And here is Ganz’s cabinet , 27 ministers mash Allah till June 2012 !! We got resurrected ministries as well. Here are the ministers without any arrangement.

1. Ambassador Mohamed Kamel Amr as minister of foreign affairs. “From Sharaf’s Cabinet”
2. Ambassador Faiza Abu El Naga as minister of international cooperation and planning “From Mubarak’s era”
3. Dr. Hassan Younes as minister of electricity “From Mubarak’s era”
4. Police General Mohamed Ibrahim as minister of interior “New”
5. Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour as minister of tourism “From Sharaf’s cabinet”
6. Sheikh Mohamed El Quosy as minister of Al Awkaf “From Sharaf’s cabinet”
7. Dr. Nadia Zakhary as minister of scientific research “New”
8. Dr. Mohamed Salem as minister of telecommunication “From Sharaf’s cabinet”
9. Major General Ahmed Anis as minister of information “New” { He was the head of morale department in the army before major general Ismail by the way }
10. Judge Adel Abdel Hamid as minister of justice “New”
11. Momtaz Said as minister of finance “New”
12. Dr. Gouda Abdel Khalek as minister of food supply and internal commerce “From Sharaf’s cabinet” {The ministry of food supply is revived}
13. Engineer Mohamed Abdullah Gharab as minister of petroleum “From Sharaf’s cabinet”
14. Hassan Massoud as minister of civil aviation “New” { He is still from military background yet he worked for years in Egypt Air as far as I know}
15. Major general Ali Ibrahim Sabry as minister of military production “From Sharaf’s cabinet”
16. Dr. Hisham Kandeel as minister of water resources and irrigation “From Sharaf’s cabinet”
17. Dr. Hassan Mustafa Khaled as minister of higher education “New”
18. Dr. Fouad El Naaway as minister of health “New”
19. Dr. Nagwa Hassan Khalil as minister of social affairs and insurance “New”
20. Ashraf El Sharqawy as minister of investment and businesses sector “New”
21. Dr. Mostafa Kamel as minister of environment “New”
22. Dr. Fathi Fakari as minister of labor force “New” { He is the professor of constitutional laws !!}
23. Shaker Abdel Hamid as minister of culture “New”
24. Gamal Al Arabi as minister of education “New”
25. Dr. Saad Ali as minister of antiquities “New”
26. Dr. Mohamed Fathi ElBaradei as minister of housing and new urban communities “From Sharaf’s cabinet”
27. Dr. Mohamed Reda Ismail as minister of agriculture “New”

General Major El Mullah , the SCAF member had a meeting with foreign media last Wednesday night. He had a press meeting with exactly 4 American journalists including dear Kristin Chick and 1 one British journalist , dear Jack Shenker.

Of course next day the press meeting and what General El Mullah said to the foreign journalists made headlines around the globe , raised concerns and made the Muslim brotherhood represented in the Freedom and Justice party withdrew from that advisory council formed by SCAF from political powers and parties yesterday.

Now here is what Kristin Chick in the Christian Science Monitor and what Jack Shenker wrote in the Guardian about the press meeting and what El Mullah says.

Now here is what I think about what El Mullah : This meeting was a pathetic attempt to calm down the West that the Islamists will not take over Egypt in the most stupidest idiotic way ever !!!! El Mullah wanted to calm down the West as well the freaking out liberal and secular powers and parties in Egypt that the army will not let the Islamists won.

El Mullah said that the parliament does not represent Egyptian people while the other generals in the past two were urging people to go and vote because this is the parliament that will represent them !! Not to mention all the SCAF talk in the past two week was how they were proud with the high turn out in the elections and the Egyptian people are the greatest voters in the world to the end !!

El Mullah and the generals seem to be living in the 1970s as they think that what they say to the West will not reach to Egypt in matter of seconds of its broadcast !!

And actually in this stage the army budget is not on my mind now , it is another battle not needed in this current stage.

Now regarding the Muslim brotherhood move and how they withdrew from the council , well I respect it very much because honestly I think they will bring balance. If you want to see how the different in power between the MB and Salafists or any other political party including the liberal parties represented in Masryeen Al Ahrar and Al Wafd , just see how the MB withdrew from the advisory council. The Nour party , Maryeen Al Ahrar and Al Wafd parties have representatives in the council and they did not leave it. The Nour party did not leave because it is not ready to have stand against SCAF regarding democracy because other than it has got candidates who despise democracy , they know that they do not have the same power or the experience of MB to have this stand. It is worth to mention that the Nour party lost about 20 seats in the run offs mostly against the MBs.

