Faisal's Tobril

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 [...]

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

Found an entry over here which discusses it. I’ll leave it to you to form your own opinion, but (since they have comment moderation enabled), I will share my very short comment on their post: “Maybe I’m not getting it… but I’d like to see pictures of Jesus and Moses done in a similar, quite [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

First, let me start by linking to Sandmonkey, who actually went to the demonstrations today and has a post with quotes taken from various conversations and statements during the demonstration. Now for what I want to say. Apparently the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), and all the people the organization mobilizes, were a no-show in today's Protests. [...]

This just in, breaking news from Al-Jazeera News Channel (tv). Judge Makki has been acquitted of all charges and Judge Bastawisi has been held responsible by the Judicial "Disciplinary Council".No news about if any sentence or decision concerning Judge Bastawisi has been passed by the "Disciplinary Council", as of yet. Judge Bastawisi's trial has been [...]

Bolivia's President-elect Evo Morales declared yesterday, on International Workers' Day, that Bolivia would nationalize Bolivia's Oil & Gas companies if foreign firms do not "agree to give Bolivia's state oil company oversight of production and a majority of their revenue generated in Bolivia". Morales gave those companies six months to make their choice. Already soldiers [...]

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 [...]