The Egyptian way to Nirvana #Jan25

Photo by : Hussein Abdelwahed

Used to write a lot about Nirvana…the kind of writing that nobody reads as it was more like a personal research not for commercial use..That was around ten years ago when "Karma..Nirvana..Reincarnation..etc" sounded cool among the middle & higher class even some families named their daughters -"mostly"-  Karma and Nirvana without having any idea what the hell does that mean.

Even though I am an anti-caste classified society, however since we are that type of society in Egypt and in our modern world mostly:  as a "middle class" guy I used to notice other lifestyles -excluding the higher class- and how they can manage to reach moments of ultimate happiness that we cannot reach including or especially the higher class.

A plastic cup of "Homos sham"  on Kasr elneel bridge with a fiancée looking at the nile,a farmer in front of  his humble house with his kids looking at the greens in front of him and listening to "el3andaleeb",a young sheikh after a religious class teaching kids Quran and getting charged with the resonance of their pure energy….etc.

Back to "Tahrir square" are we now looking forward  to find our way to ultimate happiness through real freedom not a "SCAFd" one? Or do we feel it when we speak it out loud in Tahrir square …did we feel this moment when we shouted "leave leave Hosni Mubarak" and the moment he said he was leaving, personally it was a moment of happiness I never felt before but was it instantaneous, was it fake? And will we be able to find our way again to our Nirvana?ah and concerning Nirvana itself we can talk about it later. 

Is Carlos Latuff a Conspiracy?

According to Wikipedia Carlos himself describes his work as controversial even though on Carlos Latuff`s twitter account he asks not to trust Wikipedia??

Anyway his outstanding concern for the Egyptian revolution and the Egyptian affairs in general lead to rumors and stories being told everywhere thanks to the very fertile soil of conspiracy theory or "conspiracy mentality" that we have been raised on as a tool of creating general sense of insecurity and accordingly need for dictatorships.

Comments in favor such as "3lya eltala2 elragl da men shobra" pointing out that he is very Egyptian and others saying he should get the Egyptian nationality. However on the other side of "Carlos Latuff 3ameel w beldaleel" referring to inspiring conspiracy theorists people are telling a lot of stories on how he is aiming at creating problems between the army or more specifically SCAF and the people ??

Without any absolute comment from my side I invite you to search his caricatures about freedom for several countries, about the Israeli occupation,about Palestine about U.S. policies simply google it and the comment is yours , One more comment from my side "Dignity" is one of the ultimate hash tags the Egyptian people will stand for and the bottom line is whether that Brazilian gifted artist is speaking the truth or the other way around.

The very liberal Islam

Excuse me if I will be presenting some severe paradigm shifts in the coming few sentences, also please do not consider that preaching Islam nor it is defending the liberals

The rising "crack" between the liberals and the people presented as having Islamic political references is very surprising in Egypt nowadays , which shows that neither groups have really acknowledged and thoroughly understood the other group.  

Most of the rights the Liberals stand for are surprisingly some of the basics this religion has called for, basically this religion was in itself a revolution in a very outdated societies and communities as it has been calling for freedom, human rights, women rights in a way that had never been discussed before, even sustainability in addition to hitting strongly on anti racism, grassroots participation, even the animal rights were progressively introduced to the world through this religion, Equality and labor rights in addition to the private property has been strongly respected ,Those were just some mere facts that both groups should know, 

A march in Sweden supporting the Egyptian revolution

Dream With Me (Ehlam Ma'aya) - 25 Jan Revolution

Essam Sharaf`s humble attitude...a pro or a con??

Every time Dr. Essam Sharf the Egyptian prime minister shows up on T.V. or a speech you directly get the 

impression of a humble,kind,delicate and exhausted person.

An amicable, hardworking person as Dr. Essam Sharaf  after he became the prime minister of Egypt in such a stage is it a pro that he presents his achievements and vision in that attitude considering the emotional 

characteristics of the majority of the Egyptians.

Or shall he present it in a convincing, trustful and firm voice "while standing up" with vivid active tone of voice??

The issue is a matter of the method of conveying the message it should be right to the point with appropriate body language and tone of voice which can make huge difference and major acknowledgments in critical points. 

Going Local..In the presidential elections

It has become almost impossible to count the number of people who have intentions to run for the Egyptian presidential elections after Jan25…I mean have not they read the Job description and pre-requisites for such a vacancy???

Anyway few are becoming really active some of them are hitting on the concept of being totally locally raised with full characteristics of the local taste…and the question remains is that what is required??? Or do we need more like patriotic "multinational" president with international networks and vast experience from different 
parts of the world.

Let me put it that way does any 45-50 "minimum" years old candidate who lived all his life in that polluted 
corrupted political atmosphere with minimum international experience and networks be able to make a progressive major change in this country ??And do not get me wrong I am really not in favor of a certain candidate against another one it is just a mere question.