By the way you must know officially the advisory council’s so called legislative role will end when the parliament with lower and upper houses start their first stage. Already I do not think that the advisory council will reach anything when we have the Nour party and Naguib Sawiris in one place.

You also must know that just like El Mullah, according to two trusted sources some military representatives met with Banks’ CEOs in Egypt from two weeks and calmed them down that the economic system in Egypt will not be touched. Of course the Salafists as well the Socialists will not like this. The Muslim brotherhood economic program is semi-neo liberal so there is no fear from them like the Salafists who claimed that will transfer the banks in Egypt in to Islamic banks.

Am I afraid from the military junta to turn against democracy transition like in 1954 ? Well I am not that afraid but let’s say I am concerned not only about them but other political forces as well including the young revolutionary groups as well.  I am not afraid because let’s just say with all the disasters and mistakes they have committed , SCAF is not as wicked or smart as the free officers in 1954. Again Mubarak learned the lesson since getting rid of Abu Ghazla or rather since getting rid of Sadat to be accurate.

Mubarak has killed the political intelligence in this country without doubt.

By the way I do not know why some people are dying to see the Algeria Scenario or the Libyan Scenario or the Syrian scenario taking place in Egypt including some of the radical revolutionaries “mostly young” who think that it is better to build from zero as if Egypt is a new nation that only united and took its independence in 1960s !!!!! 

One thing I know that regardless what if I truly love Egypt , I should avoid as much as possible with all the power I have got those scenarios and use God’s greatest gift to the human : My mind to think , think , think. Revolutionary emotions are not enough to run a state and this is why Guevara failed as a minister.

Side note : Now the guardian got an Arabic section now.

There is on going massacre taking place in the city of Homs , it is not a warning by Syrian opposition anymore and unfortunately this massacre was partially transferred on air in Al Jazeera through the social network living broadcast before the electricity was cut off in the various parts in the city of Homs especially in Bab Amr area.

There has been currently an offensive launched by the Syrian forces to crack down the revolutionaries in the city that defied El Assad regime for months now since last Ramadan. Bab Amr and Khalidiya are being shelled by the security forces according to the news coming from there.

Here are videos allegedly uploaded from the city today showing the offensive earlier in various party of the famous city.

Homs : El Assad soldiers target buildings RPJ

Here is a protest in Hawla town in Homs governorate being dispersed by force today. Hawla witnessed several massacres this year.

Homs : A protest in Hawla

Here is an attempt by the security forces to disperse the protesters in Al Hamra area in Homs from protesting.

Homs : Protest in Al Hamara

From an hour ago reports came that 20 have been killed today in Syria so far : 11 in Homs , 5 in Idlib , 5 in Inkhil , 5 in Sanamian ,1 in Hama and 1 in Doma. According to Homs Revolution News Facebook News page there are 3 kids that have been killed in Homs and one kid from Sanamian in Daraa governorate. The page has published the names of the martyrs that were killed today so far in Syria. 

The video shows one of the children that have been killed today in his home in Homs may Allah bless his soul , 10 years old Maher El Hussein from Bab El Saba. “Extremely Graphic”

Homs : Late Maher El Hussein

Here is another graphic video from Homs showing three martyrs in hospital today I think including another kid.

Homs : 3 martyrs including a child

Here is a shocking video from Doma showing how the people there could not come out of the homes to get the body of their martyrs because of the constant gunfire of security forces.

Doma : Afraid to collect back the martyr’s body

There are also a lot of injured due to the attack of the security forces , here is a graphic video showing a young man shot in the hospital allegedly today after leaving the mosque in the Karam El Zaiton area."Extremely graphic +18”

Homs : A wounded from Karm El Zaiton area

Despite the offensive of the El Assad security forces, the brave Syrians are having protests through out the city. You can think the old Non Baath flag is officially adopted in every protest in Syria and outside it.

This video below was allegedly filmed and uploaded from Homs , from Karm El Zaiton area today. Today’s protest was being called “The strike of dignity Friday”

Homs : Protesters chant against Bashar El Assad and his father

Here is another protest in another part in town.

