Faisal's Tobril

My place of employment, of the past month, is definitely much more entertaining and interesting than my previous job experience. These days, seeing that my boss is on vacation, I’ve been burdened by quite a large volume of work. This usually translates into my having to stay extra hours (and sometimes weekends), to ensure that [...]

So Hassan Nasrallah comes out on television and says that he did not expect the magnitude of Israel’s response and that if he knew that so much destruction would ensue, he would not have kidnapped the two soldiers. Okay. Does that make the Israeli attacks, in terms of size and magnitude, and the destruction they [...]

Hussam El-Hamalawy, a friend and a “The Arabist” Contributor, has this link to a video on “street activism“. I hadn’t seen it before and found it quite interesting. What interested me most was the bit near the end. The group of young people that the Journalist/Reporter talked to were, as far as I could tell, [...]

Two new addresses to type into your address bar: The Egyptian, a new Weblog which was supposed to start a couple of months ago is now entering the scene. It is an attempt at collaborative, group, or mutli-contributor blogging (or whatever you wish to call it). Egypt Blog Review; Political Blog Aggregator with interviews and [...]

… keeps crossing my mind every now and then; setting up one of those Multi-Contributer Blogs which cater to a variety of topics and interests. In fact, I tried it once and attempted to contact people (who initially showed great enthusiasm) and ask them to contribute. After the initial enthusiasm, things died out. Which was [...]

So today in the morning, and while I was ironing a shirt, I heard something quite interesting on television. It was actually my grandmother (I’m staying with my grandparents these days – long story), who wakes up quite early, watching an Egyptian soap. Since she’s a bit hard-of-hearing, old age and such, the volume was [...]

A couple of days, or was it weeks ago, I came across someone else’s blog and they were discussing what their stat counter or blog counter informed them about the search keywords that obtained their blog in the results. Sadly, I don’t remember the exact terms, but I do remember laughing myself to tears as [...]

Disclaimer: Proposed, sometimes detailed, solutions to Egypt’s problems coming your way. “Were I President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, things would be very different.” It makes me smile; the number of times I have heard the previous statement… both from myself and others. And so, in the spirit of wasting my time and working [...]

This may seem like a weird post as you, if you, read along so let me just warn you that all that follows is merely my twisted view of things I see. Whilst I would have normally placed this post on my “Too-sensitive-for-everyone-to-read-blog-which-I-post-on-and-is-different-from-this-blog” I’ve decided I didn’t care enough if people get annoyed or pissed [...]

I logged on to my account at wordpress this morning with a plan to write something about Egyptian politics and what I’d do were I president or in some way in charge of this country. Of course, I don’t start writing the moment I hit the PC, so I went over to Manal and Alaa’s [...]