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Hello everyone,
I have moved my blog to my own domain http://www.nohafawzy.com . I shall be writing all my blogs there and it will give me more freedom and to be in control of my site.
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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.

Heba and Nadine...... and the MEDIA

Two young girls get killed savagely in a quiet ... elegant... chic area in the city of 6th of October outside Cairo, Egypt a few days ago.

For a few days, the media made a circus and destroyed the reputation of two innocent girls.... whose only fault was getting killed and that one of them mother's is a famous singer....

Every newspaper and magazine and news site and TV program devoured these two girls and tried to dig in their past and know their present as if they are old lost friends.... in the bad sense of course.

How can these two victims defend themselves..... they are not here anymore..... and guess what after digging in their past and present.... it turned out to be a random killer .... a carpenter... who simply needed money and found his prey in these two girls and went in.... killed one when she saw him.... killed the other... all in cold blood.

He broke the hearts of two families and caused the two girls to be the talk of town for the past few days.

Media have mercy in your hearts when you get a case.... the prey is innocent until proven guilty.

This should be your motto  MEDIA when you investigate people.

May they rest in peace and all sincere condolences to their parents.

Love and Peace 

Recession... Recession.... Recession

The United States of America is officially in recession.... It has been declared on TV and in all other medias. Their Treasury Secretary announced that the US is officially in recession......

What about us in Egypt???? According to the Egyptian government, we have surplus reserve in our central bank which is true; however, and definitely the worldwide recession will affect us as well.

Our main sources of income are: the Suez Canal, tourism and foreign remittances.

The Suez Canal management is contemplating slashing the transit fees by half plus the increasing dangers of pirating on the Somalian shores; many ships are changing routes to guarantee their safety and the safety of their cargo.

Tourism is expected to be affected with the worldwide recession. It is affecting countries of free and non free economies. Even the moderate income tourists who used to come to Egypt will not be able to travel because either they have no money or they are unemployed. Therefore, unable to spend money on travelling, they will be having other priorities to take care of.

Taking into consideration the lay offs and the increasing numbers of cutting jobs in foreign and multi-national companies, the foreign remittances will also be affected. Egyptians abroad will come back, which will burden the labor market in Egypt. Moreover, they may bring their savings back, but will they invest their money in the Egyptian market or will they piggy bank their money in their home safes. Cash will be KING for a very long time to come....

If there is no money on the markets how can we expect foreign investments to increase. Foreign investments are suffering on their own turfs, will they invest in ours......

I think we should declare official recession and find out what is the government contingency plan to combat the difficult times ahead. How can they direct and advise people to spend their money or what is left of it wisely.

We cannot bury our heads in the sand and make declarations that we will not be affected by the worldwide great depression..... no we will be.... We must wisely think of our future investments and plan our coming days and years accordingly.

tsunami is coming..... take cover everyone

A Giant among Giants

Team of Rivals, or team of giants are going to lead the USA in the coming very difficult time...

The choices of Obama are impressive starting with Joe Biden for Vice President, till Clinton for the post of Secretary of State which is one of the most important posts in the USA government.

His choices prove that he is a giant who prefers to work with giants like him to make it work, improve and flourish.

It proves that he is self-confident who is sure of his leadership ability to conduct business in his own way and to the best of their abilities.

But with the recession announced in the USA and the economic crisis worldwide, two wars in Iraq and Afganistan.  Looming war on Pakistan..... maybe..... after the Mumbai attacks, peace talks between Palestians and Israelis that does not want to end. Let alone the National Security internally and the fear of terror.

Will the Obama team prove to be capable of taking all these challenges face on and fight to make it work for the best of the Americans and consequently the rest of the world.  Or will there be internal rivalry among the team???

The economy machine is almost stopped and it needs great efforts, great people to make it run again.

Hope Mr. Obama you are a giant among giants and not a giant among dwarfs.  Coming days shall be hard on everyone within the global economy and everyone is looking towards the United States and what it will do.

Only days will tell, so let us wait and see.

Love and Peace

World Aids Day... the stigma

In 2001 Heads of State and Government Representatives of 189 nations gathered at the first special session of the United Nations General Assembly on HIV/Aids. Since then countries around the world remembers that Day on the First of December of every year, we remember the HIV/ aids patients: men, women and children from around the world.

Our Africa is a continent that is plagued with aids. But what is worse than being People living with HIV/ Aids is the stigma of HIV/Aids patients.

