The 'Syrian Street'

I don't know what 'Syrian street' Aljazzera conducted its interviews on, but the Syrian interviewees were in denial. One young man was hailing the freedom of 'oppressed people' as if the Syrian people are living in democratic paradise. I was hoping one of them would say, 'inshallah we are next!'Actually one of them was on the verge of saying something but immediately hesitated and swallowed loudly.

Mubarak dogs

Just now from Aljazeera, Mubarak's police force are providing the escaped prisoners with weapons in AlMansoura.

Demonstrations in Lebanon

For four days there have been demonstrations in front of the Egyptian embassy in Lebanon. The next one is tomorrow, in front of the embassy located in Cola intersection area at 16:00 Beirut time

'cleansing themselves from the remnants of fear'

"I am proud of the masses who are cleansing the dirt of the criminals who have been oppressing us. I am proud of all the Egyptians who are cleansing themselves of all remnants of fear."

Clinton please shut the hell up

Ghazzawiyya would rather have a spider lay eggs in her ear than listen to Clinton chirping.

Delta and Liberation Square

Ghazzawiyya contacted comrades located in Delta area in Cairo and in Midaan e-tahrir (Liberation Square). While people are bleeding they are asking others to come join them on the streets of liberation. They are not afraid and ever so motivated. 'Until we kick him out, we will stay here.' According to one comrade, they have disrupted internet in all of Egypt. Yet, there was limited internet connection Saturday morning and that was it. Text message services are still unavailable. Salutation to freedom fighters in every corner of Egypt.

The killed

119 people have been killed by Egyptian authorities on Friday only and 18 child included according to Aljazeera

Mubarak goons want to kick out Aljazeera

The minister of information just issued a statement about kicking out AlJazeera offices in Egypt. Aljazeera cannot be reached in Egypt. Also, just out, Three Israeli planes landed in Cairo airport with extra gas canisters and other weapons.

In Cairo not in London

Ghazzawiyya wants to be in Cairo, now, not in London...
اه منك يا غربة اه

Demonstration in front of Mubarak embassy in London

EGYPTIAN EMBASSY: 26 South Street, London WC1 1DW (tube Marble Arch then it's a short walk) map: http://tinyurl.com/5ut4rc5
12:00

Workers of the (Arab) world UNITE!!!

Workers of the Suez factory have declared strike until Mubarak and his gang fall

"because they have left behind them people who think as they do"

"In Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North, published in 1966, an unnamed university graduate returns to his home country, Sudan, full of hope about the new era of independence in his country. But an old man from his ancestral village warns him: "Mark these words of mine, my son. Has not the country become independent? Have we not become free men in our own country? Be sure, though, that they will direct our affairs from afar. This is because they have left behind them people who think as they do."

Mubarak has digged his own grave

they're going to bury him in it the next few days

the hillary advise

Is Hillary Clinton advising the courageous revolutionaries in Egypt? Hillary Clinton is better off picking parsley from the garden. Those dignified and courageous people will refuse ALL reform suggestions. You can't reform fascism! How dare you insult our intelligence you arrogant constantly chirping cricket!

مصر

هذا هو الجمال و هذه هي اللوحة التي نرسمها عن تاريخ شعبنا الذي لن يقبل ان يكون منكوبا بعد اليوم

Ain't it funny?

How the hypocritical US establishment immediately changes its speech and becomes a champion of human rights in Egypt? Obama, just go play in the garden. Let the hands of the the clock go back to 2009 when he visited Mubarak and praised him shamelessly

Where are Egyptian academics, intellectuals

...artisits, musicians, performers? They should be with the people. There is a demonstration in London on Saturday for solidarity with our heroes and comrades in Egypt and Tunis, there should be one in ever country in the Arab world! Bashar el-Asad is getting cold feet?

Palestinization of the Egypt demonstrations?

With stones and the dogs of Mubarak run away!

my hero...

a statue should be made for you, Mohammad Bouazizi

The joke of the day

Mubarak's party emphasized its bias towards the poor of Egypt. This will be tomorrow's headline on AlAhram.

Inqilab?

I laugh any time someone speaks about an 'inqilab' (upheaval/revolution) in Lebanon. I remember a line from the play El-'Aaql Zineh by Ziad Rahbani: 'to rebel against an order (nizam), you need to have an order first!"
لتعمل ثورة على النظام, لازم أول شي يكون في نظام
(excuse Ghazzawiyya's lousy translations!)

يا حرية فينك فينك

...حسني مبارك بينا و بينك

Mr Freud

Ghazzawiyya found this quote by Sigmund Freud: "We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love" Civilization and its Discontents, pg 82 (he is speaking mainly about sexual love and our constant drive to pursue it for happiness), despite Ghazzawiyya not being a Freud fan

الدنيا لسى بخير

بحر الحياة يالغدار واحنا لفين رايحين
شايل معاه الاسرار واحنا معاه ماشيين
أيام تفوت و تروح واحنا ولا حاسين
أحلام تعيش و تموت يا قلوبنا يا خايفين
لو ينسى الواحد اخزانه حيشوف الورد و الوانه
لو نفتح للدنيا قلوبنا هتدق الأحلام على بابنا
دي ساعات الدنيا بتوعدنا و نقرب منها و تبعدنا
حبها من قلبك حبها حتحبك إضحك للدنيا
الفرحة حتيجي في غمضة عين
بحر الحياة يالغدار ... الدنيا لسى بخير
في حياتنا لسه كثير
بكره حيجي اكيد
حيجينا حلم جديد

( كلمات أمير طعيمة و غناء الملك محمد منير)

Ghazzawiyya's neck

Ghazzawiyya woke up with a very bad neck ache.

