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 No more outdated maps.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 …