptian rights and insh Allah I will continue to do so. In this crisis I believe we have been humiliated thanks in the first place for a regime that made us cheap in our own country and this is why we have been chased in the streets of Khartoum by hooligans.

I believe I was and I am still more objective than many of Egyptian bloggers. I do not hate Algeria , in fact I wish one day that I will visit it insh Allah but let’s say now I feel sad and angry from those turning its people against us. I have faith in Ben Baila’s Algeria not in Boutaflika’s Algeria.

We are people with high ego believe it or not , it is kind of paradox I know ; the big riddle of Egyptian personality which no one can understand for real for 7,000 years . We are strange I admit but I think this is what makes us special , you do not know when we are going erupt.

If you think that I am hysterical , well you have to bear me for while as I was hysterical during the Gaza war.

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The Father In Law

2009-11-20T18:24:00.000+02:00

Let’s put sports aside , yesterday the court has sentenced NDPian and MP Hani Sorror 3 years in jail. I know you miss this with all the buzz and anger following our humiliating night in Khartoum but you should not wonder because there is no news about Hani Sorror himself nor his sister in the country.
If you remember from last month I wondered if he was in the country or not, well rumor says that he is currently in Switzerland.
I hope that he is leaving for his son in law actor Karim Abdel Aziz some kind of compensation because Abdel Aziz has a film this Eid season in the cinemas ; a thriller action film called "The cousins" where he portrays "An Egyptian intelligence officer fighting Israel !!!!!!!!!!!!! Ironically the GIS did not approve this film and there was a big feud between the GIS and the production company and I have to say that they have all the right because the GIS had enough from Nadia El-Genndy's shit to find Karim Abdel Aziz , the spokesperson of Coke in Ramadan an Egyptian James Bond. Of course Abdel Aziz has a bigger issue now more than the GIS and his action film , he is the son in law of a NDPian runaway businessman who should be behind bars in a very big health scandal.
Hats off to Judge Mohamedi konsowah

Here is the photo of Sorror just in case you see him whether in UK or Switzerland.

10 PM Special Episode

2009-11-20T14:51:00.001+02:00

Mona El-Shazely had to present a special episode from 10 PM on Dream TV2 last night , Mona was considered from the moderate voices that rejected the media escalation from both countries along with journalist Wael Al Abrashi who was there in Khartoum and was trapped in a restaurant for hours because of the Algerian thugs. Last night Mona was calm more than all the Egyptian TV hosts and hostesses. The TV show aired reports from Sudan itself and testimonies from people who were there including Wael Al Abrashi and Fardous Abdel Hamid who is by the way a proud Nasserite Pan Arab nationalist. I hope the world sees this episode and I wish I could translate it so the world knows that we are not fabricating anything.

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The First Protest in Zamalak

2009-11-20T13:50:00.000+02:00

I believe yesterday's protest in front of the Algerian Embassy was the first real angry protest the Zamalak island would witness ever. Thousands between 2000-7000 were reported protested in front of the Algerian Embassy at Brazil St. in Zamalak till the early hours of the day. You may remember that I spoke about Facebook invitations calling people to trash the embassy. Protestors who were mainly from young men held banners calling the Algerian Ambassador to leave the country "Get Out of Egypt" along with every single Algerian too ; of course it is unacceptable to say this , the Algerians in Egypt are most welcomed and safe ; hopefully the same thing can be said about our poor community in Algeria which lives in horror.
I think there were a considerable time of Egyptian hooligans because of the smearing cheers

There have been clashes between the protesters and the anti-riots forces in front off the Embassy ,the area surrounding the Embassy and it was badly damaged. You must know that last night protest reached to the Sakkia ceneter.
Currently there is a huge security tension in Zamalak for fear of new protests, there are blocks in the way. Already there will be a new protest soon at 2 PM.
Amr Moussa at last has spoken , he is calling the two countries to calm down. By all accounts the Presidential Statement issued last night was very moderate comparing to the public fury.
The Algerian press is attacking Alaa Mubarak calling him the teenager and the son of the real president of Egypt "Suzanne Mubarak" and that he wants to become the President of Egypt and using the defeat !! "This shows you how ignorant those reporters are because all the world knows that it is his brother not him"
Strangely no Arab country like Saudi Arabia is trying to mediate between Egypt and Algeria

Official Escalation

2009-11-20T00:02:00.002+02:00

It was supposedly to be a game but after it was over the game turned in to a Political regional crisis by all measures.

