put a spell on you
My heart is torn between East and West. I live somewhere between the present and the past. I don't know who I am.
Just another human being biding their time on this earth. Passionate about current affairs, history, politics (particularly MENA region), religion, cute animals and food. Posts are mainly in English but I may post in Arabic/French/Turkish.
Disclaimer: All photographs on this blog do not belong to me but to their rightful owners unless otherwise stated. All efforts have been made to link the material back to its original source. Please drop me a message if you see any of your material and would like to have it removed!
Best video I’ve seen yet on sexual harassment in Egypt. The reactions of the harassers are priceless!
Hold your head up high and be proud of yourself, your gender and your right to walk freely in our male-dominated society. Don’t let the shame kill your voice, it is the harassers who should ashamed, it is they who should put their heads down. It may be YOU that allows the next sexual harasser to think twice before they lift a finger, throw a nasty comment or stare at you inappropriately. YOU may be the girl to change this. SPEAK UP!
Mosque in Giza - Cairo, Egypt
By: Ivan Serra
Graffiti in Cairo, Egypt by Bahia Shehab that reads:
“You can crush the flowers but you cannot delay the spring”
Warmness - taken in Mu’izz Street, Cairo, Egypt
By: Mohamed Kazzaz ( محمد القزاز ) on Flickr.
(via myeightcents)
Sunset in beautiful Cairo, Egypt. You can see the Pyramids of Giza in the distance. How I miss this place <3
Picture taken by @nazlyhussein at Corniche el-Maadi
Grafitti in Mohamed Mahmoud Street, Cairo, Egypt that reads:
“Beware when fighting monsters, lest you become one of them”
Photo: 3arabawy
Graffiti by Keizer in Cairo, Egypt. It was made as a result of brutal security forces being presented as “Snow Whites” in the Egyptian media after their attack on protesters earlier this year in May, 2012.
Graffiti by Keizer in Cairo, Egypt that reads:
“If you are not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem”
Graffiti by Keizer in Cairo, Egypt. Among the images stenciled by Keizer in public spaces in Egypt are images of ants. The artist writes on his website that ”The ant symbolizes the forgotten ones, the silenced, the nameless, those marginalized by capitalism. They are the working class, the common people, the colony that struggles and sacrifices blindly for the queen ant and her monarchy. Ants are devoted, dedicated workers. They cooperate, organize, delegate and put themselves first in the line of danger and duty. Under appreciated and ruled, they receive and expect no reward for their efforts, toil and struggle…”
NEW YORK – Frank Sinatra may have sung about waking up in “the city that never sleeps”, in his hit song “New York New York”, but that doesn’t mean the blue eyed charmer was correct.
The slogan seen in virtually every travel guide that colors New York city as “The City That Never Sleeps!” is more myth than fact.
In fact, there are 31 other cities around the world that head off New York City as the places were “living” carries on 24 hours around the clock 365 days of the year.
The busiest, always on the go, never a quiet moment city of them all is Cairo, Egypt, according to Badoo.com
Information gathered from 120 million chats posted by 120 million people from 188 different countries, lists Cairo as the city were people go to bed later than anywhere else in the world.
Lloyd Price, marketing director of Badoo, says that what they found is that people in New York City go to bed when people in Cairo are just getting ready for nightlife.
“In Cairo, people are happy they are alive. There are big changes lurking there,” Price said.
As for the country that never sleeps, Spain tops them all with six cities listed in the top 10.
According to Price, that is due to the fact that Spaniards have a different definition of what 8 hours sleep entails. For the common Spaniard, it’s staying up late, but sleeping during the day, what is known world wide as “siesta” time.
As for New York City, which placed 32nd on the list together with Montreal Canada, Palermo Italy and Marseille France, people who have been saying that the city is becoming more sterile and sleepier in recent years, are actually correct.
“For the true New Yorker, that may be a hard fact to accept,” says Price.
TOP 10 Cities That Are Awake The Longest:
1. Cairo – Egypt
2. Montevideo – Uruguay
3. Beirut – Lebanon
4. Malaga – Spain
5. Zaragoza – Spain
6. Madrid – Spain
7. Barcelona – Spain
8. Valencia – Spain
9. Seville – Spain
10. Buenos Aires – Argentina
As for world cities such as London, Paris and Rome, they showed up on spots 17, 18 and 27 respectively as “cities that never sleep”.
One more day to go…
By: Asim Bharwani (modenadude)
16 Months of Revolution - سنة ونصف من الثورة
A compilation of my photography from the ongoing Egyptian revolution. The slideshow mainly covers the bloody clashes of Mohamed Mahmoud street, Cabinet, Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Defence.
مجموعة من صوري خلال معارك الفترة الانتقالية ابتداءً من أحداث محمد محمود ومجلس الوزراء الى اشتباكات ما بعد مذبحة بورسعيد وانتهاءً بأحداث العباسية.
Great shots with excellent composition - they really capture the spirit of the protests but also the hardships we went through - those protests, especially M. Mahmoud were awfully bloody, innocent youths were being murdered before our very eyes and no one stood with us to support our cause. Painful memories but also ones that we must remember, for the sake of the martyrs and their families. Rest in peace brave souls <3
From a protest for martyrs’ families at Maspero, Cairo - June 2011.
By: Mosa’ab Elshamy
