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Naguib Mahfouz ,Egypt's Nobel Prize winner who died yesterday and had a great honorable funeral for him , a military one for a civilian in respect for raising the name of Egypt ,high in the sky . Mahfouz was on the front page of New York Times yesterday with an excerpt from "Madaq Ally" inside the edition.

Kofi Anan ,G.W Bush and many leaders,Kings and presidents sent their condolences to Egypt and its people , same thing for great writers and novelists from all over the world.

It is not about the Nobel prize , yes this prize put Mahfouz books under the spotlight but it is the Egypt inside his books that made his book internationally preferred , a joy for the foreigner reader.

Mahfouz succeeded to present the real essence of the Egyptian Ally of Cairo to the world , the Ally that is the origin of the big great city , he presented the real Egyptians , the low class with any beautification , he went local and this led him to international horizons , just like Om Kalthoum and Abd Halim , Mahfouz didn't go behind international fame , never ever at all .

The Egyptian Ally where he came from , from the famous El-Hussein Quarter in Egypt , this local area full of folklore,myths ,traditions , full of real Cairo , the Eastern Cairo , not the Cairo of Zamalak or Miser El-Gadida , with their western mix .

When I was watching his funeral today ,I told my mom about the New York Times essay and "Madaq Ally" and you know what she said , She told me that because he presented the real Egypt , he was mentioned and respected internationally. You know then I remembered Ihasn Abd El-Quds , the famous Author and Journalist , he also presented to the Egyptian and Arabic library wonderful masterpieces , why he wasn't recognized like Mahfouz , then I remember that Abd El-Quds is the son of the high middle Class who lived in Heliopelis , who presented the high middle Class western life Style . For the rest of the world "Nadia Lotfy " , the heroin of his famous novel "I don't sleep" is just another example of a troubled teenager who lives her life in the western style she is not as interesting as Mahfouz's "Hamida" in "Madaq Ally" or "Amina" , the famous lady who became the Egyptian example of a desperate Housewife  not only the Egyptian but modern Arabic life style , "Amina" the lady of "Cairo Trilogy"

You know I noticed Westerns are impressed more with our Egyptian Islamic old Ariticuture then our 19th century European style buildings, they are more impressed and loved the Egyptian ladies with their Original Egyptian customs of Galbya with Egyptian makeup of "Khol" then the Max factor and Christian Dior ladies. Mahfouz was an Original Egyptian who presented Egypt in specific Cairo as it is really is , the Egyptian Cairo

He presented it without makeup , The Cairo of great men and women , the poor and rich , good and bad , the cruel and merciful and the saints and whores, the sanes and insanes. Some Criticized him for presenting Whores and Sex , the ugly face of Cairo , the reputation of Egypt complex , as this is not there , as if this was categorized by Mahfouz himself as social disease should be treated , by those people are the same people who attack Abd El-Quds describing him as the spoiler of middle Class girls !!

I am sorry "Si' Siad" Master Siad was and is still there not only in Cairo but in Egypt , the double famous man , cruel on his family and puppy in the hand of his mistress , "Amina" the example of desperate Egyptian House wife , who doesn't want anything except the good life of her family ,living with her cruel husband ,"Hamida" the poor ambitious girl who is already to do anything because of the hard life conditions including to sell herself and then realize the terrible mistake she made, "Abbas" Who dragged her in this shameful way of life , I am sorry but those people live among us till now how many poor girls sold themselves till now for the dreams of wealth !!??

The talk is not finished with Mahfouz

Last night Egypt Nobel prize winner Novelist Naguib Mahfouz had passed after long life at the age of 95 year old.He passed after long struggle with illness for two months where there were some speculations that he wouldn't make it .Mahfouz was the second Egyptian to get a Noble prize in 1988 ,the first was president Mohamed Anwar El-Sadaat and it was the Noble Peace Prize.While Mahfouz got it in the field of literature, he was the first Arabic and Egyptian to get it in this field.

