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As a nation we may well feel like we are
and yet ...
Unless we 'go it' we might as well consider all who perished in the name of the revolution to be forgotten.
The revolution awakened the proverbial lotus eaters and there is no sedative powerful enough to revert the awakening and yet the lotus flowers and fruits continue to present themselves in different, glorified hues~ Army/ MB/ more Army, more MB. Depending on how the wind blows, both cling on~ tooth and nail. A modern-day Greek tragedy enfolds daily for President Morsy and the Muslim Brotherhood as it did for Mubarak and the ruling Military personnel not so long ago.
But catharsis is no where in sight.
Can we really find ourselves secure in a land where the army and the police serve the people rather than rule them?
Is to abide by the MB and their more often than not unsavoury ideas of reform our only other option?
Can the MB ever be fully integrated into a multi-ethnic society? How much do we as a people truly value our ethinicities?
Our daily rhetoric of hurling abuse one way or another continues to keep us all on a loop and in dire turmoil.
But expression and reaction is all Egypt has if it is to burrow its way through dictatorship into some kind of democracy. Despite a growing apathy it appears to be in it for the long haul.
Hapless and helpless, we attempt to hold onto perspective.
Blindfolds to past and future are meted out by those taking control, but there can be no blocking out the train wreck of debilitating economy.
There is no quick fix. With former regime creeping back steadily, there is a sense of dread; betrayal of those who perished in the name of the revolution accompanied by the ever hollow 'i told you so' lashed out by a considerable number who never felt the fine spirit stir in their soul in the first place. And yet, handing complete control to present regime appears similarly inexpedient with backstage cues churning more and more restlessness in a setting so gnawed and severely compromised.
"Why Khairat El-Shater is the most important figure in the Muslim Brotherhood for more than five decades
His profile, which combines wealth with power never existed before in
the Brotherhood’s history and as one insider put it: seems fitting the
Gamal Mubarak era."
"Speaking in a slightly high-pitched voice, El-Shater claimed that Brotherhood has a “comprehensive” vision to rebuild Egypt and achieve its “renaissance” on the “basis of an Islamic frame of reference” but right now, the focus was on “the security vacuum and saving the economy”." Read more: http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/37993/Egypt/Politics-/Meet-the-Brotherhood%E2%80%99s-enforcer-Khairat-ElShater.aspx
The fear is that given too much rope, 'behind the scenes' policies of either of those controling regimes will make the struggle towards democracy increasingly complex, remote, unachievable.
Distancing ourselves and refuting every beckoning lotus bloom is a people's way of continuing to adamantly say a bold 'NO' until dawn can deliver the promise of daylight.
*Here Noha Fikry hums the 'Mr.Sandman' tune and delivers a message with an assured clarity, both in Arabic and in English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSiVFvtGy-E
There is no need for abuse, no need for violence, no need for debate. With hardship at every corner and multiplying, the struggle is dead in its tracks. Perhaps the two major parties are locked in battle but can either of them really deliver what Egypt has been fighting for?
EGYPT continues to say NO
*with thanks to Noha Fikry
*'Faces Divided'posted on Facebook, artist unknown.
As a nation we may well feel like we are
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Anonymous ART of Revolution |
Unless we 'go it' we might as well consider all who perished in the name of the revolution to be forgotten.
 |
Anonymous ART of Revolution |
But catharsis is no where in sight.
Can we really find ourselves secure in a land where the army and the police serve the people rather than rule them?
Is to abide by the MB and their more often than not unsavoury ideas of reform our only other option?
 |
| Faces Divided* |
Our daily rhetoric of hurling abuse one way or another continues to keep us all on a loop and in dire turmoil.
But expression and reaction is all Egypt has if it is to burrow its way through dictatorship into some kind of democracy. Despite a growing apathy it appears to be in it for the long haul.
Hapless and helpless, we attempt to hold onto perspective.
 |
Anonymous ART of Revolution |
Blindfolds to past and future are meted out by those taking control, but there can be no blocking out the train wreck of debilitating economy.
There is no quick fix. With former regime creeping back steadily, there is a sense of dread; betrayal of those who perished in the name of the revolution accompanied by the ever hollow 'i told you so' lashed out by a considerable number who never felt the fine spirit stir in their soul in the first place. And yet, handing complete control to present regime appears similarly inexpedient with backstage cues churning more and more restlessness in a setting so gnawed and severely compromised.
"Why Khairat El-Shater is the most important figure in the Muslim Brotherhood for more than five decades
 |
| Muslim Brotherhood |
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| Khairat El-Shater |
"Speaking in a slightly high-pitched voice, El-Shater claimed that Brotherhood has a “comprehensive” vision to rebuild Egypt and achieve its “renaissance” on the “basis of an Islamic frame of reference” but right now, the focus was on “the security vacuum and saving the economy”." Read more: http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/37993/Egypt/Politics-/Meet-the-Brotherhood%E2%80%99s-enforcer-Khairat-ElShater.aspx
The fear is that given too much rope, 'behind the scenes' policies of either of those controling regimes will make the struggle towards democracy increasingly complex, remote, unachievable.
 |
Anonymous ART of Revolution |
*Here Noha Fikry hums the 'Mr.Sandman' tune and delivers a message with an assured clarity, both in Arabic and in English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSiVFvtGy-E
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| Mr. Morsy |
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| Badee3 |
There is no need for abuse, no need for violence, no need for debate. With hardship at every corner and multiplying, the struggle is dead in its tracks. Perhaps the two major parties are locked in battle but can either of them really deliver what Egypt has been fighting for?
EGYPT continues to say NO
*with thanks to Noha Fikry
*'Faces Divided'posted on Facebook, artist unknown.
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