بيان الجيش لا يعنى ان الجيش سيتدخل لصالح طرف دون الآخر فى هذه المعادلة.. بالعكس هو حاسبها صح.. كل واحد هيفسر كل جزء على مزاجه لكن علينا تحليله فى شكل متكامل:
1. احنا مع الشعب... والارادة الشعبية.. وهنا اى ارادة يتحدث عنها.. ارادة الصناديق ام ارادة الشارع؟
2. الجيش فى الوضع الراهن يحتاج لمثل هذه البيانات حتى يظل وحدة متماسكة داخليا.. وده اهم حاجة.
3. الرسالة واضحة ان التهديدات التى تروع المواطن او الافعال التى يمكن ان تؤدى الى اقتتال داخلى + اهانة الجيش موجهة لطرف واحد وليس الجميع.. عدا موضوع الاهانة لانه يشمل الكل
4. على الرغم من كلام الست باترسون الا ان كل المؤشرات منذ احداث الاتحادية الاولى فى خضم معركة لا للاعلان الدستورى تشير الى عدم ممانعة الادارة الامريكية والكونجرس على تولى الجيش مقاليد الامور فى مصر لمرحلة انتقالية اخرى لحين ان تهدأ الامور..
5. الجيش بيلعبها صح.. خليهم فى المقدمة .. فشل ذريع.. زيادة حنق المواطن العادى .. لما طنطاوي طلع وقال نعمل استفتاء على استمرار تولى الجيش امور البلاد ما كانش بيهرتل.. الناس دى عندها اجهزة واحنا فى دولة وبالتالى فى تحليلات واستطلاعات راى على اسس علمية مش بهلوانية زى المرشد واصحابه..لذلك هم على دراية ان غالبية الشعب اليوم سيؤيد وجود الجيش وعودته مرة اخرى للخروج من الكابوس اللى اتحطينا فيه بسببهم برضه بس الوجوه اتغيرت من المشير الى الفريق..
6. النهاردة لو سالنا الشارع عاوز الجيش لما هيصدق وبالتالى الحالمين من الثوار او المدعين ثورة المطالبين بخروج الجيش من المعادلة اة تخيلهم ان مرسي قدر يخلص على دور الجيش وان ممكن مرة اخرى المطالبة بديمقراطيه حقيقية مدنية على غرار الدول الاخرى والخروج من اسر الدولة المركزية التى انشأها محمد على ستظل اضغاث احلام فى الوقت الراهن .. ليس لاننا غير مؤهلين للديمقراطية ولكن لان المشهد السياسى المصرى عبثى ولم تعى الاطراف العجوزة التى تدير مقاليد الامور فى كافة التيارات السياسية وليس الاخوان فقط ان الوضع فى مصر يقتضى التعاون وليس الاقصاء.. نحن دولة الفرعون ولكن فى مرحلة المماليك الانتقالية حيث كانت تشهد مصر تغييرا لحكامها كما نغير ملابسنا...
7. فى نهاية المطاف .. الشعب .. اى الشارع هو الذى سيسود حتى لو كان تحركه ليس على هوانا.. وبالجهل والفقر والانحدار الموجود .. لا يزال لدى الشعب المصرى رمق فى تغيير المسار والانتصار على الجميع.. لقد اهتم الجميع بالانقضاض على السلطة دون دراية بان السلطة فى مصر صعبة ولا يمكن توليها بالاعتماد على الخارج فقط أو بتجاهل تأثيره.. لن يرتضى الشعب المصرى بشوفنيته ومشاكله سوى حاكم وسطى ينظر الى الفقير فى هذه المرحلة قبل الغنى.. ومهما طال الزمن سينتصر الشعب.
Sunday, June 23, 2013
Friday, June 21, 2013
feeling normal as women
it is amazing how we forget that walking in the streets for women can be a normal daily business without harassment. Those of us who travelled a lot or used to travelling then reside in Egypt for sometime forget how is it to be normal..
something was never worth reflecting on... all through our lives when we were kids in Egypt, discrimination was part of the upbringing.. all the time you are reminded that you are a girl and that you should be dressed properly... you should behave, you should talk properly and if a visitor is coming to the house you have to be in an appropriate attire... some of these rules are also imposed on boys but others are lax...
so, anyways... after being in Cairo long enough in the recent years, my friend Marwa and I are travelling and we are in different countries but in the northern hemisphere. We were chatting the other day and she said it was so nice to walk in the streets normally like before... so my response was we have forgotten how is it to be normal... isn’t that true.. probably those of us who are brought up in the same manner will relate to that so much.. probably also, those women who were brought up in Egypt and never travelled either can relate to this...