The ignorance about the HIV/Aids and how people contract it whether through unprotected sexual intercourse with various sexual partners, blood transfusion, infected syringes specially among drug addicts or from mother to child if the mother is sick. People are always afraid they may contract aids by being close to aids patients when aids can never be contracted except through body fluids such as blood or semen.

We can never forget Late Princess Diana who broke that stigma when she visited and shook hands with aids patients. She changed the peoples' thoughts and helped in understanding better that people living with aids are just very sick people who needed to be taken care of.

It is very sad to lose friends to aids specially when their parents are too ashamed to admit or say that their son or daughter died of aids because they are afraid what other people might say. I lost two of my friends to aids and it is very painful to see the slow death and detoriation of their health, the failing of their organs and there is nothing you can do to help, but only be there and around to encourage them.

Now there are certain medications that can keep them stable if taken consistently; however, if they stop they deteriorate immediately. In Africa, these medications are only available through certain NGOs and there is never a continous supply which threatens the lives of aids patients. So let us put our voices together and ask for help for these patients who cannot talk for themseleves.

Let us ask for more funds for research centers to work of improving the existing medication and to try and breakthrough for a vaccine that can help people avoid contracting such a killer disease.

Let us ask people not to judge aids patients since they are simply patients and humans who need to be treated. Nobody can be sure who may contract the disease in their families or how.

Let us hope for a healthy world and may God bless and protect us all.

So Much for Protecting Us

Could not hold my tears and my heart went out to the family of the lady and mother who died in Assuit, Upper Egypt. The lady was threatened by a Police officer to undress her, her daughters and her daughter in law on the street if she did not cooperate.

The police searched both houses of the late lady Zeinab Hussein Ahmed (45) looking for arms and when they did not find the arms they were looking for, the officer threatened her to undress them all in front of their village.

The Lady and mother dropped dead. She could not take the humiliation and disgrace in front of her neighbors and friends. Moreover, the police officer refused to call an ambulance and the lady died rather than being dishonored.

What exactly are the police suppose to do: protect us, help us, serve us the people or disgrace us.

This story in its essence reminds me of how the war on Iraq started, there were allegations that Iraq owned Chemical weapons, let us threaten with a war on Iraq, let us start a war on Iraq.... and look where we are now.

People always revolt against injustice, and when treated in a manner that degrade their humanity.

Please have heart and know you are dealing with really fragile people who need your help, support and understanding not your intimidation, bullying and terrorizing.

Think of your mothers and sisters before you act in such an irresponsible manner which has no manners.

International Terrorism Triggered!!!!

What is the reason for this lethal anger and hate ..... Why are people so angry to the extend of killing innocent people including women, men, old and young children without mercy around the world....

What triggered this international terrorism in countries that were relatively living in peace and had no part in the initiation of these terrorist groups and how are they financed...

Terrorism is as old as time.... in our times, the first one I remember was Carlos and he was a legend who was sought by the Interpol in many countries and they where unable to catch him until many years later in the Sudan where he was living with an alias identity.....

But let me try to analyse who are they and how they have reached this level of anger and hate to their fellow humans:

Are they a group of people who feel they were betrayed by their governments and want to retaliate;

Or

Are they a group of people who want to control the world and force their own dogmas and ideologies;

Or

Are they a group of poor people who want to be heard and terrorism was their only resort to get the attention they need to be heard;

Or

Are they a group of people who doesn't believe in existing systems and institutions and they think by acts of terrorism, they can achieve their final goals that no one knows, but them;

Or

Are they a group of well organized militants who have no problem with finance and wish to implement their fundamentalist ideologies....

And why are their numbers increasing by the day, why the strong believe that they are right and the whole world is wrong; what sort of brainwash do they use on all their victims. Yes, I believe that the recruits who kill themselves are victims to a higher level of criminal minds who manage to captivate them.....

How are they being recruited and are they a structured groups of people, and how organized are they under the circumstances they live in as fugitives and chased...

From the attacks on Egypt in 1992 to the World trade towers in 9/11 to Spain, England, France until Mumbai yesterday, where are they going??? Are they targeting only Westerns or are they making a statement that we surely do not understand.

Is there any other way where we can negotiate to understand what they want and where do they stand???

Please communicate, killing is not an answer specially if all the ones you kill are innocent civilians.