Homs : A protest against El Assad regime

Here is a protest from El Hamam area in Homs

Homs : A protest at El Hamam area

A high definition filmed protest in Homs

Another protest in Homs

Here are photos from the protests in Homs by tweep Samsom earlier today

According to Samsom last tweet he got no electricity or 3G connection or DSL and currently using Dial up connection

حاليا انا الآن بدون كهرباء أو انترنت (دي اس ال أو ثري جي ) واستعمل الاتصال الهاتفي البطيء جدا ولدي 20 دقيقة فقط لينطفئ اللاب :)#Syria #Homs

— Samsom homs (@Samsomhoms) December9, 2011

@5:00 Cairo local time

There are heavy rains in Homs , I think this will stop the offensive for awhile. According to the latest news coming from Homs the number of martyrs in Syria today has increased to 30 , half of them in Homs

There are on going protests also in Reef Dimshaq , Daraa, Latakia , Idlib , Palmyra , Hama and Aleppo as well. According to Syrian friends the turnout of the protesters was high today despite the cold weather.

Palmyra : A protest in the city of Zeinobia

Aleppo : A protest in Adanan

Idlib : A protest in Idlib

Hama : A protest in Tiba El Emam

I hope that Barbara Walters goes to Syria next week and ask Bashar El Assad again on who is attacking the civilians of Homs and killing their children now !!  Babs has the golden opportunity of interview another Arab dictator after Saddam, Mubarak and Qaddafi for ABC News. Amazingly in the interview I see another Arab ruler living in complete isolation , in an ivory tower other than that how on earth he would say boldly to her that most of the people who were killed were his supporters  !!!!  Babs described him right when she said that he was disconnected and not crazy.

Of course Babs forgot to interview the real manic who runs the Syrian Arab army death machine Maher El Assad !!

And Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has called the Palestinians are invented people in an interview with the Jewish channel !! 

The Jewish channel : The Palestinians are invented people !!

Interesting the Palestinians are Arabs and part of the Arab community !!

It does not surprise me because Gingrich is from the most outspoken politicians in the States against Muslims and Arabs.

It does not surprise me because it is normal at the American presidential race that candidates kiss the AIPAC’s ass !! This is just the start.

Already I do not understand how this man can be the next president of the States while having relations with Muslims and Arabs not to mention how he is going to treat Muslims in the

Here is more historical background about the Palestinians , the name of Palestine, Canaan

By Gingerish’s standards and definition of “Invented people” the Americans are also, after all they are in the end a group of immigrants who came from all over the globe to live in land that from 200 years ago was lived and owned by native Indians !!

Speaking about Gingerish will bring us to Islamophobia , TLC has a new interesting Reality TV called All American Muslim which is about the life of different Muslim families in the city of Dearborn in Michigan 

TLC : All American Muslim

Now retail giant Lowe’s and Home Depot have pulled their ads from the shows by the request of the infamous conservative Florida Family association as the association believes the show has a hidden agenda to destroy American values !!!! I thinks toddles and tiaras show is much more dangerous on the American values than this show !!

And here are the final results of the first stage from the parliamentary elections in Egypt after the rerun offs that were held last week in 9 governorates , you can check the results of the first results without the runoffs here.

• The Muslim brotherhood’s FJ party got 36 single seats and 44 lists seats.
• The Nour party bloc got 6 single seats and 28 list seats
• The Egyptian bloc got 2 single seats and 16 list seats
• The Revolution continues got 3 single seats and 4 list seats
• El Wafd party got 1 single seat and 11 list seats
• El Wasat got 4 list seats
• El Adl got 1 single seat
• Reform and Development party got 2 list seats
• The Freedom party got 1 single seat and 1 list seat
• Nationalist Misr party got 1 single seat and 1 list seat
• The independent candidates got 2 single seats.

The total single seats in the first stage excluding the Sahal constituency in Cairo are 54 single seats whether professional or labor/farm seats.

The total lists seats in the first excluding the Sahal constituency are 112 seats. Of course I am still clueless about the lists seats calculations , I feel so stupid.

Here is a very important graph by dear Hany Rasmy and Evan Hill for the final result of the first stage of Egyptian parliamentary elections.

