Kodak Agfa posted a photo:
Egypt's Spring Flowers Show 2015.
Scenes from Egypt's annual Flowers Show in Spring at Orman Public Park.
It is not the best shot as no one prepared me for the hot weather and the vertical sun in early May !!
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Kodak Agfa posted a photo:
Egypt's Spring Flowers Show 2015.
Scenes from Egypt's annual Flowers Show in Spring at Orman Public Park.
It is not the best shot as no one prepared me for the hot weather and the vertical sun in early May !!
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Kodak Agfa posted a photo:
Egypt's Spring Flowers Show 2015.
Scenes from Egypt's annual Flowers Show in Spring at Orman Public Park.
It is not the best shot as no one prepared me for the hot weather and the vertical sun in early May !!
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The famous old female students hostel in Dokki,Giza looks more of a spooky covent !! #Blogger #Blog #Egypt [Flickr]
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May 04, 2015 at 11:51AM
The famous old female students hostel in Dokki,Giza looks more of a spooky covent !! #Blogger #Blog #Egypt May 04, 2015 at 11:51AM via Instagram http://ift.tt/1I7FnZc
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Yemenis in Egypt want to return home
Today I passed by the Yemeni embassy in Dokki area , Giza where I found a large group of Yemeni men and women outside it demanding to return back to their homes Those Yemeni men include students and patients who came to Egypt and found themselves stuck in Egypt as war broke out.
Now they cannot return to their home because the Yemeni airspace has been shut down by Saudi forces. They are also facing economic woes as the Yemeni banks do not transfer money across the borders.
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They were standing everywhere in the very narrow street waiting for some lost hope to return back to their country while stuck in another country.
BY the way, the deployment of Egyptian military units participating in the Saudi-led military operation has been extended for another 3 months.
Now they cannot return to their home because the Yemeni airspace has been shut down by Saudi forces. They are also facing economic woes as the Yemeni banks do not transfer money across the borders.
Nearly every day they come and stand like that. According to Ahram Online report by Ayat El-Tawy, nearly 6000 Yemenis are stuck in Egypt currently.
The photos are not clear as I took them from the car while passing by the embassy earlier today.
BY the way, the deployment of Egyptian military units participating in the Saudi-led military operation has been extended for another 3 months.
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And The Curse of Tutankhamun is still hunting the young king !!
It seems that there is a real Tutankhamun’s curse after all and it is not hunting down anyone except the poor young King Tut whether in his life or his death !!
Do You remember what happened to King Tut’s beard ?? You know when King Tut’s beard was broken after a bad restoration operation and it was fixed by cheap epoxy then after days of denials the ministry of antiquities admitted it and then said later everything was under control.
Do you remember when King Tut’s chair was broken in transit to the New Grand Egyptian Museum last March?
Well, guess what ??
According to Youm website, one of King Tut’s poles were allegedly broken while it was being transferred to the New Grand Egyptian Museum from the old Egyptian museum in Downtown Cairo.
The website says that anonymous source inside the Egyptian museum told the New website the two wooden rods including a King Tut’s were broken and they are currently being fixed at the Conservation Center at the Grand Egyptian Museum before the news would be leaked to the press. Well, the news reached the press with photos.
According to Youm 7 the Tut’s rod or pole got that description in the official ministry of antiquities’ data: “ A pole with curved pex - EM 15840، SR 813/1، Carter No 236. There was another rod or pole"
Another pole has been broken as well according to Youm7 but not from Tut’s collection but from the Middle age in Ancient Egypt. The second pole is registered in the official ministry of antiquities’ data as well “ Sr 476/3، GEM 12739”.
Youm 7 published photos for two broken poles, I do not know which one is Tut’s pole, but I assume it is the golden one.
Youm 7 published a photo for that golden stick or pole fixed by another cheap epoxy I assume.
Howard Carter found 139 ebony, ivory, silver and golden walking sticks in the tomb of the golden pharaoh.