Communicate..... Communicate..... Communicate

Gay Marriages and Human Rights

"Judge not, that you be not judged.  For with what judgement you judge, you will be judged: and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. And why to you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? Or how can say to your brother, "Let me remove the speck from your eye" and look, a plank is in your own eye? Hypocrite, First remove the plank from your own eye, and you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye" (Matthew 7:1-5)"

Who are we to judge others.  

The personal choices of people are their own affair and in no way we are allowed to single out a certain person because they are gay or not.  Whatever choices people make are theirs and theirs alone. They are responsible for their choices and they live with them.  Our belief system makes us judge others as if we are flawless or without faults.   No government or system should interfere with people choices.

Their personal sexual preferences are theirs and they take responsibility for it;  to separate a couple by force who are in love and who found the real love in a relationship is so unfair.

If they are faithful and sincere in the relationship, they should have equal rights to married couples and if they want their relationship to be blessed in a church, synagogue or temple, they have a all the right to do so.

I have a numerous number of gay friends who are much more sensitive and fragile than many of my other friends;  many of them remain for years undeclared because of family liens or social pressure and are always stressed and unhappy because they cannot come out with it.  They just need to be understood, accepted and treated normally to be able to flourish and develop.

People used to think I am crazy when I told my children at the age of 16 that if any of them was gay, it doesn't mean I will love them less. They are free with their choices and I will respect them.  None of them turned gay, but I tried to teach them that there is nothing wrong with our choices as long as we are happy.

Give them their rights as humans, we talk day and night about human rights when we cannot respect personal choices of humans.  Do we tailor human rights according to our social beliefs and if they differ we fight against them!!!!  I really need answers to set my records straight....

They have rights..... give them their rights!!!!!

Africa Rocks......

We, Egyptians, by nature like always to travel to Europe, North America, even to Asia, but we rarely think of going to any of the beautiful countries which are in our continent Africa.

Actually Africa Rocks..... Truly our continent is so amazing and beautiful, and until I travelled in two of its countries, I had no idea how beautifully primitive, pretty and unexploited are they. I had the chance to visit the Sudan and Kenya twice in the past few years.

I was surprised by the people's warmth and friendliness, let alone the beautiful scenery and diversity of their cities. The cities are so unexploited and the people are so real and kind.

If we invest half of what we invest in Europe in terms of expenses, we can help the continent countries increase their income from tourism let alone doing business with these countries that are still so primitive, natural and beautiful.

Our continent is so rich in raw materials of various kinds and investing in Africa is by the far our best solution to get out of the long coming recession that will be facing our countries and the whole world.

China is investing heavily in both the Sudan and Kenya, and Chinese are are known for their foresight and vision. Can't we follow in their steps instead of always betting our money on the losing horse.

Africa has to unite and use their resources internally to fight the bad years ahead. Is that too much to ask. We have a continent that Rocks and that can be self sufficient and even attract tourism, create export and live happily ever after.

It truly Rocks, and I am truly proud I come from Africa.

Jews on the Nile

I was moved by the article written in the Masry El Youm by Writer Nabil Sharaf El Din (nabil@elaph.com) about the Jews of Egypt titled "Jews from our Country". With great respect to the writer and appreciation for people who really value the essence of this country that has always been the basin of all religions and civilizations, I share and support his views totally and I was happy to realize that people are starting to pay attention to a missing part of our history without which we can never be complete.

I was born in 1962 when most of the Egyptian Jews have already left Egypt. Unfortunately, I did not have the pleasure of being at school or university with any of them.

Not until later in life, that I met some of the Egyptian Jews who stayed behind. They were always of certain age and they have either changed religion to continue to live in Egypt and never raised the issue of religion or they never talked about their religion or mentioned their origins. Some of them had a large part of their extended families moving to live in Israel.

It always saddened me not to be able to discuss and learn from these people. This exchange enriches our minds and cultures and teaches us to respect and accept differences and teaches us also tolerance. This exchange makes us grow and develop, respect differences and others.

My mother used to tell me that when her family was living in Daher, their neighbors who were Jews would ask her as a young girl to help them put the lights on on Saturday. It really amazed me and I wanted to learn more. I truly owe it to my mother who always encouraged us to have different friends and religion was never an issue to talk about. During Ramadan, as a Christian family, we always had friends for Iftar and we always went to some of our Muslim friends for Christmas parties. This was the spirit I was raised in.

