From the Economist…
Today, a blinkered visitor might choose to see nothing of Egypt but posh beach resorts and gleaming factories, and hear of little but strong economic growth and a stable, secular government committed to reform. In the Smart Village, a campuslike technology park on Cairo’s western outskirts, construction cranes glint in the mirrored glass [...]

Inspired by Duweiqa, Mado designed the poster below…

What is more telling about the nature of the regime in this country, when you get the presidentially-appointed members of the Upper House (yeah, the one that just went on fire), falling one after the other over corruption, murder and bribery… So after Mamdouh Ismail, you get Hisham Tala’at Mustafa and now business tycoon and [...]

Hisham Tala’at Mustafa, one of Jimmi’s associates and real estate billionaire, is to be prosecuted for mafia-style murder, causing a panic in Egypt’s stock market…

From AFP…
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak during talks with President Hosni Mubarak on Tuesday voiced rare praise for Egypt’s efforts to stem weapons smuggling into the Islamist-run Gaza Strip.
Barak hailed Egyptian efforts along the porous border which “have visibly been effective,” said a statement from the Israeli defense ministry after the talks at one of [...]

Maggie Michael reports…
A fire that gutted the upper house of parliament this week has fueled Egyptians’ scorn for their authoritarian government, with critics saying it is unable to protect its own buildings and maintain basic infrastructure.
Firefighters appeared ineffectual Tuesday as they battled the blaze raging through the top floors of the 19th-century palace that houses [...]

Hundreds of citizens stormed and smashed the offices of the police and private security at a south Cairo underground metro station Wednesday night after security assaulted a lawyer, el-Badeel reports…
Security personnel in the Dar Essalam Metro Station with the help of two Police Corporals beat a lawyer till he passed out. The citizens, thinking the [...]

Jimmi has joined the cyberspace, launching his own blog..! Comrade Gaber sends him greetings…

Comrade Gaber has some new Vodafone Mubarakfone advertisement posters ya shabab… Click below for more…

Mubarakfone… brings everyone together…

I received the following statement…
UK trade unionists, human rights campaigners call for release of Mahalla 49
A delegation of trade unionists and campaigners handed a petition to the Egyptian embassy in London today, 7 August, calling for the release of 49 Egyptian citizens facing trial in the Higher State Security Court on 9 August on charges [...]

Information about Mahalla and the Egyptian labor movement is available in German here and here, also available in Greek and Italian…