First of all there are certain remarks about the results of the rerun offs :

• The Muslim brotherhood won the majority
• The Salafists lose in front of the Muslim brotherhood.
• The liberals began to have a good chance in the elections by uniting their efforts and votes behind single candidate.
• We need the breakdown of the single seats and by this I mean the labor/peasant seats
• People are not naïve but rather search for good candidate they know and the best example for this is in Port Said on how El Badry Farghaly, the famous leftist labor activist has won the labor single seat there against his Salafist rival despite the terrible campaign he was facing.
• The lists seats are helping the parties without doubt especially the Muslim brotherhood because knowing my people and how they do not get that system easily , I know many have chosen and will choose the Muslim brotherhood because they know them. 
• The Nour party has paid the price of its members radical statements in the media , it has lost about 20 seats. Of course now they have launched a counter campaign trying not to scare the people from them especially the tourism sector that does not deny its sector to the Egyptian bloc.
• The MB and Salafists depend in the country side and Upper Side as it seems.
• The myth of the NDP’s control is exposed worldwide.
• We need a breakdown for the votes outside Cairo in order to know the power not only the Salafists or MB but for all parties , it is the simplest thing if we are going to speak about partisan life

Good morning people , it is a wonderful big world indeed we live in.

BBC–It is wonderful world

The man who covers “What a wonderful world” in his own way is Sir David Attenborough.

And the race is on in 9 governorates , our elections’ second stage has kicked off in 9 governorates and we wonder if there will be a high turn out this time like the first time or not. Regardless of the moderate turnout , there is less campaigning outside the polling stations at least in most areas in Giza.

 

Ahmed Mortada Mansour addresses his team !!

There was a lot of talk about politics and candidates the ladies I met in the polling station all agree that there should not be one big bloc controlling the parliament or in other words the Muslim brotherhood's freedom and justice And here is the golden moment.

Moving to the rest of the governorates :

@2:11 PM Cairo local time

@4:24 PM Cairo local time

@ 6 PM Cairo Local time

People began to appear again in the polling stations in Giza , after finishing their work I suppose. The HCE has extended the voting process till 9 PM.

Most violations I read today was from Nour party when it comes to campaigning outside the polling stations. There was a lot of fight between the the Nour party and FJ party aside from the old fight between the FJ party and the Egyptian bloc.

PM Kamel El Ganzouri held a press conference on last Tuesday where he stated the following interesting numbers :

• 20,103 political prisoners have been released from February 2011 till this week.
• 68 political prisoners are currently in jail.
• 47 out of these 68 political prisoners are sentenced
• 13 out of these 68 political prisoners are sentenced to death
• 8 out of these 68 political prisoners are being investigated. 

Ok without doubt that most of these political prisoners were Islamists who finished their sentences from years or even decades ago but I do not understand why the courts can’t revise the cases of those 68 political prisoners again.

Anyhow from over 20,000 to 68 ,  I think this is great achievement.

Regarding the military trials, according to the latest official numbers there are about 4600 civilians imprisoned in civilian jails after being prosecuting in front of military trials since last January 2011. 

@10:46 Cairo Local time :

According to the ministry of health report : 222 are injured and there are 5 dead cases.

Among those who were killed and joined our martyrs this year : Sheikh Emad Effat may Allah bless soul , Effat was the grand  Mufti’s chief of staff. Sheikh Ali Gomaa has arrived to the Kasr El Aini hospital. Late Sheikh Effat had a gunshot in his heart. Here is a graphic shot show late Sheikh Effat after he was shot.

“The photo is by Khaled El Baramawy who is the cousin of Sheikh Emad’s widow Nasha Abdel El Tawab who works in Ahram Weekly”

Sheikh Effat was among the progressive Sheikhs from what I hear and he joined the protests in Tahrir since day one in January. For 4 days ago he joined the sit in at the cabinet according to Fadel Soliman.

Late Sheikh Effat in late July sit in.

There is also later Dr.Alaa Abdel Hady who was killed also today by a gunshot. Young Abdel Hady was a student in the fifth year in the university and he was among the doctors of Tahrir square in the field hospital.

He should be in his way to Aswan in a vacation today and instead he was shot dead.

Here are photos from the clashes by Sarah Carr

Here are photos from the clashes by Maggie Osama who was injured in the clashes.

Lilian Wagdy has published couple of photos as well in her account but had not organized them in a set.