Egypt has summoned again the Algerian Ambassador who boldly from couple of days warned us from playing with fire !!??
President Mubarak met with the minister of foreign affairs today
Egypt has summoned our Egyptian Ambassador in one of the strongest move up till , one of the major points that our relations are from bad to worse with Algeria rapidly
The Algerian Ambassador is no where to be found in Egypt , I think he is starting to pack his stuff.
The security of the Algerian Embassy in Brazil St. in Zamalak is competing the security measures of The U.S , Israel and Denmark Embassies.
There have been calls to attack the Embassy since early morning in the facebook beside calls to
The Egyptian football association has issued an official statement rejecting and condemning the attack on our fans , it is expected that we will report to the FIFA
The EFA has withdrew from the North Africa football association
An Egyptian cinema production company “ The Arabic company for cinematic production and distribution” has announced that it is going to boycott Algerian festivals.

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A Night In Khartoum

2009-11-19T22:03:00.001+02:00

Yesterday many Egyptians slept earlier in sadness after our defeat against Algeria , it is a game and we know we could lose and it is not the end of the world but while they were sleeping many Egyptians all over the world kept awake till the early hours of morning watching the night were our fans in Khartoum were being chased in the streets by crazy Algerian thugs if I may say.
Thousands of Egyptians have spent their night in fear hiding either in hotels or in restaurants or in Egyptian companies HQ in Khartoum or even in the houses of Sudanese for fear they would be killed on the hands of the Algerian thugs brought by military Algerian planes.
According to testimonies these Algerians in the Sudanese stadium were not the regular Algerian fans we used to see , they did not even sing their famous “1,2,3 Algerie”. They were professional thugs who emptied the markets of Um Darman from knives ,Swiss knives and swords for complete three days. Of course we have been warned but we did not think it would reach like this especially we have lost. Already for the record many Egyptians did not go for fear of something similar would happen.
The Algerian thugs chased our fans bases and cars with stones and bottles , several Egyptians have been injured for real. The Khartoum airport seems to be I do not know what kind of word to use , may be poor despite the economy there is booming ,really booming.
The whole night the country listened to terrifying calls from Sudan coming from celebs , journalists, MPs and regular fans who trapped in the streets of Khartoum for hours and did not know where to go. I will get it here soon. There are so many
The Egyptian government immediately announced some kind of emergency situation but of course the masters of chaos made things worse. First many Egyptians reported that when they reached to the embassy they could not find the ambassador and had to go to the airport where their buses were attacked by the thugs. I wonder what could happen to them if the celebs did not call the live TV shows especially Amr Adib TV show “Cairo Today !!??
The ministers of information, aviation and health kept speaking on air in almost all TV channels to calm people down and tell them what to do.
The Sudanese authorities also suffer from this chaos syndrome regardless of what they claim , our fans had to wait in front of the Khartoum airport closed gates for hours till they were opened after our angry calls to TV shows.
Things officially began to escalate between Egypt and Algeria when Mubarak told Sudan that he would send our special forces 2 AM if the Sudanese forces can't control the situation.
You must know that an Egyptian Citizen called Marwa Abdel Karim has lost her eye , it seems that there is something about eyes and Algerians from 20 years Baloumi did the same thing to another Egyptian citizen in 1989 too.
I am so angry and frustrated.
Update :
Here is the complete episode of Amr Adib :

Breaking News : Alaa Mubarak Speaks About Yesterday Match

2009-11-19T20:44:00.002+02:00

The first time I saw media shy Alaa Mubarak speak to the media was in Ahmed Zaki’s memorial service and the second time has been from few minutes on Dream TV 1 for the first time in a very rare incident.
Alaa Mubarak , the eldest son from President Hosni Mubarak has called Khalid El-Gandor's live TV sports show to speak about his experience in Yesterday Match and what he thinks. Alaa is well known to be the patron saint of football in Egypt , he is mad about it and he is a friend to almost to all the players and coaches. Alaa says that he had to stay in the hotel along with his brother for two hours in Khartoum after the match where he saw and heard the terrifying testimonies of our fans who reached to the hotel. Alaa was angry and furious ,he said that he was not speaking as the President’s son nor does he present the official view but he was speaking as Egyptian citizen. Still for someone like him to speak so angrily on air for the first time against Algeria in this way this means there is a huge crisis between the two countries.

