Charafantah's Cave

I was visiting the UN building in Geneva today, I was in a hall that contains several artifacts from several countries (paintings, sculptures etc) each is a gift from a country that is a member of the UN to represent it’s art and culture.

Except for one piece, which is the Egyptian one, a statue of Maat the Egyptian God, the sign next to it read: “Gift presented by H.E (her excellency) Suzanne Mubarak” why on earth would the wife of the ex-president have the right to distribute our heritage and cultural as personal gifts in her name?

I want the treasures of my ancestors back where they belong, in Egypt. Or at least if it is really necessary, that sign should read that it’s a gift from Egypt!!!

Here photos of the sign and the statue:

النهاردة كنت في مبني الأمم المتحدة في جنيف, في صالة كلها هدايا من الدول الأعضاء , لوح فنية, تماثيل وسجاجيد, كل قطعة فنية منهم بترمز للبلد اللي أهدتها ومكتوب عليها اسم البلد ووصف القطعة وسنة الاهداء.

الا القطعة المصرية بتاعتنا اللي عبارة عن تمثال للإله ماعت مكتوب عليه إنه متاخد من المتحف المصري وأهدى للأمم المتحدة سنة 2004 من “صاحبة الفخامة, السيدة سوزان مبارك” ده هم اللي كاتبين كده! مش مكتوب اسم مصر خالص!!!

إزاي يعني القطع الاثرية تبقى من حق مرات الرئيس إنها تهديها وتوزعها؟وإيه, بإسمها الشخصي مش بإسم مصر!!!!

القطعة دي لازم ترجع المتحف المصري أو على الأقل يتغير التعريف اللي مكتوب عليها ويتكتب إنها مهداه من مصر!!!

الصور أهه:

بمناسبة ثورة ٢٥ يناير و إن كل الناس بتتكلم في السياسة، و في ناس كتير منهم بتقول رأيها و هي أصلا ماتعرفش المبادئ ولا تعرف مصر شغالة إزاي.

عملت شرح للسلطات في مصر على طريقة الإنفوجرافيكس عشان تشوفوا دوس هنا

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إعتذار لللهجة و الألفاظ المنحدرة اللي حكتب بيها بس أنا خلاص مش قادر

هو الواد زفت الطين هفء الجيل اللي إسمه تامر زفت حسني ده مش حيبطل نفاق بقى؟ الناس خلاص مش طايقة ميتين أمه

بعد ما طلع يولول زي النسوان في التلفزيون على مصر و قال قصيدة شعر في مبارك لقيت ناس كاتبة على تويتر إنه حينزل البوم إسمه ٢٥ يناير، طبعا دمي فار و حاولت أدور أونلاين على مصدر يأكد الكلام ده.

قوم إيه بقى، شوف الصدف، لقيت الموقع الرسمي بتاع سي خرا كاتب إنه عنده حفلة في أمستردام في هولندا في هيينيكين كونسرت هال مع هيفاء وهبي يوم ٢٩ يناير!

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ننوس عين مصر اللي بيعيط عليها و خايف عليها موز سابها و راح  يغني مع هيفاء في هولندا في عز المعمعة، طبعا أكيد كان رايح يصطبح من أمس.

الواد ده ماحدش عارف يلموا ولا إيه؟ مفيش دم؟مفيش إحساس؟ طب يا أخي أنت منافق و مغرور و كداب و مزور و رد سجون، إذا بليتم فاستتروا.

مفيش حد من الناس اللي حواليه عنده شوية مخ يفهمه إن كدة غلط؟كدة كخ؟كدة شغل لامؤاخزات؟إسترجل يا حبيبي.

صور الحفلة أهه، أخذ فيها جايزة من الجوايز الآي كلام بتوعه اللي حيقعد يصدعنا بهم.

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The article was written by Sandmonkey, original here.

I don’t know how to start writing this. I have been battling fatigue for not sleeping properly for the past 10 days, moving from one’s friend house to another friend’s house, almost never spending a night in my home, facing a very well funded and well organized ruthless regime that views me as nothing but an annoying bug that its time to squash will come. The situation here is bleak to say the least.

