Faisal's Tobril

Our demands have not been met. The country is yet to be cleansed of its filth. Collection of pictures taken in Cairo on the 25th of January (Facebook Album) by a number of Photographers  

So I heard yesterday over one of the Egyptian national radio that the new law criminalizing any action that disrupts “production” in both the public and private sector has been confirmed. I find this law to be absolutely ridiculous as it effectively means that workers will not be able to demonstrate, carry out strikes or [...]

A friend of mine will be attempting to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa, in an effort to raise awareness, and money, for the Right to Live Association (RTLA) in Egypt. Here’s his blog post on the attempt. Beco, I wish you all the best. Good luck!

For all those slow of mind enough to think that the people/protesters are asking for a “war” against the army or anything to the like, this is not the case. They (the protesters) have said nothing to indicate this and anything you MIGHT even REMOTELY believe to have implied this was mid-read or misunderstood or [...]

Tentative list of those killed in the fight against the brutal, repressive Egyptian regime and its President since #jan25.

Al-Masry Al-Youm, the Arabic Egyptian daily paper, ran a front page headline story (English Version) on the Egyptian Minister of Industry and Trade, Rasheed Mohammed Rasheed, and his recent visit to Germany where he commented on the on-going German Companies bribery scandal (an issue that has been occupying front page news in Cairo for sometime). [...]

Today is the 34th anniversery of the much-acclaimed (in Egypt) 6th of October war (which took place in 1973). The 6th of October is, and has been, a National Holiday since the war. It is also the day that former Egyptian president Anwar El-Sadat was assassinated by a group of Islamic extremists during the 1981 [...]

Two interesting things came to my knowledge in the past day. The first was through personal experience and the second was something that a friend told me about. They may be inconsequential to some (my friends certainly thought so), but I found them worthy of mention. First thing I went down to Maadi Grand Mall [...]

A friend of mine, Yasmine Adel, wrote this and I thought it was definitely worth publishing: My hand didn’t touch his as I handed him the money. He thanked me and turned around. He didn’t notice that I saw him do it. Saw him kissing the money before putting it into the pocket of his [...]

So I was searching The Daily Star‘s (Egypt) website for some trivial tid-bit when I came across