وصلة العدد الأول

www.wasla.anhri.
net

- 2010 1
3/25/2010 2:54:08 PM
wasla issue 1.indd 1
2010
www.wasla.anhri.net
2008

www.wasla.anhri.net
wasla@anhri.net
10 :
5
+223964058 :
!.
2010/18364 :
.

.

.

.
( )
.www.wasla.anhri.net
- -
:
:
- .
3/25/2010 2:54:18 PM
( )

2010
www.wasla.anhri.net
..

15 19
2009
- -
500
18 2009

19
11 2009
500 19478 2009

18
.

6.

waelabbasday# /
@asadx
@gharbeia

83
waelabbasday#
waelabbasday#

26
( )
2009

.

1
http://tinyurl.com/yd55akl
3/25/2010 2:54:24 PM
6 500

.

( 200 ).
11
8

5 .
()
http://tiny.cc/1bRNX
http://jesuisamazigh.blogspot.com/
4
http://maghrebblog.maktoobblog.com/
FREE MOROCO BLOGGER
'' ''4
2010
www.wasla.anhri.net
...

.

200
...
2005
.....
..
...

.
. :
..
.
:
1-
http://demaghmak.blogspot.com

2-
3- :
-
-
2011

-
-
.

- . .
.
.

. ()
.
.
.

:
1-
500
2-
3-
..
. - -
:
tota
... ...
... ..
3/25/2010 2:54:31 PM
http://tinyurl.com/yab6a4j
2010
www.wasla.anhri.net
[ ]1
.
- 1

http://tahyyes.blogspot.com
.
.
:

:

.

- 2

.

.

76 77
.
[ ]1

.
.
5 .
.

.

:
http://tinyurl.com/yal3t38
,,
http://bit.ly/dAkBG8
2009
..
( ) .

,
(
) (
)

3/25/2010 2:54:39 PM

:
http://tinyurl.com/yzhcfjy

http://flavors.me/bokra
2010
www.wasla.anhri.net
!
26

...
http://kashfun.blogspot.com
..

end of cooperation
Sent:Tuesday, January 26, 2010 9:06:47
AM
Dear Amira,
! 26 2010

Due to unfortunate publications on

2009

22 2009
- 14 2009
1993
!) .
- -
!.
: t
. :
...
- (
..
...
- -
!

http://bit.ly/aPFzQ7
your part about Radio Netherlands Worldwide, we have no other choice but to stop
- 2
our cooperation. After a column on the
RNW website you did not agree with, you

http://bit.ly/dv2wUe

. :
( )
1985
2997

2000
- 3

started a <campaign> against RNW on Facebook and in Egyptian newspapers. In

those publications we see a total lack of
commitment to RNW on your part, and
that has resulted in a lack of trust on our
part.
In our telephone conversation last
week, you said explicitly you felt no commitment to RNW, only to your readers in
Egypt. Therefore we see no basis for cooperation any more, as I told you by telephone.
On our request, you already stopped
writing articles (as was discussed with
you by Mohammed Abdulrahman on December 27 by telephone) and on January
18 I asked you to stop translating immediately. We will not reduce your salary,
but we will pay you the normal amount for
the months of December and January.
We do ask you to return the RNW laptop
and token. I will ask our IT department to
contact you about this. Of course, RNW
will pay the costs involved.
http://bit.ly/bUamZf
They said it is just a translation for an old
7 2009 -
Wish you well for the future,
Chinese ad. and the only source for this
Kind regards,
!was Soaad AbdelRasoul herself

-
Ardi Bouwers
( .

( 2009
28 . 2009
- )
2005
http://bit.ly/bE9OL7
Deputy editor-in-chief Radio Nether-
lands Worldwide
!:
http://bit.ly/99eTIy

:
http://tinyurl.com/y9jnx69

25
. 26
[ ]1

20
2009
. 4
- -
[]2
[ ]3
19
3/25/2010 2:54:45 PM
1
http://tinyurl.com/y9k4vaw
2
http://tinyurl.com/ybs6qkf
3
http://tinyurl.com/y9a7q4z
2010
.. ..
250

:
http://tinyurl.com/yccwx7j

Micro bloging

SMS

MSN Messneger, Yahoo Messenger, Google
Talk
.