After hours of publishing that story Dr. Tarek Tawfik , the Egyptian Museum Curator told Ten Channel’s “Beit Beitak” {Yeah it is back} that King Tut’s sticks/poles were fine BUT One gold stick was found to be broken in the first place and it had be fixed by using wax.
The curator also added that the stick was being fixed. Ironically Dr. Tawfik denied the claims of the Youm 7 when he admitted in the same interview that one of the sticks were broken !!
Seriously leave King Tut and his stuff alone !!
Do You remember what happened to King Tut’s beard ?? You know when King Tut’s beard was broken after a bad restoration operation and it was fixed by cheap epoxy then after days of denials the ministry of antiquities admitted it and then said later everything was under control.
Do you remember when King Tut’s chair was broken in transit to the New Grand Egyptian Museum last March?
Well, guess what ??
According to Youm website, one of King Tut’s poles were allegedly broken while it was being transferred to the New Grand Egyptian Museum from the old Egyptian museum in Downtown Cairo.
The website says that anonymous source inside the Egyptian museum told the New website the two wooden rods including a King Tut’s were broken and they are currently being fixed at the Conservation Center at the Grand Egyptian Museum before the news would be leaked to the press. Well, the news reached the press with photos.
According to Youm 7 the Tut’s rod or pole got that description in the official ministry of antiquities’ data: “ A pole with curved pex - EM 15840، SR 813/1، Carter No 236. There was another rod or pole"
Another pole has been broken as well according to Youm7 but not from Tut’s collection but from the Middle age in Ancient Egypt. The second pole is registered in the official ministry of antiquities’ data as well “ Sr 476/3، GEM 12739”.
Youm 7 published photos for two broken poles, I do not know which one is Tut’s pole, but I assume it is the golden one.
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| The pole fixed with epoxy !? "Youm7" |
After hours of publishing that story Dr. Tarek Tawfik , the Egyptian Museum Curator told Ten Channel’s “Beit Beitak” {Yeah it is back} that King Tut’s sticks/poles were fine BUT One gold stick was found to be broken in the first place and it had be fixed by using wax.
The curator also added that the stick was being fixed. Ironically Dr. Tawfik denied the claims of the Youm 7 when he admitted in the same interview that one of the sticks were broken !!
المتحف المصري: عصا توت عنخ آمون بخير وجارِ ترميمها
Posted by Talk show Masralarabia on Tuesday, May 5, 2015
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#iSupportAbouTrika : Now The witch hunt reaches to Abou Trika
Egyptian authorities issued a decision late Thursday night to confiscate the funds of Egyptian famous retired footballer Mohamed Abu Terika because he is allegedly Muslim Brotherhood member.
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Al Watan newspaper says that it got exclusive documents showing that the Committee assigned by the government to confiscate the Muslim Brotherhood’s funds and assets has confiscated the funds of the popular footballer because of his ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Pro-regime newspaper claims that the retired footballer founded a tourism company in 2013 as a cover for the Muslim Brotherhood economic activities. The report claimed also that the committee informed the Central Bank of Egypt and The CBE started to take steps to freeze the African football superstar’s funds and accounts in Egypt.
Soon enough, we found Mohamed Abou Trika himself posting this very short yet eloquent post on his official Facebook page and twitter account confirming the news.
Now that was the news broke the internet for real in Egypt with thousands of tweets as well several hashtags like “#iSupportAbouTrika”, “#AbouTrika_is_not_a_criminal” and “#AbouTrika_is_red_line” in Arabic. Classy as they are always, Pro-Sisi supporters launched a counter hashtag describing Abou Trika as MB sheep.
I will not link because it is full of fascism and hate
The Arabic hashtag “#Confiscating_Abu_Trika_Money” in Arabic reached the worldwide trends and remained there for several hours.
Here is trends map showing his name across the country for hours.
Hours later we found a news in Dot Misr website claiming according to an anonymous source that not all his funds are being confiscated but rather some of his shares in some MB-related company.
The Muslim Brotherhood was designated officially by a governmental decree as a terrorist organization in 2013. Officially Now Abu Trika is linked to a terrorist organization.
