Feseekh is traditionally eaten especially during Shem el Nessim (smelling the breezes, same day as Coptic Easter). I first encountered it in my uncles house in Cairo -- I thought a rat must have died in his wall, but no, that was what was for dinner, and a smell very unlike breezes. A taste that I failed to acquire.

The simplest explanation? It's an Egyptian version of those Jesus or Einstein statues that follow you with your eyes-Maybe there was a shop in ancient Cairo where you could get one of these for your sand-fort.

Madness ~ Night Boat To Cairo has been added as a related post - related requested by chingalera on that post.

Reminds me quite a bit of Baggy Trousers, from their second album. I don't think I'd heard Night Boat to Cairo before.

Madness ~ Night Boat To Cairo has been added as a related post - related requested by oritteropo on that post.

Joris Luyendijk - They're just like people (2006)

"
In People Like Us, which became a bestseller in Holland, Joris Luyendijk tells the story of his five years as a correspondent in the Middle East. Extremely young for a correspondent but fluent in Arabic, he spoke with stone throwers and terrorists, taxi drivers and professors, victims and aggressors, and all of their families. He chronicles first-hand experiences of dictatorship, occupation, terror, and war. His stories cast light on a number of major crises, from the Iraq War to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, along with less-reported issues such as underage orphan trash-collectors in Cairo.

The more he witnessed, the less he understood, and he became increasingly aware of the yawning gap between what he saw on the ground and what was later reported in the media. As a correspondent, he was privy to a multitude of narratives with conflicting implications, and he saw over and over again that the media favored the stories that would be sure to confirm the popularly held, oversimplified beliefs of westerners. In People Like Us, Luyendijk deploys powerful examples, leavened with humor, to demonstrate the ways in which the media gives us a filtered, altered, and manipulated image of reality in the Middle East." -- amazon
http://www.amazon.com/People-Like-Us-Misrepresenting-Middle/dp/1593762569

I have no affiliation with the book, except to say I've read it and its amazing. Its brilliant at describing both the Palestinian and Israeli media extravaganza and what both sides do to get on the cover of time magazine. You'll be ashamed of the way our media forms us about the conflict and about the entire region and how wrong we all are.

The issues here are all wrong.

He's right about "Innocence of Muslims" looking like it was made by "Rank amateurs in a basement studio, no doubt it was. It's so bad that no one would ever have seen or heard of it, if it wasn't for the hoopla it caused. I never would have. Once I did, I sought it out and watched it. Well sort of.

First of all, the quality is garbage, something less than what we would expect from a YouTube video. Past that, The editing, the writing and the acting is terrible. It's confusing and hard to follow. In all honestly, I ended up skimming large parts of it because I didn't get the point. It's that bad.

What I don't understand is why the Muslim community felt this piece of crap video was worth killing people over? What they did was promote the film, and in doing so, brought fame to it. They are just as much to blame in the distribution of said offensive material.

So, some no name, never heard of before Egyptian born person (Nakoula Basseley Nakoula) creates a 14 minute anti-muslim video. Naakoula is a graduate of the Faculty of Arts at Cairo University. Born and educated over seas, he comes to the US and creates a video called "Innocence of Bin Laden" After the film is finished, in post production, he over-dubs all the audio and changes the title to Innocence of Muslims and changes the meaning of the film altogether.

Nakoula has been arrested for the "intent to manufacture methamphetamine" for which he did prison time. Then he pleaded no contest to federal charges of bank fraud as he opened fake bank accounts in order to defraud the banks out of as much as $800,000. He was a criminal with no scruples or morals.

He went out of his way to create this movie just to piss people off. He even claimed it was funded by $5 million collected from 100 Jewish donors, and that he was an Israeli-Jew.

So, what is my point? This piece of scum set out to create an incident and he succeeded.
The Muslim world over reacted and went "Bat-shit insane" (my words). In a fit of rage, they misplaced the blame on everyone associated with the West. They held protests in almost every major country in the world. They killed people and turned this into an international state of panic. "Oh poor us, don't criticize our Mohammad." (insert screams of "oh how could you" here) and ("The western world hates us - kill them now")

Now as a result, we, the people that didn't do anything, are being told we need to be more tolerant of the bat-shit crazy people and start educating ourselves more on their religion and watch more of their movies.

Now I have no issue educating myself on other cultures, in fact I find it interesting. But what I don't like being told is that us Westerners are part of the problem and that if we'd only have educated ourselves, this insensitivity wouldn't have happened. This is so absolutely false and absurd.

I know not all Muslims are "bat-shit crazy," but I didn't see any of them standing up and pointing their finger in the right direction (at some scumbag from Egypt).