2006
obvious

...
...
...
...
140
www.wasla.anhri.net
2006 2007
Obvious
.Twitter 2009

.

? What are you doing

140

.

. RSS

2008
( )
2008
600
2007
2010 50
!!
http://elbiar.jeeran.com

....
...
!!!
Arrrested
...
3/25/2010 2:54:49 PM

:
http://tiny.cc/7yLlg

Twitter

.
2010
www.wasla.anhri.net
:
-

/
.
http://egytimes.org
[]2
50
60
15
..
15

..

35
70
-:
-:
69
3/12/2009
!!
-:
22
...
. :
http://tinyurl.com/ylph6bz
( 49635 2009
2590 ) 2009

1-
60 40

18 !!

-:
3/25/2010 2:54:54 PM
[]3
69
!! ..

3/12 5/12
2 -12 3

[]4
2010
www.wasla.anhri.net
..
[ ]5
..
35
!!

..

( )

.

:
http://tiny.cc/AhP86
2

:
:
4
wael elmaghreby
!!!
HASSAN

..
!!!

15
[ ]1
3/25/2010 2:55:02 PM
[ ]2

[ :]1
http://ebfhr.blogspot.com
[ :]2
http://www.afteegypt.org/
10
2010
www.wasla.anhri.net
15 :

. !

( 10 9 -)
: 1957
1986
http://tinyurl.com/ydc7zpn
- .
- . .

2009
http://bathish-bathish.blogspot.com
. ..

50 !
- ..

( )
( )
- . .
.
- . . .
. .

..

:
1998
..
96

. .
- . .
- . . .
-.
920 /

22

- . .
- . .
.
- . . .
1914 .
. . .

. :
.

(1913).
3/25/2010 2:55:11 PM
[ ]1 :
http://saltowayyah.katib.org/
[ ]2 :
http://tinyurl.com/yl9n885
2010
www.wasla.anhri.net
11
.

.
http
://em
raam
ethly
a.blo
gspo
t.com
...
...
...
...
...
....
....
Anonymous said
Anonymous said

[.]19:

( )

. :

) :

(
:

Anonymous said
Anonymous said

:
:

: :
.
: .

Jakline Lebanon

:
http://bit.ly/b3u6kM
3/25/2010 2:55:21 PM
12
2010
www.wasla.anhri.net
http://mabadali.blogspot.com
.
.
@AmrEzzat
.
.
:
http://tinyurl.com/ydwtnav
http://nournour.blogspot.com

:
http://tinyurl.com/yatqrmo
:
hartaka

):
..

!!

):
...
..
..
.. ..
..

..

..
3/25/2010 2:55:27 PM

http://www.mos3abof.com

.
..

:
!

:
http://bit.ly/aYM3tK
2010
www.wasla.anhri.net
.Ibn Rushed
..
..
..

.. .. ..
13
http://shababshow.blogspot.com

.. ..

..

5
-..
..
:

..
-

Haytham Alsayes
.. ..

....
..
..
....
..
.. !!

..
...
..
...
.. : ..
.. ..
...
..
..
..

:
http://tinyurl.com/yjfvtgk
.. ..

http://tinyurl.com/yehe2c7
.. ..

.2 :
. .

.
.

.
. .

...
.

:
.

. .
. .
..

..
3/25/2010 2:55:32 PM
..
..
) ..
http://yabahr.blogspot.com
[ !]

.

.