A Green is a messenger

A Green…someone involved in Green politics or Green initiatives or NGOs…etc. is characterized by some principles and values that do not change by the change of country area, race, ideology, religion, time…etc.

You can find all the Greens all around the world taking the same language ,thinking the same way a perfect model for "Thinking globally & acting locally" and a perfect seed for globalization not in a sense of some nations getting rich and others die trying but in a sense of mutual interests.

A Green is messenger standing for a number of causes in every single place life sends him to.

This concept of common ground between all nations, ideologies , cultures of preserving resources ,saving the environment, sustainable development…etc. qualifies the Greens to be the future and qualifies the Green messenger to be suitable & convenient for all societies and all eras.

Also read :

Green is not just a color..it is a way of life 

The corrupted silent majority..Have dignity??

If you are a stereotype "silent majority" most probably my article will not find its way to you that is because you prefer to pull your lazy butt to a couch watch some T.V. repeat what is being said and then blow some of your friends & relatives heads off by your ideas for" great Egypt" those ideas which will never find their way to light because you have already exerted all the energy required to achieve them by narrating over & over 

again to your poor folks.

However all that is not the major issue its more like personal stuff, what is really annoying is when you get to finish some administrative governmental issue or you have some problems in a police station or a service provider will you bribe someone to finish it?? Most likely that "someone" will be another "silent majority" so he will accept your bribe and your stereotype justification would be "raise their salaries then ask me not to bribe them???

Well since we all have to take part in reforming our country including both of you , unless you stop that 
corrupted attitudes you will be considered one of the elements we will revolt against .

Bribe is just an example however the corrupted "silent majority" have lots of other issues that need to be modified as cheating, lack of productivity, negativity, carelessness…etc and since it is some sort of a cancer spreading & destroying all what we have and will be doing, so :Dear silent majority ,kindly have dignity and help us in reforming our country.

The resonance of a revolution #Jan25

It is something like waves …waves of revolution …if the resonance of those waves takes control over you or even just touches you will totally find yourself a different person..person with power…power of the 

truth..Simply "an agent of change".

"You cannot fight the city hall" was our justification before Jan25,however now with pride, dignity & power of the people we can fight corruption whenever it exists, it is more like an optimistic point of view but thinking of 

it that we do not really have choices ,because the other choices sound as if we did not even have a revolution.

Jan25 should resonates in every act we do is it in favor of our country or is it another stereotype corrupted habit of before Jan25?? …Jan25 should resonates in every breathe we take while we are driving the car, working, eating, networking , doing social service ,speaking, dealing with governmental councils & service providers…etc. Jan25 should resonates in every single one of us if we have a genuine will for a real reform and doing it is harder than asking for it. 

An inconvenient ministry

Some demonstrations and actions have been arranged by a group named "The Environment youth coalition" mainly from the Egyptian ministry of environmental affairs to change the minister of environmental affairs general Maged George.

The Egyptian Green Party declared on it`s official website that there is some sort of internal problems in the EEAA & the ministry which is not in favor of the Egyptians and asked to restructure the ministry excluding former NDP members who were the reason of the ineffectiveness of the ministry.

The question is was "The Environment youth coalition"  only formed to remove a person or against personal issues or for a real revolutionary change in the ministry and the environmental conditions in Egypt??

The Green revolution..The Egyptian ministry of environmental affars

It is amazing how the Egyptian ministry of environmental affairs stays unconsidered to that extent even after Jan25 ….As if no body can even notice how catastrophic Egypt environmental conditions are.

Literally thousands of children die annually due to diseases caused by water and air pollution, thousands of youth suffer from diseases caused by the same reason, at least 173 factories throw their waste in the nile…we have more than 16 million landmines in our land due to world war two, Our protected areas are treated with intolerable carelessness the same case for our heritage as the case in Qarun lake & Gebel Qatrani in addition to several others.

All that and we have not even started talking about the outstanding potential in Egypt to bring billions to the country (not to personal interests) through the billion dollar industry of eco-tourism and methodologies of Green economy that no body even cares about it.

The Green revolution is essential for Egypt in general and specifically for the ministry of environmental affairs the untouchable minister should be changed the whole ministry should be restructured to be more active, effective and dynamic.

Finally...The Green Pyramid

Rating systems promoting for Green building, improving the energy efficiency in buildings and sustainable design are becoming a trend nowadays in the building sector one of the most famous rating systems are : Leed,BREEAM and DGNB

Egypt has developed it`s own rating system entitled "The Green Pyramid" through the housing and development research center : http://www.hbrc.edu.eg/
It has been released for public review , if you are an expert on the field you can send your feedback right away.

Official website for the Egyptian Green Party

www.eg-greens.org