Faisal's Tobril

Is it my fault that the only reason I sit at ahwas downtown is because they’re readily accessible to me and my friends and not because of any cultural reason or excuse? Is it my fault that I don’t want to attend all these “really cool” foreign movies that are shown around different Cairene venues [...]

Another personal post, my second in a row in fact. On Wednesday the project I work for officially closes down and on Thursday I am officially out of a job. Maybe this will mean more time for blogging? At least until I get another job.

I’ve been tagged by N to list “five things you don’t know about me”. I will suppose the you here means my blog readers. Alrighty then. Here goes: Even though this is a pseudo-political blog, I would much rather discuss AD&D and Fantasy/Sci-Fi than politics. I am very easily deceived (Batbe3et keteer!). I always give [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I had hoped that all my previous posts were enough for those that do not know me to realize that I am quite secular in my social and political views. Having said that, let me make it clear that having a secular view point does not mean you don’t care about religion or, at least, [...]

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 [...]

Hussam El-Hamalawy, a friend and a “The Arabist” Contributor, has this link to a video on “street activism“. I hadn’t seen it before and found it quite interesting. What interested me most was the bit near the end. The group of young people that the Journalist/Reporter talked to were, as far as I could tell, [...]

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 [...]

This may seem like a weird post as you, if you, read along so let me just warn you that all that follows is merely my twisted view of things I see. Whilst I would have normally placed this post on my “Too-sensitive-for-everyone-to-read-blog-which-I-post-on-and-is-different-from-this-blog” I’ve decided I didn’t care enough if people get annoyed or pissed [...]