Naguib Mahfouz was a great Novelist who enriched the Arabic library with wonderful books and novels. He completed a line of literature started in the 1920s and 1930s concerning the concentration on life in Egyptian Allies and their custom and traditions , also he had a great eye that caught every thing change in the Egyptian society. He wrote mostly about the low and middle Working classes , the classes I guess he lived with and interacted with.

He wrote the social novels like the Cairo trilogy and also political novels like Chitchat over the Nile and Cairo 1930. Mahfouz fame came in Egypt first as screen writer , where he presented to the Egyptian Cinema the Scripts ,and I believe that it wasn't a coincidence that the late director Salah Abu Seif was always working with him ,Salah Abu Seif is called in Egypt the father of the reality cinema in Egypt.

To say the truth I saw more movies written by Mahfouz then I read book for him , his writing style in Arabic some how I don't like ,I don't know why ,in fact it is strange because I like to read for one of Mahfouz's role models and teachers as he liked to call them and that is Mahmoud Basha Taymor , Late Mahfouz once said that in "Nos El-Donia" magazine that he didn't deserve Noble prize while other deserved it like Abbas El-Akkad, Taha Hussein and Mahmoud Taymour. I write about this influence later

As I was saying Mahfouz gave to the Egyptian cinema and library masterpieces , my favorite of all times whether book or movie is "Chitchat over the Nile" , the remarkable description of the defeat of 1967 and the reasons behind it, also "The thief and the dogs" , "The Mr Gentleman", "The talk of Day and night" and many others and of course the legendary "Tramps" "El-harafish"

May God bless his soul ,I will continue writing about this great man soon

Just right now King Ramses II ,the famous Pharaoh of the 19th dynasty of ancient Egypt is heading its way to his new home . From Cairo governorate to Giza governorate to the his new-old home , in a journey of 11 hours in the streets of the capital Ramses II statue started his journey.

Already there thousands of Egyptians now are in the streets watching the event in a way I could never imagine it

The famous Ramses II is leaving his square in which he stayed there over 50 years , in one of Egypt's most famous squares to the new home in Giza in the new Egyptian Museum site .

It is not a new home but rather an old- new one , as the new Egyptian Museum site is located in Meet Raheena village , which is the same place the Statue was found and transfered from to Cairo.

In 1954 they decided to move the Statue and it was a big operation then ,because the Statue was in three pieces , and thus with a german help ,I don't know western or eastern then , they put it together , then they moved him to the Square of Bad El-Hadid which was changed to held his name Ramses .

The Sqaure of Ramses is one of Egypt's most active sqaures because:

1. Egypt's main Railway station is located there , its name changed from Bad El-Hadid to Ramses too
2. There is the famous Metro "Underground" station of Ramses, one of the main underground stations in Cairo
3. The main communinaction center for Cairo is there
4. It is located in down town
5. There are lots of bridges there
6. It is the main station from buses and microbus in Cairo ,and to and from Cairo

So you can imagine how the square looks in a traffic jam which happens on daily base there, and that why Egyptologists in Egypt decided to transfer it.

To say the truth at first I didn't like the idea because for 50 years and more this statue became a symbol of this place , yet pollution and people are destroying the greatness of this big statue, the Square turned in to a circus from traffic ,people , it is not that easy to organize the square

I wanted to take pictures for him yet unfortunately I couldn't because I am sick today....:(

I guess I talked about Shabola aka Shabaan Abd El-Rahim before in this blog , and I talked about the man behind his huge success , his lyricist Islam Khalil

Shabola has very ugly voice and all his music is the same ,as he didn't study music and doesn't want to be accused by stealing other music as he said , so don't be surprised to find all his songs got the same melody, yet the only thing made him reached to the top and appeared in CNN and international newspapers is the Lyrics he used.

The Lyrics which he used are written by Islam Khalil ,a primary stage teacher , Most of his lyrics is about politics and other national issues .