It didn’t start out that way. On Tuesday Jan 25 it all started peacefully, and against all odds, we succeeded to gather hundreds of thousands and get them into Tahrir Square, despite being attacked by Anti-Riot Police who are using sticks, tear gas and rubber bullets against us. We managed to break all of their barricades and situated ourselves in Tahrir. The government responded by shutting down all cell communication in Tahrir square, a move which purpose was understood later when after midnight they went in with all of their might and attacked the protesters and evacuated the Square. The next day we were back at it again, and the day after. Then came Friday and we braved their communication blackout, their thugs, their tear gas and their bullets and we retook the square. We have been fighting to keep it ever since.

That night the government announced a military curfew, which kept getting shorter by the day, until it became from 8 am to 3 pm. People couldn’t go to work, gas was running out quickly and so were essential goods and money, since the banks were not allowed to operate and people were not able to collect their salary. The internet continued to be blocked, which affected all businesses in Egypt and will cause an economic meltdown the moment they allow the banks to operate again. We were being collectively punished for daring to say that we deserve democracy and rights, and to keep it up, they withdrew the police, and then sent them out dressed as civilians to terrorize our neighborhoods. I was shot at twice that day, one of which with a semi-automatic by a dude in a car that we the people took joy in pummeling. The government announced that all prisons were breached, and that the prisoners somehow managed to get weapons and do nothing but randomly attack people. One day we had organized thugs in uniforms firing at us and the next day they disappeared and were replaced by organized thugs without uniforms firing at us. Somehow the people never made the connection.

Despite it all, we braved it. We believed we are doing what’s right and were encouraged by all those around us who couldn’t believe what was happening to their country. What he did galvanized the people, and on Tuesday, despite shutting down all major roads leading into Cairo, we managed to get over 2 million protesters in Cairo alone and 3 million all over Egypt to come out and demand Mubarak’s departure. Those are people who stood up to the regime’s ruthlessness and anger and declared that they were free, and were refusing to live in the Mubarak dictatorship for one more day. That night, he showed up on TV, and gave a very emotional speech about how he intends to step down at the end of his term and how he wants to die in Egypt, the country he loved and served. To me, and to everyone else at the protests this wasn’t nearly enough, for we wanted him gone now. Others started asking that we give him a chance, and that change takes time and other such poppycock. Hell, some people and family members cried when they saw his speech. People felt sorry for him for failing to be our dictator for the rest of his life and inheriting us to his Son. It was an amalgam of Stockholm syndrome coupled with slave mentality in a malevolent combination that we never saw before. And the Regime capitalized on it today.

Today, they brought back the internet, and started having people calling on TV and writing on facebook on how they support Mubarak and his call for stability and peacefull change in 8 months. They hung on to the words of the newly appointed government would never harm the protesters, whom they believe to be good patriotic youth who have a few bad apples amongst them. We started getting calls asking people to stop protesting because “we got what we wanted” and “we need the country to start working again”. People were complaining that they miss their lives. That they miss going out at night, and ordering Home Delivery. That they need us to stop so they can resume whatever existence they had before all of this. All was forgiven, the past week never happened and it’s time for Unity under Mubarak’s rule right now.

To all of those people I say: NEVER! I am sorry that your lives and businesses are disrupted, but this wasn’t caused by the Protesters. The Protesters aren’t the ones who shut down the internet that has paralyzed your businesses and banks: The government did. The Protesters weren’t the ones who initiated the military curfew that limited your movement and allowed goods to disappear off market shelves and gas to disappear: The government did. The Protesters weren’t the ones who ordered the police to withdraw and claimed the prisons were breached and unleashed thugs that terrorized your neighborhoods: The government did. The same government that you wish to give a second chance to, as if 30 years of dictatorship and utter failure in every sector of government wasn’t enough for you. The Slaves were ready to forgive their master, and blame his cruelty on those who dared to defy him in order to ensure a better Egypt for all of its citizens and their children. After all, he gave us his word, and it’s not like he ever broke his promises for reform before or anything.

Then Mubarak made his move and showed them what useful idiots they all were.