As far as I am concerned this is what I see:
1). A scumbag needs to be deported for succeeding in inciting riots causing death.
2). People should be able to have their own opinions and be able to speak them in all areas concerning religion or their lack of faith in them.
3). the Muslim people who took part in the riots and killings should all be punished to the full extent of the law and be shamed by the rest of the people.
4). Muslim people need to get over themselves, learn to accept that their way isn't the only way and learn to "turn the other cheek". (And I use the term "their way" loosely because I don't think even they can even decide and agree on what the rules of their religion are.)

Man, that looks like a good time! I bet Westboro had a good time; you know they're all a bunch of "fags" on the inside.

Upvote for the guy eating the burrito with the "Millions of Damned Christians" shirt on. Subliminally, it was read in my mind as "Millions of Dead Christians" (after MDC the legendary punk band if you for some reason don't fucking get it) and I was like "Oh no he duh ehnt!" and rewound and saw that it was just "damned" haha! Awesome shirt regardless.

*Had a look at their wiki page and I guess they were never known as Millions of Dead Christians" but "damned" was one of them. Here's a list of what they went by and you'll see why I was confused:

Millions of Damn Christians
Multi-Death Corporation
Millions of Dead Children
Millions of Dead Chickens
Millions of Dead Congressmen
Millions of Dead Contractors
Marine Death Corps
Missile Destroyed Civilization
Metal Devil Cokes
Millions of Dead Capitalists
Mariah Death Cult
Misguided Devout/Damned Christians
My Dog Charley (Toronto, 1988)
MILFS Date Cougars
My Dead Child
Magnus Dominus Corpus (2004)
Male Dominated Culture
Millions Of Demonstrators in Cairo

Are you fucking out of your mind?

For every one of these idiots, I'm sure there are hundreds of people who are in the same situation but did not riot and loot. Fuck you idiot, people like you make me sick.

Stop giving these scum bags excuses.

Also Stop with your "Restrict Communications" crap. Twitter, Facebook are just a tool to communication, it's not stop your freedom of speech. Sheeesh...

What the fuck... Are you going to tell me if the internet or mobile services were down, revolution wouldn't happen in places like Cairo?!?! Are you some sort of idiot.



>> ^criticalthud:

Well he's right. they're morons and assholes.
but still, they are an end result of a more general shift in the overall satisfaction of the populace.
unemployment
bank bailouts
cut services
wealth gap
consumerism
war

On the subject of women in Cairo:
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/02/16/rogers.egypt.sexual.harrassment/index.html

>> ^Asmo:

>> ^Duckman33:
Let's not stick our nose into yet another country's business please.

Lemme see, were those M1 Abram's tanks rolling down the streets of Cairo?
Bit late imo...


They co-produced those with us, so they aren't "ours" really. Even if they were, they also have Nike's, which also doesn't matter.

>> ^Duckman33:

Let's not stick our nose into yet another country's business please.


Lemme see, were those M1 Abram's tanks rolling down the streets of Cairo?

Bit late imo...

From Wikipedia:

The 2011 Egyptian protests are a series of street demonstrations, protests, and civil disobedience acts that have been taking place in Egypt since 25 January 2011. The demonstrations and riots began in the weeks after the successful Tunisian uprising, and many protesters are carrying Tunisian flags as a symbol of their influence. Specific grievances have centered around legal and political as well as economic issues: police brutality, state of emergency laws, lack of free elections, corruption, restrictions on freedom of speech, high unemployment, low minimum wages, insufficient housing, food price inflation, and poor living conditions. Mohamed ElBaradei, seen as the most likely candidate for an interim presidency, called for the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak as a possible objective.

As of January 29, at least 95 protester deaths had been reported (27 in Suez, 23 in Alexandria, 45 in Cairo), along with 10 policemen. 750 policemen and 1,500 protesters have been injured. The capital city of Cairo has been described as "a war zone", and the port city of Suez has been the scene of frequent violent clashes. The Egyptian government has attempted to break up and contain protests using a variety of methods. Anti-riot police groups have been responding to areas with shields, rubber bullets, batons, water cannons, tear gas and, in some cases, live ammunition. For the most part, the protest response has been non-lethal, although there have been fatalities. The government turned off almost all Internet accessand imposed a curfew, claiming that minimizing disruption from the protests is necessary to maintain order and to prevent an uprising of fundamentalist Islamic groups.

International response to the protests has generally been supportive with most governments and organizations calling for non-violent responses on both sides and peaceful moves towards reform. The protests have captured worldwide attention due to the increasing integration of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other social media platforms that have allowed activists and onlookers to communicate, coordinate, and document the events as they occur. As the level of publicity has increased, the Egyptian government has made increasing efforts to limit internet access, especially to social media. On the eve of major planned protests on Friday, 28 January, a nationwide internet and mobile phone "blackout" began, though before dawn the following morning it was reported that the blackout for cell phones had ended.

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>> ^ghark:

Racism... check
Agenda pushing.....check
Quality? not so much


So much quality.