Shabaan is a proud illiterate and ignorant too , you know you can have an illiterate but not ignorant about what is going around him , you can see his ignorance when he speaks alone in any interview and so it is obvious that the one who is behind him Khalil is the secret of his success

Khalil wrote about everything you can imagine from Birth control to fighting smoking and drugs to Bird flu to his favorite topics in politics , he didn't leave a single political event except few , from the intifida to Iraq invasion to El-Hairir assassination to war in Lebanon

Already Shabola 's main hit was "I hate Israel" which made him appear on the CNN and BBC was written by Khalil

Khalil wrote a new song for Shabola called "Two Soldiers" criticizing America,Israel and the Arab leaders reactions in the last war between Lebanon and Israel

For change Khalil Wrote a romantic song for Shabola , it is sad romantic song about the reaction of a lover abandoned by his girl friend for another man

It is called "Toz Fiki" :)

Toz is an Egyptian insult which can translate to damn , it is very romantic you should have listened to it live yesterday on National TV

The latest poem by Egypt's famous idiot "Fagomi" a.k.a "Ahmed Fouad Nagm , this poem is  a political poem where he criticize the level Egypt has reached

I am sorry there is no English translation for it now , but the meaning of its title is "Bow your head bow ,bow "

Link to طاطي راسك طاطي طــــاطي

It is so cool

check it out guys , it is lots of fun from the Web2.0 thing

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For sure changing the meaning of holy Quran is a dangerous thing, in fact it is one of the problems nowadays especially that people became more ignorant and lazy enough to use their minds and search for correct answers from correct sources

I am writing this in the eve of El-Esraa incident which is an important incident to the Islamic faith, yet it is not related to it as much it is related to both Quran and Science

As a Muslim I believe that Quran is the greatest and holiest book ever I believe in every Word in it, it is my source of understanding and living in this world , It is God's word to us as humans , I know there is history in it , I know there is future in it and I know there are scientific facts

A historical fact like the one concerning the drowning of Moses Pharaoh a.k.a RamsesII despite all those who are in Egypt denying this fact , in the experiments in France in 1970s they reached out that he drowned as found salt in his lungs .

The future , the slave girl who gives birth to its lady and the judgement day , Jerusalem which will be invaded twice "By the way I believe this is the first time"

The scientific facts Holy Quran gave a description to the baby growth inside the womb of its mother from 14 centuries before the Ultra-Sonic was discovered. This called the miracle of Science in Quran For example "

God says  "We created everything living from Water"

And after that by many centuries we reached that Water is the essence of life . This miracle of Science now is a matter of debate between the seculars and religion men and supporters in Egypt .

Seculars as usual refuse to combine between Religion and Science , some really I believe hate the religion altogether and some are afraid from using religion in a wrong way . You use Scientific facts can be changed while Holy Quran can't be changed.

Anyway why I am writing all this old introduction , is because from few days I found a small essay in Egypt's most famous Tabloids "El-Ain" concerning a message that is circulating the Internet and Arabic Islamic religious forum concerning a very important scientific discovery the whole world ,well not the whole world but at least those who follow scientific discoveries are following

That is the discovery of another 3 planets in our solar system after Planet Plato and thus our solar system extended , this discovery is approved by the IAU updates at 8/24/06 , the IAU changed the definition of the Solar System , Pluto is no longer a planet but a dwarf planet , same as for the three celestial bodies click here

Now certain persons in the Arab world are trying to connect this with the Quran , I will presume this for good intention, they are saying that this new scientific fact is mentioned in the holy Quran exactly in The Soraa of Youssef in the 12th chapter in it

They saying that it is mentioned in certain verse in this Soraa , already this soraa is called "Youssef" "Joseph" and it is about the tale of Joseph ,his father ,his brothers and his coming to Egypt and living there. Ironically those people said that NASA is trying to cover up the story of the discovery of the new planets to hide the miracle of Quran , God forgive me but those brothers seems with their knowledge in religion are ignorant with certain facts