We have reached the point of no return as Alaa Mubarak has opened his fire on the Algerian federation , the Algerian fans and the Algerian thugs in Sudan not to mention the Algerian press and the Algerian Ambassador. “The Algerian press attacked him and his brother unfairly if I may say , it is a normal thing that they would support their country’s national team for God Sake !!”
Speaking about Alaa himself , well he is more human and more simple than his pale brother. There is a huge difference. If you do not know who he is , you will think that he is normal Egyptian football angry fan.
For the record there is huge anger and criticism to Mubarak brothers and the regime as their plane was the first one to leave Khartoum during the big chase of Egyptians in Khartoum. Angry fans called from Khartoum to TV live shows complaining that the Egyptian embassy abandoned them as soon as the Mubaraks had left the country. I do not know if he called to express his anger or calm people down honestly.
I was going actually to write a post attack brave man Gamal Cullan as in twilight’s Edward Cullan.
Regardless of the telephone call of Alaa Mubarak who spoke about stuff I can’t imagine that he would say like “Kafeya” , Gamal Mubarak thanks God did not use the golden opportunity to prove his leadership skills and win the hearts and minds of Egyptians if he had stayed in Khartoum to be sure that every Egyptian in the country has left safely to home ; thank God he did not because he does not does not deserve this opportunity as he is not a natural born leader , he is just a golden child wants to be a president.
Back to his brother , regardless of what I think of him and his family he did not say something wrong this time , there was something fishy in Khartoum prepared in Algiers officially these Algerians in the stadium were not fans but thugs brought by military planes.
Also do not freak out Alaa won’t win the hearts and minds of all Egyptians for the sake of his brother as we are not that naive .
Here is the call

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Israel Will Bomb Lesbians

2009-11-19T19:39:00.000+02:00

Fox News is really expert when it comes to the Middle East first Egypt was in Iraq and now Israel will bomb lesbians.

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Have We Reached To This Level ??

2009-11-19T19:36:00.001+02:00

News agencies are circulating news that the Algerian authorities have arrested an Egyptian on espionage !!! The source of the news is Algerian tabloid A Akhbar. I do not know if they understand the implications of such nonsense they are doing or not. They claim that that this Egyptian was spying on the oil fields !!!????

Are they kidding ?? First a Police general killed their fans and now we are spying on their oil fields !!??

This is too much , this is like crossing a point with no return regardless of all these slogans.

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Algeria To World Cup

2009-11-18T23:52:00.001+02:00

Ok Algeria has won the game and our Egyptian community in Algeria is spared from a fearful fate.

Some people believe we played a bad game ,other say that we did not play well

Some people believe that the Egyptian audience in Sudan were not those who were in Cairo , the third degree audience not those fancy businessmen and D-List actors along with the pale Mubarak brothers.

Bravo and congratulations for Algeria , of course I will be lying if I claim that I am saying it from my heart , it is hard after being attacked in the most disgusting way in the Algerian press systematically , it is hard after the fear our Egyptian community in Algeria live in that they would return to Egypt in coffins because of pure lies by all measures. It is hard because of this crack made by the lies of the Algerian press and please do not tell me Medhat Shalaby said this or Amr Adib said that , there is difference between lies and rudeness. Please do not tell your hooligans did this because in all our games in Algeria Algerian hooligans have become a real legend of terror for us and we did not complain nor did it affect our relations like this.

Many Algerians if not the majority believe that we have killed in Cairo between 4 and 8 fans , we have caused a pregnant fan to lose her pregnancy and we attacked an Algerian minister who was sitting in the VIP box with the Algerian Ambassador and the Mubaraks.

The solace of the Egyptians in this defeat is that the Algerians will spare us from their anger and their press from lies. Man we have become so weak.

Egyptians do forget insults and we have been insulted enough this time but I do not know when we will forget , at least I do not know when shall I forget !!??

A Huge salute to the Egyptian team , I can’t imagine the pressure on them. Even greater salute to coach Hassan Shehata

I have once read wise words :

Do regret on what you have missed and do be so happy with what you have

I will leave you with Shadia and Ya Habibty Ya Masr which was originally released after the six days war if I am not mistaken.

The Algerians got what they want , I hope they forget us now as we have a country with a future to care for ; let’s go back to our debate : Gamal or Omar or El-Baradei plus Haikel’s suggestion.

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The Clash of Titans : Amr Vs. Tamer

2009-11-18T18:57:00.001+02:00

With all measures what we have witnessed from escalation because of the game between Egypt and Algeria has not been witnessed before whether regionally or internationally or even locally !!??

It seems that we will not talk about the game and its results whether positive or negative in Cairo “this post is written before the the match” only but we are going to also to talk about that expected war between Tamer Amin and Amr Adib on air.

I don’t like both men and in the current social-escalating to become political- crisis between Egypt and Algeria there is blood on both of their hands. We can’t forget that Adib started the feud with his unjustified rude attack on Algeria and then we have Amin Pasha who asked the Egyptians to welcome the Algerian football team with a yellow smile.

