"Casablanca" movie script´s writers knew NOTHING about life.
The right quote of this iconic script should have never been "We´ll always have Paris" but
" We´ll always have Middan Tahrir".
Yes, we will...the memory of a lost utopia of turning a deeply corrupted and enslaved country into a DEMOCRACY where people have LIVES instead of survival struggles.
Egypt deserves much better than this, for God´s sake (and I mean it FOR GOD´S SAKE). Old corruption still around - because it is in the head of common egyptian people from all social ranks and in a decadent, hypocritical way of life that became normal and even logical to the majority - and a brand new corruption associated with Muslim Extremism is ON.
As I passed by Middan Tahrir the other morning and observed the tents, sandwich-full and tameya- improvised shops and a general lack of sense and purpose, tears almost rolled down my face if it wasn´t for the also already classic sexual harassment that took any hint of emotion from me.
A friend was attacked by a crazy guy when she was returning home yesterday night - in Zamalek, once the fanciest and safest zone of Cairo - and I have to breath 1000000 times (yoga style, if you please) in order not to kill someone while walking in the streets.
Hope seems to be lost, at least for me and for the ones I speak with. Both foreigners and egyptians.
Sad to see the world STILL belongs to the one and only God most people follow and respond to: MONEY/POWER.
The right quote of this iconic script should have never been "We´ll always have Paris" but
" We´ll always have Middan Tahrir".
Yes, we will...the memory of a lost utopia of turning a deeply corrupted and enslaved country into a DEMOCRACY where people have LIVES instead of survival struggles.
Egypt deserves much better than this, for God´s sake (and I mean it FOR GOD´S SAKE). Old corruption still around - because it is in the head of common egyptian people from all social ranks and in a decadent, hypocritical way of life that became normal and even logical to the majority - and a brand new corruption associated with Muslim Extremism is ON.
As I passed by Middan Tahrir the other morning and observed the tents, sandwich-full and tameya- improvised shops and a general lack of sense and purpose, tears almost rolled down my face if it wasn´t for the also already classic sexual harassment that took any hint of emotion from me.
A friend was attacked by a crazy guy when she was returning home yesterday night - in Zamalek, once the fanciest and safest zone of Cairo - and I have to breath 1000000 times (yoga style, if you please) in order not to kill someone while walking in the streets.
Hope seems to be lost, at least for me and for the ones I speak with. Both foreigners and egyptians.
Sad to see the world STILL belongs to the one and only God most people follow and respond to: MONEY/POWER.
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