:
http://tinyurl.com/yjhv2uv
www.wasla.anhri.net
Flaxing muscles
2010
14
Sarah Carr is one of the leading names within the Egyptian
Tanta Flex and Oil company workers who have been left with no
blogosphere. Her blog, Inanities, is well known for covering dif-
source of income since January, and have been staging a sit-in, in
ferent political and social current issues taking place in Egypt.
front of the Ministerial Cabinet HQ, Downtown Cairo, the latest
In this post, Carr, also a journalist and an activist, writes about
in a series of workers protests since mid-2004.
Inanities Blog
http://tiny.cc/aSGBF
I went to a sit-in today in downtown Cairo
which has informed their whole lives; the idea
by workers from the Tanta Flax and Oils Com-
that the state will protect them. Privatisation of
pany[2]. About 350 men have been sleeping on
these mens factories is a multi-pronged attack.
the pavement there since Monday, in the cold,
On their security, their livelihoods, sometimes
because theyd like to be able to feed their fami-
their pride and always the belief system which
lies, and sometimes wages dont come without a
has underpinned their whole existence.
fight. Its the usual story[3]: public sector compa-
Times and economies change and thats life,
ny is privatized and sold off. Investor buys it (at a
some argue. There are always victims on the road
huge discount) and then proceeds to slowly and
to progress. Alas these victims are often steam-
systematically dismantle it with a view to selling
rollered multiples times by this progress. Tanta
the land on which the factory stands and making
workers have been battling for almost a year for
a tidy profit.
basic entitlements. What they want now is either
The only problem is that new investors are
for their factory to work properly (raw supplies
contractually under an obligation to protect the
arent being renewed and machinery is being
workers who come as part of the package, which
removed, they say preventing them from work-
means that they cant just sack them, shut up
ing) or for them to be made redundant with the
shop and walk happily into the sunset, pockets
severance pay they are legally entitled to. The
bulging. One common strategy is to force work-
company is doing neither.
ers out on early retirement, another to make life
It has offered them half of the sum workers
as intolerable as possible (especially for those
believe they are entitled to as redundancy pay.
active in defending workers rights) in the hope
Workers have recently been informed that they
that they will quit of their own accord. The re-
wont be being paid Januarys salaries because
sults are invariably a reduced, and demoralized
they havent been working (they were on strike).
workforce.
Yesterday, as workers were thinking about put-
While Egypts steady privatization has made
ting up a tent to shelter them from the cold secu-
it a star pupil with the World Bank, these policies
rity officers stormed their gathering attacking
are far from popular amongst the people they
four workers in an attempt to get to activists
most directly affect, as it well known. I spoke to
from the Tadamon[4] [Solidarity] group who
one worker today who told me that he had the op-
have been supporting the workers. You can see a
tion of joining a private firm but opted for Tanta
video[5] of the arrest of the activists here. They
(when it was still government-owned) because
were subsequently released shortly afterwards.
the state protects me in a way private companies
I went back the same evening and workers
wont. Tanta workers are not the first formerly
told me that theyre not intimidated. But they
public sector workers I have spoken to who reject
also said that this is because this protest is their
the idea that the government doesnt owe them
resort: theres nothing else they can do after this,
anything after the integration of their company
and how can they go back to their families and
into the private sector. In fact, several such work-
the factory and Tanta having failed?
ers I spoke to continued to refer to themselves as

public sector employees.
Im poorly equipped to discuss with authority the economic merits or otherwise of Egypts
I had left the sit-in shortly before the attack

happened, and encountered another of Egypts
odd moments of irony. As I walked away, wondering whether Egypts government is in
privatization process, but its effects as I have
professional training for the Screwing Over
witnessed them have largely been extremely
Your Own People Olympics or just doing it for fun,
negative. And certainly the trickle-down ben-
I walked onto Qasr El-Eini and found it empty. Big
efits lauded by the architects of this process has
men in suits and shades carrying machine guns
yet to be felt amongst the majority of Egyptians.
in 4x4s were parked on the side of the road, wait-
But I really understood as I spoke to workers to-
ing to escort out parliamentarians. Behind them
day that the privatization process is an affront
a sea of cars, ordinary Egyptians, were being held
to some workers not merely because it (usually)
up. Without wishing to labour the image you get
impoverishes them and threatens their working
the idea walking along, the workers chants still
futures. On an ideological level, men in their 40s,
audible behind me, it felt like yet another huge
50s and 60s are bearing witness to the tearing
Up Yours from the men in charge.
down of the last remaining vestiges of a legacy
[1] http://tiny.cc/0iifH
[4] http://tiny.cc/O6Waw
[2] Writer refers to an article by herself
[5] The video of the arrest of activists on
published in the Daily News, February 10,
You tube: http://tiny.cc/BlOlY
2010, titled (Protesting Tanta Flax workers continue sit-in in front of Cabinet)
http://tiny.cc/TONNO
[3] Carr referring to a former post by
Comments:
herself titled (Indo Drama) on Shibeen

