Manal and Alaa's bit bucket

been to the demonstration at mogama3 al ta7rir today, as usual it was a big mess, the thing was supposed to start at 1pm but the tagamo3 started early at 12:00 and had the police lock downtown early.

to top it off al 3arabi newspaper anounced that the demo would be at 2pm instead of 1pm (nasserists when will they get a brain).

it was hardly an antiwar demo, it was mostly an anti mubarak demo, kefaia decided to give this one a skip, why? who knows, who cares.

interesting thing this time was the pro mubarak mozahra on the other side, crew cut honest every day egyptians came streaming from central secruity (amn markazy) cars to organize a patriotic pro mubarak mozahra and accuse us of being traitors, they had some anti iraq war banners (all printed in the same exact type and material), among them was a monaqaba waering gold all over her arms (رقاصة محترمة مالكباريه للمظاهرة و من المظاهرة للكباريه) .

funkiest thing about the pro mubarak mozahra was the banner that said "مبارك قائدة مسيرة الاصلاح" nice to know the pharaoh is in touch with his feminine side.

anyways the traitors mozahra was as usual, its always a good time to meet some people one doesn't get many chances to meet (its also good to remember there is a world beyond GNU/Linux and Free/Open Source Software).

this time we met "حرامى الشنطة" the guy (is he a baltagi or a security officer) who robbed my mum's bag and cut my Unga Ornar T-Shirt to shreds while trying to confiscate my camera last year.

he is one of the minions of Walid Al Desoky, one of Egypt's most notorious torturers.

mostafa was wearing my favorite slogan , its perfect it doesn't claim to have an answer, in fact it isn't even political and yet it is the dream of many egyptians (to spit on our leaders one by one).

same genius who created the spitting slogan made this new cool banner . Sharm el Sheikh is now a symbol, you hear it more than camp david and the Nagi el Ali like drawing is perfect for the ocassion.

more photos from the demonstration.

c ya all on the 30th in kefaia's protest.