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Despite his Islamist-leaning, Abu Trika has never declared his political affiliations or political views after the ousting of Morsi.
Unfortunately, I saw that coming as all the untalented hateful and awful sports TV hosts used to attacking him for two years accusing him of being a Muslim Brotherhood member and so on.
It is not about the Islamist affiliations or the Muslim Brotherhood only I believe. Abou-Trika made his political choice when he stood beside the Ahly Ultra groups after the massacre of Port Said stadium and refused to salute Field Marshal Tantawy hours after the massacre in February 2012.
Since then he was put under the radar.
Despite his Islamist affiliation, he never spoke or promote for the Muslim Brotherhood, unlike other sports figures who left Egypt and settled down in Qatar.
I can safely say that the people are angry especially the youth because we are speaking about one of the true idols in this country, one of the true beloved and respected idols to be accurate. God knows how few they are now !!
Al Watan newspaper says that it got exclusive documents showing that the Committee assigned by the government to confiscate the Muslim Brotherhood’s funds and assets has confiscated the funds of the popular footballer because of his ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Pro-regime newspaper claims that the retired footballer founded a tourism company in 2013 as a cover for the Muslim Brotherhood economic activities. The report claimed also that the committee informed the Central Bank of Egypt and The CBE started to take steps to freeze the African football superstar’s funds and accounts in Egypt.
Soon enough, we found Mohamed Abou Trika himself posting this very short yet eloquent post on his official Facebook page and twitter account confirming the news.
نحن من نأتي بالاموال لتبقي فى أيدينا وليست فى قلوبنا تتحفظ علي الأموال او تتحفظ علي من تتحفظ عليه لن أترك البلد وسأعمل فيها وعلي رقيها .
Posted by Abou Trika on Thursday, May 7, 2015
نحن من نأتي بالاموال لتبقي فى أيدينا وليست فى قلوبنا تتحفظ علي الأموال او تتحفظ علي من تتحفظ عليه لن أترك البلد وسأعمل فيها وعلي رقيها .— AbouTrika Official (@trikaofficial) May 7, 2015We bring the money so it would be in our hands and not in our hearts.They can confiscate the money or anything else but I will not leave this country and I work on improving it.Abou Trika fired back eloquently.
Now that was the news broke the internet for real in Egypt with thousands of tweets as well several hashtags like “#iSupportAbouTrika”, “#AbouTrika_is_not_a_criminal” and “#AbouTrika_is_red_line” in Arabic. Classy as they are always, Pro-Sisi supporters launched a counter hashtag describing Abou Trika as MB sheep.
I will not link because it is full of fascism and hate
The Arabic hashtag “#Confiscating_Abu_Trika_Money” in Arabic reached the worldwide trends and remained there for several hours.
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| It is still there at 4:10 AM by the way |
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The Muslim Brotherhood was designated officially by a governmental decree as a terrorist organization in 2013. Officially Now Abu Trika is linked to a terrorist organization.
Unfortunately, I saw that coming as all the untalented hateful and awful sports TV hosts used to attacking him for two years accusing him of being a Muslim Brotherhood member and so on.
It is not about the Islamist affiliations or the Muslim Brotherhood only I believe. Abou-Trika made his political choice when he stood beside the Ahly Ultra groups after the massacre of Port Said stadium and refused to salute Field Marshal Tantawy hours after the massacre in February 2012.
Since then he was put under the radar.
Despite his Islamist affiliation, he never spoke or promote for the Muslim Brotherhood, unlike other sports figures who left Egypt and settled down in Qatar.
I can safely say that the people are angry especially the youth because we are speaking about one of the true idols in this country, one of the true beloved and respected idols to be accurate. God knows how few they are now !!
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For The Sake of History : When the power went off in Maspero last Saturday
This is a belated post, but it is for the sake of history, it has to be recorded.
Last Saturday afternoon millions of Egyptians found out that the Egyptian State TV and Radio stations broadcasted from Cairo’s Egyptian Radio and TV Union building aka Maspero went off the air for several minutes.
