من منكم يتذكر الرسوم المتحركة الروسي التي كانت تعرض قبل أفلام السينما في أواخر الثمانينات و أوائل التسعنيات ؟

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In the 90s with the appearance of the satellite dish on top of the Egyptian home, the Egyptian youth suddenly became connected to tens of different worlds and spent their very crucial maturation phase in front of tens of channels from different places in the world. Connecting them to cultures, scenes and languages they were totally alien to.

One of those TV channels a Polish channel called POLSAT!

Which for different reasons was very attractive …

Yes, finally you can do it. Kick him were it hurts, real hard.

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Customs officers at Cairo's airport have detained a man bound for Saudi Arabia who was trying to smuggle 700 live snakes on a plane, airport authorities said.

The officers were stunned when a passenger, identified as Yahia Rahim Tulba, told them his carryon bag contained live snakes after he was asked to open it.

Tulba opened his bag to show the snakes to the police and asked the officers, who held a …

Occasionally doctors do some of the following mistakes and usually they do it in social situations and in non-professional settings. With the aim of starting or maintaining conversation. In other words, they try to sound interesting and make their work sound fun.

But only if their conversation were taped and they hear themselves. They would realize (some of them) that they were highly condescending.

Some of the following are unethical. Others are not, you are …

When you are playing a first person shooter, the second player, your team mate is essential for you.

The same thing here:

President Bush viewed the Israeli leader as essential to Middle East peace efforts.

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I sat down facing the machine with its hand-held coil pointed to my head and I started receiving few pulses of magnetic stimulation. Both doctors said almost at the same time "We reached the motor threshold." and they stopped cranking up the Amps. I asked for explanation. They said to me that my hand is twitching in reaction to the impulses. I tried to explain that those few twitches were voluntary and I made them …

Blogger and Al Hewar TV channel correspondant, Abdel Monem Mahmoud detained on Sunday morning after several conflicting reports of his arrest. This is a timeline that clears things up.

This was not the first time Monem was detained. He was tortured by state security forces.

He was outspoken in his blog regarding human rights abuses and free speech.

• The Free Monem Campaign blog
• RSF statement
• Monem in Egyptian blogosphere
• عبد المنعم محمود in Egyptian blogosphere …