As far as dandy may go, nothing is dandy! The only felt change is that they stopped switching to daylight saving time!!! Sadly enough!

Religious traditions are not fought over except by fundamentalists; fanaticism and fundamentalism are in all religions, I mean we read about Christian fundamentalism in the US a lot. So, I would say that this could be a stereotype that you have and it is not true.

There is no problem regarding religion in Egypt; no young and old, Christian and Muslim, etc . . . This is basically a failing strategy to “divide and conquer.”

Also, you might get the feeling that women are targeted more because they actually survive to tell their stories, while men just get killed. A day later four engineering male students were killed!

Al Azhar is one of the oldest and most prominent moderate Islamic school, college and university in the world. It has been there for centuries, always giving and providing a moderate teaching of Islam, people come from all over the world to learn about Islam in Al Azhar.

The Sheikh who was killed, Emad Effat, was responsible for an important section or sector in Al Azhar, we just lost an important moderate Islamic educator, he was not in anything political. He was for the people since JAN25 till the day he passed.

Hosni Mubarak is not dead, he is supposedly on trial along with other ex-ministers and his two corrupt sons, but have not heard anything regarding their trials in a while. This includes trials of the people who killed the protesters on both 25th and 28th of Jan. 2011.

 Nothing really changed or took place since last year. No trials, nothing, the only people who were trialed are the protesters, the jails are full of protesters and such

Let me know if there are any other questions

I do not know if you have followed the recent female protest that took place a couple of days ago?

The military police dragged a female protester and her clothes came off as they dragged her and beat her up, I am sure you will find it on youtube.

Also, an important sheikh from Al Azhar, Emad Effat, was shot dead last Saturday at around dawn in front of the parliament headquarters; his funeral was huge, more than 10,000 people were there.

The situation is puzzling, there are a lot of incidents that are left unexplained by the SCAF and even the politicians on the platform at the moment do not get what is really happening.

I hope that fills you in a bit. If you have any other questions or cannot find the videos please send me an email

The military is attacking people who demonstrate against their rule because the military is trying to keep the elected government powerless.

Imagine in the US that congress had no power, the president had no power, and the judges had no power to tell the joint-chiefs of staff what to do.

There hasn’t been any reports of violence yet but we still have rounds (of voting) 2 and 3 on Dec 14th and Jan 3rd respectively.

As far as the system (governmental) goes we just started debating it. The Muslim Brotherhood would like a very strong parliament and a weak president and liberals are now talking about a semi-presidential system. This is taking place as the junta continues to say that it will appoint 80% of the constitutional drafting committee and the Islamists led by the MB say no, the parliament will take care of drafting a new constitution.

The protesters in Tahrir square discovered several drug dealers and kicked them out of the square, along with several other people who were with them who had selling carts.

So, to retaliate the drug dealers came back with Molotov cocktails and other weapons, resulting in a total of 108 people with injuries.

People did not have problem with the privacy part because, I believe, the majority of voters already didn’t care if someone knew whom they voted for or not, many of them just tell the people standing in line with them. (Funny population )

Yes, it’s for the parliament and the ones for presidency are said to be next July, let’s hope the SCAF are sincere about doing it on time.

Take care and let me know if you have other questions.

By the way, a friend of mine Momen El Husseiny wrote a good article published on Jadaliyya about October 9th events.

Meanwhile, last night thugs attacked people in Tahrir square, resulting in 88 injured.

One comment on this video, the polling stations were open until 9 PM in some areas because some stations started at 3 PM and not 8 AM as scheduled. Elections, violations and Tahrir split, long lines, Alexandria & Upper Egypt.