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Noha

History with Dignity

What do we know about our real history, not only modern history, but the pharaonic, Jewish, Islamic, Coptic history, in addition, to the Romans, Greeks and Greco Roman????

I bet you that university graduates are not aware about their history greatness, only what they were taught at school. What do we know about great people in modern history like Sheikh Mohamed Abdou, Ahmed Orabi, Mustafa Kamel, Qattaui Pasha, Talaat Harb, Yacob Sannou, Saad Zaagloul, King Farouk.... only what we have been taught at schools and mostly censored to suit the regime.

Last year when the TV series of King Farouk was broadcasted, most people watched it with an eagerness never felt before, as if they were thirsty for the information about the late King who truly loved Egypt with all his heart, but also reigned at very bad times and died alone in Italy.

Little did we know about his sufferance, his conflicts and his relations, one thing is a fact, he was never really given the credit he deserved.

Our civilization and heritage are important factors for our human development. We have to read our history to be able to predict our future. A nation without history is a nation without a future.

Let us take our morals from our history, let us preserve this history and maintain its existence. The Pharaohs died with their secrets so at least we should try to conserve what is left of their civilization with the dignity deserved and teach both the old and young generations the real history of our country.

Let us eradicate this cultural ignorance that we are suffering from and start reading a book a month about history, an article on the internet from trusted sites, watch a documentary, read a romantic historical book. Any form of reading or watching that can enrich our cultural sense.

I call for a campaign with the name "History with Dignity", let us tell our families and friends and start this cultural campaign even at schools and universities to enrich our minds so we understand our value as a Nation.

I love Egypt, EGYPT PREVAILS.

A tribute to a Great Friend: Ahmed Al Rabe on his Birthday

It is a tribute to a great friend who taught me unintentionally how life without a selfless objective is not a life.

He was a great man, a friend, a family man, a politician. A member of the Kuwaiti Parliament twice and a minister of education in the government after the Iraqi Invasion in 1991.

His mind was always busy with critical issues of the region, he believed in the national unity of Arab Nations, and he died with a brain tumor in March 2008.

His friendship was always real and cherished.

To you this tribute on your Birthday.  May God rest your soul and your free spirit.

Iran... looking for a role in the Middle East....Stay away from EGYPT

Demonstrations in Iran in front of Egypt's Interest Section Office in Tehran because of the Gaza Blockage.  Hundreds maybe thousands of Iranian students demonstrated I wonder why and what are these students representing and what their motives are.????

Egypt is a free country that is at peace with Israel since 1978, after President Sadaat, May God rest his soul, stopped the war and the blood shed and signed a Peace treaty with Israel.  At the time everybody attacked him and called him traitor.  Why??? Because he protected his country from further war and wanted us to live in peace.  He won a Nobel Prize for his initiative and is and will always be mentioned in history as a hero.

He was assassinated on the hands of his traitor soldiers whom Iran named a street or an avenue after one of them. They produced also a movie representing President Sadaat as a traitor.  At least he had the guts to make peace with Israel.  He was a man with a vision that ended the war in the region.  Many others followed his foot steps... declared or in hiding.. because they had no guts to go in the open and admit having relations with Israel.

The Palestinians tried for peace years later in Oslo and Madrid, but could not finalize to live in peace.  We have to let go of the past to be able to live in the future.  We can not keep blaming each other for the loss of a son or a relative and try to avenge them and then expect peace.

Peace and tolerance should be taught to our children in order to grow up living in peace with themselves and their society.

Now, what does Iran want, bring us to war with Israel. True Egyptians will not go into war, we had too many wars and too many soldiers lost in battles that concern us and battles that were not even ours.  This is not a passive stand, this is just the right stand for Egypt.

We will not be pulled in this Iranian game.  We are protecting our borders that we once opened and around 300,000 Palestinians went into Egypt and they had also with them as a gift for their fellow Egyptians FAKE MONEY.  No thank you, we have had enough with this Palestine's Saga and sorry for all my Palestinians friends, but this is your war to fight.... let Egypt out of it.

As for Iran, find yourself a role else where.... Egypt is not part of your plan and will not play into your game.

I love Egypt and Egypt PREVAILS

The Jewish General Hospital in Montreal....... Double Standards Arabs...

Am in Montreal visiting my son who is following his studies there.... listening to him and his friends talking about the health services and how it takes hours and hours in emergency rooms to be served because in Canada they have a shortage of doctors and nurses... I argued that it could not be true and was adamant that it can't be worse than what we have back home....

Anyway, a few days later, I found myself in a situation where I had to go with a friend to the emergency room in the Jewish General Hospital in Cote-des-Neiges for a serious problem that needed immediate attention since my friend was bleeding.  First, whether you are bleeding or dying or broke your bones or you are 100 years old... you have to take a number and wait in the first waiting room for the nurse to see you.. once seen by the first nurse and she asks all the necessary and unnecessary questions, you move into another room where you are registered and given another number after presenting your medi-care or any health insurance card. You then wait in the waiting room where there are hundreds of people each with a different complaint until you are called into the ER.

There were people who have been waiting for 6 and 7 hours before they are called into the ER.  Of course for me the ER in Canada has to be something like Grey's anatomy Mac-dreamy doctors, or ER series or any of these series that make us believe that this is how doctors function in developed countries.

My friend was scared and in pain, and we were lucky, they let us in and we were met by a distorted picture of Dr. House.  He made a quick check and scan through the vagina with an intern student asking her questions as if we are in an oral exam.  Anyway, he was not happy with the results so he asked for a more advanced scan for which we waited for another good three hours..

