Tweet On Friday February 19, the long anticipated Airplane of Mr Mohamed El Baradei finally landed at the Egyptian International Airport. About 1000 Egyptians well wishers supporters and political leaders (thousands of state securities) were allowed inside the Airport waiting area to great him. This skimpy crowd not a promising start for Mr. Baradie, the only potential presidential candidate to challenge the well entrenched Egyptian president Mubarak, who has been ruling Egypt under Marshal law for almost 3 decades and has no attention for leaving power. So what is to expect of the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mr El Baradei spent most of his life outside…
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It takes a Muslim village to bury a Christian family
Tweet I was standing at the Muslim cemetery located in a remote corner of a cemetery in Burnsville as we were mourning the death of one our friends. In the United States, unlike in European Muslim “ghettos”, the members of the integrated Muslim-American community are very much free to choose where they want to live, and actually do live just about everywhere in the state of Minnesota; however, with our dead ones, we only have one choice. The Muslim “ghetto” grave is usually located inside a remote section of an existing Christian cemetery. I never understood the religious proximity taboo between the Muslim and Christian dead, and no amount of…
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My life in 20 seconds
Tweethttp://www.youtube.com/get_player I knew journalism in Egypt was dangerous, but this was so close…. , covering my village story in Egypt it has its drama, not just finding the Coptic family history in my village but being washed away in the flood in Sinai …