Yes on Saturday 10 May 2015 a power cut hit Maspero building because a malfunction in the main lighting system in Maspero building.
It was unprecedented. I do not recall that happened before since the inauguration of the Maspero in the 1960s.
Needless to say and sadly enough no one felt sad about it !!
It is worth to say that Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab apologized to the Egyptian people for what happened. There is an investigation reportedly going in Maspero to stand on the reasons behind that malfunction.
I do not need to speculate that the results of this investigation will be that the malfunction happened because the lighting systems were too old and needed to be upgraded. They were not upgraded because of corruption and so on.
What happened on Saturday should have a discussion about the future of Maspero or the Egyptian Radio and TV stations and its future in the Egypt especially with that fierce competition against the private owned TV channels. This is not happening and won’t happen anytime soon.
The Egyptian Radio and TV union can be Egypt’s BBC, but I think if it continues in this way or rather if Egypt continues on the path of that old 1952 state the ERTU will end like TeleLiban
Anyhow, this post was only about that the power went off in Maspero last Saturday.
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Yes on Saturday 10 May 2015 a power cut hit Maspero building because a malfunction in the main lighting system in Maspero building.
It was unprecedented. I do not recall that happened before since the inauguration of the Maspero in the 1960s.
Needless to say and sadly enough no one felt sad about it !!
It is worth to say that Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab apologized to the Egyptian people for what happened. There is an investigation reportedly going in Maspero to stand on the reasons behind that malfunction.
I do not need to speculate that the results of this investigation will be that the malfunction happened because the lighting systems were too old and needed to be upgraded. They were not upgraded because of corruption and so on.
What happened on Saturday should have a discussion about the future of Maspero or the Egyptian Radio and TV stations and its future in the Egypt especially with that fierce competition against the private owned TV channels. This is not happening and won’t happen anytime soon.
The Egyptian Radio and TV union can be Egypt’s BBC, but I think if it continues in this way or rather if Egypt continues on the path of that old 1952 state the ERTU will end like TeleLiban
Anyhow, this post was only about that the power went off in Maspero last Saturday.
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About the Former justice minister’s statements and small victories
Last Tuesday Egypt’s minister of justice Mahfouz Saber had to resign due to a classist statement he said on a TV interview in an unprecedented incident. He resigned after a huge campaign in the social media network for few hours. The whole affair needs a detailed post.
It started on Sunday when Minister of justice then Mahfouz Saber said in a TV interview on Ten TV channel that the garbage collectors’ sons cannot be judges because judiciary demands a special class that is not too poor or too rich answering a question by TV host Ramy Radwan.
Radwan asked specifically about the garbage collectors’ sons and the minister answered frankly exposing ugly classism.
On Monday former blogger and current TV producer, Mohamed Maree launched #Fire_the_Minister_of_Justice and it became a top trending within hours. In the past 48 hours, this hashtag recorded 15,686 tweets mostly from Egypt.
Monday evening it was officially announced that Saber resigned from his position as minister of justice.
This is the whole affair in a nutshell.
Now what yo need to know that Mahfouz Saber does not represent himself only but he rather represents a whole trend in the Egyptian judiciary which believes that certain classes should join their exclusive club.
In Fall 2014 Supreme Council of Judges “SCJ” which oversees and appoints judges issued an
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important ruling that excludes the graduates of law schools in Egypt from joining the prosecution and judiciary if their parents do not have
I am not a constitutional expert but I believe the “SCJ” violated the Constitution 2014 as article 53 stipulates clearly the following :
That ruling opened huge debate then especially 135 law graduates were rejected because their parents did not have a university degree.
Former member of the Supreme Council of judiciary Judge Ahmed Ali Abdel Rahman said during then in a televised debate that the son of a garbage collector cannot be a judge or prosecutor because it is “sensitive” position.
This statement created anger among the garbage collectors and the head of their syndicate Shehata Maqqadus slammed it.
This is why Ramy Ramdan asked the former minister of justice specifically about the garbage collectors sons.
