Faisal's Tobril

Yesterday, I came across a video on youtube entitled “يعني أيه التيار الرئيسي المصري؟؟”. When I first saw the title, I imagined it would be something produced and executed by anti-protesters who would spin the economy and security yarns. This wasn’t because I thought that these were the views of the “Egyptian mainstream” but because [...]

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 [...]

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). [...]

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 [...]

How CNN.com writers twist words on the blatant Israeli disregard for International Law.

A friend on facebook recently posted a link to this article (Note: Article is in Arabic and thus my response will be longer than if it had been in English since I will have to translate/para-translate certain passages that I wish to criticize) which I thought was one of the stupidest things I have ever [...]

There are times when people use the exact wrong words to express themselves. An example of this is this post by Egyptian-Australian blogger Neferteeti. So the Egyptian government, or administrative court according to an article she cited in her post, passed another decision which reflects the general religious intolerance of the government towards non-Muslims. Why [...]

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

Today is the fourth day of the Muslim Holy Month of Ramadan. During the Month of Ramadan, for the uniniated amongst you, Muslims are supposed to Fast (refrain from eating/drinking) from dawn until sunset. Having being raised a Muslim, I have always been told that Ramadan is not only about Fasting from food and drink [...]