Yesterday there were some Algerian viewers who called Egyptian show El-Beit Baitek and attacked by name Amr Adib and Amin said Amen to this repeating the name of Adib. Moments later , in no time Adib knew that Amin has attacked him on the Egyptian national TV and so with no names mentioned he attacked Amin on air in front of millions using all what God gave him from strength and rudeness. Adib was furious because he used to defend his colleagues where as Amin did not defend him only but attacked him on the National TV of Egypt , his country. Adib called Tamer : The employee with no opinion what so ever !!

Honestly I do not give damn for both of them , they are not my favorite TV hosts but I am enjoying this on air feud, I do not know if Amin will fire back or not but I am just having one of my favorite moments ; insh Allah the second one will be when Abdullah Kamal of Rosa Al Youssef slams Mohamed Ali Ibrahim of Al Gomhouria and Ibrahim fires back in his silly full page.

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Egypt-Algeria : 111-111

2009-11-18T18:19:00.000+02:00

Transparency International published its Corruption perception index for year 2009 and we came in No.111 worldwide and you will not believe which country shares with this unfortunate event : Algeria !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes Algeria which is fighting us madly to qualify to the world cup is just as corrupted as us !!
We share this rank in this index along with other 8 countries.
The corruption perception index (CPI) measures the perceived level of public-sector corruption in 180 countries and territories around the world. The CPI is a "survey of surveys", based on 13 different expert and business surveys. CPI conducted 6 surveys whether in Egypt or Algeria. The scale here is from 0 (perceived to be highly corrupt) to 10 (perceived to have low levels of corruption).
According to CPI report Egypt is still perceived highly corrupted despite lately we began to address accountability and transparency more openly , may the CPI ignores that open discussion is just the old policy of letting them bark till they get bored !!!!!
Worldwide New Zealand is perceived the least corrupted country in 2009 while Somalia is perceived the most corrupted country !! “Can we consider Somalia a real organized state so we can have this judgment !!??”
In the Middle East Qatar is the least corrupted country where as Iraq is the most corrupted country in the region “The Americans did bring democracy to Iraq as far as I could tell !!”
You can read the part concerning the Middle East below from the full report : “Click the full screen”

The corruption perception index "Mideast" - Zeinobia
Usually these indexes find its way to our media but I wonder if this index will reach to the Algerian citizens in the midst of their media’s frenzy over today’s match !!??

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24 Hour

2009-11-17T19:30:00.000+02:00

Ok we have got 24 hours before our big game with Algeria , it is not about which team will be qualified to the world cup now but about the battles we are expecting to take place between the Algerian hooligans in Sudan and in Algeria and the Egyptian hooligans in Sudan and the trapped Egyptian community in Algeria.
There is no difference between today and yesterday , the Algerian press is insisting on spreading hates and lies , Al Chorouk newspaper today was speaking about the match attacking Egypt in almost 20 pages of its 22 pages !!!!!

Al Chorouk issue 17/11 -
Yesterday Mona El-Shazely managed to speak to one of that tabloid newspaper and all what I got from him was screaming and shouting which makes me believe that they know the level of crisis they manage to achieve between the two countries. El-Shazely in a polite way accused him of lying indirectly.
Already What Algerian Al Chorouk has done from creating a diplomatic crisis from nothing should be studied as example on how dangerous and irresponsible press can be. I do not know if I am precise in using the word “irresponsible” in describing the actions of Al Chorouk and its fabrication , we all know that in the Arab world newspapers can’t go in similar defamation campaign against other countries except with the approval of the ruling regime itself and this makes me wonder about the Algerian official involvement in this escalation. The Algerian minister of labor says something and in Egypt and another thing in Algeria, ah by the way before I forget this man claimed that he were attacked in the Stadium , with my all respect all the high VIPs from diplomats and ministers sit at the main VIP box with their Egyptian counterparts including the Mubarak brothers , how could anyone touch him !!?
Another thing , that nasty rumor which will cause the murder of some Egyptian either in Algeria or in Sudan ; those Algerians who were killed after the match .. Again and Again the Algerian Ambassador has denied these rumors.Watch him below denying these rumors for God Sake , why no one wants there to believe him !!?? Why would he lie ? Please do not tell me an Egyptian pressure !!??

