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Members of the One Hand Group yesterday apologised to their spiritual leaders Tawfik Okasha and amoeba Ahmed Zbaydar for failing in their duty to kill and/or imprison absolutely all Egyptians. The One Hand Group is a group of 20 retired … Continue reading →

  There are now not one, but four walls in downtown Cairo. Huge cubes of round-edged cement are clumsily stacked on top of each other, as if by a child. Hours after its construction, the Qasr al-Aini wall was almost … Continue reading →

As a service to readers who don’t read Arabic, we have translated a recent important column* by Al-Masry Al-Youm editor Magdy El-Gallad, commenting on this. And this.  I have been bestowed with many blessings, and one of them is that … Continue reading →

I wrote something about them and Arabist put it up here.

There is a public toilet in a car park in Falaky Square, downtown Cairo, whose walls have become an outlet for people’s grievances. At the end of January a joker had scrawled “we want freedom, we want to live, we … Continue reading →

A group of pensioners running the Egypt tour bus say that they will not allow the tour to be disrupted by uninvited elements who surreptitiously enter the bus with the assistance of foreign backing and then attempt to sabotage it. … Continue reading →

This is my account of what I saw yesterday at Maspero, originally published here. The march from the Cairo district of Shubra was huge, like the numbers on 28 January. In the front row was a group of men in … Continue reading →

There was something different about Dokki police station after the revolution, or perhaps it just changes at night, when the civil servants dispensing ID cards leave the building to the police. From the outside nothing has changed, there are still … Continue reading →

  A group of septuagenarians who took over a tour bus and crashed it defended their actions last night. “We were asked to go on this fucking tour. We didn’t invite ourselves,” Mamdouh Shaheen said as he walked away from … Continue reading →

I don’t usually like to expound on events I haven’t witnessed first hand (I was stuck at home with flu) but can’t shut up about what happened at the Israeli Embassy last night, or more specifically the response to what … Continue reading →