This is here first interview with an Egyptian TV host in a semi Egyptian channel . Also it is longest interview for her till now ,as the first in MBC was only 34 minutes ,where as this one is One hour and a half. It is divided in to parts as you see . It is in Arabic ,I promise that I will write the summary of it honestly in English soon. The TV Show is "Cairo Today" it is one of the famous News TV Shows ,it is on a Cable Network "Orbit" .
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You have the instincts of a reporter, anyone who has been follwing your blog for a month or so would get a rather accurate and very live image of Egypt and current affairs. This interview has touched a chord within me. I have rembered the days when my mother was studying in Egypt in the fourties and all stories she used to tell me. Egypt seemed like a virgin boiling with passion, something was looming up in the distance. Egyptians were breaking loose of centuries of dark ages. Egyptians were confident despite of the British influence and the alraming poverty in the countryside. Afterall, they have made a miracle, they managed to revive Arabic language, literature, culture. They entered into modernity while they are very confident in their past. They were re-animating our clincally dead heritage. It was modern, yet very authentic. It was going somewhere. A new Arab civilsation was pushing its way out. Egypt was the compass of all Arabs to modernity. We were all Euphoric after world war2 a new world was coming out and Arabs were loking up to Egypt to lead the way. Abdel Rahamn Azzam Pasha who found the Arabs league in 1945, and Aziz Al-Masry who brought back the Arab self-consciousness and tutored Nasser and the Baathists, were like a candle.
ReplyDeleteToo bad how things have turned out.
One thing we should all learn never look back amnd always look forward
yeah, i have been reading your posts for an hour now..good coverage :)
ReplyDelete@racoon,first thanks for the nice words
ReplyDeletesecond you described Egypt at that time in a way that me myself could not described may be because I live in it
It is enough to read the names of Aziz El-Masry and Azam Pasha whom I proud to say that my grand father was a close friend to him :)
May Allah bless their souls all
and yes we should never look back again
@mohaly , thanks so much
Actually, I'm for looking back, sideway and everywhere society like Egypt can benefit from our and others experience. It's common in big companies in the west to look for other success stories and learn from it (it's called benchmarking). So we need to ask ourselves what made 'Egypt the charming' of the fourties? What make a country like Ireland recover so quickly from the misery of the last 3 decades? what made Japan such a miracle of development? Then we can develop our model(hopefully!!).
ReplyDeleteInteresting and thanks so much for putting this up. I saw the MBC one and I kept thinking that a princess should have better teeth. But then again maybe she doesn't have the money to fix them.
ReplyDeleteReally, the glory days of Egypt's royalty are long over and she is, like all of us, as are most royalty, just another human being, who through an accident of birth, was born to wealth and privilege. She now does all of her everyday chores herself and lives the life of an ordinary person. Perhaps middle class Egyptians are living better as most have maids.
In the end, no ruling family lasts forever, although the British royal family has managed to hang on for centuries.
The interviewer did ask some very silly questions though.
@Ohio , this is a good idea ,but I am afraid we won't have any benefit if we look back or look abroad it we still have this regim ruling us ,with this system :(
ReplyDelete@anonymous, well King Farouk himself once said that there will be no kings in the end except five ,the four kings of the playing cards and the king of UK !!
seriously she was lucky than her aunts and so on that she left the palaces life so early at 13 because if she was older like her aunts ,she would have suffered
I think it was the mistake of the Egyptian regime that it did not take case of them because they represent us in the end
About Amr Adeeb ,well I do not like him either , I do not like his style , ironically he is number one now in the Men TV hosts in Egypt !!!!!!!!!