Posts in the category «Local & Regional» :

Sharm in the media

in «Local & Regional» by moftasa

Ok, I am starting to recover from my shock. Here are some links related to the Sharm El-Sheikh bombings.

A Tragedy

in «Local & Regional» by moftasa

Since this is probably the largest terror attack to hit my home country in my lifetime. I think I have to post something.

My reaction is very different to other attacks, I am avoiding the news, television and other sources of information. On other similar events I would be glued to the TV and the Internet. Trying to follow every news piece or report.

I am glad, I didn't lose anyone I know. But still …

Google Maps: Cairo

in «Local & Regional» by moftasa

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 …

Leave them alone

in «Local & Regional» by moftasa

a kid jockey in Sudan

Human rights groups condemn the trafficking and exploitation of kids used as camel jockeys. They lobby hard to stop the use of young children slaves in such a dangerous sport. In 2003, UAE responded by a law that prohibits children under 15 or weighing less than 45 kilograms to take part in the sport. However there are evidence that young kids are still used.

Qatar recently responded by developing, with a Swiss robotics firm, a …

Brains Made in China

in «Local & Regional» by moftasa

After the Chinese cars that will be assembeled here.

I would like to present to you, the Chinese university, here is an excrept:

China and Egypt on Sunday signed an agreement on establishing the Egyptian Chinese University (ECU) in Cairo, the first Chinese university to be set up in the Middle East region.

Now, I can't really understand why do we need this. May be for business studies and technology. Which Americans, Germans, British, Canadians …

CairoChanging

in «Local & Regional» by moftasa

While writing this, I coined the term CarioChanging. I used it to describe a place (Sakia) that did change Cairo to the better and still has the potential to bring good things to this megapolis.

I borrowed the term from a very popular blog. Worldchanging. They describe their site as:

WorldChanging.com works from a simple premise: that the tools, models and ideas for building a better future lie all around us. That plenty of …

Cool new map service for Cairo

in «Local & Regional» by moftasa

UPDATE Service is down!

Cairo rejoice!

We are on the bleeding edge of information technology. We now have a map service that is updated, exact, detailed, bilingual, gives you driving directions and has information about all the spaghetti u-turns they have botched our roads with.

No more stuttering fools giving you wrong directions. No more outdated maps. No more wasting time finding street names or building numbers.

I am not going to get lost in …

Free Mojtaba and Arash Day

in «Local & Regional» by moftasa

Iranian bloggers are awesome. There are almost 65,000 ''active'' blogs from an estimated 200,000. At such number any oppressive regime must be in terror, if it fears freedom of expression.

Anyhow, I hope non of the handful Egyptian bloggers will end up like Mojtaba, Arash or any of the prosecuted bloggers in Iran. Well, lets just hope that more Egyptian bloggers would start to exist and start poking the limits of freedom in …