I have just come back from the collective memorial event held at the Egyptian Academy of Arts. The disastrous incident claimed the lives some of the most prominent names in the "middle generation" of Egyptian theatre critics and artists, including: Hazem Shehata, Medhat Abu-Bakr, Ahmed Abdel-Hamid, Mohsen Moselhy, Saleh Saad, Bahaa El-Merghany, and others. Their deaths have dealt a devastating blow to an already aggrieved cultural and theatrical community. Unfortunately, this tragedy was not a terrorist act. I say unfortunately because this would at least have made the death of those victims somewhat less absurd. For everyone I saw at the funeral, grief was hard to distinguish from resentment and anger, since the tragic event has highlighted in the most painful manner the scandalous indifference that the Egyptian State has long been showing the provinces outside Cairo and Alexandria, as the abject condition of the Beni Suef makeshift theatre and its lack of the most basic safety precautions must have demonstrated. Ironically, the event occurs only one day before the first multi-candidate presidential elections in Egypt. As it happens, our 70-something President, in office since 1981, runs for a fifth consecutive term on a platform the promises the completion of the process of progress that he claims to have initiated. Some of the families of the victims are planning to take the Egyptian Ministry of culture to court. Hazem Azmy Check out this link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4217706.stm تحديث: تسعيرة الحكومة للمتوفي والمصاب في الحادث يا بلاش
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حاجة محزنة فعلاً. إزّاي شمعة تعمل كلّ ده. وإزاي ما كانش فيه استعدادات؟
حاجة تقرف!
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ساعه ماسمعت الخبر ..إفتكرت حريق القطار بتاع الصعيد بتاع العيد ..كان ليله العيد وده كمان حصل ليله عيد أعياد الديمقراطيه
كل ما افتكر المووضع نفسى تتسد عن الدنيا
فى لحظة اتحرق حلم وناس ودنيا
بسبب
حكومه زباله
حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل
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