Links from my del.icio.us account for September 7th through September 9th:
- EURweb.com – WILL SMITH EYES PHAROAH ROLE: Columbia drama set in ancient Egypt; penned by ‘Braveheart’ writer. – "According to Variety, Smith will star as Taharqa, the pharaoh who battled Assyrian invaders in ancient Egypt. The story will focus on his battles with Assyrian leader Esarhaddon starting in 677 B.C" This is a quite interesting period of ancient Egyptian history — let's hope we get the Smith from "Hancock" rather than the one from "I am legend"
- Prison riot injures 25 in S Egypt after inmate’s death_English_Xinhua – There's something odd about this story, many different versions are around in Arabic press
- AFP: Somali pirates want ‘ransom’ for Egypt boat and 25 crew – Egypt and other neighboring countries should really put their navies to good use here, this keeps happening and everyone acts surprised
- AFP: Heavy jail sentences for Egypt exam cheats – Rather over-the-top sentences for exam scandal: it's either all or nothing when fighting corruption in Egypt
- ‘Marry me for $50m – or you’re dead’ – Times Online – More surfaces in Tamim-HTM murder case
- Outmaneuvered And Outranked, Military Chiefs Became Outsiders – How the AEI beat the joint chiefs of staff t pushing for the surge
- Times Higher Education – UAE’s ban on book about Dubai reveals gulf in values – This serious-looking book that tackles long-term viability, criminality and politics apparently did not fit Skeikh Mo's Vision
- Former rival to Egypt’s Mubarak dies – Reuters.com – Field Marshal Abu Ghazala, once contender for presidency, passes away (good background info in this obit.)
It is really a pity that a black Urangutan like Wil Smith is to cast an Egyptian Pharoah. It seems that the united states of assholes is determined to spread its its ignorance and stupidity all over the world by distorting competetive great cultures like the Arab one. They to keep their hands off the Arabic heritage and quit the shit they teach in american scools about Negroes being Egyptians.
“Alijan” above, and the other racist comment that appeared yesterday and which I deleted, was left by a commenter who calls himself called Amre al-Abyad who was banned several weeks ago when I got tired of his silly racist, anti-Persian, anti-everything, tirades. I have no idea who he is, except that he is not clever enough to hide his IP address and appears to write a lot from Sweden. He may very well not even be Egyptian or Arab (as he pretends to be) and obviously seriously needs to get a life. I don’t always have time to track comments individually, but from now on any further comments from him or that I believe to be from him will eventually be deleted. So stop wasting your and other people’s time, asshole.
I have know Amre al-Abyad on another forum and he was vile and anti persian , and very sectarian . Shame . our enemis have succeeded in convincing us that iran is the enemi (muslim nation) while Israel continues to kill in the westbank and in gaza via sanctions .
the above post is also very racist . shame .