Faisal's Tobril

The media, in all its forms, is (and has been for a long time) a very powerful force of change. It's television, newspapers, magazines and the internet that connect us to the outside world. It was because of the news media that the whole Prophet Mohammed-Denmark issue came to light (albeit 4 months late… Better [...]

Look up a map of the world. Find Iran, it should be somewhere east of Africa (the big yellow bit in the middle). Found it? Great! Now move a bit more to the East, that's left. You should come across another yellow-ish area with the letters Pakistan written there. Excellent! Now, let's talk a bit [...]

What can I say? I've always told myself that I won't blog about jokes or personal things that have no effect on anyone but I. And yet, well… And yet this post on My Lebanese Dream had me laughing, grinning and smiling for long minutes. Yup. That's the way I see it. Tags: Lebanese, humor, [...]

Hussein Abdel Ghani, News Channel Al-Jazeera's Egyptian Bureau Chief, has been released by the Egyptian authorities on Thursday night with a bail of 10,000 L.E. (Read more about it.) There are a couple of points that are ridiculous about the whole issue: First, a 10,000 L.E bail?! If you drive your car at 200km/hr and [...]

NOTE: This post covers a number of issues.Apparently, the Egyptian government needs the flimsiest of excuses to arrest members of the Press. According to BBC, Al Jazeera's Egyptian Bureau Chief (Hussein Abdel Ghany) has been arrested by Egyptian security forces. Apparently, the man wrongfully claimed that an attack on an Egyptian police patrol had occurred [...]

First, I am going to refer you to a fellow blogger's website, Tomanbay, for a better update of events on Wednesday the 26th in Sinai, Egypt. Moving on, the main purpose of this post was to comment on posts made on another Blogger's Blog, namely Sandmonkey. Sandmonkey's post was a coverage of the Dahab bombings [...]

The topic of this post is: Iran. For the past two years now it seems that the International Community, in the form of the United States, has been hounding Iran about its nuclear program. Apparently, it isn't ok for Iran to have their own nuclear reactor(s). But, many of my friends and people that I [...]

About a month-and-a-half ago, I wrote a post about certain things in Egypt that I found amusing. Here's the picture, or one of the two pictures, that should have come with that post; I only recently bought a digital cam. though… so it came a bit late. You probably won't be able to see the [...]

The following are two Op-Ed articles, published in the Egyptian Daily Star, that I found interesting: The First is about political parties in Egypt. The writer takes to the street and asks Egyptians what they think. The Second is about the Hijab, or veil, in Egyptian Society. If you've managed to read this far, here [...]

I came across this news item posted on the International Herald Tribune’s website. So, I guess this means that the Palestinian government now has a little bit of money with which to function. Though it is supposedly far less than the amount they need to pay the salaries and debts that they own. You might [...]