Faisal's Tobril

Today, Egypt was one of those countries fortunate enough to experience the Total Solar Eclipse. Sadly, this was in Salloum, way over by the western border of the country, right next to Libya. In Cairo, there was only a partial eclipse. In the school where I work, as usual, there was a big controversy regarding [...]

It rained yesterday. That was quite strange. I imagine all Cairenes had already assumed the summer was upon us (yes, this early) because the temperature has been increasing steadily for the past two weeks. More and more people had already begun to shed their winter outfits and make ready for spring (that is, if one [...]

Sadly, this is another MUN post. Hopefully, it will be one of the last ones (at least for quite a long time to come). I got involved in a discussion with a friend who was part of the CIMUN (Cairo International Model United Nations) before. Naturally, this was after they had read my previous post [...]

In an egomaniacal attempt to hold onto my position of ‘Devil’s Advocate’ in all things posted on this blog, I will try and put a spin on Faisal’s blog on Ibrahim Nafea. Consider this: We live in a country where the bureaucracy is the be all and end all of…well, all, people tend to forget [...]

I discovered yesterday that a co-worker, an Economics Teacher, is the Daughter in law of Ibrahim Nafae. This is significant because I had just published a post on my Blog, yesterday, discussing corruption and the fact that this teacher’s father-in-law was being investigated for suspicion of wide-scale corruption while heading Egypt, and the Arab World’s, [...]

If anyone has been following, I had previously published a post on the Model United Nations at the University where I used to study. Something happened today that made me think: well hey, maybe there is a light at the end of the long, dark tunnel! A good friend of mine was chosen to be [...]

Today, I read an article in an Egyptian Newspaper, El Masree el Yoam (literally translated to The Egyptian Today), with the following headline; ‘A Prominent Official to “The Egyptian Today”: High-level instructions to uncover the corruption of former Ministers and High-level Officials’. The article discusses, in brief, the case of a particular Egyptian former Official, [...]

Hmm. Lets see, I really think that you have made some MAJOR leaps in logic. Out of insane curiousity, I am wondering how it is you are so sure that the Israeli girl was being fake? I mean for all you know the girl was just trying to get along. And what’s more she had [...]

I’m writing in reference to Faisal’s conclusion on Israelis. I’m late I know…but it just reminded me of my own contact with Israelis… My friend Heba has been active in a peace organization called CISV, which organizes camps for kids and teens from various countries. I joined for a while, although it became very clear [...]

When I started this Blog in May 2004, it was a personal Blog. I discontinued the project after realizing that I did not have the time (then) to update it often as well as not being able to put my thoughts into words short of writing a 10,000 word post. I then switched this to [...]