Reporters Without Borders / Internet Freedom desk EGYPT: PETITION FOR RELEASE OF BLOGGERS KAREEM AMER AND ABDUL-MONEIM MAHMUD Six months after the arrest of Kareem Amer, Reporters Without Borders has started a petition calling for the blogger's release and that of his colleague Abdul-Moneim Mahmud. Internet-users are being asked to sign online, in which the worldwide press freedom organisation calls on the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), a conference organised under the UN mantle, to block Egypt from hosting the event in 2008 unless the two bloggers are freed.Sign the petition : http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=21993 Text of the petition: "We call for the release of Abdel Kareem Nabil Suleiman (Kareem Amer) and of…

Worried about the future…listening to some words from here and there, plus depressing signs from my family. Things like these never help, they just put me in the usual circle of doom. Listening to the beautiful instrumental played by Era, Flowers of the Sea. This is all what I want from life. Tranquility… Wandering about a usual thought of mine, words give meaning to meanings. People always complain about that there are so much words with no actions. Do they really talk right? Remembering the time I wrote my poetry to my imaginary love in my early and middle teen years. How I laughed in my sleeves when my mates…

I just found out that a year passed on my blogging experience, if I can call it an experience. I began blogging in 22th of April, 2006. After that, blogging just embraced me time after time, transforming myself from other online activity sharing. Many of us maybe liked forums, making personal sites for a few percentage. But blogging? Way different. Of course people made of it sometimes, warned me from the "government" sometimes, attacked me for it sometimes… But who cares, ALL these people are now gone, with the most annoying phrase in the world: I love you. If all is loved, where will hate go then? Commit suicide? Human…

Posted in : Monday, June 26, 2006 Today I saw the movie Omar AlMokhtar. I saw it many times before, but it is the first time for me to see it from a very different prospective. When I was in the CIMAL session we discussed the principle of the one person rule in the history of Arab countries, and I really realized that even in the times of Arab dignity and prosperity, there was a rare chance of talking about democracy or Shura within the minds of our Arab people. We always depend on certain people to defend us, and thus giving away this precious right to others while in…

Ignorance cost a lot sometimes. A lot. Esp when many people know what you don't know…

Many Egyptian students in University face this situation a lot. A decision made by the professor or the lecturer or whosoever which is made by the name of General Benefit. False use however. For example a few days ago we had an exam, the timing of the exam was long for me personally, it was like 1.5 hours. This timing was determined by the professor and everything is cool. THen after the half-time the tutor responsible for supervising us during the exam made a personal decision that the exam timing will be less by 15 min. Just like that. The whole 100 examined student raored of course, but still with…

Update===>http://www.manalaa.net/monem_arrest_timeline Blogger Abdul Mon'em Mahmoud was detained by the State Security forces in morning of this Friday. He is a journalist in the English MB site and also a reporter for the BBC. There is also a stand for him in front of the Journalists' Syndicate tomorrow Saturday starting 5 pm. No other info available for the detention.

Some people see chaos as something prohibited in religion, though, any revolution against governmental terrorism must, MUST contain some kind of chaos. A transitional interval of time when chaos prevails after which, chaos is turned into creative chaos, converting the socio-political environment to its right pace.

Our friend Shaimaa, her grandmother died. You can give her your condolences on her site. http://shymaaa.blogspot.com/