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Changing face of Ramadan
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Politics and economics cannot help but rear their heads during the Holy Month,
Egyptians generally welcome the holy month of Ramadan as a celebration of both faith and family. During the first week, Iftar is usually spent with relatives and the long nights until sunrise out with friends or else at home watching the lavish TV productions that are premiered during the month. Many people of all social levels congregate in mosques until late to pray, and when Ramadan takes its toll towards the end of the fasting month there is always Eid to look forward to.
Ramadan this year, though, arrives when household budgets are already overstretched. The summer holidays are just ending and the new term is beginning just as Ramadan starts. It is an expensive time for families. Little wonder then that the signs of celebration usually associated with the beginning of the holy month are thin on the ground.
With official inflation figures running at 12 per cent -- unofficial estimates are far higher -- people are shying away from buying their usual quantities of traditional sweets.
It is not so much what is being shown, but where and by whom. Two of the most anticipated series this Ramadan deal directly with Egypt but neither will be shown on Egyptian television. Satellite channels owned in the Gulf have bought the rights to both series, which were scripted by Egyptians.

So does this mean that Egypt's love affair with Ramadan is over? Not quite. Ever resourceful, Egyptian families will somehow find a way to deal with the rising costs of the month, and of sending their children to school, and when the month is over of celebrating Eid Al-Fitr. Ramadan, always an exception, is now the time in which the multitude of challenges Egypt faces throughout the year are squeezed into one month.

September 14, 2007 | 9:49 AM Comments  1 comments

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East and West!
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There are many events and incidents taking place in our contemporary world, which are either directly or indirectly, or unannounced silent, serene or tumultuous, controversial-both old and new-namely those concerning the Middle West and raised under headings as diverse as traditional and modernity, originality and contemporary, Ego and the other, privacy and global, and finally settled on Islam and the West.
Islamic civilization known periods of prosperity and the preservation of its heritage Shine library and philosophers of the era of renaissance Isolationists to Ibn Rushd, or Islamic philosopher 'commentator bulk' of the work of Aristotle and Greek philosophy also bore in Western universities. The irony was that the historic moments of prosperity that civilization, particularly between centuries IX and XIII AD - or what is known as a mediator or age medieval European - they themselves are the moments of darkness and religious tyranny in Europe, and then proceeded Islamic civilization after another fell in the curve the prosperity and progress to decline to backwardness and tyranny. The degradation is the same era dawning era of Western civilization and the great renaissance that has moved out of the dark ages to the era of light and liberty, science and arts, literature and creativity in all its forms: the era of industry and technology and production, any era of achievement and progress on the humanitarian Fterpaata fortunes of contemporary civilizations. It is not too anachronism than those of the Arab plan famous Algeberti Abdul Rahman at the first convergence between civilizations after the exchange sites during the French campaign on Egypt in the 18th century of exact description of the deep cultural shock .
The issue was not 'East and West' limited only to the attention of thinkers, philosophers, politicians, but was also a major focus in the work of novelists and the creators of all areas, the story in the forefront of those seeking to achieve reconciliation between the lost world ' new 'and another' old '. The novel profound impact on Arab culture generally for more than their political writings on the force-depth process to the heart of social movement, evolution, complexity, and make or retreating. Therefore sense and meaning remain engraved in the memory of the community.
The reasons for the progress and underdevelopment remain latent in us, but it needs to introduce the essence of things and not simply beautify the image and recognition of ownership of ideas and values and concepts. Valasankam to divorcees inevitably lead to a clash concepts of freedom and democracy, individual and civil rights, and respect for the law and dozens of other concepts are subject to many standards depending on the system, values, history and customs, expertise and experience. It is undoubtedly differ from one society to another and from one culture to another culture, but this fact should not create a barrier or wall separating the 'worlds' this great world in which we live, but on the contrary should be a motivation to cross behind. stages of change and the transition may be difficult, but not impossible, to arrive before the champion novel Yahya my right to correct equation is that coexistence the difficult moments. In one of the chapters of the novel, embodies my right that moment minute of change in human life and that may come nearer to those at society through dialogue between the wonderful hero and his girlfriend eastern European, which it says' .. Ekelmha marriage Vikelmeh love, the uncharted future Ftionsth the present moment, I am afraid that what is the fear restrictions and the fear is the fear of freedom .. '.

September 12, 2007 | 4:22 PM Comments  0 comments

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Material change
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Material Change Is simpler, faster in the presence, which Alazar visible, all accomplished rights of tools to help everyday life and innovations made by and controlled by nature, and achieve the wealth and comfort and defended by himself, his homeland and even health and how Itzin and by always changing and they need or an old invention. What needs Rights somewhere different from what needs rights elsewhere. People of any river that existed and lived on the banks of major rivers needed to build canals and channels to deliver water to places far Vachtraata tools for drilling, construction and took control of the same class of river dams Thus, either desert or mountain peoples rod to the other things means of transmission and means of protection from the tribal raids and the means to learn how, and so on. The first is built canals and build dams Organizes needed to do so giving the central State, which in turn pushed forward so the whole increased strength with the economic progress of the country and Ula would become something spiritual and can not easily intact, while the second has not invoked for the emergence of the State but the sheikh of the tribe or clan Standing travelers often derives strength from his proficiency in war or many years of his progeny or pyramid Thus arose across so different beliefs here for a different beliefs is to turn affects the physical achievement Valemsri old stable in the valley, which security resurrection and Easter established graves of the dead and Mary that the dead will need him on the Ba'ath and in the form of graves even as they built the pyramids, which ends Samke Pedam bowhead to facilitate the departure to a journey to the sky while the people of the desert who moved behind the Turf has never back to their places did not find a need to build specific graves and Ashoahid graves with the names of the dead so buried their dead in the sand did not leave any memorial them for fear of insects, monsters and bandits. here we see, for instance, that talk about the sanctity of sect building cemeteries has no basis in religion is a failure to understand the difference between values and the values of Sahara stability. The ancient Egyptian invented when Shadov and Lister invented it need for agriculture was not possible, for instance, that shows Shadov and Lister in the Arabian Peninsula.
We need to use reason and as a criterion alone to understand heritage, religious or non-religious, and if we do discover that modern science is better than science antiquity, folklore and Venunna beautiful,

September 12, 2007 | 4:11 PM Comments  0 comments

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