Originally by Socrates:
Alaa Abd El-Fatah was arrested today together with around ten more activists during a peaceful demonstration in solidarity with sixty activists who were arrested over the past two weeks in a non-violent sit in as well who were held in custody for two weeks under investigation for …
Just after I blogged about the common egyptian bulbul. I found a couple infront of the window and managed to take photos of them. The photos are a little bit shaky (because of the dim light) but they are ok. Notice the one staring at me. Actually it is a …
I never thought that there is such a large variety of birds living in Cairo. Check this photo collection by namq on flickr. Or you could check his blog Notice the tags, they have the scientific name of each bird along side the English name. Never knew that a Bulbul …
She was one of the top ten students in the whole country in secondary education. She asked the minister for a night job to help support her family of two parents and 7 brothers and sisters.
One day, she stopped sleeping. She became more fun and daring. Other nights she …
More photos and a story later.
Dear Blog,
Sometimes I stare in front of your 'Submit story' page for hours. I write something very personal in it. A story that will expose my weaknesses and imperfections. A feeling that is naive or childish. Or just plain foolishness I have done. It is important to me to …
Alaa sent a number of SMSs from the sit in. Since he couldn't set up his blog to do the same due to Vodaphone putting restrictions on international SMS. These SMS appeared as published posts on the front page of this blog.
I removed the posts from the front page …
Sit in over we marched to syndicates security harased us tried to grab my camera setling in lawyers syndicate
wraping up took down the huge flag and the green thingy that is supposed to represent judges sash security cars gathering one broke we helped push it