The photos and those testimonies are inclusive as long as there are no real names , real bodies and real families , use their your brain people those dead people have families who won’t wait till the end of the match to demand their rights for God sake like the Chief in editor of that Algerian newspaper which I can’t remember its name claimed !!!??
I do not know what kind of game the regime in Algeria is playing there ,is there a hidden political crisis between the Algerian regime and the Egyptian regime in the background we do not know anything about !!??
The attack on Egyptian businesses and investments are still on despite the Algerian security measures.
The big Egyptian businesses and investments that have been attacked were the following :

Orascom Telecom
Arab contractors
Sewedy cables

and I assume ASEC also has its share too.
The middle size businesses owned by Egyptians also have been under attack up till now. The Egyptian community there is so scared more than you can imagine.Orascom telecom has the biggest shares of the attack , the hooligans have burned a whole factory owned by Orascom there not to mention they destroyed about 15 shops and branches associated and owned by Djeezy despite the attempts of the company to appear as pure Algeria. Djeezy has been trying to keep its clients , I think they face a huge PR crisis and they are trying with all their powers to stay in the market. They offered two planes to Sudan for free and yet the press in Algeria are encouraging the Algerians to switch to local mobile phone operators as sign of patriotism. I do not know if all these companies will be compensated or not , they came to invest in Algeria for God Sake !! Were it better to have a multi-national company investing in the country then ??
Below you can find a collection of videos showing our companies being attacked, please ignore the disgusting racist titles
To Sudan there are unconfirmed news that the Egyptian army has dispatched its elitist special force squad “777” to protect the Egyptian supporters and the National team there !!!!!
24 hours !! The problem is that they will be over and we will have months to reconcile the relations for real.

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Meanwhile in The Things That Matter Section

2009-11-17T12:57:00.002+02:00

Let’s put the football aside , let’s go back to things that matter , really matter. Yesterday Egyptian Al Shorouk , the really respectable Al Shorouk compared to its Algerian counterpart has published a very important news no one paid attention to unlike to what Algerian Al Chorouk published from endless lies. Egyptian Al Shorouk reported that Hilary Clinton and the States are practicing political pressure on the Egyptian state in order to increase of the quantity of gas exported to Israel and to reduce it price !!
Again I will say it : Increase the quantity of Gas and reduce its price !!??
You must know that in year 2005 Egypt agreed to export gas for Israel for $1.5 per BTU !! Yes for $1.5 BTU and due to the public pressure and also the financial crisis the Egyptian government had to raise it to $3 per BTU and the now the Americans want us to reduce the price which is cheaper than the average international prices again !!!
Are they kidding me ?? Of course no one care to discuss very important news
It turned out Hussein Salem who strangely mourned Amin Howeidy earlier this month in Al Ahram has traveled to Israel to sign new 3 gas deals last October !! It is strange because last time I read an interview for him , he said that he was an old man and left the business for his son !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I will not speak about the national security point of view and how we regard Israel but I will speak about the economic point of view , this is completely wrong !!?? What do Israelis want ? To export natural gas to them for free !!?

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After The Storm No.1 and Before Storm No.2

2009-11-16T21:18:00.002+02:00

According to the reports coming from Algeria the Algerian authorities have began to protect our Egyptian businesses and interests not to mention our embassy in the country.The Egyptian ministry of foreign affairs has called the Algerian ambassador.
There are about 1500 Egyptians according to primary reports there and since yesterday many Egyptians have called both the embassy and the TV channels on air demanding protection to return back Egypt till the end of the match.
Here are the photos of Orascom’s Djeezy in Algeria after a night of hell

By the way I heard news Sawiris decided to return back all the Egyptian staff from there , already 20 Egyptian employees have been injured from his employees. Egypt Air office which was there from the 1960s has been destroyed

The largest investments for an Arab country in Algeria are owned by Egyptian corporations. Orascom telecom, Citadel and Arab contractors are from the major companies investing there. Up till now Orascom telecom and Arab contractors reported attacks there
The Algerian French magazines are full of B.S and I do not regret using this word, I do not know what kind of fabrications they are printing and why they are doing this , the journalist’s mission is to find the truth not to spread the lies in a perfect world and they are chanting with the glories of the revolution which is innocent from them. We have been called Baathists “I do not know if they understand the meaning of the word or not” , it has been reported that A Police general killed their fans in Cairo “a police general !!??” and the plot against the Algerian football team was made on very high levels of politicians in Egypt “I can imagine Omar Soliman sitting with Habib Al Adly and Gamal Mubarak planning for the attack in the basement of the GIS !! Are you kidding what kind of crack this people take in Algeria” !!??. Ah and we hate Algeria for some unspecific reason !!??
I know that part of the problem now , the bigger part of the problem is how the media in Algeria is dealing with the matter. Before the match I blamed our irresponsible media but now I am blaming the Algerian media for deceiving the Algerian people.
We will not solve or heal this crisis in this way by repeating the slogans of brotherhoods, Pan Arabism and Islam ; do not get me wrong but they are irrelevant when the other side does not consider you a brother or an Arab or a Muslim or even a human in the first place. We must be honest with ourselves, we got an issue , we got a grunge between the two countries and we must reveal it. In old Arab councils when they try to reconcile two tribes instead of endless war they do this.
We have a problem here and it is an old one to be accurate and unfortunately it started with football too. Algerians are people of mountain , they are tough,they get angry very quickly and their anger ends with violence and they got hooligans.
on the other hand we are big mouth people who can provoke anyone and lately we began to have hooligans too.
If We admit this and try to fix these points at least not to use them against each other it will be great. Of course this is besides the nasty role of politics

