So, finally – when their lackluster attempts at reason fall apart, they tell you it’s just a difference of opinion and that it’s okay to disagree. So yeah, it’s just ‘opinion’… Well – It’s my ‘opinion’ that the so-called Supreme Council of the Armed Forces hijacked the revolution with the aid of the Muslim brotherhood, to whom they handed power in order to be able to restore military rule with...
It takes no genius to recognize that Egypt is off the rails. Most Egyptian media is exhibiting an undying commitment to polarization, despite it being quite well known that, behind closed doors, the military is, in fact, negotiating with the ‘terrorists.’ Please note that the quotes are no longer technically necessary in Egypt since the Muslim Brotherhood was legally declared, for what that’s...
Excuse the title. I like the Camelot myths. I’ve never read the original Malory, though, and wasn’t quite so interested in it when I was a child. The whole knight in shining armor thing never quite caught my fancy. However, years later, I was lucky enough to run into The Sword in the Stone, T.H. White’s wonderful take on the Arthurian myths. In the first volume, we see a young Arthur slowly...
In the first book of an Egypt series, John Crowley writes that there is more than one history of the world. That there are times when the universe transitions to another mode of operation, one that changes the rules so much that things that were once possible were now not. There are two histories of Egypt. In one history, the people of Egypt, after having been ruled by an aging tyrant, rose and...
You’ll have to excuse the loose writing – this is an overgrown comment and wasn’t written as a proper ‘note’ or blog entry – After reading quite a few articles on the whole water thing, I’m now in the uncomfortable position of WANTING the water, obviously, since I’m in Egypt, and don’t really want us to run out of water – while simultaneously thinking that our ‘rights’ to it are very tenuous. All...
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