Archive for February, 2011

What i love about Egyptians

Revolution is difficult. And what happened in Egypt wasn’t an easy one. blood, fear and mystery were all involved.

But Egyptians couldn’t let it go without adding their spices. it looked fun to us (people behind screen) but it wasn’t like that at all. Any Egyptian can make you smile regardless of his suffering. Imagine 1 million Egyptian in one place?? ;)

Let’s Make it Unforgettable

What happened in Jan 2011 touched our hearts deep down.

I’m thinking if we can do something to make what happened remarkable and unforgettable.

Once i was in London and everyone was putting this Poppy which is called a remembrance day and it really touched me.

Here is my suggestion and i hope it can work out:

@humeid @RobaAssi can design something we can put on our clothes, twiiter, websites and everything. and we can actually do it every January to make the whole world and even next generation remember what happened. for inspiration i might think of these keywords: Sidibuzid, Tahrir Square, Social Network and many things. i’m sure Roba and Humeid are better than me in this field.

@fadig @samihtoukan @abdulhaykal @maherkaddoura @hiconomics and I can hopefully work on executing the idea and finance it. My manufacturing background tells me its not difficult to do something similar to the poppy for clothing.  And i don’t think it will cost much.

I wish we can make it happen and let me know if you can add to the idea

ps i don’t have everyone’s email so i found this the fastest way to explain the idea

Salamat!

Social media did it all in Egypt… Young Arabs rocked the World!

Last week was very interesting… everyone at the beginning thought that the opposition was behind it. And the typical reaction from the government was like: let’s catch the bastards!

But out of the sudden nothing changed what already started.

One thing I love about what happened in Egypt EVEN if Mubarak stays. The whole Arab world will understand that we (the new geeky generation) are different!

For decades everyone in our Arab world believed in “blocking” theme. The government blocks their people from knowing, learning and expressing. Even the family man blocks his children from knowing, trying and expressing until we started to experience and exercise everything blocked. And until the “geeks revolution” in Egypt started people in the Arab world was thinking that we don’t know and we CAN’T know. Please know that we know!

Dear governments, oppositions and parents let me explain briefly what we are capable to do:

  • We can communicate with other young Arabs as easy as picking up the phone and calling a friend and maybe easier
  • We know understand and speak the international language
  • We can be modern, educated and civilized and if you think that we have to live abroad to do it, you are mistaken! Big time!
  • We can verify any information we hear or read. Believe me, faster than what you can imagine!
  • We can LEARN faster than ever because we are hungry to learn
  • If you spend some time to understand us it will be much easier than trying to force us to live the stone age you are living at

I know governments and oppositions are trying to understand what happened. This is what happened more or less:

  1. Facebook pages were created for protesters
  2. Twitter #jan25 were created so we can follow the even
  3. Huge amount of visitors visited Facebook pages and #jan25 was trending on twitter
  4. Many videos were uploaded to Youtube
  5. Only to let you understand how up to date the Egyptian protestors are: Google and Twitter launch service letting Egyptians tweet by phone

Finally we aren’t living in a different world. Welcome to our world oldies!

Warning: if you are a young Arab and you don’t understand these terms: twitter, hashtag, blogs, YouTube and all similar words then you are already old. You only look young ;)

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