This probably explains the damn hot weather these days.

Interesting message left by hacker. I think they are called white hat or black hat hackers as opposed to white or black hackers.

The center also allocates a percentage of in-patient beds for refugees, the victims of conflicts in Sudan and Horn of Africa.

CAIRO: Silence dawned on the Sayeda Zeinab district yesterday, the first day of annual celebration of the birth of Sayeda Zeinab, the prophet’s granddaughter. The typical sight of colorful swings, game stands, sweet and gift vendors were no where to be seen.

Ibrahim says that she sustained an injury to her knee when she was dragged down the stairs of her building from her second floor apartment outside to the street. She says she was horrified by the fact that her neighbors saw her in her house clothes, unveiled and in a short-sleeved dress.

Review of Karima al-Hifnawy’s Diary of a Pharmacist.

Doctors from the Ministry of “Health” come and go freely, with no masks, no gloves, nada.

أصدرت المحكمة الابتدائية بـ"العدوه" صباح أمس الخميس برئاسة المستشار" أحمد يسري" ، وبحضور "أحمد الجمل" وكيل النيابة ، وأمانة سر "رمضان علي" حكما حضوريا بمعاقبه "منير سعيد حنا مرزوق" ، الموظف بالا داره التعليمية بمغاغة بالحبس (3 سنوات) وكفاله (100 ألف جنيه) ، وذلك لإهانته رئيس الجمهورية بأن قام بكتابة بيانات شعريه مخالفه للحقيقة وتوزيعها على العاملين بمحل عمله بالإدارة التعليمية.

Farouq Hosni shouldn’t be the head of UNESCO. Not just because of his (probably entirely politically opportunistic) Israel-bashing. But mostly because he is the longest-serving minister (22 years) in an autocratic state that does not respect freedom of expression; because he presides over a corrupt and mediocre ministry and has acted in the interest of the regime rather than the interests of culture time and again; because he is generally loathed by Egyptian artists and writers of any standing. He shouldn’t be head of UNESCO not because of his disrespect for Israeli culture–but because of his much deeper, more damaging disrespect of Egyptian culture.

Al Masry journalist was a school colleague and I know people who worked in NAMRU-III. Hisham Kassem is a twitter friend. This video feels very strange.

These students are all residents of the Zamalek dormitory and as a result the dormitory has been quarantined for 24 hours. The Ministry of Health has obtained samples from all residents of the dormitory and those results are expected later today.

Human rights workers have been physically assaulted as well as arrested. When Dr Magda Adly, of the Al-Nadeem Centre for the rehabilitation of torture victims, left a police station in Kafr el-Dawa after interviewing four detainees who said they had been tortured, she was knocked unconscious and her arm was broken.

Incredible photography. Magical.

Largest two ring-roads here are that of Beijing then London. Cairo's ring road, which was designed in the 70s and only completed in 2000s, is almost the size of Brussels'.

The El-Zohour Appeal Court on Tuesday upheld the LE 2,500 fine against Tamer Mabrouk issued in January as well as an order that the blogger pay LE 40,000 in civil compensation to the Trust Chemicals Company.

I would like to invite 70 million Egyptians to read this post.

I think this might be response to downtown street art scare last month.

13% of Egyptians think they are citizens of the world, 13% think they are citizens of both their county and the world.

I’m not defending obscenity; I just don’t know what it is. Obscenity is a very subjective term; what’s obscene for you might not be obscene for me and vice versa. Confining one or a small group of people to decide it is wishful thinking. Values and morals are also loose terms that cannot be shoved down people’s throats.

A hilarious posts that raises deep academic questions: "How much of this antipathy is attributable to deliberate misinformation, and poor education, and media which loves a sensation? Does what is ostensibly over zealous nationalism mask a deep insecurity, even a loss of identity?"

A paper by Scott Long examining the forensic examination of suspected homosexuals in Egypt. This paper describes how Egyptian forensic doctors by doing so are actually taking part in torture and throws light on the lack of scientific basis to support these examinations.

The rest of the time we listened to a bored police station employee (his exact job was unclear) hold forth on the press (“I read all the papers but trust [independent daily] El-Masry El-Youm most”) and press criticism of police violations (“Nobody is above criticism. Even doctors make mistakes and should be held to account”).

Al-Masry is crap.

Every new crisis, every new tragedy in Egypt is a reprieve, a fresh start, another chance to put things right. It's never taken. Things are always and inevitably ballsed up, and back we are dragged to zero.

el masry attacks Caritas now .. and with the same level of foolishness as they handled their crappy AUC - NAMRU expose .. araf