Shall we play fair?



A great book by Steve Turner

I make castles           You be ghost

I kick football            You be post

I play teacher            You be taught.

I play crime squad     You be caught.

I play tag chase    You be it.

I play kick box     You be hit.

I play hero           You be man.

I play film star       You play fan.

I play farmer         You be pig.

I play doctor         You be sick.

I play leader          You be led

I play soldier         You play dead.

Libya now by Carlos Latuff

Media...what media?

Tonight at 10 pm Cairo time (9 pm GMT), there will be an electronic protest on line against military trails for civilians in Egypt. As I was thinking about this today, I found this website Cartoon Movement by Khalid Albaih. The media is playing a very big role around us everywhere and especially with the Arab Spring in 2011. Here are 2 images from Khalid site on the media role. I am off to catch up with the online protest!

Yacoubian Building

This is the trailer for "Yacoubian building" movie, with the biggest budget ever in the history of the Egyptian cinema. It is based on the best selling novel under the same name by Alaa Al Aswany. I watched the movie and it is very brave attempt to address the changes in the Egyptian society. The fiction in this movie is so real that makes it scary to watch knowing the level of corruption, the secretes, the link between religion and politics and the huge gap between the rich and the poor. Great movie and I am surprised that it was released for public viewing in the first place.