This is a phone interview recorded with Margaret Prescod of Radio KPFK on the 2nd of February at around 3pm that day.

The phone call is super imposed on videos I took with Sarah Carr's flip camera.

One of the shots was taken by Youssef Faltas.

I remember when I first heard about Khaled Said's case. I didn't take notice of the name. Mohamed Abdel Aziz, the young and brilliant Nadim lawyer, sent and internal email saying that he contacted the family of a young man in Alexandria who they claim died from torture but the police says he fell from an ambulance stretcher.

Honestly, I hoped that the police's story is correct. It was going to be another statement by …

The Gallup poll on Egypt after Jan25 doesn't mention if the selection of face-to-face interviewees involved any form of randomisation. Yet, the American sample involved random digit dialling.

Information on the methods used is inadequate. We can't say the sample interviewed was representative and results generalisable without more information.

I hope they will publish something in the next few days with more details regarding the methodology.

Link: Egypt From Tahrir to Transition

In an interview with Al Jazeera when asked about Mubarak, Zahi Hawass said:

At the beginning he was a good leader, but actually if you look at ancient Egypt, we have the same story happened four thousands years ago. When the Pharaoh became old the people around him could gain power. And I think this what happened to president Mubarak. In his old age people began to appear and …

Egypt is going to introduce nationwide cricket clubs. They are going to postpone all games until the teams are strong enough. Fans are expected to back clubs before they play any game. Before seeing how exciting the game is or which team has the better players.

That's why expecting us to back political parties and join them before they perform in parliament is rubbish.

لازم نقرا تاريخنا. عمرنا ما كان لينا الفرصة اننا نتحكم في مصيرنا زي النهارده. لازم نثبت السلطة في أيدينا أحنا الناس، عامة الشعب. بما في ذلك الفقير واﻷمي. ومش في أيدين قلة حاكمة زي ماكان الوضع لآلاف السنين.

مش هانعظم لمجموعة حكام علشان انجازاتهم ولا نلومهم لتخلفنا تاني. فقط هانهني أنفسنا ونلوم أنفسنا.

مبارك أو المجلس العسكري بيمثل السلطة العتيفة من أيام فرعون، هم تناسخ روح محمد علي والمماليك والبيزنطيين والفراعنة. حاكم بيعمل ما يشاء …