You watched on TV as “Pro-Mubarak Protesters” – thugs who were paid money by NDP members by admission of High NDP officials- started attacking the peaceful unarmed protesters in Tahrir square. They attacked them with sticks, threw stones at them, brought in men riding horses and camels- in what must be the most surreal scene ever shown on TV- and carrying whips to beat up the protesters. And then the Bullets started getting fired and Molotov cocktails started getting thrown at the Anti-Mubarak Protesters as the Army standing idly by, allowing it all to happen and not doing anything about it. Dozens were killed, hundreds injured, and there was no help sent by ambulances. The Police never showed up to stop those attacking because the ones who were captured by the Anti-mubarak people had police ID’s on them. They were the police and they were there to shoot and kill people and even tried to set the Egyptian Museum on Fire. The Aim was clear: Use the clashes as pretext to ban such demonstrations under pretexts of concern for public safety and order, and to prevent disunity amongst the people of Egypt. But their plans ultimately failed, by those resilient brave souls who wouldn’t give up the ground they freed of Egypt, no matter how many live bullets or firebombs were hurled at them. They know, like we all do, that this regime no longer cares to put on a moderate mask. That they have shown their true nature. That Mubarak will never step down, and that he would rather burn Egypt to the ground than even contemplate that possibility.

In the meantime, State-owned and affiliated TV channels were showing coverage of Peaceful Mubarak Protests all over Egypt and showing recorded footage of Tahrir Square protest from the night before and claiming it’s the situation there at the moment. Hundreds of calls by public figures and actors started calling the channels saying that they are with Mubarak, and that he is our Father and we should support him on the road to democracy. A veiled girl with a blurred face went on Mehwer TV claiming to have received funding by Americans to go to the US and took courses on how to bring down the Egyptian government through protests which were taught by Jews. She claimed that AlJazeera is lying, and that the only people in Tahrir square now were Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. State TV started issuing statements on how the people arrested Israelis all over Cairo engaged in creating mayhem and causing chaos. For those of you who are counting this is an American-Israeli-Qatari-Muslim Brotherhood-Iranian-Hamas conspiracy. Imagine that. And MANY PEOPLE BOUGHT IT. I recall telling a friend of mine that the only good thing about what happened today was that it made clear to us who were the idiots amongst our friends. Now we know.

Now, just in case this isn’t clear: This protest is not one made or sustained by the Muslim Brotherhood, it’s one that had people from all social classes and religious background in Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood only showed up on Tuesday, and even then they were not the majority of people there by a long shot. We tolerated them there since we won’t say no to fellow Egyptians who wanted to stand with us, but neither the Muslims Brotherhood not any of the Opposition leaders have the ability to turn out one tenth of the numbers of Protesters that were in Tahrir on Tuesday. This is a revolution without leaders. Three Million individuals choosing hope instead of fear and braving death on hourly basis to keep their dream of freedom alive. Imagine that.

The End is near. I have no illusions about this regime or its leader, and how he will pluck us and hunt us down one by one till we are over and done with and 8 months from now will pay people to stage fake protests urging him not to leave power, and he will stay “because he has to acquiesce to the voice of the people”. This is a losing battle and they have all the weapons, but we will continue fighting until we can’t. I am heading to Tahrir right now with supplies for the hundreds injured, knowing that today the attacks will intensify, because they can’t allow us to stay there come Friday, which is supposed to be the game changer. We are bringing everybody out, and we will refuse to be anything else than peaceful. If you are in Egypt, I am calling on all of you to head down to Tahrir today and Friday. It is imperative to show them that the battle for the soul of Egypt isn’t over and done with. I am calling you to bring your friends, to bring medical supplies, to go and see what Mubarak’s gurantees look like in real life. Egypt needs you. Be Heroes.

Due to internet being cut by the governoment in Egypt because of the protests calling for Mubarak to leave power all my friends and family in Egypt cannot report what is happening over there.

A friend of mine managed to get internet access and asked me to publish the below on her behalf:

View from my balcony

(Under forced curfew)

Saturday, 29th of January 2011, turned into a night of terror for the Egyptians, after the tragic turn in events with the withdrawal of ALL police and security forces from the streets of Egyptian, the application of an overnight curfew and the coinciding breakout of dangerous prisoners and thugs in the streets. At 12:30pm I received a phone call from a friend who lives just 10 minutes away saying with a trembling terrorized voice: “There are people from “Kilo 4.5” – an area east of Cairo known for its slums – attacking our street, tell all the people to go down in the street”. In a few moments, all the men and teenagers from our building and the neighboring buildings rushed out to the streets, grabbing everything they could find; broom sticks, pieces of wood and all sorts of kitchen knives, for self-defense. I couldn’t find anything proper to give my dad except the wooden wardrobe hanger, throwing all my clothes on the bed on the way.

