Faisal's Tobril

In full, utter and complete breach of international law (in the form of ICJ rulings, multiple Security Council resolutions and agreements the zionist entity itself made), the Israeli government has approved the building of another major settlement on undisputed Palestinian land. According to the article linked to above, the Israeli Ambassador to the United States [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

So while doing my thing, surfing the Internet today, I came across this title to a blog post that I had subscribed to: “Egyptian Blogger Asks the Real Questions“. I thought to myself: cool. Clicked on the title, was taken to the blog’s address, started reading the story and discovered that the Egyptian blogger in [...]

I haven’t commented at all on the current situation in the Middle East; the Israeli “invasion” of Gaza or Southern Lebanon. It’s because I feel that I don’t have anything new or original to add to the discussion. That and the fact that I try not to use my blog as a medium where I [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]