Faisal's Tobril

… for amateur Egyptian photographers. Can be found at http://masree.wordpress.com/

Cairene has a critical piece that really touches on the true essence of freedom and democracy since he apparently dislikes the Muslim Brotherhood as much as I.

So the people over at WordPress have two new releases: WordPress MU is an official branch of WordPress that is designed for managing and hosting thousands of blogs instead of just one. And bbPress is forum software with the WordPress touch, and developed by the same folks. It has some pretty cool features, such as [...]

I was tagged by Isabelle of istas to list my 15 favourite things, or so I understood. I don’t usually do tags… but what the hell. And thus… here they are: Kissing. My girl-friend (She might be reading this!) A good Sci-Fi/Fantasy Novel (AKA The Dune Series). History books… and books about the Military. (So [...]

This is something of an announcement. Hossam (with an O and not a U, in contradiction with all the written and unwritten rules of Arabic Grammer, society, social norms and mores… but in keeping with his wishes) El-Hamalawy (of The Arabist fame – on the Internet, of course) has started his very own Weblog; 3arabawy. [...]

DISCLAIMER: This is a work of fiction… well, not really. Depending on how busy my workday is, I always manage to spend a bit of time everyday readings news and opinion articles, checking out blogs, watching some of those YouTube videos, using Google Talk (strongly recommended by me!) etc. In short, well-developed and researched time-wasting [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]