Ok this was a surprise to me , despite I am not from his loyal fans but it is a surprise , because I thought that Britney Spears or Amy Winehouse would be first , but who knows !!??

Heath Ledger was not my favourite actor but he did some nice roles that I like especially in "10 things I hate about you" ,"The Patriot" and my favourite "The Brothers Grimm" , oh yes "Brokeback mountain" is not included sorry I do not tolerate gay films despite all what I read about  his great performance there.

Ironically I was waiting to see him as the Joker in the new coming Batman film "The Dark knight" based on Frank Miller's graphical novel ,also his role in "I am  not there !! "

It is sad to know a young person dies like this suddenly regardless of his status ,whether he is rich or poor , famous or unknown

I feel so sad for his little girl Matilda ,I saw her pictures with him and she seemed despite her young age "2 years" attached to him and he seemed that he was happy with her ,it is shame to know that they are saying that he was taking drugs ,  it is sad he should not have taken drugs , at least for his young daughter , for his family !!

Of course there is a media circus in New York currently , you can check the News from TMZ,Page Six and Gawker

By the way 77 Persons have died in Gaza in the last three days because of the Blockade and siege Israel is imposing currently

These are for sure the worst ,craziest,most stupid ads I have ever seen in my life ,I am just wondering how any can think in such ugly ideas like those !! and how they were approved to be published in newspapers and magazines like them , they are disgusting !!

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This is for Ashurah.

Already this is a very religious day for  Muslims in general and Shiite Muslims especially as their mourning bloody celebrations steal the attention of the whole world.

This year I decided to share with you one of the legends ,the Egyptian native legends concerning the hero of the Ashurah day or the Karbala battle , El-Hussein, the Grand son of Prophet Mohammed "PBUH" . Egyptians are fond of the Prophet's family and consider that Egypt was honoured,blessed and protected by their existence in their land  and surely it was and is . Already our affection to the members of the prophetic house made us the Shiite of Sunni especially with our great affection about Lady Zeinab and her brother Emam El-Hussein.

Emam El-Hussein's was killed in the battle of Karbala , he was beheaded in one of the most horrible crimes of the Islamic history that inspired poets ,novelists,authors and even rebels till now , the master of Martyrs in heavens if we speak from the religious point of view, the master of rebels if we speak from the political and social point of view.

Our legend will start with praises on Prophet Mohammed "PBUH" just like the old story tellers used to say before starting their stories in Cairo.

it started at the bloody end of Karballa battle when the head of El-Hussein's head was cut off of his body ,before the soldiers of Yazad I would go and grab it , the head suddenly flow away , crossing countries and seas to land in the lap of an Egyptian woman a peasant who knew whose head was it and decided to protect it in all possible and impossible ways especially she knew that the soldiers of Yazad through the spies knew where it had landed and it would be only matter of days and they would come to claim the head.

And they did come and she gave them a head ....but not the head they wanted ,it was another head .. The head of her own son the boy , she scarified her own son in order to save the head of Emam El-Hussein which she buried in front of her house and thus years later a great mosque and shrine were built upon  and the area in front of the El-Hussein Mosque became known as "The Boy's mother" area

Already just for your information for real one of areas beside the El-Hussein Mosque is called "The Boy's mother"

Also The head of Emam "El-Hussein" is buried in the shrine in the famous mosque and it is actually there despite the claims recently that say otherwise , already the Head came to Egypt from Ashkelon and was received in a very big reception by the Egyptian people and that was chronicled by many historians like Al-Maqrizi.

Another much vital important evidence that there is a head actually buried in the Shrine is that in 1920s a similar debate was raised and added to it there were restoration works in the huge mosque , a famous Egyptian archeologist whom I can't remember his name opened the shrine and tomb and found the head wrapped in Green cloth "A sign of holiness" , he opened the cloth and saw the skull by his own eyes. It can't be any other proof so please stop saying that the head is not buried in Egypt or it returned to Iraq because sometimes I feel that these claims want to strip Egypt from every thing Muslim. And unfortunately these claims are supported by many people whether from outside Egypt or inside Egypt from seculars,communists and above them the new wave of Wahabis.

I do not deny that there are false Islamic shrines in Egypt but also the whole Sham area of Syria ,Lebanon and Palestine is full of false shrines too. And I do not deny that there are wrong practices that should be stopped regarding how people see these shrines but please leave them alone do not try to erase every thing beautiful in this country and every thing makes it special

Happy New Hagri Year 1429 and for this occasion I would like to share with you this video clip for little Turkish girl who is trying to read "Yassin" from the Holy Quran , Meltem is 6 years old and her brother "Salih" is 5 years old . She tries to read "Yassin" but fails and repeats it again , it is so beautiful

Merry Christmas to all the Egyptian Orthodox Christians all over the world.

The 7th of January became a national day in Egypt both Christians and Muslims take it as day off according to one of Mubarak's fewest wisest decision he had ever taken

In the occasion I would like to share with you some shots I took from the Saint Constantine Church in Cairo , I was invited last month to attend the wedding ceremony of my neighbour and my childhood Friend.

It is an Orthodox church ,its style of building reminds with the Byzantine style, I wanted to take more photos but I could not because there was a wedding

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This is just to all my dear visitors and to all the people I know and I do not know in this vast big universe Happy New year 2008 and insh Allah 2008 will be better than 2007 and all our public and personal wishes will fulfil

 

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