What shocked me then, we were received by .... hear me well... a Saudi doctor with a beard till his stomach... short trousers and broken English.  He was on training in the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal... what a hypocrisy.... Saudi Arabia doesn't admit to overt relations with the Jews, but they  train their doctors on Radiology with them.....

Then we were moved back to ER, where the "Doctor House" listened to the Saudi Doctors report and could not understand a thing (Technology they hear reports on the phone) so he asked for a Resident Doctor to check my friend.  This took us another three hours.  In the meantime, a student came and made the first opinion and asked my friends questions about her life from before time.  All this time my friend has cramps and is almost crying of pain....

Through this time, I had created friendship with all other patients in the ER... all in the peril that we were all in... One old Polish lady was there since 8 in the morning with a broken ankle left on the side until late in the evening without water or food.  She could have passed away without  being noticed, and another Italian Young man with a disc attack, they dismiss him when he was crying of pain, and another lady with her daughter who was suffering from a gastric flu that seems to be very common these days in Montreal and highly contagious....

Many many stories during our wait for the resident to arrive and see my friend to dismiss her from the hospital....Arrives the resident tailed by her student, she is Kuwaiti doing her PHD at the Jewish General Hospital and already knew about us the Egyptians in the ER.

What truly made me think is the double standard of countries like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, they have their doctors and students be taught by Jew doctors in a big hospital like the Jew General Hospital, but deny any attachments or liens with any Jew otherwise.

And the second thing is the delay in seeing and dismissing the patients from the ER.  We have seen 3 shifts and we were still there waiting for the resident doctor to arrive to be dismissed, they definitely have a huge shortage in doctors or maybe it is simply the government health care system that is not really working as it should be...

Who knows, but two Arab doctors in a Jew Hospital in Montreal with Egyptian patients is more than a coincidence, don't you think?? 

How we celebrate our Feast.... Attack the Head of Al Azhar

Al Azhar in Egypt and for all the Arab world is the Minaret of Light.  It is the moderate school of Islam and has always been the place to go to if the need arise to explain the real Islam or be in need of a Fatwa.  It is not a fundamentalist or extremist and it has been the place for moderate Muslims.  It is the place were light , tolerance and understanding come from.  Most Muslim countries send their children to learn in Azhar.

A few days ago, a Muslim Brother representative present a petition in the People's Assembly of Egypt demanding to know .... Listen well.... "HOW CAN THE SHEIKH AL AZHAR - THE HEAD OF AZHAR- SHAKE HANDS WITH SIMON PEREZ THE ISRAELI PRESIDENT IN NEW YORK DURING A CONFERENCE ON TOLERANCE".

Please, save us from your mottoes and live in reality.  In 1978, we signed a peace agreement with Israel, which means that we consider them our neighbors, we admit to their rights as a neighboring country with whom we can trade, have mutual interests one of them is peace in the region.

Let us not get into the Palestinian saga, and think for once about our interests as Egyptians and what we should do to protect and save our territories.

So now shaking hands with the Israeli President is a taboo and we attack the Head of Moderate Islam for being a tolerant and instead of teaching our sons and daughters about tolerance and the acceptance of the other, we make mottoes and attack the main person representing Islam in Egypt.

Are the Muslim brothers real Egyptians or do they have a hidden agendas that we will learn once they try and take rein of our country like what Hamas did with the democratic elections in the Gaza strip.

We love Egypt, then its interest is at heart with no hidden agendas or trying to tarnish the image of a Great man like the Azhar leader Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi.

I Love Egypt.... but do we deserve it.....

What does it mean loving your country.... It means you would die for it if the need arise... work as hard as possible to develop it, and push for its success.  At the end of the day the more our country moves forward, living conditions will improve, health care will improve... basic needs will be available for the majority of the people.  

I understand that my love for my country is unconditional... like my love for my children and I would encourage all new ideas coming from the true sons of this country to serve it.... However, and for many years our country... sorry ... our fellow brothers... the patriots of this country have been a push factor in pushing out all our human resources... and when they fly away they show excellence in whatever they do and in any field they work in.....they win Nobel Prizes and other prizes that we have not heard of....  and we rest with the mediocrity who has no where to go , but work hardly on pulling the country back.

Let me count among many: Dr. Madgy Yacoub, Ahmed Zoueil, Farouk El Baz and the list does not end or stop.  These are real sons coming from the heart of Egypt... who have been pushed out by the old, rusted minds that are the main impediment in the wheel of the development of Egypt.

Dr. Farouk El Baz the respected scientist who is right this moment the Director of the Remote Sensing Institute in Boston University studied for years through satellites, chose the best location for a development corridor that would be built in parallel to the basin of the Nile from South to North with steps to serve and create new cities, and work opportunities and God knows how much we need this with the poverty rate reaching more than 50%.

Instead of welcoming such a nobel project that will create thousands of job opportunities, releasing the pressure on the Nile towns and cities and benefit from the desert space that we are hardly using,  we simply attack without scientific evidence and because we are so brilliant we say it is an old idea that has been raised before.

Kill any new idea as long as it is not yours.... this is the egyptians motto who are the reason that we will go in the trash of history after we have been the pharaohs with a civilization that still awes everyone who sees or comes across it.

Instead of putting our hands and minds together, we simply break it.  In the love of God and in the love of Egypt ... Stop and think of what your country needs not what gain you will get.....

I LOVE EGYPT and we don't deserve Egypt because we don't know its worth.