The garbage collectors or Zabbaleen are considered from the poorest professions in Egypt.
The Supreme Council of Judiciary found itself in hot water following the ex-minister of justice and so it decided to prove that it is not racist nor classist by claiming that there was no discrimination based on class when it comes to class.
Still it is not only talk because their rules are crystal clear.
Already the former head of criminal court Judge Rafaat El-Saeed says that if we appoint the sons of garbage collectors in judiciary then we will have to appoint the sons of prostitutes, terrorists, and thugs as well because this is equality.
He also added that if there is a vacancy in judiciary and the applicants are judge’s son and garbage collector’s son then the judge’s son will be accepted even if he got lower grades than the garbage collector’s son.
When it comes to the Judges’ sons then it is another story. Shamelessly judges appoint their sons in judiciary and prosecution even if they got low grades in the law school.
Former minister of justice Adel Abdel Hamid’s daughter was appointed in the administrative prosecution despite she failed twice in university and got only 56% in law school !!
There is undeniable nepotism in the Egyptian judiciary and the judges shamelessly are proud of it.
In 2013 during a public meeting for the Judges club , its Pro-Mubarak/Pro-Military head Ahmed El-Zend said the judges will continue to appoint their sons in judiciary and nobody will dare to stop this ‘Holy March’ !!! Yes he used this term exactly ‘Holy March’
Already I do not understand how come all those judges turned to be such classists and racists when many judges come from modest backgrounds. Yesterday journalists already found out that the father of ex-minister Mahfouz did not have a University degree !! She was appointed when her father was still a judge by the way.
Somehow the resignation of Mahfouz Saber considered a small victory for the social media in Egypt as the mainstream media whether in newspapers or talks shows did not start discussing Mahfouz Saber’s statements when he resigned or rather forced to resign.
But still it is a small victory because as I hinted above that classicism, racism, nepotism in the Egyptian society or rather the Egyptian judiciary in our case here won’t stop.
at the end of the day a new minister of justice will be appointed and despite personally he may believe that the sons of garbage collectors should not be judges, he won’t declare his opinion publicly in press statements or TV interviews and he will keep it to himself.
The Supreme council of judiciary has not changed its ruling that the parents of the applicants for positions in the prosecution and judiciary should be university graduates.
Nevertheless as we know there is still undeniable classism in the Egyptian state, the Egyptian administration knows now that people won’t accept classist statements.
There are classism and nepotism in other public sectors. Ex-Minister Mahfouz Saber already told Dot Misr earlier this week what he said was actually the reality in Judiciary, army, and police.
Yes there is classism in army and police but not judiciary and to the level of excluding Egyptians whose parents got no university degree.
Ironically this state which we have in Egypt is considered the direct extension of the 1952 State found by the Free officers and their coup which became a revolution.
Among the goals of the so-called 1952 revolution as we have learned by heart in history books is to “End Classism in Egypt society”.
That aim was symbolized in Youssef Sibai’s epic propaganda Novel “Give Back my heart” where Princess Ingy of the Mohamed Ali Royal Family marries officer Ali , the son of her gardener !!
Applying for a public post is not like proposing for marriage.
You can debate whether your daughter should marry or not should not marry a garbage collector’s son, but you can not debate about his constitutional rights for having an equal opportunity just like the judge’s son.
All the aims of that so-called 1952 revolution were not achieved despite they were so good and so noble theoretically.
Anyhow former minister of justice Mahfouz Saber is not sorry for what he said and he would say it again : Garbage collectors’ sons can not be judges.
It started on Sunday when Minister of justice then Mahfouz Saber said in a TV interview on Ten TV channel that the garbage collectors’ sons cannot be judges because judiciary demands a special class that is not too poor or too rich answering a question by TV host Ramy Radwan.
Former Minister of Justice Mahfouz Saber: Garbage collectors’ sons can not be judges
On Monday former blogger and current TV producer, Mohamed Maree launched #Fire_the_Minister_of_Justice and it became a top trending within hours. In the past 48 hours, this hashtag recorded 15,686 tweets mostly from Egypt.
