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Rashad رشاد

Published by Hossam el-Hamalawy June 25th, 2008 in Activism, Egypt مصر, Left يسار, Photos صور, Yemen

Demoralized by the failure of the 1977 Bread Intifada, and faced with an escalating witch-hunt campaign and purges by Sadat’s regime against leftists in the universities and civil service, thousands of Egyptian communists and radical nationalists left the country and sought refuge in Libya, Algeria, Iraq, Kuwait (yeah, believe it or not, Kuwait received tons of Egyptian communists back then!) and Yemen… Four months after my birth, my family left Egypt for Yemen in 1977, where we lived in Sana’a for two years. In the above photo, taken in 1978 or 1979, my father (on the left dancing while carrying a stick) is dressed together with an Egyptian friend in a Yemeni traditional costume, during a trip outside Sana’a. Below, is a pic of Hoss and Abu Hoss taken on 13 June 1979…

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1 s.a Jun 26th, 2008 at 12:22 am

you look exactly like u r mum! but i guess from what u r posting u inherited u r father personality and maybe u r mum also , i dont know ..bas the pictures are very funny although it was in very hard circumstances.
2 Jack Stephens Jun 26th, 2008 at 3:41 am

Awww…how cute habibi (not the situation of course, but your baby pic!).
3 Hossam el-Hamalawy Jun 26th, 2008 at 10:38 am
4 Sursock Jun 27th, 2008 at 2:47 pm

What are you doing with the toy plane… you little terrorist!
5 farfahinne Jun 27th, 2008 at 3:26 pm

hahahahahah…. the plane thing is very funny
6 Hossam el-Hamalawy Jun 27th, 2008 at 6:42 pm

I’m sure that will make them certain I’m involved in 9/11