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Egyptian Aak. Week 49 ( Dec 2- Dec 8)
Main Headlines
Monday
- Egypt tweaks roadmap; may see presidential vote held first
- UN calls for amending protest law
- 23 protesters detained under new protest law to be released on bail
- Prosecution: appeals release order of 23 protesters detained under new protest law
- Egypt prosecutors say slain student was shot by fellow protestors
- April 6’s Ahmed Maherto remain in detention after prior release order
- Brotherhood-linked cleric Qaradawi quits Al-Azhar
- Egypt detains Islamist TV chief
- Car bomb defused near Cairo: security
Tuesday
- Egypt’s veteran poet and fierce Mubarak critic Ahmad Fouad Negm passes away
- President Mansour receives the amended constitution
- Egyptian blogger Ahmed Douma arrested in widening crackdown
- Muslim Brotherhood figure says will coordinate with revolutionary forces for protests at squares
- Military judiciary chief rejects criticism against military trials for civilians
- Five international firms offer consulting for Egyptian-Saudielectricity linkage project
- Kuwait takes measures to boost Egyptian economy
Wednesday
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Egypt reacts to the news of Negm, Mandela, Sisi
This piece is published in Al-Monitor
Two great losses and one poll summarize Egypt’s current struggle in a nutshell. The widespread mourning following the death of Egyptian poet Ahmed Fouad Negm; the sorrow in Egypt for the passing of iconic South African leader Nelson Mandela; and the massive voting campaign that ultimately led Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt’s armed forces chief, to win TIME‘s 2013 “Person of the Year” poll collectively epitomize the contradicting and often hypocritical Egyptian stances that have contributed to their ongoing misery. A quick glance at the three — Negm, Mandela and Sisi — gives us some insight into the Egyptian inability to overcome the pitfalls of their rough path to freedom and democracy.
Ahmed Fouad Negm
Negm, the legendary “poet of the people,” with his little formal education and his writings in colloquial Egyptian Arabic, clicked with with many Egyptians. Negm became a symbol of what Egyptian identity truly means. Nonetheless, the…
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Caribbean Reef Sharks Prefer to Sneak Up on Prey–And Humans
Put some eyes on the back of your wet suit, board, or swim pants
Here’s why China investing in UK infrastructure is maybe not such a good idea:
(not satire!)
Maybe it wasn’t such a great idea Cameron going cap in hand to the Chinese to persuade them to invest in UK infrastructure – including new nuclear power stations and the new HS2 high-speed rail link:
Entire New 13-Story Building Tips Over in Shanghai
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Coming soon to a British town near you?
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Ahmad Fouad Negm
(Ahmed Fouad Negm, rallies attendants during a public meeting organized by the opposition movement ‘Writers and Artists for Change’ in Cairo in 2005. curtsey CNN)
This is special edition of my weekly Egypt’s report dedicated to the legendary Egyptian poet Ahmad Fouad Negm who passed away on December 3. Negm was, and still is my favorite Egyptian poet. Hope you like this collection
- Prince Claus Award for Ahmad Fouad Negm.
- Zeinobia ‘s tribute for Negm, and his funeral
- Rawyia Rageh’s 2002 profile for the AP of Egypt’s iconic poet Ahmed Fouad Negm
- Al-Jazeera English’s 2012 documentary of Ahmed Fouad Negm
- Kareem Fahim writes in the New York Times: Ahmed Fouad Negm, dissident poet of Egypt’s underclass, dies at 84
- Washington Post’s piece about Negm
- Raphael Cormack’s obituary of Negm
Finally, here is one of Negm’s famous poems translated by Walaa Quisay at Revolutionary Arabic Poetry
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