Saturday, August 10, 2013

A call for sustainable politics in Egypt & settling for the imperfect


One definition of politics states: Politics is the art of settling for the imperfect, Pursuing perfection in a democratic model in Egypt now is not exactly the right approach & actually has been one of the mistakes of Jan25-2011 revolutionaries (and this by no means justifies compromising or forsaking values & ethics ,but this is a call for understanding how to build a "sustainable imperfect model"), This mistake has isolated them in ivory towers which led to a rising audience against them not only the pro-Mubarak `s regime audience but from the audience described as the "silent majority" a justified impression given that the revolutionary forefront either refrained from effectively getting involved in the political fabric or were polarized to straying  movements & parties or adopted the approach of aggressively criticizing everything 
without offering alternatives or solutions.

Egypt and the world should pass the stage of "A revolution or a military coup debate" & some immediate steps should be acknowledged & executed, a common understanding that a perfect model is not applicable & has never been applicable anywhere in the world throughout history ,an inclusive imperfect model is a basic foundation for a sustainable model ,The aggressive calls for "excluding & terminating the others" is leading us to nowhere ,more or less to a "swing model" where we are ruled by extremists from one side   which leads to a revolution getting us the extremists from the other side and so on in an endless loop.
Negations should immediately start for a "sustainable inclusive imperfect model".


Monday, January 30, 2012

Who do we believe in??


Do we believe in the tweets of the super stars of the revolution, do we believe in the potential "anti-SCAF" candidates for presidency, do we believe in Mohamed Albaradei ?? Do we believe in "revolutionary media"?
I have been trying lately to ask, who are we following and in whom do we believe? Now I suppose that we are free, truly & extremely free  ,which means we are free to follow & unfollow to believe & disbelieve. Are there 
idols for the Egyptian Revolution?

For me I strongly & firmly believe that Egypt should not be run by a military regime, we deserve better, I 
believe that we should not create Revolution Gods & worship them, I believe that we should be in a continuous process of upgrading & educating ourselves in order to be qualified to breathe in a free country, and with the so many "I" s in this paragraph ,I believe that ego is playing it`s magic in this phase in Egypt poisoning the big portion of tolerance that we need through the stage.

You still have the right to create idols & follow them, to enslave yourself for the opinions of some TV channel or a twitter superstar, even to believe in SCAF as you have the right to believe in the devil itself. And last but not least down with the military regime in Egypt.  

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Why the Greens of Egypt are against a military regime ? #Noscaf


A basic pillar of the Green politics is non-violence; Green philosophers always conclude that whenever power is in the hands of armed forces as a matter of common sense violence will be used against any potential opposition and will be prioritized over peaceful solutions and negotiations and that what was typically applied in Egypt.

Ever since I have joined the Green Party of Egypt and I have always heard this: that it is totally against our principles that a military regime takes over the country something which I have known about them like 6 years ago since I have first heard of them, from the first day of #Jan25 a party leader said "Even if Mubarak stepped down and handled the country to a military regime we have to continue our protest and do not trust this trick" ,However the Green Party of Egypt has a severe shortage in human resources to effectively support the protests.

…another party leader commented on victims falling during the second wave of our revolution:"This is the mistake of those who called for the sit-in #Tahrir and abandoned the revolutionaries"….I am pretty sure that the Greens  are so much into the sit-in till the country is handled to a civil leadership, however they cannot carry the responsibility of such call due to severe shortage of human resources so they just take an "unnoticed" part of the protest as per their limited abilities.