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Ashamed That I Can’t Do Anything

2009-11-16T00:20:00.001+02:00

Gaza did not sleep yesterday just like Cairo , the Gazans were so happy that we won Algeria 2-0 , they went to the streets holding our flags just like us.

I really thank them so much and I am so ashamed that despite their good feelings I can’t help them , I wish one day Egypt uses the power it has got to end this inhuman siege on Gaza , to stop this endless agony and we can do it if we want actually.

I feel sadder when I see these images of Gazans smuggling sheep from the coming Eid through tunnels

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Amr Adib And Ahmed Moussa’s moments

2009-11-16T00:15:00.000+02:00

Many of us will always this match between Egypt and Algeria for different reasons ; may be for the tension or for the game. I will always remember it because of the tension, the game itself and how that goal came in the last moment , the moment Mubarak sons were cheering , the tears of Hassan Shehata and how Amr Adib and Ahmed Moussa danced !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I understand that Ezzat Abu Oaf is busy in the CIFF but it would have been better to have him instead of the unofficial ministry of interior spokesperson in the Egyptian media aka Ahmed Moussa !!!

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Speaking Of Integrity

2009-11-15T19:36:00.004+02:00

The sedition is asleep , God damned whoever awakes it

Prophet Mohamed "PBUH"

Algerian echorouk is from the biggest newspapers in Algeria and I believe it is insult to its role in the media to mislead the millions of Algerians with this false headline

The greens destroy the pharaohs’ arrogance

Excuse me !!?? Ok may be this is why in the end the Algerian team was on the verge of crying and its fans were insulting the Egyptian fans who did not do anything except cheering naturally

Also this breaking news “ 6 Algerian fans dead bodies reached to the Hawary Boumediene airport and another 11 bodies in the way !!???” { Al Chorouk removed the news}

Dead people , are they kidding me !!?? Already if you read the news you will find a real credible official source stating that Algerian fans were killed in Egypt !! In fact what is worse they go on saying that the dead bodies entered the country from the rare gate of the airport !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dead bodies do not go like that to Cairo airport as they were smuggled goods for God sake !!?? What kind of tabloid newspaper is it ?? Where are the names of those victims ?? They must have a name and surely that Chorouk heroic delegation in Cairo that saved 400 Algerians can have their names so easily !!??

And what this nonsense that Ahlam Mosteghanemi wanted Mubarak to receive the Algerian National team in the airport instead of visiting our national team !!!!!!!!!!!!?? Are you kidding me !!??

Officially there were 32 injuries only from both sides after the game, all these horror films the Algerian media claims did not happen. FYI the match was ideal one , it is enough that up till now there was no reported single sexual harassment incident.

What kind of game they playing with the Algerians !!?? And they blame us on enlarging matters !!??

You know I am wondering now about the health of Bouteflika , the man has not appeared publicly lately and it will not be something strange if the Algerian media is diverting the people by this game !!??

Where is our freaking Embassy from all these lies about us ??

I know it is a freaking game , I am saying so for weeks but I do not like to be insulted in this way as I am in the end an Egyptian citizen.
Update :

The Cairo Airport has denied the rumors who Al-Chorouk published and pulled from its website , of course the rumors are spreading now like fire in Arabic sports forums.
Algerians do really believe these rumors and I feel sorry for that because I know our Egyptian community will pay the price of these disgusting rumors.
Sorry the Egyptian community is paying the price already :

- Egypt Air office in the capital has been destroyed. "@ 8.Rue Didouche Niourad"

                  - Egyptians in several Algerian states are reporting to the Embassy and the Egyptian TV channels that they are currently under attack.
                  - Now it seems that Orascom Telecom's company in Algeria is being surrounded by hooligans , 5 thousands hooligans throwing stones in Wahran"I think it is DJezzy"

                 - The Egyptian ministry of foreign affairs said that it could not control what was going in Algeria and it would coordinate with their Algerian counterpart.... bla bla bla Abu El-Gait will wait till we get our Egyptian community in coffins !!
- The Algerian Ambassador has denied officially all these rumors that Algerians were killed because of the match
- Currently there are great Algerian neighbors who are protecting their Egyptian neighbors from the hooligans.
                 - If our media were irresponsible, the Algerian media should be responsible for real and stop spreading lies

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What Haikel Had Said “3”

2009-11-15T11:26:00.000+02:00

I believe Haikel knew the impact his interview in Al Masry Al Youm would make especially in this time , a man in his experience knew that his interview especially some parts of it will shock the regime and will make it go coco ; already it goes coco when Haikel criticizes the regime indirectly in a interview or in a lecture at the American university so you can imagine how it was disturbing for the regime to hear him suggesting to have peaceful democratic coup in order to save the country from uncertain future.

