Posted on April 8, 2011, 11:00 pm, by Faisal.
This is a post by Just an Egyptian on the above. The post is in Arabic (mostly Egyptian colloquial) so apologies to all non-Arabic speakers/readers. I love what he has to say. To me, this is a post about the myth of accepting those of a different faith in Egypt and how the word moderate [...]
Posted on May 19, 2007, 4:03 pm, by Faisal.
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 [...]
Posted on August 16, 2006, 1:43 pm, by Faisal.
A couple of days, or was it weeks ago, I came across someone else’s blog and they were discussing what their stat counter or blog counter informed them about the search keywords that obtained their blog in the results. Sadly, I don’t remember the exact terms, but I do remember laughing myself to tears as [...]
Posted on August 3, 2006, 10:35 am, by Faisal.
… but the past couple of days have been pretty weird. For one thing, over this past working week, and on the ride home in a taxi cab everyday, I’ve always come across this old woman, the same old woman, at various points of the route home and she always extends her hand to stop [...]