Lebanese Diva Sabah had very interesting interview on Wednesday on Rotana music channel with glamorous TV interviewer Wafaa El-Kalany , the famous Egyptian sweet voice girl ,man I remember her since the days of ART in Italy
Of course it was another Sabah sharing her memories about love,marriage ,childhood and her latest agony with her sick daughter Howida and the wonderful gesture President Doctor field Marshal engineer Bashar Hafiz El-Assad did from taking care of her and her daughter in the time of July war and financially support them forever !!!
Now Sabah said something I felt I must mention it here in my blog for the history record
Wafaa was asking her about third marriage from late famous religious TV interviewer Ahmed Farag
"yes Sabah married this great man for a while ,yes I know it sounds strange , what bring the East and west together !! in fact Ahmed Farag made a movie was her"
Wafaa : They said Ahmed Farag married you because he was from the Muslim Brotherhood and the MB then were facing troubles and thus to deny belonging to this group ,he married you !!"
Sabah: No never , he married me because he loved me and I loved him , he was not from the MB , never
Wafaa : But that what was said
Sabah : well Ahmed treated me very nice and sweet , if he was a MB and the MB are like him ,then I love the MB
Wafaa : A salute to the Muslim Brotherhood !!!
Sabah's scarey!
ReplyDeleteI've been through your blog and i don't know exactly how should i feel. Impressed? maybe, It's not that usual to see people in your age in that class of patriots with high sonse of awareness unlike the "Chaos Theory's Scenes" I hear about in Egypt from time to time. Egypt can be a great place to live, but sadly, not to our generation..maybe for our grandchildren, and I'm generally optimist here. Anyway, greetings to you and your enthusiasm from the far far east.
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anonymous,
ReplyDeleteI do not agree. It can be a great place to live in tomorrow and not after few decades.
A great place to live is not a place where every one has health insurance and a fancy car. All you need to have to insure a great place is justice. This can be achieved over night if the government decieded to do this.
Dear egyptian-in-usa,
ReplyDeleteFirst, I agree with you 100% that fancy cars or medical insurance...etc are not the only parameters that we should think about when we try to evaluate the quality of life, freedom of expression and democracy should be topping the priorites' list for sure. But don't you agree with me that we always blame the government for everything bad on our lives? Look, I don't want to talk politics becasue I'm a financial economist, and I will only talk about what I can understand or measure in terms of figures and economics' observations. In my humble opinion, I think that a hungry man is an angry man, so as long as the average incomes in egypt r that low, we'll always have political and social unrest. But should'nt we analyze our economical situation more deeply to stand on the some of the major reasons of egypt economical condition? Can you tell me, my friend, what is the productivity rate of the average egyptian labor per working hour? Can you tell me why that we have 4 out of 5 of every new project in egypt are toward the service industry not toward production? Can you tell me how much waste of electricity, water, food (bread) and other utilities per day per household in terms of L.E? For example, Egypt has 17 mil. households with average 4.5 person/family, and I'm sure that you know our horrible consumption behavior especially toward our subsidized bread (not to mention the water that we use massively everyday on watering our front doors). I had a small theory, if each of the 17 mil household wasted worth of 1 L.E /day, over one year we'll have 6,205,000,000 L.E wasted from the "subsidized" governmental bugdet. This huge abount of money can solve many problems in egypt over a course of 5~7 years including the deficit. My friend, I don't say that the government are angles and the people are to be blammed, all I'm I'm trying to say is that the responsibility is shared between us and we have to be blammed for some of the problems we have. I know that you'll say that the governments we ever had in egypt over the last 50 years are to blammed for this kind of behavior, but if we want a better future for our beloved egypt, we have to look beyond the problem and try to think of actions to start rebuilding our modern country. We need some massive change in our consumption behavior and start not take many things in our lives for granted. I know it's not easy but it's not impossible,but education and awareness are the key answers to this dilemma my friend.
Cheers and greetings to all the worried egyptians out there!
Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteFew years ago they (in the USA) run a survey of who is the "happiest" people on this planet.