El-Koum spinning factory workers who
have been on strike last March,2009
Scribbled
after company chairman announced

that workers wont be getting the annual
raise given them every year because the
company isnt making any profits.
http://tiny.cc/1fKBT
Another clear glimpse through the eye of

the Egypts story
3/25/2010 2:55:44 PM
15
2010
www.wasla.anhri.net
What Brings You to Arabic Literature?[1]

Why do we allow a translator to come between
typical examples of questions tackled by writer
translated to English.
us and a text? Why not read in Russian, or
M. Lynx Qualey in her blog Arabic Literature
In the next post, we learn how Qualey was
English, languages where we can be perfectly
in English, one that is specialized in reviewing
brought to Arabic Literature.
alone with the author and her words? are
and introducing Arabic fiction written in or
For the next week, Ill be traveling in Luxor

and Aswan. Posting again March 19, inshaallah.
I was speaking to a PhD student after the
Jonathan Wright talk at the AUC, andas we
connect them with Mahfouz, who I also loved,

or think of them as Arabic fiction. They were
justHanan al-Shaykh.
Then, in the spring of 2001, I visited my (for-
had to ask myself: Why do I read (so much) Arabic
mer) college roommate in Cairo, where she was
literature? Why do I allow a translator to come
working as a kindergarten teacher. I mustve had
between me and a text? Why not read in Russian,
Cairo Trilogy alive in my memory: While the pyr-
or English, languages where I can be perfectly
amids didnt much strike me, the Khan al-Khalili
alone with the author and her words.
made me dizzy with joy. I remember looking up at
Sometimes, I dont mind, or even appreciate,
a minaret against the sky and telling my friend, I

want to move here.
Stealth and Humphrey Davies voicing of Yalo
A few months later, I did
are two such examples. But I can come up with
Even then, as I began to learn Arabic, I didnt
a number of othersand, sometimes, they do in-
think of Arabic fiction. At some point, I visited
cense mewhere I felt the translator jumbled up
the U.S. and got my M.F.A. And came back. I read
the experience, translating with expertise, sure,
more and more Arab authors, but it was only as
but little or no love of words.
a response to a response to 9/11 that it all col-
The first Arabic fiction I read was perhaps
lected together, in a category, in my head.
something of Nawal el-Saadawis, at university,
Now, I read Arabic fiction in part from love, in
and then Naguib Mahfouz and Hanan al-Shaykh,
part from habit, and in part from an insufferable
while in my early twenties. I loved al-Shaykhs
sort of hometown pride.
books unreasoningly: Women of Sand and Myrrh,
Comments:
http://arablit.wordpress.com
The Story of Zahra, Beirut Blues. But I didnt
talked about translation, and our love of wordsI
the translators presence. Hosam Aboul-elas
Arabi Literature
(in Arabic)
And you? What brings you to Arabic lit?
[1] http://tiny.cc/vyQAs
Aleza Pitout
I am an Afrikaans South African who
friendly, ever helpful and gracious people
recently visited Bahrain. It was not the
that made me fall head over heals in love
Bahrain Trade Centre, which leaves most
with most things Arabic. I now want to read
Westerners in awe, but my visit (and
as much as I can to become more informed,
lecture on Islam) to the Al Fateh Grand
including Arabic Literature. Thank you so
Mosque, Bahrain Fort and museum, Isa
very much for this informative site!!
House, Aali Arab Stud and most of all the
But fix your eyes below, upon the ... blood, where
[1]
those who injure others violently, boil.
Since she started blogging in the year 2007,
grabbing much attention due to its insane yet
Sara Naguib`s blog The Sue Side has been
attractive nature.
In every hell, below Earth or roaming it...is a
ments. His eyes daze like a mad man and his
demon cursed with delusion.. delirium.. insan-
moves are jerky and filled with shakes. Those who
ity.
fear this demon the most are the ones involved in

His demon-ways are not only a torment for
others, theyre mostly torment for him.

