They can beat us. Steal our cameras. They can be as savage and mean as they want.
But we will never stop using technology. And technology will never stop improving. Innovations that empower and enable us will eventually converge.
Wifi Digital Camera's exist. That allows you to instantly email your photos or videos.
Wireless hotspots are mushrooming in Cairo. And you can even carry your own hotspot.
You can imagine.
Yesterday, I went with Ihab to Ain Sokhna to inquire and make contacts with boat owners for a long awaited fishing trip we wanted to organise. Previously we had plans for Hurghada, but the distance and expenses would not make it an easy thing.
We met Rayes Alala, in Sadat Beach (30Km north of Ain Sohkhna). We struck a fine deal with him. We will be paying 200EGP for a boat that can carry 7 …
Some plain clothes police (they had a walkie-talkie) stole my camera and four or three of them dragged me from my shirt violently in the streets. They did the same to my friends. We were no directly upseting them we were just taking photos of another one of my firends being dragged and beaten.
I feel humiliated. They are so mean and invincible.
This happened infront of the Ministry of Justice and after almost everyone …
As a fresh university graduate. It is without a doubt censorship, lack of free speech and security interference exists and is sinking the whole academic fleet of public and private universities.
More than once, in the first two years. When I didn't know about the laws regulating the universities. I was prevented from entering the main campus of Ain Shams University with my medical school ID. And the security at the gate reply was that …
Forget the lousy egymaps site. Google maps expanded to include several cities around the world. And by far this is the most detailed satellite imagery available freely for the public. Your loved and hated Cairo in amazing detail probably 1 meter resolution.
Ok, let us do some google sightseeing.
Go spend hours looking around an …
I found this editorial on SciDev about the state of science and research in Egypt. The first half of the article is a little bit optimistic but if you read on, this is probably one of the few articles that clearly outlines the obstacles facing science here. I took some notes and listed them:
Yesterday I was outraged to know that Dr. Mohammed Shafik ,a fresh medical graduate and a House Officer in Ain Shams University Hospitals, was arrested on Tuesday for distributing Kifaya pamphlets.
Mohammed Sahfik is a colleague and works in the same place I work and train in.
This is another proof, at least for my self, that this system is not moving towards anything positive. And again I am sensing this on a personal scale …
After today's Black protest. The next step for the Kefaya and Muslim brotherhood and everyone else not an NDP whore is to force Habib El-Adly resignination. This is the logical and most powerful step Egyptians could do this year.
Why?
After almost a month in Pediatrics, I finally managed to break an important psychological barrier. I managed to draw blood from a 2 months old. I was mostly lucky, the boy had a single visible vein. Which I attacked like a hungry leopard. With no fear I poked the needle in it. When the blood started oozing from the needle it was a great relief, I felt self confidence running through my veins. No more …