Yes a Peaceful democratic revolution according to his suggestion which is :

To have a council of experts aka council state and constitution that will work on having a new constitution approved by public poll. The council will consist of 12 experts in different fields in Egypt like General Omar Soliman, Amr Moussa, Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, Sir Magdi Yacoub , Dr. Ahmed Zewail , Dr.Mohamed Ghoniam and Dr. Hazem El-Babalawy. The role of the committee will be a transitional one for 3 years where new generations can take over from there. Mubarak and the army should stay to back and support the council in those 3 years and that will the last and greatest service he will do to this country.

There are many points in his suggestion that should discussed in a thorough way, yes I may disagree in many of Haikel’s views but when it come to the future of the country I believe we should hear everyone and see what we got , may be we will find something logic , something applicable before giving up.

Haikel did not speak about fair elections and this candidate or that candidate but a whole political reform and he is right in this , we should have a new regime , a new system because this regime is obsolete by all measures.

Haikel wants the following :

1- Mubarak steps down after 3 years, 3 transitional years to be accurate where we will transfer from a fallen dictatorship to a real democracy , Haikel is speaking of Franco’s ending but without monarchy and despite he did not mention it I believe Haikel indirectly spoke about the safe exist of the president in return of this transition , Mubarak does not have to have the fearful Ceausescu or Pinochet ending and this is why this Haikel said that this will be the last and greatest service Mubarak will ever do to this country.

2- The army role or rather the army support to its democratic transition ; it will be impossible to have this kind of transition without the direct support and blessing of the army beside its direct protection ; this kind of transition will be met by opposition whether from inside or outside.

3- A New constitution which is the demand of almost everybody who really wants a better future for this country.

4- Preparing for this constitution and also that transitional period will be supervised by a council that includes some Egyptians we always mention their names as possible candidates for presidency even thought some of them are not a real candidates. Haikel did not only chose or suggested names of those we always mention when we speak about potential presidential candidate as examples of who should be members in this council ; only examples for sure.

Haikel wants a new constitution with a new brand regime as he claims and one way of having this regime peacefully is through this council. I do not see why people do not like what he suggested. He is not a crazy old man. He is a man who wants us to benefit from the Spanish experience as I see it.

The only thing I dislike in Haikel’s suggestion is the idea of this “Safe exist” which means Mubarak and his family will leave the rule and also the country with no accountability what so ever ; look I do not want Mubarak to have the same fate of Ceausescu but there is one problem I see it , if Mubarak and his family leave with no accountability ,he will be followed by the rest of his regime with the wealth of this country. It is expensive bargain which I do not think it will be fair for Egypt and it will defy that spirit of new democratic era Haikel wants to have.

Up till now , till this day Haikel is being attacked systematically in the official media and pro-regime media including the shadow partisan and independent press. What is interesting in this attack on Haikel is we have those big names of veteran journalists and writers like for instance Saleh Montaser and others who are trying to refute him using the constitution , the same constitution which really needs to be changed !! Of course the partisan daily attack on him from Al Wafd and the Unionist parties is logic , he undermined them and they had to fire back. The Pro-regime TV channels slammed him in a way you can’t imagine it but it will not be the first nor the last one.

I forget to mention that big heads in NDP spoke about Haikel’s suggestion and slammed it as unrealistic , unconstitutional and that Haikel has crossed all lines by speaking about the Egyptian army !!

I believe that they do not think it as an insult to the Egyptian army more they are scared that the Egyptian army would like the idea and move against Mubarak to implement it. Let’s be clear Haikel is polite and can’t say we do not need Mubarak because it will be direct call for a coup , he is not calling for coup but rather to a real democratic reform or change. This scenario he calls for I believe was the one we should have in 1952 after the coup of the free officers and you can imagine if we had had that council then made of those legends in politics and law. Please do not tell me that politicians and lawmakers were corrupted then because they proved to be better than the ones we have ; you know after a short thinking I believe I am wrong in the last sentence we do not have real politicians and lawmakers like in pre-1952. Of course Haikel won’t admit this that we needed that council then but he knew inside that it could be a useful way to save Egypt “if he really wants to save it”

By the way you must know that this suggestion has been proposed before by late famous Egyptian journalist Salah El-Din Hafiz as I read but I do not know when he said it , may be in one of his books.

