AUC honors Mubarak’s police « 3arabawy
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AUC honors Mubarak’s police « 3arabawy
Not Always Right | Funny
Nadia the Skydiver « Inner Workings of My Mind
تصدعت المرآة: شارب الوغد

After 2 students at AUC dorm in Zamalek were diagnosed with H1N1, all the students at the dorm were quarantined and checked for the virus.
5 new cases have been identified as stated in the Straits Times. The nationalities of these students hasn't been identified.
Maybe now is the time to start talking serious preventive measures. Like washing hands with soap and water and maintaining basic hygience.

The Ministry of Health has confirmed 5 new cases of H1N1 virus in AUC Dorm in Zamalek :( So they are now 8 if we count the first two and the one who was being tested yesterday !! I think the results unfortunately came positive.
The minister of health will have a press conference at 3 pm CLT to address the issue.

Looks like the virus has entered the city, inspite of the thermal imaging and masks and gloves at the airport & the extermination of pigs. See H1N1 for reference.
2 American AUC Students were found to be infected and the whole dorm of 140 students has been put under quarantine. Reuters broke the story earlier today. Classes on the campus seem to have been suspended for a week.
This email was circulated to the students of AUC earlier this morning. (I have removed the email addresses to prevent them from bein...

The Years of Silence is now available in these bookstores in Cairo:
Diwan, Virgin Megastore, El-Shorouk, Omar bookstore, Sindbad, El-Balad, Afaaq, Madbouly, Madbouly Al-Sagheir, Rose Al-Yousef, Al-Arabi, Kotob Khan, Sanabel, BookSpot, Master's bookshop and AUC Bookstore.
In Alexandria, you can find my novel at Maarouf bookstore (San Stefano Mall); and soon at Clay Cafe and Al-Ramly bookshop (Green Plaza).
Soon in Mansoura, you can get "The Years of Silence" at Books and Beans.
If you happen to be outside Eg...

The AUC students may join the strike on the 6th of April in order to reduce the tuition fees they are paying currently. The private clinics across the country will be closed on the 6th  9th of April. This move is a part of larger protest the physicians in Egypt are currently carrying on to get their cadre. Sufi movements are against the Strike !! And since when they are involved in Politics!! A group of Egyptians in London will join the strike in their way , they will protest in fron

Covering the kidnapping - what we in the media called arrest - of Philip Rizk, an AUC student, blogger, freelance journalist, documentary filmmaker and Gaza activist was an interesting opportunity to see whether the mechanisms and processes I've identified in my research on cyberactivism actually exist, and to trace how and why my research findings may or may not play out in real life. In fact, being inside the Arab media is a interesting ethnographic exercise of participant observation - seeing how my new...

Covering the kidnapping - what we in the media called arrest - of Philip Rizk, an AUC student, blogger, freelance journalist, documentary filmmaker and Gaza activist was an interesting opportunity to see whether the mechanisms and processes I've identified in my research on cyberactivism actually exist, and to trace how and why my research findings may or may not play out in real life. In fact, being inside the Arab media is a interesting ethnographic exercise of participant observation - seeing how my new...