yesterday it was my first year in Cairo. This year was stuffed with a million different impressions and, as I wrote in my Facebook page, a lot of joy among a million other perceptions.
The whole country changed without changing anything. So far. Also a kind of magic. And magic is maybe needed to bring all this to a good end. Everything flows… we will see… anyway.
And I also survieved the regularly repeated HIV-test. My second one in one year. Nice. All my colleges had to pass this test… and we are asking ourselves what might happen, once HIV is found… we expect something like “pack it, wrap it, ship it” … It is just offensive and discriminating.
The start in my second year was not the best one… but this leaves some space for improvement. Also good!

It started with “Flagman”:
http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/488985

in between military and police did nothing to prevent this:
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/09/201199225334494935.html

with the result of this:

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/494653

and now everything is, at it was before… including emergency law, military trials and detention on the fly…
nothing to add.

Looks like a fake game. The israeli Embassy was stormed by angry, and not very smart, egyptians. The ambassador and his family as well as the staff of the embassy fled to Israel. Military and police stood beside the happening without to interfere. A few days ago Flagman climed the building and was rewarded for it buy the governor. The answer of the israeli government was, hm, quite polite compared with other incidents.

And, what do we have now? the emergency law is back and the revolution is drawn in the mud. And western media descibed the same people which were called revolutionary from one moment to the other as a mob. The peace treaty as well as all the other treatys are no longer in question, says the information minister.

Things can change. Only the questions remains, who was behind all of this?