I do not know if Haikel wants a real regime , a real democratic change in the way he could imagine it or not , Haikel ignored the economic part by saying we can keep couple of ministers from Nazif’s cabinet and he said two names “Rashid and Ghali”. I respect Rashid but I do not respect Ghali. My professor told us in university there is no real economic change without a real political change.Haikel should know better that if it were not for Mubarak’s era with all its cons , his businessmen sons would not be among the most richest men in Egypt and I do not know whether he is aware of this or not but that if that era falls , those businessmen and all other who have benefited a lot from it will go down with it and so he should be careful for what he wishes.

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Egypt 1920s

2009-11-15T10:57:00.000+02:00

This very rare collection of silent newsreels filmed in Egypt in 1920s , they show us an Egypt we only read about in books. They are very interesting showing faces and places that changed by time like instance this magnificent view of the Nile in front of the Pyramid during the flood , the view we do not see anymore because of the high Dam in Aswan , the view of Mahmal celebration , the view of the water carrier who does not exist anymore ..etc.

Most of these newsreels were filmed for tourism in Europe.

I hope you enjoy that collection.

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To Sudan

2009-11-14T23:51:00.001+02:00

I watched the game and I was so moved by the last minute goal that I was going to cry. I do not understand that much in football but I know that the Egyptian team played better than the Algerian team and that Algerian team was only wasting time and faking injuries in order to win without scores and go to the world cup with no effort. Well guess what after 4 day in Sudan insh Allah we will play again as we now are equal in scores.

I know that the coming match in Khartoum will be a like dead or life match for Algeria and Egypt but let’s be so ; whoever will represent the Arabs in world cup 2010 should prove that he is man enough.

I salute our great audience who did a great job in the stadium and I believe God did not want them to leave the stadium sad and this is why in the last minute came this great goal from Matab.

BY the way I am disgusted at the bias of Al Jazeera channel against Egypt after the game !! You know that proves the image the official media tries to spread about the Qatari that it hates Egypt and tries to down it with all possible ways. On the other hand I am working to get Amr Adib’s soft moments where he cried and dance on air.

It is not the end and I know it is just a silly game with a ball but seeing our people happy with the flag means so much to me in this depressing time.

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The Game Night

2009-11-14T16:15:00.001+02:00

You may have noticed that I do not post as usual , well as you may have known Egypt after few hours is going to play with Algeria and this has been the main event in the country for days now especially in the past 48 hours after the claims of the Algerian national team that they have been assaulted. “The general prosecution found out that they were fabricating the whole issue and the Algerian team admitted that they were the one who destroyed the bus from inside , of course it is too late as we are the bad villains”

From two days ago I said that I will not cover the match but I could not keep myself , I am part of this society and I will be lying if I say that I am not affected by all what it is going on.

I wrote couple of posts which I think I will publish after the match because honestly I do not think my Egyptian readers will be interested to interact with anything except with the match and I respect that.

The match will start at 7 or 7:30 PM at Cairo Stadium which opened its doors to the audience since 12 PM CLT at. I know that it has closed its doors for the 3rd and 2nd degrees now. The prices of the 3rd and 2nd degrees reached to the moon in the black market, do even think about the first degree.

This photo was taken 20 minutes ago from Cairo stadium by Ziad

Egyptian flags are every where , it is a beautiful scene which I wish to see it more often. Egyptian flags are hanged everywhere on cars and on shops , on balconies and windows, in the hands of Children and adults ..it is just a beautiful scene. Here are couple of photos I took with my mobile in the taxi in Mohendessin showing Egyptian flags.

The cars’ horns have not been silenced till last night. Cafes are booked from two days ago. Some people like me will stay at home. The Egyptian TV channels are celebrating the event as if it were the 6th of October anniversary , in fact more to be accurate !!!

Yesterday Cairo and Giza did not sleep because the people who decided to express their support to Egypt earlier than today. My late cousin had to walk on foot from Shooting Club to Zamalak at mid night because he could not find a single taxi !!

I wish we will win insh Allah but I know we will need a lot of effort because of the score issue. I know there is a lot of pressure on the Egyptian national team I can’t imagine it but they must know very well that this is what they do for living and they will rewarded very good if they make the Egyptian people happy for real tonight. Many people are expecting that the Algerian national team and its fans will provoke the Egyptian fans in order to have a fight and the match will be transferred from Cairo.

I will keep updated with the latest interesting news from Cairo.

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