Monday evening it was officially announced that Saber resigned from his position as minister of justice.
This is the whole affair in a nutshell.
Now what yo need to know that Mahfouz Saber does not represent himself only but he rather represents a whole trend in the Egyptian judiciary which believes that certain classes should join their exclusive club.
In Fall 2014 Supreme Council of Judges “SCJ” which oversees and appoints judges issued an
I am not a constitutional expert but I believe the “SCJ” violated the Constitution 2014 as article 53 stipulates clearly the following :
All citizens are equal before the Law. They are equal in rights, freedoms and general duties, without discrimination based on religion, belief, sex, origin, race, color, language, disability, social class, political or geographic affiliation or any other reason. Discrimination and incitement of hatred is a crime punished by Law. The State shall take necessary measures for eliminating all forms of discrimination, and the Law shall regulate creating an independent commission for this purpose.This is a discrimination based on social class for God sake.
That ruling opened huge debate then especially 135 law graduates were rejected because their parents did not have a university degree.
Former member of the Supreme Council of judiciary Judge Ahmed Ali Abdel Rahman said during then in a televised debate that the son of a garbage collector cannot be a judge or prosecutor because it is “sensitive” position.
Member of “SJC” : It is a sensitive job not for garbage collectors’ sons.
This statement created anger among the garbage collectors and the head of their syndicate Shehata Maqqadus slammed it.
This is why Ramy Ramdan asked the former minister of justice specifically about the garbage collectors sons.
The garbage collectors or Zabbaleen are considered from the poorest professions in Egypt.
The Supreme Council of Judiciary found itself in hot water following the ex-minister of justice and so it decided to prove that it is not racist nor classist by claiming that there was no discrimination based on class when it comes to class.
Still it is not only talk because their rules are crystal clear.
Already the former head of criminal court Judge Rafaat El-Saeed says that if we appoint the sons of garbage collectors in judiciary then we will have to appoint the sons of prostitutes, terrorists, and thugs as well because this is equality.
He also added that if there is a vacancy in judiciary and the applicants are judge’s son and garbage collector’s son then the judge’s son will be accepted even if he got lower grades than the garbage collector’s son.
Judge Rafaat El-Saeed : The judge’s son vs. garbage collector’s son
Former minister of justice Adel Abdel Hamid’s daughter was appointed in the administrative prosecution despite she failed twice in university and got only 56% in law school !!
There is undeniable nepotism in the Egyptian judiciary and the judges shamelessly are proud of it.
In 2013 during a public meeting for the Judges club , its Pro-Mubarak/Pro-Military head Ahmed El-Zend said the judges will continue to appoint their sons in judiciary and nobody will dare to stop this ‘Holy March’ !!! Yes he used this term exactly ‘Holy March’
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| In 2011 interview: El-Zend wonders why people are so envious when it comes to the judges' sons, "They are not Jews for God sake" !! This man is a candidate to become a t by the way |
Already I do not understand how come all those judges turned to be such classists and racists when many judges come from modest backgrounds. Yesterday journalists already found out that the father of ex-minister Mahfouz did not have a University degree !! She was appointed when her father was still a judge by the way.
Somehow the resignation of Mahfouz Saber considered a small victory for the social media in Egypt as the mainstream media whether in newspapers or talks shows did not start discussing Mahfouz Saber’s statements when he resigned or rather forced to resign.
But still it is a small victory because as I hinted above that classicism, racism, nepotism in the Egyptian society or rather the Egyptian judiciary in our case here won’t stop.
at the end of the day a new minister of justice will be appointed and despite personally he may believe that the sons of garbage collectors should not be judges, he won’t declare his opinion publicly in press statements or TV interviews and he will keep it to himself.
The Supreme council of judiciary has not changed its ruling that the parents of the applicants for positions in the prosecution and judiciary should be university graduates.
Nevertheless as we know there is still undeniable classism in the Egyptian state, the Egyptian administration knows now that people won’t accept classist statements.
