This post actually started as a comment on a friend’s blog, but it turned into a bit of a diatribe that seemed to deserve its own post. My apologies to those of you for whom the references to day-old bagels, cement boats and opportunivores will make no sense. And I apologize also for the corny, overblown metaphors. I’ll hopefully be writing in Arabic soon, which I’m sure will sufficiently alienate what audience I had in the fist place, if that’s any consolation. Here it goes anyway: (more…)
February 4, 2009
May 5, 2008
May Day, May Day—This is Egypt—عيد العمال في مصر
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This article was commissioned for Is Greater Than
In this year’s May Day address to the nation, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak promised government workers a 30% salary increase. This came a day after the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest parliamentary opposition group, unexpectedly called upon its members to participate in a May 4th general strike initiated by Facebook members in protest against rising prices and a lack of political avenues for a solution to the country’s problems. Among those problems is the bread crisis I wrote about last week in Is Greater Than. (more…)
