Hey everyone,
I just added a new blog, called 3arabawy (don't pronounce the "3" please, it is standing in for a letter that we don't have in English). Pretty good, written by an Egyptian Marxist, mostly in English. Finally, some different thinking. There is a good photographic essay about the Mahalla Intifada, the April 6th, 2008, uprising which started in the burb of Mahalla (close to Alex) and touched of a general strike across the country for higher wages... check it out here.
Also recently here in Alexandria, a bunch of Muslim Brotherhood folks were arrested after Egypt claimed that Hezbollah was infiltrating Egypt and getting arms to Gaza through Egypt. Unfortunately, I can't follow the news so well, and no one I know talks about these things, so I am pretty much in the dark until everything is over. Damn.
The author of the 3arabawy blog, Hossam Al-Hamalawy, also says that recently a lot of activists and citizens have been thrown out of their fourth floor residences by police officers. I live on the fourth floor. Shit.
Two bad words in one blog.
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