There are classism and nepotism in other public sectors. Ex-Minister Mahfouz Saber already told Dot Misr earlier this week what he said was actually the reality in Judiciary, army, and police.
Yes there is classism in army and police but not judiciary and to the level of excluding Egyptians whose parents got no university degree.
Ironically this state which we have in Egypt is considered the direct extension of the 1952 State found by the Free officers and their coup which became a revolution.
Among the goals of the so-called 1952 revolution as we have learned by heart in history books is to “End Classism in Egypt society”.
That aim was symbolized in Youssef Sibai’s epic propaganda Novel “Give Back my heart” where Princess Ingy of the Mohamed Ali Royal Family marries officer Ali , the son of her gardener !!
Applying for a public post is not like proposing for marriage.
You can debate whether your daughter should marry or not should not marry a garbage collector’s son, but you can not debate about his constitutional rights for having an equal opportunity just like the judge’s son.
All the aims of that so-called 1952 revolution were not achieved despite they were so good and so noble theoretically.
Anyhow former minister of justice Mahfouz Saber is not sorry for what he said and he would say it again : Garbage collectors’ sons can not be judges.
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Kodak Agfa posted a photo:
Egypt's annual Spring Flowers Show at Orman Botanical public garden in Giza
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Kodak Agfa posted a photo:
Egypt's annual Spring Flowers Show at Orman Botanical public garden in Giza
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Kodak Agfa posted a photo:
Egypt's annual Spring Flowers Show at Orman Botanical public garden in Giza
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Kodak Agfa posted a photo:
Egypt's annual Spring Flowers Show at Orman Botanical public garden in Giza
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Kodak Agfa posted a photo:
Egypt's annual Spring Flowers Show at Orman Botanical public garden in Giza
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Kodak Agfa presents Spring Flowers Show 2015
It has a long time been since the last time I had visited Egypt’s Spring Flowers Show. The last time I went there with my tiny Sony P200 Point and Shot was in 2007. Every year since then I say I would go and I do not. But this year I made it and visited at last Egypt’s oldest running Flowers show at Al-Orman botanical public garden.
I went there from two weeks ago then I went yesterday and it was really good despite the extremely hot weather. It is not Spring flowers show but rather Summer Flowers show !! Of course I went in a very annoying time at 2 PM where the Sun was horizontal on my head so I should not complain.
I did not go around like in 2007 but the Spring Flowers show is always fun.
Click on the left arrow to see more than 90 photos from the Flowers show this year :)
Not less than 100 Egyptian flowers nurseries , plantations and landscaping companies.
Now a little historical background about this beautiful show : It is the oldest surviving show or exhibit in the history of modern Egypt as I realized. This year the minister of Agriculture and Giza governor inaugurated the 83th Flowers Show which means officially it was inaugurated in 1932.
There are photos for late Queen Farida , Princess Fawzia Fouad , Princess Faika Fouad and Princess Faiza inaugurating the Show in its old location at the Agricultural Museum in Giza in 1940s and early 1950.
Nevertheless tracing back the history of that show , I found out that Egypt’s Flowers show or rather shows used to be held in Egypt in old dates as the 1910s and it was not organized by the ministry of Agriculture .
According to very old issue from “The Flowers” literature magazine “Published by Antoine Gamil from 1910-1913 there was an article about the Flowers Show in Alexandria on 21 April“did not mention the history but it was during the rule of Prince Hussein Kamel” and its origin.
The Flowers Show was organized by the Agricultural Society of Alexandria.
The Alexandria’s Flowers Show was used to be inaugurated by a prince or a noble from the Mohamed Ali Royal Family then.
That article says that the Flowers show in Alexandria was the idea of foreign expats specifically British expats in the Alexandrian society who brought the idea of Flowers shows from UK during then.
The Spring Flowers show will end next May 26 and you can visit it for a very small fee.
I went there from two weeks ago then I went yesterday and it was really good despite the extremely hot weather. It is not Spring flowers show but rather Summer Flowers show !! Of course I went in a very annoying time at 2 PM where the Sun was horizontal on my head so I should not complain.
