Egyptian Chronicles

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Aswan Chronicles : Day Two "Kom Ombo”

You can check my Aswan Chronicles: Day One here.
The following post and its three parts were written on February 9,2012 chronicling my trip in Aswan.

February 9,2012

Heading to Kom Ombo in the early morning, the real early morning, about 7 AM to visit the famous Kom Ombo temple.
It is another Ptolemaic era temple originally dedicated to the ancient Egyptian god Sobek and his good godbrother Horus as well as the Gods of fertility."Originally for Sobek".

On my way to the temple, I bought a beautiful coconut necklace from the smallest vendor I have seen in Aswan, Yahia.
No one can resist little Yahia.

The temple is breathtaking as it has got some of its colours on its walls up till now !!

The colors of Egypt's temple of Kom Ombo

The colours inside the temples are still and can be seen until this day.

Damn!! my room could not keep its wall’s colour despite it was painted from a couple of years ago !!
Just enjoy the photo gallery of the photos I took thereafter the break.
P.S I am sorry if the photos are not that good but in the early morning, about 7 AM it was hard to get a good shot.

#IWD : Happy International Woman Day

Today is March 8th , the International women Day. Today hundreds of Egyptian women are marching from the Syndication of journalists to the Egyptian Parliament demanding one main demand : 50% representation in the constitution assembly. There is a second demand which is to leave the family and personnel laws alone.
Hundreds of Egyptian women are marching and chanting chants like “The woman’s voice is a revolution” and “Do not say that these are Suzanne’s laws as they are human rights laws”.

By Engy Ghozlan

There are men who are also participating in the march whether as a protesters and supporters or as protection. There are men who formed this cordon around the march to protect it.

By Engy Ghozlan

From a year ago a group of Egyptian women tried to have a march in Tahrir square but they were attacked and harassed , this year up till now things seemed to be better.

Egypt refuses officially Eastern Libya’s semiautonomous state and is standing by one united Libya

Egypt’s minister of foreign affair Mohamed Amr stated this very important statement last night on Nile News channel as a comment on the declaration of Cyrenaica or Berqa as we know it in Arabic and in Egypt the semiautonomous state from its side.
We are not here about a town that announcing its state , we are speaking about East Libya , which is our West in Egypt
From historical point of view Cyrenaica is the stronghold of the Senussi house and in 1949 the British convinced Idris Senussi to declare the principality of Cyrenaica. In 1951 Idris Senussi became the king of Libya that had become a federal monarchy till 1969
This is why Libyans in the West believe that Ahmed El Senussi is dreaming of becoming the new ruler of Libya and thus he is following the same steps of his relative. I wonder who convinced the Senussis this time !!? Ironically enough Ahmed El Senussi is among the the representative of the Arab spring who got the Sakharov prize for freedom of thought. “This is not good for dear Asmaa Mahfouz”
Libyans fear that the old map of Libya till 1951 will be their new map : 3 states of Cyrenaica , Fezzan and Tripolitania

The old map of Libya

From economic point of view the oil fields are concreted in Cyrenaica , of course the West got its share from oil fields but unlike the East as you can see in this map.

Libya's population and energy production

The Libyan youth are extremely angry from the federalization plans and believe that it is the beginning to divide Libya in to different pieces according to the FB comments and messages I am following in the Libyan revolutionary FB pages. The young Libyans are calling for gradual decentralization which actually is logical for country like Libya rebuilding itself.

Egyptian Saudi Bridge Follow Up : Is there A bridge at all !!?

First all I must thank all the readers and their concern after publishing a post about that bridge planned allegedly to connect Egypt and Saudi Arabia through national preserve islands Tiran and Sanafir.
Second thanks to dear friends I found out that the Saudi ministry of transportation seemed to be the last one to know about the bridge plans resurrection !!
The Saudi ministry of transportation said in a statement to Saudi Al Watan newspaper that “There is no any such agreement to the effect between the ministry and any other party concerning the project” and that “ No official from the ministry had made any statement regarding this issue”
Ironically the Egyptian officials did not stop speaking to the press !!
It seems to me that the Egyptian Government whether in time of Sharaf or Ganzoury is trying to persuade the Saudis to build this bridge at the same they are trying to give this false hope Egyptians that this bridge will make us as rich !! Ironically according to those in favor of the project this bridge’s profits will reach $3 billion in 10 years from tolls !! Well in the revolution year 2011 with all the jazz we had we achieve $8.8 billion profits from tourism only and this is a tough year !!!
They want to kill a whole eco-system for $3 billion in 10 years !!
The real development of Sinai will not be achieved by Saudi money as some Bedouins believe in Sinai , the real development of Sinai will be achieved if we bridge for real between Cairo and Sinai and the political authority takes a daring decision and revives President Sadat’s Middle Sinai urban development project which Hassab Allah El Kafrawy supervised its design.
I hope that the Saudi government continues to refuse that ugly project.

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Follow up : Matt danced in Tahrir and he is still alive

And So where the hell Matt came and danced in Tahrir and in Zamalek as well . Matt danced with tens of Egyptians despite the opposition of the families of the martyrs , the honorable citizens, informants and normal citizens too in Tahrir on Sunday.

Matt and his Egyptian friends tried to dance first at the circular garden in the middle of the square but failed after the objection of all sorts of Tahrir current occupants.In the end Matt did his little dance along tens of Egyptians at the Egyptian museum garden.

We Should be very worried now about #Libya , So worried

This disgusting video below shows a group of African prisoners from workers according to the one who uploaded it. The African Prisoners are put in animal cages and forces to eat to the animal flags aside from disgusting racial insults.

Updated :

Thanks dear to Andy Carvin and Green Revolution I was shocked to know that these prisoners are not foreign Africans but rather dark skinned Libyans from the Taawargha area !!! Oh God I am speechless !!

African prisoners in zoo cages and eat Libyan flag

There is no justification what so ever for this disgusting action. Already some of you know that I have this website dedicated to the Egyptian POWs case and I have followed the POWs in military conflicts for years so this scene makes me shiver !! It is against all my beliefs as a human , as a Muslim and as an Arab and African. This is against Islam teachings so I do not know what kind of Islamist militias are truly there if they treat their POWs like that !! May God damn who ever did this for real !!

Syrian Revolution : You knew that his name was El Assad !!

And Asama El Assad’s father Fawaz El Akhrass has began to clear his image in London claiming that he is horrified with the all the killing in Syria and that his son in law surprising turned to be a dictator.

The Express journalists also began to show the Syrian first lady as a victim somehow , I feel that the next issue they will claim that she is a British and should be evacuated along with her kids from Damascus.

With my all due respect to everyone Fawaz El Akhrass knew exactly what kind of family his daughter is going to marry from and he did not say no , in fact he knew that his grandchildren will carry the family name of one the most worst dictatorships families in the world and he welcomed it !!

The apple did not fall far from the tree indeed when it comes to Bashar El Assad.

The foreign media is fond by the stories of Middle Eastern crazy dictators’ personal life especially they got juicy tales from Saddam and Qaddafi’s crazy families. Strangely the most crazy member in El Assad family in Syria right now is not Bashar El Assad but rather his brother Maher El Assad !!

The house of El Assad is not that interesting or wild like the house of Saddam and the house of Qaddafi dear tabloid media.

I hope that Daily Express goes after Rafaat El Assad and his son , he got really crazy tales like how he supervised the mass murder of more than 40,000 civilian in Hama in year 1982 yet is enjoying life freely in Europe , how the ladies in his special forces used to eat snakes , how he was the named the prince of assassins and how he turned against his own brother.