Here is a video showing the Ultras boy who is being said to be the man behind the clashes. one thing for sure , they beat the crap out of him !!

Cairo : Aboudi speaks about he faced

SCAF issued a short statement on TV claiming that the clashes started when the protesters attacked an officer in duty !!

On the other hand the cabinet will hold a meeting to discuss tomorrow what is taking place today. PM Ganzoury tweeted on his official new account that he feels sorry for the victims presenting his condolences to the families of the martyrs.

أشعر بأسى شديد لما آلت إليه الأمور. خالص تعازينا لأسر الشهداء

— د. كمال الجنزوري (@KamalElGanzoury) December 16, 2011

Here is a photo shown the marks of sticks on the body of Nour Ayman Nour.

Here is an interesting eye witness’ account about the past two days clashes.

Here is a video showing the clashes between 5 PM and 6 PM

Tahrir square : Clashes between 5 and 6 PM

The clashes are still on and that there is fire in the one of the old buildings following the ministry of transportation.

The rooftop of the building which is going to collapse as excepted. I am not concerning about the building because insh Allah it will be re-built again just like the Shura council in no time. You must know that the real protesters plead to ask the security of the cabinet besides the institute to put off the fire but they laughed at the protesters !!

Some say that the fire started from inside , whether inside or outside I believe such important building was not less important the cabinet , if it were not more important than anything in the street aside from the geographical society and the parliament. It was the responsibility of SCAF to protect the building and its content.

The minister of culture Shaker Abdel Hamid has thanked the protesters and the revolution youth for saving the content of the institute.

#Tahrir : Saving the rare books

The protesters busted a group of thugs who tried to set the building again on fire and beat the crap out of them.

The AUC and Kasr Al Dobra church as well as the national archives of Egypt are demanding the protesters to bring them the manuscripts and books they found.

According to the ministry of Culture says that 2/3 of the books and manuscripts of the Egyptian Scientific institute were saved. We do not know if the original version of the Description of Egypt is burnet or not as we have a contradicting news. On one side we got the officials from the institute says that it was destroyed in the fire while on the other we find the general secretary of the people’s assembly claming that he has got the original version of the book along other books and manuscripts from the French invasion in his own private library !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????????

This man has got a book worth of LE 15 million in his private library along the first records of the people’s assembly !? Why and how !? Today I heard something very interesting that all the maps we got in the institutes are copies and the originals are actually in Turkey by the way.

A Fajr Newspaper journalist claimed today that he bought some of the manuscripts after the fire !!

Dr. Mahmoud Hafiz “100 Years old” , the head of the institute is currently in Coma from quite some time and he did not see what happened to Egypt.

According to one of the employees working in the institute , from two years ago following the fire of the Shura council the institute demanded a better fire fighting system but you can guess what was the answer !! Nothing at all.

Now activists are circulating two photos for who they believe an army conscript participating in setting the institute on fire accusing one of the conscripts who assaulted April 6 activist Ghada Kamel of being one of those vandals !! The photo is not inclusive though.

The army should pay for the reconstruction of this building just like it did with the Shura council.

The human soul is a holy thing and must be saved no one is disputing in this but now everybody is blaming the protesters on the fire of the institute , it is the trap from the other traps that were set up against them and they had to fall in it.

I know some accusing me and others who speak about the institute of ignoring the martyrs which is nonsense of course , I do not have anything to say or to defend myself except I do not want any people to die or injured or tortured , I go to sleep every night praying that no one gets killed or lose any eye. 

And yes I love old books and history , anyone knows this blog well enough will know that.

The whole scene is so symbolic , our future is killed “Young protesters” , our moderate Islam is being killed “Sheikh Emad”, our rare history is burnet “The scientific institute” , our unity as a nation on the verge of division “ Army and police Vs. Protesters , People Vs. protesters , liberals Vs. Islamists ..etc”. We are waiting for a miracle.

Another symbolic is how we did not know Sheikh Effat like we know radical Sheikhs just like how 98% of the people did not know that this small old building was the most important library from historical perspective in Africa and in the Middle East. Science was lifted from earth to heaven on these bloody days

Nevertheless this institute will be built again and it will be filled with rare books again that will be restored , it will be back insh Allah just like mothers will give birth to babies as long as the sun rises on this nation that saw bloody days and nights more than this and we made it through , this is what history says in the old books.