It was a moment of true panic, and from that moment onwards, the streets in my beloved Egypt were not the same. The Egyptians were not the same. They grew much stronger, dignified and noble, at least in the eyes of their fellow Egyptians. Every man, every young man and every kid aged 10 years+ was alternating guarding shifts, 24/7, standing in front of their buildings and at street corners with a stick, an electric shocker, a hunting gun, a kitchen knife or anything that would serve as a weapon, in order to provide protection for his neighbors. The following day, Sunday, people started forming protection committees to protect public institutions (hospitals, banks, electricity and water companies, etc.) while some guys choose to act as traffic officers and inspectors, forming checkpoints in main streets. Drivers were cooperative, they’d willingly hand their IDs and car licenses and open their trunks for inspection to young men who politely apologize for the inconvenience and explain that the security check is for everybody’s safety sake. The streets themselves have turned into military camps, with barricades set up at every street entrance (sometimes using plain sand bags and rocks). At night, fires were lit-up in order to provide warmth for the civil night-guards who have divided themselves into groups that stand every few hundred meters away from each other, and labeled these groups with consecutive numbers. To help them stay awake, each group would call the number of the following one every hour, the called group would yell back indicating that they are stable and alert.

Saturday night, at 1:30am and just as I was about to sleep, I had to jump out of bed and rush into the balcony following my parents as we heard loud whistles (the call sign for “S.O.S” among the civil guards) and people running and yelling towards the corner of the street, which was clearly visible from the balcony. We watched as people gathered around a guy that was apparently caught while trying to jump off a nearby fence. The men yelled calling for anyone with a gun to come and help them lest the intruder escapes, then we all waited for the patrolling army tank that the army had dedicated for our neighborhood (as it did all over Cairo neighborhoods) to come and pick up the arrested thug..

Today I walked to the office where I work, past the civil checkpoints and army soldiers spread about in main streets. Many of the passer-bys hold sticks in their hands. It’s almost as if all Egyptians became a primitive tribal clan. However, unlike yesterday and the day before, people are becoming more confident to go out in the streets, some even say streets are now safer than it were at the time when ministry of internal affairs ruled the scene! But what people are more confident of is that there is a deep internal rage in every Egyptian’s chest against the police and security forces that has COMPLETELY fled the scene for three long nights, a rage that’s still buried under the surface, and the only thing that’s holding from eruption is the fact that not a single police personal in a uniform has been seen in the streets since Friday evening, and if they were, there are treated at the civil checkpoints with doubt and total dismay! Only time will show how Egyptians will come to forgive these police forces for letting go of their own people’s security and protection.

Is it just me, or did someone else notice this?
i’ve been following Al Ahram for the past 3 days, and everyday the main title has to start with “Mubarak – مبارك” and there is a smaller article on the main page beneath it titled “Gamal Mubarak – جمال مبارك”

Is that a coincidence?or that’s some kind of subliminal message, implying that It’s always Mubarak and it’s always followed by Gamal Mubarak?

or maybe am too big on the conspiracy theory?

We’ll see …i’ll keep an eye on that from now on that i’ve noticed it

A friend of mine, sent me a clip taken from an old movie of Kamal El Shinnawy & Shadia, we have all probably seen this movie, i just don’t happen to remember the name.

Kamal El Shinnawy is a pilot and he’s going to war, guess who was silent actor (كومبارس) in the role of the air force commander (his actual title at that time)? yep, you guessed right, it’s Hosni Mubarak the current Egyptian president (ربنا يطول فى عمرك يا ريس و يديك الصحة,قادر يا كريم)

Ηehe, this is hilarious el ragel negm men yomo ya3ny!!!!

now leave you with the pictures from the movie ( i have the clip if anyone wants it, mail me)

ولله وطلعت فى “التلافازيون” ياحسنى ومع كمال الشناوى و عبد المنعم إبراهيم