Tuesdays on Tele Liban at 9am

Comrade Nahla Safa (religiously committed to Marxism) has a program on Tele Liban on Tuesdays at 9am about cultural and political events in Mount Lebanon. Nahla is a dedicated journalist who worked for more than 20 years in the national Lebanese radio station. Lately she hosted a program on the radio and invited guests like Reem el Banna (Palestinian performer), Sahar Taha (Iraqi song writer singer, married to a Lebanese for more than twenty years and has the nationality, she has been a protagonist of her country's cause and during the interview her eyes teared as she mentioned Iraq, a leftist too), Najdat Anzur (son of Syrian director Ismaeel Anzur who was the first director in Syria to open a theatre production and a cinematic work, also a very important intellectual), and (my favorate) Abbas e-Nuri (a Syrian actor and intellectual who played Abu Issam in Baab el Hara)
Comrade Nahla is very fond of Syrian actors and artists, when I asked her if she interviewed any Lebanonese actors she told me:
"الممثلين السوريين مثقفين جدا مش مثل اللبنانيه المطاحيش!"
"Syrian actors are very cultivated unlike those dim-witted Lebanonese!"
Comrade Nahla also happens to be a relative.

Hafeth el-Asad

He has been unable to sleep at night. He called forth all municipality heads and discussed matters of the Syrian districts. The smell of fear reaches London and it stinks of their corruption.

Zionist crimes against humanity this week

IOF killed a Palestinian civilian and wounded 4 others in the Gaza Strip. A Palestinian civilian was wounded by IOF near Nablus. IOF killed two Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Two Palestinian civilians were wounded by Israeli gunfire in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. IOF continued to target Palestinian workers, farmers and fishermen in border areas in the Gaza Strip. IOF arrested 4 Palestinian fishermen, including two children. IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank. 3 Palestinian civilians, including a child, and an Israeli human rights defender and a Dutch one were wounded. IOF conducted 54 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and a limited one into the Gaza Strip. IOF arrested 27 Palestinian civilians, including 6 children. Israel has continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world. Israeli soldiers positioned at military checkpoints in the West Bank arrested two Palestinian civilians. Israel has continued to take measures aimed at creating a Jewish demographic majority in Jerusalem. The construction of 32 housing units in "Pisgat Ze'ev" settlement in Jerusalem was approved. IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property. IOF ordered the demolition of more Palestinian houses.
Source: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

From Tunisia to Algeria, Yemen, Egypt and Jordan

"Yemen – Thousands marched in the capital, Sanaa, on Sunday in solidarity with the Tunisian revolution. They urged Arabs to rise up and “wage a revolution against their scared and deceitful leaders.” One banner read: “Leave before you are toppled.”

Algeria – several protesters have set themselves on fire in the street.

Egypt – a man set himself alight near the parliament building on Monday of this week.

Libya – Most Arab rulers haven’t dared voice support for Ben Ali—except Colonel Gaddafi. It didn’t stop Libyans taking to the streets in al-Bayda. Demonstrators attacked government offices in a protest over housing conditions.

Jordan – thousands of people marched on Friday of last week against soaring prices, government corruption and unemployment. Some 3,000 marched on Sunday and held a sit-in outside parliament. They chanted, “Enough of lies, we lost our future” and “Listen to the voice of the people.”
And around 50 trade unionists held a sit-in outside the Tunisian embassy in Jordan’s capital Ammam on Saturday shouting, “Tunisia’s revolution will spread.”"

To interested Londoners

Free lecture on Marxism on Saturday at the University of London Union from 12:00 to 18:30

اسكندرية

يا ريتني جندي من جيش عرابي مات عالطوابي و راح في بحرك
يا ريتني نسمة فوق الروابي من البحر جايه تغرق بسحرك
يا ريتني فكرة من عقل بيرم يا ريتني غنوة من قلب سيّد
يا ريتني جوه المظاهرة طالب هتف باسمك و راح معيّد
احمد فؤاد نجم

Will Egypt be next?

"Egyptians in particular are following events in Tunisia closely. Over the past five years a new workers’ movement has been growing, challenging the Mubarak regime and its Ben Ali-style repression. Egypt is central to US imperialist strategy. Any change from below will have momentous outcomes. Ben Ali has gone—can others take steps towards liberation?"

"tha national unity" goverment and its pitfalls

"They have launched a series of attacks under the guise of a “national unity government” to try to quell protest and clamp down on any radical changes to the system. Meanwhile, there is an absence of any organised form of political expression from the revolutionary forces. But one thing is certain—the interim government will be weak."

يوميات امرأة لا مبالية

(مقطع)

الحرية جواد أبيض لا يستطيع ركوبه إلا الشجعان.
قلعة لا تفتح أبوابها إلا للمقاتلين.
العبودية سهلة. إنها جسد مشلول يتعاطى الحبوب المنومة.
أما الحرية فوجع أبدي لا يريح ولا يستريح
نزار

"Leaders in fear as prostest spread across the Arab World"

Yalla, yalla, yalla! Bring them all down!

The world

Half of the world now is being flooded whilst the other half is busy killing each other