Wed 2 Feb 2011
20:25
Cairo Airport
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English Edition Blog posts
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I asked a friend about the 25 January protests, where I should be and when. He said “meet me at the corner, and we’ll go.” That took me back. No one has told me to meet them at “the corner” in a while. Street corners are places in Egypt most young men associate with their neighborhood. It’s the easiest place to tell your friends to meet you. “The corner...
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“Anonymous, c’est une identite commune,” said Slim Amamou in a TEDx presentation in Carthage, Tunisia, in September 2010. It could possibly translate into, “we are all anonymous.” Flipping between French and Tunisian colloquial Arabic, Amamou, a web entrepreneur, went on to describe the function of anonymous identities in our life, as they are behind...
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It was more annoying than intimidating, more bureaucratic than bullying. But what happened to me and several journalistic colleagues Sunday night was a clear window into the type of petty harassment the regime routinely employs in order to shrink the local political playing field and limit the activities of foreign journalists. At the invitation of Dr. Mohammed Beltagui, a Muslim Brotherhood MP,...
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I am in Dubai. At the Atlantis Hotel, to be precise, where top Arab media professionals are meeting over aquamarine and orange carpets, under sea-shell motif chandeliers at the invitation of the Dubai Press Club. The occasiona is the Ninth Arab Media Forum. It is in many ways a surreal experience: sky scrapers break through the arid landscape, the Gulf waters are placid, shrouded in what seems to...
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When friends and family have come to visit, I didn't really want to take them to the Pyramids and the Sphinx. I wasn't particularly excited about showing them the great mosques and winding streets of medieval Cairo. I didn't think there was much to see in Zamalek, where I live. What I really wanted to show them was Downtown. Downtown is Cairo as far as I’m concerned. Of course in a city of almost...
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It's difficult, difficult, lemon difficult. Relationships that is. That was our conclusion following an inspirational trip into the far south of Egypt, at one of the lowest points west of the Red Sea and near Halayeb Triangle, a disputed border area with Sudan. The phrase itself that we begin the post with is a play on the British slang phrase "easy peasy lemon squeezy" meaning quick and easy and...
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Being successful generates a lot of talk and brings positive and both negative...
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The handset sales increase also resulted in the increase in iphone application...
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Hello , first of all i want to thank all the Egyptians who are supporting us...