Years later I was in Bogota, Colombia visiting a friend with my Ex and he was having a problem with his knee. Our friend recommended a young doctor who spoke English and French to be able to communicate. The doctor was advised that we were from Egypt and he received us, treated my husband and refused totally to take any money. He was a young man of 36 years old.... guess what!!!! His parents were Jews from Egypt who moved to South America. When they knew he is seeing an Egyptian Patient, they asked him not to take money and to tell us that they loved Egypt and missed it. It was coming from the heart of true Egyptians......What more can one say.

People who went to schools in the 50 and early 60 would tell you they never knew who is what. All for one and one for all. However, after the revolution most of the foreigners and Jews left Egypt and young students would wonder where did their colleagues go and why.

Years later, through a dear friend of mine, I visited the Synagogue in old Cairo. For the first time in my life I visited a Jewish religious place. I was at awe because of its beauty and the architectural similarities it had with the Egyptian mosques and churches.

It was about culture, not really about religion. We had similar background, grew up in the same country with a common sets of ethics and values. The difference in religion did not make us loving Egypt less or being less patriotic.

It is a pity that all the Egyptian Jewish monuments and burial places are not being seriously maintained with the respect they deserve. This is part of our history and part of our being a great nation.

Professional versus Personal

In my whole life, I have never seen people who are so mixed up between professional and personal lives like our Egyptian people.

It is so annoying to see people who are so unaware how to set limits between personal and professional acts.

I believe, we are warm and kind people at heart, but we need to understand that our work has to be done with the utmost level of professionalism and efficiency.

There is nothing such as for my sake, or for the prophet sake. It is really a matter of attitude.

People don't wish to work, but expect to be paid the highest possible salaries even if they were not efficient.

People abuse their workplace and use its assets and services without feeling guilty about is as if they own the place;

What is wrong with us, is it our educational system, our ethics have changed, our values are no more there or is it simply that people don't care to separate their personal from professional lives.

The other day, I watch on TV a piece of news that shocked me: a police officer in a street fight pulls out his official gun to shoot a person who was fighting with his brother and killed him.....

Where are we??? What is going through people's minds.... Are we losing control... People wake up before it is too late.

Obama Mania

Obama.... Obama....Obama

What made Obama such a special man, a man who won the heart of the world. Why is everyone so captivated by him and his whole existence....

Does it have to do with all the challenges he faced as a black american man and still overcame all obstacles and became the President of the Unites States of America..

Or
Does it have to do with his bottom up campaign that encourged lots of people specially young people to take part in this election...
Or
Does it have to do with his down to earth attitiude and courage to stand up to other very tough and strong candidates...
Or
Does it have to do with his ability to raise money more than any other candidate in the election....
Or
Does it have to do with his other half Michele Obama who is an educated, cultured, strong and excellent partner to the President Elect Obama...
Or
Does it have to do with all the endorsements he got from people loved and respected all over the world starting with Oprah, Bill Richardson, Caroline Kennedy and many many more....
Or
Is it a God given Charimsa that overcomes all other weaknesses...

I think it is all the above and more and much more that is causing the OBAMA mania.

It is the HOPE and CHANGE that he promised and the whole world is waiting for him to change as if he is the long waited for HERO who will save the world.

People all over the world are hopeless and stagnate in systems that are as old as time and are hoping for something to happen to improve their systems of education, health, energy and all other lives.

Obama... the whole world is waiting for your moves and you are going to be under scrutiny inside and outside the USA. Please don't disappoint us...

God bless you......

Could not believe it until it happened to me!!!

Religion: what is religion, is it our belief system and what we truly believe in. Is religion biased??

Religion clergymen: Who are they, are they saint people or regular people. Do they believe in the righteous thing to follow or they have their own interests and favors to return.

So many questions went through my mind when I had a conversation with the clergyman who took part in my marriage ceremony more than 24 years ago.

Since I was married to an influential man within his religious community, we separated like 4 years ago and I departed from a very unhappy marriage to live on my own in a separate place. Finally, I decided to file for a civil divorce since divorce is very difficult in the Catholic rite.

My Ex deciding he wanted a marriage annulment, his puppet of clergyman comes to me to give me advise saying if I go to the church council and under oath say I don't believe in the christian faith I can get the annulment immediately and said it is called "Al Daimouma". Wondering what is this advise coming from a clergyman, and asking me to lie under oath!!!!!

I answered why doesn't my Ex do what he is suggesting, specially that he is living with a married woman under my home roof and in my bedroom, with my younger son in the house; that it will sound more realistic, he could not answer and repeated that he was just advising me to get a quick annuelment.

Believe me, I have no idea what to think or how to react to such an advise.

Anyone can help me think what I have to believe???