1. The holy Quran spoke of 11 planets only and this exactly what is mentioned in verse  "O' Father I dreamt that eleven planets ,the sun and moon are bowing to me " , First they are here 11 planets not 12 , second and that is important the explanation of the dream is mentioned in them Soraa and the story , the 11 planets are Joseph's brothers , the sun and moon are both his father Jacob and his mother , their bowing incident is when they arrived to Egypt and met him
2. NASA didn't hide anything , all the world knew about it
3. The story doesn't stop in the Quran but extends to the Prophetical Quotes of Prophet Mohamed "PBUH" , in the essay they mentioned an incident about a Jew asking Prophet Mohamed "PBUH" about the name of the 11 planets , yet Prophet didn't know yet the holy Spirit "Gabriel" came and told him , and thus answered the Jew who knew that those were the correct names !! In the easy they didn't mention whether it is correct Quote or not ,for God sake a friend of mine "A newly Muslim American" showed me a British so-called Islamic publishing house providing an e-book full of Quotes and incidents I highly Doubt that they belong to Prophet Mohamed "PBUH" all about sex !!
4. One of the things make me highly doubt with genuine of this Quote , that is one of the names of the Planets mentioned in so called Quote is "El-Tarek" , "El-Tarek" is a name of a very famous Soraa in Quran in the 30th chapter , It Says the following " Wa El-Tarek{Wa El-Tarek means God swears with El-Tarek , We El is a kind of Oath , a holy oath},And you don't know what is El-Tarek, A shooting Star { That is what the El-Tarek is a shooting star,I don't know if it is a shooting star like comet or like a star like the sun , yet I believe an Oath like this God makes then it will be a great as a sun } , anyway as you see it is not a planet ,it is shooting star , Quran words are crystal clear
5. Another thing , those brothers as usual combine Politics with Religion with Science , I don't know what is their proof but they are claiming that "El-Tarek is going to hit America in year 2007!!"ok you hate America but don't start to spread dangerous rumors , my professor last year told us that an American friend asked him why Quran hates America !!??  from where this stupid prediction came I don't know , already yes the Earth is threatened by many asteroids , the nearest one will hit earth in year 2037 according to IAU !!

You hate America as you want but please don't use Islam ,Quran and Prophet Mohamed in it this is one

I don't need scientific facts to make me believe in Quran more , for God sake from 14 centuries people believed in it , the essence of belief , the greatest level of belief is not based upon tangible things to but intangible things, I may sound strange but ...

Please don't involve religion in Politics , hate America as you like but away from our Holy Book and Sona

For God Sake there was no America from 14 centuries !!

This post is updated on the 24th of August 2006

 Since the last century Israel and its secret services had succeeded in murdering Egypt 's most successful and brilliant scientists from Dr. Mustafa Mushrafa to Dr. Samira Moses to Dr. Said Badir to ..etc . Most of those doctors were specialized in dangerous and important fields of nuclear and biological fields

One man I believed they missed , lucky for Egypt ,I don't know if he were on their death list or not , but either ways they killed him accidentally with no intention , I believe his loss is a loss for Egypt and a victory for all its enemies

Israel killed accidentally Professor Ahmed Mostageer The Godfather of Genetic engineering in Egypt

From few days Dr. Mostageer was in his house in the Alps mountains in Austria where he was spending his vacation and married an Austrian woman.The 59 years old professor who looked older than his true age was watching the news of war in Lebanon when he saw a footage of dead Lebanese kids who died in the war , the man couldn't stand the horrible scene , the last thing he said was

They are in the age of my grand children

He said that while he was crying , few second later his wife found him suffering from a severe brain stroke , she called for a medical help and medical helicopter came to transfer him to a hospital in Austria , the doctors tried to save him but it was too late , the divine secret returned back to its maker