the difference in the streets of Egypt today in comparison to our childhood is the hostile atmosphere women sense when they are walking or driving.... it is not only about hissing and verbal or sexual harassment and abuse in the streets.. but also the sense of freedom of walking without being monitored..
one thing that used to bother me a lot recently that people in the streets or even in shops doubt that i am not Egyptian, some even start to talk to me in English.. at the entrance of some places, like museums, they insist to see my ID.. although of course i speak in our dialect..even when i walk with foreign friends, they speak to them in Arabic and to me in English... it is really something bothersome to me... i am Egyptian from tip to toe!! so, in a discussion with a friend, reflecting on why i am doubted as a foreigner... he said.. your haircut, the way you dress and the way you walk and perceive yourself with confidence is not usual or normal for females here.. so, i started to watch women coming out of the TV building.. that is the closest working spot to my mum’s place... here is what i have realized.. apart from the hijab.. which is understandable and apart from the poor taste in colour combinations.. women walk in themselves.. very difficult to describe, but they walk as if they should hide.. they walk slowly.. regardless of the fact that many dress up so prudently and in wide clothes, they still want to hide... as if they feel they are not meant to be in the public sphere.. i am talking about working women not even housewives whose husbands might be intimidating them in order to make sure that they know that their role is to hide.. maybe that also explains why some women won’t have a problem to hide their faces.. this is part and parcel of the equation and the psychological build up of females in the society.. so, if you are walking in self confidence.. as we say open to the world without fear.. then you are not an Egyptian.. if you walk fast in a steady step and you don’t look lost .. then you are not one either.. this is really sad.. and i am not sure that any of the rhetoric coming from the books of Elbanna on women that found its way to school books now will assist at all to make the community accept women as members of the community and not the slaves of the community that have to hide and only serve... i.e. for women to just feel normal again as a human being!
something was never worth reflecting on... all through our lives when we were kids in Egypt, discrimination was part of the upbringing.. all the time you are reminded that you are a girl and that you should be dressed properly... you should behave, you should talk properly and if a visitor is coming to the house you have to be in an appropriate attire... some of these rules are also imposed on boys but others are lax...
so, anyways... after being in Cairo long enough in the recent years, my friend Marwa and I are travelling and we are in different countries but in the northern hemisphere. We were chatting the other day and she said it was so nice to walk in the streets normally like before... so my response was we have forgotten how is it to be normal... isn’t that true.. probably those of us who are brought up in the same manner will relate to that so much.. probably also, those women who were brought up in Egypt and never travelled either can relate to this...
the difference in the streets of Egypt today in comparison to our childhood is the hostile atmosphere women sense when they are walking or driving.... it is not only about hissing and verbal or sexual harassment and abuse in the streets.. but also the sense of freedom of walking without being monitored..
one thing that used to bother me a lot recently that people in the streets or even in shops doubt that i am not Egyptian, some even start to talk to me in English.. at the entrance of some places, like museums, they insist to see my ID.. although of course i speak in our dialect..even when i walk with foreign friends, they speak to them in Arabic and to me in English... it is really something bothersome to me... i am Egyptian from tip to toe!! so, in a discussion with a friend, reflecting on why i am doubted as a foreigner... he said.. your haircut, the way you dress and the way you walk and perceive yourself with confidence is not usual or normal for females here.. so, i started to watch women coming out of the TV building.. that is the closest working spot to my mum’s place... here is what i have realized.. apart from the hijab.. which is understandable and apart from the poor taste in colour combinations.. women walk in themselves.. very difficult to describe, but they walk as if they should hide.. they walk slowly.. regardless of the fact that many dress up so prudently and in wide clothes, they still want to hide... as if they feel they are not meant to be in the public sphere.. i am talking about working women not even housewives whose husbands might be intimidating them in order to make sure that they know that their role is to hide.. maybe that also explains why some women won’t have a problem to hide their faces.. this is part and parcel of the equation and the psychological build up of females in the society.. so, if you are walking in self confidence.. as we say open to the world without fear.. then you are not an Egyptian.. if you walk fast in a steady step and you don’t look lost .. then you are not one either.. this is really sad.. and i am not sure that any of the rhetoric coming from the books of Elbanna on women that found its way to school books now will assist at all to make the community accept women as members of the community and not the slaves of the community that have to hide and only serve... i.e. for women to just feel normal again as a human being!
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