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 […]

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 […]

I got a call late tonight from a friend asking, “is Hosni Mubarak dead?” I dont quite know where he got his information from but supposedly there is a rumor that Hosni..AKA “the Great Dictator” was airlifted to a hospital in Germany and that his fate is unknown and presumed dead!
Obviously the death of Mubarak […]

My fears for the future of Egypt are largely based on what might happen when Mubarak dies. I’m not a fortune teller or anything but if you look at history and the political landscape of opposition groups in Egypt its pretty obvious, it follows a very simple formula.
First you have a dictator who controls the […]