Posts by: Mohamed ElGohary
An Egyptian veteran blogger.Global VoicesLingua manager.
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Oum Kolthoum – Inta Omri – Metal version
Although I don't generally like Om Kolthoum, who is considered the most epic Arab classic singer in the last 50 years in the Middle East, but this metal version of one of her most famous songs is super awesome!
Sueño con Serpientes
Hay hombres que luchan un día y son buenos
Hay otros que luchan un año y son mejores
Hay quienes luchan muchos años y son muy buenos
Pero hay los que luchan toda la vida
Esos so los imprescindibles.
(Bertold Brecht)
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Reflections on technology
I just finished watching a Lebanese-Swedish movie, Zozo. It is about a Lebanese boy, with the name Zozo, during the civil war, who gets separated from his family and ends up in Sweden. In the beginning there is this scene where the father is mad at his son for trying to get his mother's attention while they were following the news about the war on TV, while the boy had just finished crafting a piece of wood and wanted to show it to his mother.
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Twitter translations priorities
With all due respect to western European languages, why do twitter ignore a language like Arabic with hundreds of millions of speakers and begin with less-popular western European languages? I applied to be a volunteer translator for Twitter in 2009 and no one answered which is something weird considering Twitter's efforts to switch to Web interfaces vs API by acquiring the most used twitter clients on all platforms.
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Advice in case you are beaten by police or army
Advice in case you are beaten (by Mai Shams El-Din Ismail)
Yahoo Groups violations?
Last week I was added to a Yahoo group on my Gmail, that seemed of a spammy nature, not to mention the action itself is considered spam. I reported the group to Yahoo and this is what I got in reponse:
We appreciate your report of this incident in Yahoo! Groups. We will
investigate your report and take appropriate action as per our Terms of
Service (TOS). For further details about the Yahoo! TOS, you can visit:
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The moment? Or your past, future and legacy?
There are many times in life, you ask yourself, is it really worth it?You ask this when you see someone die, when you see the outcome of an aweful bloody struggle. When your passion for something just dries up. When your passion for someone just dries up. When you suffer neglect after giving away so much. When you suffer betrayal after giving away so much. When you are in the dark for so long that you forget the mere existence of light, that when someone mentions it you can't even recognize the meaning.
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RIP old friend…
In the last few days I was informed that someone I knew, knew from a long time, committed suicide. A first time I ever encounter the fact that someone I knew committed suicide. I knew her for a few years back, a normal Egyptian girl, her father died in her early teenage. Read More…
Random thoughts
For the first time I just listened to a blog post, a podcast, narrated by a dear friend. A warm voice, emotional music, giving me so much nostalgia about so many chances I missed, skills I could have developed, people I could have made friends, places I wanted to be attached to. How I thought of many things so lightly and how I realize now how important they really are. Read More…
