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If you can't beat them (or imprison or defame them)...
Thank you to Moftases for the photoshopping on the royal head.
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Mubarak’s triumphant return to the homeland in his carpet slippers has, as usual, caused an outbreak of nauseating sycophancy and puke-inducing paeans worthy of a Greek deity. His highness glided down...
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Silence
To the Delta today, where I watched ElBaradei do his stuff through a rugby scrum of media in Mansoura.As usual, the trip there was odd. After disembarking from a microbus driven by a man with a...
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I attended my third “April 6” last Tuesday, and have been pondering why the police went ballistic ever since.If you follow events in Egypt you’ll know what happened. If you don’t, this video sums it...
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Conscript
Kefaya, slowly awakening after its hibernation, organized a protest today, exactly a week after the police battered demonstrators on April 6.The existence of a sort of nervous anger immediately struck...
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Gigolow
"Hey! Pretty lady! I have coffee, you want?"I left the demo fuming yesterday and wanting to draw blood out of someone and anyone, and luckily found that my friend Hadeel had sent this by someone called...
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GOVERNMENT EXERTING “BEST EFFORTS” TO PUT AN END TO THE EGYPTIAN PEOPLE
A member of the Banned Organization shortly after he interrupted Sorour. His family have been informed.CAIRO: A National Democratic Party MP yesterday urged the government to intensify efforts to put...
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Fady the Child gets engaged
The view from Dronka. I didn't want to leaveWhen you leave Cairo heading south, the further away you go and with each passing hour, the more you imagine that you have invented the city. On the train...
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On Saturday morning I had to get up early to cover the first session of the trial of lawyers Ahmed Seif and Gamal Eid and geek Amr Gharbeia, who are being targeted by that bloody ctrl+c judge....
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Old Egypt
ElBaradei went on walkabout again today, and I went too.It was Old Cairo that was buffeted with change this time. I descended from the taxi, underfed and underslept to be immediately bellowed at, in...
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Are you shoura?
I experienced democracy National Democratic Party (NDP)-style today in Helwan, where I watched people arguing with the police during the Shoura bi-elections.The governorate of Helwan is right next door...
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Rule of boars
More blundering, crass stupidity from the police yesterday, as they responded to demonstrators protesting police violence with violence, again.Some 150 people assembled in Lazoghly Square – home of a...
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الكبري ممنوع
Today there was another silent protest against police brutality, or at least there was meant to be.I went along to Qasr El-Nil bridge ten minutes after it was meant to have started and encountered the...
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Pane
I lived in Alex for a year at the beginning of this millennium, and it was one of the best experiences of my life: heat-filled, carefree and of limited duration. Revisiting the city for the first time...
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Rambling account of the trial today
Today’s instalment of the Abdo show began much as it went on, with the judge getting his handbag out and generally being irascible.Shortly after it started someone who had not get the memo about the...
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I went to a cultural event in Cairo on Friday after a self-imposed hiatus following a dire evening at an open-mic “talent” evening some months ago which made X Factor auditions look like a Three Tenors...
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Update your history book
Al-Ahram* have disabused us of our misconceptions concerning important historical events in a series of pictures, below. Wael alerted us to the most recent important historical event, here. أخرجتنا من...
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Seeing is deceiving
The past 10 days have been an extravaganza of seeing things differently, on a personal level and for the nation as a whole.On the personal levelI had Lasik surgery done, finally. No more chasing...
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MAN BUYS HORSE, REMOVES BRAIN
CAIRO: A man who bought a horse and immediately removed its brain defended his actions this week, saying, “the decision is in the best interests of the horse and will in no way affect its...
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Oh dear, leader
"ESMA3 EL KALAM!!!"Today I attended a public gathering, in Egypt, of more than five political activists that did not end in mass arrests, acts of violence and a Gomhoreya article describing the...
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His Story
I had a day of history today at one and a half exhibitions. 1. Men 2aglak anta you ungrateful shitThe first was called “Achievements of President Mohamed Hosny Mubarak” (sub-caption: “He promised. And...
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Spongebob Tearpants
It struck me yesterday as I watched on television young people destroying Tory Party HQ that Margaret Thatcher is almost exactly the same age as Hosny Mubarak, was elected prime minister only two years...
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Election (cam)pains
I had my first taste of Egyptian election coverage today, and it was foul.I went to Shubra El-Kheima in north Cairo (although officially it’s in the governorate of El-Qalyoubeya, which should have been...
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War and worship
As we drove into Omraneya yesterday, Sharshar joked that as soon as enters areas filled with Toc-Tocs, he feels that he is no longer under the authority of the Egyptian state. Two events this week...
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