I did not go around like in 2007 but the Spring Flowers show is always fun.
Click on the left arrow to see more than 90 photos from the Flowers show this year :)
Not less than 100 Egyptian flowers nurseries , plantations and landscaping companies.
Now a little historical background about this beautiful show : It is the oldest surviving show or exhibit in the history of modern Egypt as I realized. This year the minister of Agriculture and Giza governor inaugurated the 83th Flowers Show which means officially it was inaugurated in 1932.
There are photos for late Queen Farida , Princess Fawzia Fouad , Princess Faika Fouad and Princess Faiza inaugurating the Show in its old location at the Agricultural Museum in Giza in 1940s and early 1950.
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| Queen Farida at the Flowers show in early 1940s |
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| Princess Fawzia and Princess Faika at the Flowers show in late 1940s |
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| Princess Faiza at the Flowers show Akher Saa'a magazine in April 1952 |
According to very old issue from “The Flowers” literature magazine “Published by Antoine Gamil from 1910-1913 there was an article about the Flowers Show in Alexandria on 21 April“did not mention the history but it was during the rule of Prince Hussein Kamel” and its origin.
The Flowers Show was organized by the Agricultural Society of Alexandria.
The Alexandria’s Flowers Show was used to be inaugurated by a prince or a noble from the Mohamed Ali Royal Family then.
That article says that the Flowers show in Alexandria was the idea of foreign expats specifically British expats in the Alexandrian society who brought the idea of Flowers shows from UK during then.
The Spring Flowers show will end next May 26 and you can visit it for a very small fee.
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Graffiti Artists Detained for 12 hours in Cairo for this beautiful Mural
Do you see this beautiful graffiti Mural ??
This painting was made by a group of Egypt’s finest graffiti artists at El-Boston street in Downtown Cairo last week. The artists who painted since early morning were arrested by the security forces and detained for 12 hours till they were released.
They were interrogated by Homeland officers during their detention.
The 4 graffiti artists included famous painters Mohamed El-Moshir and Ammar Abo Bakr
By the way till this day the Public prosecutor is ignoring the decision of the Cabinet to release the Walls of Freedom book about the 25 January revolution graffiti in Egypt. Walls of Freedom book was seized in Alexandria last February because it ignites revolution !!
The authorities also do not want let the lawyers of Dar Al-Tanweer publishing house in Egypt to
check the reports about the books in order to know what violations are connected to the book’s content.
I am not surprised.
The current regime is annoyed by the Political graffiti recording the 25 January revolution history it wants to erase.
The only kind of street art is the type of apolitical art sponsored by Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and the ministry of youth like “ We are going to Color it” initiative. On the other hand the Egyptian political graffiti recognized by the whole world is not welcomed anymore.
To follow the latest updates about Walls of Freedom , check its official Facebook.
As I speak about graffiti , I think it is a good opportunity to post my album about Egypt’s famous Revolutionary Graffiti.
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| Click to zoom in "By Mohamed El-Moshir" |
They were interrogated by Homeland officers during their detention.
The 4 graffiti artists included famous painters Mohamed El-Moshir and Ammar Abo Bakr
By the way till this day the Public prosecutor is ignoring the decision of the Cabinet to release the Walls of Freedom book about the 25 January revolution graffiti in Egypt. Walls of Freedom book was seized in Alexandria last February because it ignites revolution !!
The authorities also do not want let the lawyers of Dar Al-Tanweer publishing house in Egypt to
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| The graffiti artists in shackles |
I am not surprised.
The current regime is annoyed by the Political graffiti recording the 25 January revolution history it wants to erase.
The only kind of street art is the type of apolitical art sponsored by Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and the ministry of youth like “ We are going to Color it” initiative. On the other hand the Egyptian political graffiti recognized by the whole world is not welcomed anymore.
To follow the latest updates about Walls of Freedom , check its official Facebook.
As I speak about graffiti , I think it is a good opportunity to post my album about Egypt’s famous Revolutionary Graffiti.
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