Dr Mostageer came back to be buried in his homeland in Egypt yesterday

Not only a great science man but also a man who combined both Religion and Science , he stood against all the attempts of changing in human DNA to create the so-prefect human , also against human cloning

He was also a member in El-Khaleeden "Immortals"  Confederacy for Arabic Language , he loved Arabic so much and poetry

A graduate from the faculty of Agriculture and became its dean for couple of years, this man made a great researches and improvements on crops in Egypt especially the Wheat , yet unfortunately all these researches are sealed somewhere

I am honored that my family knew him , my grandfather invited him to a dinner in late 1970s and my grandmother's impression about him that he was so genius , also he was the Emeritus professor in the Faculty of Agriculture to my mom , she remembers him very well because he was kind enough to postpone her exam as she was severely sick to another day in the early 70s , before knowing my grand dad before anyone can jump to judgements , by the way the only subject my mom took an "A" /"Excellent" was in his subject, she was so sad for him

May God bless his soul

Another victim to Israel indirect victim :(

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OK I am testing the new windows Live writer for blog posting , already I tried several Blog editors like Zoundry and Weblagger and also the new blogging feature in office 2007 word beta

I think this is much better than both word beta and weblagger despite being in beta phase , I believe it is same like Zoundry

I test several things here so this post may have no real meaning

First the links click here Windows Live Writer

Second images

Third fonts

Bla Bla Bla

There are other great features

We have plugins ,three wonderful ones like Flickr4Writer ,Tag4writer and Currently listening

One of the things I like here is the preview options with different styles whether in HTML or web layout or normal

Insh Allah I am going to test it with other services like Blogger.Wordpress and yahoo 360

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Suspect admits killing JonBenet Ramsey - Yahoo! News

 oh boy after 10 years , I already know about this terrible crime from the Television I saw once a documentary about it and also I saw a film made about the murder not to mention the american news program on MBC4

It is a real tragedy and sure it was an enigma ,they suspected her own parents !!  just wondering , how they missed this guy !!

10 years this bastard was free the same 10 years her parents suffered from both the loss of their child and the shock of being suspected

Unfortunately the mother of JonBenet had just passed away few months ago because of Cancer , I guess she would have been very happy

Guess who joined the world mania of blogging ??

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Check it out , oh he is so cool

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Nizar Qabbani : The Face of Qana - BloggingBeirut.com

Since Qana masscare 2 I was searching for this poem to share with you .It was written by Nizar Qabbani , the unofficial prince of Arab poets in the second half of the 20th century in the time of the first Qana Massacre in 1996.

Qabbani was a syrian poet , who lived in Lebanon for a long period in his life

He was known for both conterversial Political and Romantic poems, in his poetry there was no red lines ,no taboos .

He was my favorite and is still among my favorite since I was 12 years old

I found in this poem and its translation in a very powerful blog called BloggingBeirut ,it is covering the war from Lebanon now

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دار الإفتاء المصرية

 This is the official Dar-Efta in Egypt , the highest Islamic and sole official board to issue fatwas in Egypt , I want to hint about it ,because I find many muslims especially who live abroad and are not from arabic islamic origins always take the source of Fatwa from dangerous places and people

Radical fatwas from Saudi Wahabi sect and also from other Asian shekihs

The Dar El-Efta is headed by the grand Mofty of the Egyptian state Dr. Ali Gomaa , an Excellent man despite that some of his fatwas may raise debates like the statues and so on

This is multi-language site with English,French, German and Spanish translation of course with an arabic

If you need any fatwa ,or any question you have about the Islamic practices what is wrong and right ,you can ask online and the answer will be available online after 48 hours only

It is guranteed ,I already tried it

My mother already met the grand Mofty while asking in some matters

Please bookmark it

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 Ok here is something you don't see every day , in fact I doubt if anyone saw a cloud like this Sobahan Allah , it is wonderful , I wish I were there with my camera

 Because some Israelis are saying some lies that must be corrected for the sake of children who died

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