The cost of living has risen drastically around the world from increasing real-estate, gasoline, education and now food. But its not fillet mignon or sauteed lobster tail that have risen in cost, it’s the basic essentials of developing nations. Take Egypt for example and the increase in simple staples of nourishment, rice, bread, beans, onions […]

A protest has been planned on Sunday May 4th, 2008, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM at the Egyptian Consulate in downtown Chicago at 500 N. Michigan Ave.
Demonstrators are assembling to protest Egypt’s State run repression of workers and opposition groups. Here’s the description on the facebook event.
Egyptian security forces arrested over 400 opposition activists across […]

Look at that smile, only some cold hard cash can make a man shine like that. You might think its that full head of hair, after all Hosni is the only man in Egypt over 60 with a full head of hair. But no, I’d recognize that smile anywhere, its the same look my landlord […]

Kareem Amer, Egypts most famous victim of persecution has written a letter from behind bars and you should definitely read it.
Here it is!
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I like to consider myself somewhat of an accurate analyst but sometimes the context of Egypt politics and social peculiarities are too much for me to comprehend so I resort to sitting back and accepting it as one of those things that make the country what it is…an upside down mess.
The most recent mess is […]

Often times we wonder why things seem to function so poorly in Egypt. Yea we know the government is ill equipped and poorly motivated but it goes way beyond that. Corruption saturates every level of existence and disturbs the most basic of societies needs.
I’ll tell you a story experienced first hand by a close friend […]