Manal and Alaa's bit bucket free speech from the bletches

صاحية مش مظبوطة النهارده .. بقالي فترة بتعدي علي أيام كتير بصحى في نفس الحالة دي .. تقريبا من يوم موت مرات عمي (رابع يوم العيد) .. و يمكن عشان في أصحاب كتير مسافرين في الفترة الجاية، منهم ناس يا عالم هنشوفهم تاني امتى.

أحلامي غريبة، طبعا الأحلام عمرها ما بتبقى منطقية (على الأقل معايا)، لكن بقالها فترة بتنتهي بموت حد أو فقده .. ممكن متبقاش هتموت لكن أبقى عارفة أني مش هشوفها أو صعب أني أشوفها تاني.  read more »

every time I visit an African country I find myself asking people quite rudely about their ethnic and tribal backgrounds (including the whites). being in a place where people know so much about their immediate history is fascinating, compared to Egypt where one might know loads of things about our ancient history but won't even remember where one's grandfather came from (of course this being Egypt nothing is uniform, many do know about their family trees and tribal backgrounds and all).

Now young arabs are supposed to have an identitiy crisis, we are supposed to spend the nights sweating over post modernist exestential question of belonging or not and the mere fact that we enjoy holy, boly and cairo wood at the same time is supposed to be very significant (what with haifa wahby being shiaa and nancy being  read more »