The thing about this curse is, its self inflicted.
his insanity. The ones he dreams about and lusts

for. His delusion can envelop them, and swallow
them whole. For they become a mere fragment of
his imagination, a dreamed up companion to play
The only thing this demon lives for, in a hell

that is his very own, are vivid imaginations of
with, to touch, to spawn, or to kill. To label angels

or whores...to fall in love with or to despise.
everything he can never have..things he never
He is one of the ugliest, scariest demons there
sees but fill his eyes, and memories he never had
are, because he looks so much like a human, lay-
that cloud his mind. For What power would Hell
ered deep under a demonic mindless being.
have if those imprisoned were not able to dream

of Heaven?
This demon lives his hell everywhere. His
insanity is ugly because its tangible, you see it
in faulty steps down the stairs...crazed punches
[1] http://tinyurl.com/yg7k77h
against the green and quiet self-fought argu-
3/25/2010 2:55:53 PM
http://tinyurl.com/yjjagq8
http://tinyurl.com/yf7u5oh
http://tinyurl.com/y8ponwz
http://tinyurl.com/yeuzfh4

2005

3/25/2010 2:56:23 PM

.

.

.

.

.

:
http://tinyurl.com/yavo79h
:
http://tinyurl.com/ydfmgez

:
http://tinyurl.com/ydfmgez

وصلة العدد الأول

Uploaded by

Document Information

Original Title

Copyright

Available Formats

Share this document

Share or Embed Document

Sharing Options

Did you find this document useful?

Is this content inappropriate?

Copyright:

Available Formats

وصلة العدد الأول

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

www.wasla.anhri.

wasla issue 1.indd 1

wasla issue 1.indd 2

500 19478 2009

FREE MOROCO BLOGGER

wasla issue 1.indd 3

wasla issue 1.indd 4

wasla issue 1.indd 5

Due to unfortunate publications on

our cooperation. After a column on the

RNW website you did not agree with, you

started a <campaign> against RNW on Facebook and in Egyptian newspapers. In

They said it is just a translation for an old

Wish you well for the future,

Chinese ad. and the only source for this

!was Soaad AbdelRasoul herself

Deputy editor-in-chief Radio Nether-

wasla issue 1.indd 6

wasla issue 1.indd 7

wasla issue 1.indd 8

wasla issue 1.indd 9

wasla issue 1.indd 10

wasla issue 1.indd 11

wasla issue 1.indd 12

wasla issue 1.indd 13

Sarah Carr is one of the leading names within the Egyptian

blogosphere. Her blog, Inanities, is well known for covering dif-

source of income since January, and have been staging a sit-in, in

ferent political and social current issues taking place in Egypt.

front of the Ministerial Cabinet HQ, Downtown Cairo, the latest

In this post, Carr, also a journalist and an activist, writes about

in a series of workers protests since mid-2004.

which has informed their whole lives; the idea

by workers from the Tanta Flax and Oils Com-

that the state will protect them. Privatisation of

pany[2]. About 350 men have been sleeping on

these mens factories is a multi-pronged attack.

the pavement there since Monday, in the cold,

On their security, their livelihoods, sometimes

because theyd like to be able to feed their fami-

their pride and always the belief system which

lies, and sometimes wages dont come without a

has underpinned their whole existence.

fight. Its the usual story[3]: public sector compa-

Times and economies change and thats life,

ny is privatized and sold off. Investor buys it (at a

some argue. There are always victims on the road

huge discount) and then proceeds to slowly and

to progress. Alas these victims are often steam-

systematically dismantle it with a view to selling

rollered multiples times by this progress. Tanta

the land on which the factory stands and making

workers have been battling for almost a year for

basic entitlements. What they want now is either

The only problem is that new investors are

for their factory to work properly (raw supplies

contractually under an obligation to protect the

arent being renewed and machinery is being

workers who come as part of the package, which

removed, they say preventing them from work-

means that they cant just sack them, shut up

ing) or for them to be made redundant with the

shop and walk happily into the sunset, pockets