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Gayyash Al 'Aatifa: November 2005
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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Wednesday, November 30, 2005. The Reveries of a Fatalist. La Ilaha Illa Lahmatkhallasna ya 3am Yaseen, said the young guy (for God’s sake, 3amm Yaseen, just get on with it). The visitor chuckled and threw the young man a bemused look. Wana3mellak eh ya 3amm Yaseen, manta mokhak fawwett khalaas, the young guy replied (you’re losing it already, 3amm Yaseen, so don’t be giving me shit). The old man turned to me, likely drawn by my presumptuously friendly smirk, da K omaha!
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Gayyash Al 'Aatifa: July 2005
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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Saturday, July 30, 2005. I told him that was a mean thing to say and that it was a lovely car that has treated me well and taken my abuse for years and that it was still running fine. He said no no, it's not about that. "Ya beih aslaha lamo2akhza mish mashya ma3al hay2a keda." That is, it didn't jive with the overall. I asked "what hay2a, to be exact? Need 'deserve' a better car. He said "Ya beih enta terkab keda Nubeira". I asked why and his face turned poetic again as ...
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Gayyash Al 'Aatifa: December 2005
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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Wednesday, December 28, 2005. Mahmoudeya Canal, Summer '96. Posted by Gayyash at 3:50 PM. Sunday, December 25, 2005. Yadi-k Kosoof / Ya Lahwi Ya Lahwi. Posted by Gayyash at 5:51 PM. Snug, We Are Taught. Posted by Gayyash at 5:48 PM. New bride’s trousseau on dis. Play The large black object above the woman’s head is a speaker box; the yellow thing on the pillow pyramid is a frightened-looking stuffed bear. Was he referring to Egyptians in general or just these urban baladi.
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Gayyash Al 'Aatifa: March 2006
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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Wednesday, March 29, 2006. Law Lam Akon, Lawadidt. Posted by Gayyash at 5:37 PM. Posted by Gayyash at 5:31 PM. Monday, March 27, 2006. When you turn to walk away and find that you're stepping on your kitten or that you've flung it across the room, there is a feeling of horror at having kicked the thing. But deep down it also flatters, that the cat's followed you despite your indifference, or that something chooses to follow you at all. Posted by Gayyash at 9:48 PM. I eas...
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Gayyash Al 'Aatifa: October 2005
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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Friday, October 21, 2005. My 5 year-old cousin is in his second year at a supposedly high-end school called the House of English. Guess what langauge he doesn't speak, save the few words and phrases he's gleaned from the cartoons, nursery rhymes and story books at home? My uncle should storm the school administration. "raga3ooly floosy w-hato el wad ya kaddabeen ya fashala," (gimme back my money and my kid, you lying fools! Posted by Gayyash at 3:15 PM. Its unmistakeable...
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Gayyash Al 'Aatifa: July 2006
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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Thursday, July 13, 2006. When History Talks in its Sleep, Say On Leadership. A recent news item from the BBC:. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said his controversial kissing of a boy on the stomach was just a spontaneous gesture of affection. Mr Putin came across Nikita, five, in the Kremlin last week, lifted up his T-shirt and suddenly kissed him. The kiss - shown on Russian television - triggered huge public interest. The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) had a...
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Gayyash Al 'Aatifa: April 2006
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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Tuesday, April 04, 2006. Posted by Gayyash at 7:05 PM. Notes on the various phenomena to which one Cairo resident frequently overreacts. View my complete profile. London Review of Books. Rethinking Education and Development. Abul Leil's foul-mouthed indignations. Baheyya's dedicated mazag blog. Cairo (Masr el Gedida) Jester. Morning run, Boston. The Land of Milk and Play. A Shot At My Foot. For the Sake of Posting. Gayyash Abducted in India. Fuul on Safeya Zaghloul.
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Gayyash Al 'Aatifa: February 2006
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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Monday, February 27, 2006. When Alley Cats Chat. After Eight, the club, lends its name to an ahwa (coffeshop) and the alley that runs between Kasr El Nil and Mohammed Bassiouni streets. In there you can buy flowers and a mobile phone, check your email, photocopy your ID, mend clothes, iron them, smoke shisha, drink tea and eat fuul. There is also home-style food, over at Om Dahab's little stall. I sat and waited next to the man from. Ana maleesh 7ad wa-leyy amri hena tes...
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Gayyash Al 'Aatifa: January 2006
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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Monday, January 30, 2006. Posted by Gayyash at 10:15 PM. I won't call them 3arab, 3iraqis or Muslims until they start acting like it. Until then they're A-rabs, I-raqis and. Gifted Maadi love poet and notorious discursive thug; American master of Egyptian bedaanisms, Egyptian champion of the personal space cause; connoisseur of the popular and the posh in food, etc. Posted by Gayyash at 2:26 PM. Monday, January 23, 2006. Posted by Gayyash at 3:42 PM. El 3eed Far7a, Hei!