The winner was Bangaldish!! Do not ask me what is the survey matrix to determine the winner; I do not remember.
All I remember is that I went to a muslim from Bangaldish in our mosque and asked him how come with all your economical hardship and floods that alwasy visit you your people endup being the "happiest" on this planet.
His answer was: "If the man in my country get few amount of money to get his family a good dinner where they can alll sit together and enjoy the food and sleep happy then this is all they care about."
So again ... you (and your country) do not have to be super-rich or even moderately rich or rich at any scale to be happy!
So ... I do not want the NDP to give every one a job nor a TV ...
All I need from them is that:
- no one takes my job if I am the best qualified for it.
- No one gets promoted because of his connection.
- No one gets jailed and humilated because he stepped on the toe of a rich/powerful person.
- No one puts me in sinking ship to cross the redsea and get away with it.
- No one puts poison in my fruits and chicken and live to enjoy imported food.
- No one become a soldier and I endup serving for 3 years because he knows some one!
- All I need from the NDP is to provide a fair judge that can rule in my case in days and not years and a police officer that will protect me and not to humilate me.
- Of course if they can also grant me the freedom of expression then I am very grateful ... but please do not give me the freedom to cry and take away justice from me.
- Finally most bloggers need to be aware not to get infected with the same disease that the NDP is suffering from and that is elitism!!
People in the alleys do not care about the consumption/production/etc they care about being protected and treated fairly.
My friend,
ReplyDeleteWell said and i can't agree with you more!
But the way I see a country is a bit different that the way you see it. You see egypt as government Vs. people, I see it people's behavior Vs. people's behavior. All the points u've mentioned are some of the serious "SOCIAL' problems that any developing country is facing. Corruption is one of the main themes of our social scheme right now, from the guy who does nothing in the car parking lot except collectin money to the minister who got bribes to let your son enter the police academy. The corruption is there and it won't go overnight, even if the whole political system changed.
Before we think about what the government should do to prevent corruption (especially from its very own members), we need to to see the corruption as an individual act also, they're people like you and me who r doing that...cheating, lying, fraud cases...etc they r people like us, the employee in the public office who refuses to do his job properly unless getting paid "under the table" is a corrupted person too, and this needs to be changed as well.
We say we're muslims and we always celebrate our moral values, but aren't those corrupted people muslims too? Do we really do what we have to do? Individually at least? Do we all work the way we should work? Do we all behave the way we should behave?
Yes we need justice, and we can enforce it if we did some change to our lives, it always can start with one small step..."Orange revolution". But we need to work on our decipline and our behavior as individuals first, then wew'll be able to force any government to respect us and give us back our rights.
Cheers!
@ all readers ,I am back again sorry for my late respond
ReplyDelete@Sokari ,I love ur idea but unfortunately I came to late to it ,anyway this is the 1st carnival ,the second one I will join you dear sisters
@ha ana za , you are right
@anonymous ,thanks for your wonderful words , it gives me honor please don't lose hoope , the rain starts with one drop , and thousands miles way starts with a step , we may see the change to a better Egypt in our lives , not in our grand children , in fact if we want them to live in a better future we must work from now , at least we must do what our grand parent should have done from fighting dictatorship
@ Egyptian in USA , I totally agree
by the way guys I answer back each comment in its turn
@ my dear anony. "I wish you write any nickname " , one of the oldest problems we face as Egyptian society is that we are more consuming that productive society , seriously what you say is not totally wrong , I agree with you , this problem we in Egypt are facing it since the change to the open door economic policy of late Sadaat may God bless his soul after Nasser's communist centralized policies
I don't know where exactly the problem lies is it in the society or it comes from bad economic decisions , saying the truth the government can change this with the same open door policy , the Egyptian people were more productive than this era , I won't relate this to democracy but more with the psychological feeling that they are doing something worth it
@Egyptian and anony , I won't agree more
Welcome back Zeinobia and thanks for your comments, and I will always appreciate any feedback to my comments (positive or negative)..I'm Anonymous
ReplyDeleteyou are mostly welcome ya Ahmed and Ramadan Karim :)
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