Friday, January 24, 2014
الحوثي لازم يندق
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
A letter to the other side
Mohamed Yosri Salama age 39 cause of death: Septicemia, Egypt
Mohammed Masheharawi, Age 31, Cause of Death: Road traffic accident, Palestine
Aaron Swartz, age 28, Cause of death: Suicide, New York
Taken by sinister death in one year, less than one year. how could you? I am writing to you maybe one day in this electromagnetic spectrum existence you might run into it.. or maybe some of the living might as well!
You meant a lot to me both in personal and conceptual level. Although people say that your ideas will live on and I should honor your memory by honoring and carrying your ideas.
Well screw that, an idea doesnt study with you, recommend you books, inspire you, or have coffee with you! you need a person to sell you the idea, to embody the idea despite our human sever shortcomings they would still carry that idea!
Ibrahim, your last post 6 months prior to your departure from this realm said, death doesnt ache the dead, it aches the living.. thats what we were left with, that thing I had from me and i saw more vibrant in you.. seeing those books thrown around in ur car, you said u keep good books there in case you get a ride with someone u like then u can gift them that :)
Mohmed I still remember from med school and I didnt tell you this, I would hang out with you for your calming demenour and your unmatched ability to put it all in prospective without being extreme or harsh! with our distance chat from time to time across the years you maintained that ability.. the accident left me shattered for days wishing your son, wife and family all the best!
Dr Salama, I received your deaths news in the evening, and cried for the whole night. you have embodied to me what politically active inclined Muslims should be, in calm and away from the rehtorics of political Islam, un-negotiating and non ever compromising.. you left when you sensed others getting astray politically not to get yourself scratched with that nonsense, I highly admired you for that, maybe you knew what would happen so your body just gave up.
Aaron, man you invented the only thing i didn't even attempt to understand which made u a genius to me..RSS, at the age of 28 u had your mark all over the walls of the internet, with that Brooklyn boyish looks and starting mid sentence! you killed yourself? man, really? it is one thing contemplating and talking abt that stupid thought "who hasn't? but going ahead and do it?
Guys, I wont honor your ideas, or your memory.. you did that while you were alive! I would miss discussing them with you, being challenged by your work, points of view, and work!
I hope I would still be able to hold great ideas and produce challenging work that will help give out the same effect you had in the world, specifically mine!
Thank you, and Good Bye. I'll Cease every moment!
Saturday, August 3, 2013
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
عزيزي عبد الاله شايع
وقتها لم تكن تهمتك مطبوخة بعد
سجنت و صاحبك كمال شرف على اساس انكم قاعدة و خرج كمال ليتهم بأنه تبع ايران, ربما ينالك الاتهام ايضا, رغم شكوكي :)
عزيزي شايع
كانت تهمتك انك صحفي بنقل ما يراه الحقيقة, و ليس كما جرت العادة كبوق لرأي ما, ليس هناك صحفيين مثلك في اليمن, نعاني من ازمة حقيقية في هذا المجال
حدثت اشياء كثيرة خلال فترة سجنك, اهمها ان التحريك الشعبي في اليمن لم يعد مقصورا على الاحزاب المنخورة, لكن دخلت اجسام جديدة الحراك السياسي.. قابلها وتحدث معها, كلهم ينظروا لك بكامل الاحترام فقد اصبحت رمز لهم و ان لم يتاح لهم المجال للحديث عنك كثيرا او النشاط لأخراجك من سجنك الظالم
اعرف عنك شيئ واحد فقط, هو انك تحدثت في موضوع الطائرات بدون طيار حينما كانت حرام ان تناقش! و لهذا سجنوك .. الوضع تغير اليوم بعض الشيء او هكذا
لقد هزمت سجانك اخي عبد الاله, فعلت الصواب وصممت عليه وصبرت! اسمح لي ان اضعك في , قائمة ابطالي , سيمر بعض الوقت كي يعتاد عليك اهلك مرة اخرى, و بنما تعتاد على انطفاء الكهرباء و انقطاع المحروقات
الحمد لله على السلامة
Saturday, June 15, 2013
المزة الطائفية
اسألوا كل من في لبنان من اول عروبي الى اوسط سني الى اخر ماروني قاتلوا في الحرب الاهلية ماذا جنوا و ماذا استفادوا راجعوا صور لبنان ابان الحرب الاهلية, راجعوا الافلام,
هذا ما جنوه يقتلوا بعضهم البعض و يتخبوا في اكياس عشان ما احد يقتلهم اذا ما رجعوا البيت او ربما من الحياء من فعلتهم البشعة
تذكروا كيف كانت لبنان في الستينيات حاضرة كباريس, و الى اين انتهت خلال عقد من الزمن و بعض الاستقطاب الطائفي الى اين انتهى بها الحال
اي انتهى المقاتلون و الى اين انتهى امراء الحرب.. جعحع, و عون و جنبلاط و بقية الشلة
تذكروا العراق, تذكروا من دعم من في العراق و ضد من و متى.. تذكروا اوهام القوة و النصر
فكروا قليلا! قليلا
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الثورة السورية عمد النظام و حلفاؤه و ازلامه لتحويلها الى حرب اهلية و يقودني الامل الى انهم سيهزموا بشكل او بأخر للاسف نجح النظام في تحقيق نبؤته المريضة, الاسد او يحرق البلد! لكن الخوف الان ان المنطقة كلها ستحترق
تدخل حزب الله في سوريا بيقتله, الان الحوثيين في اليمن داخلين حلف مريب مع علي صالح و ازلامه مع دعوة فريش للجهاد ضد الدولة؟ على اساس ان هناك دولة اصلا
الحرب مثل المزز الغبية تشوفها من بعيد لزيزة, تجلس معها يومين يبان جنها و عفاريتها فلوس و دم و صياح و مضرابة؟ ايش جبر ابوك عليها؟
ثورتنا في العالم العربي هي ضد اهدار ثرواتنا, ضد الاستبداد,للكرامة, و ليست حرب طائفية! و اذا ارادت الانظمة تحويل صراعها معنا الى صراع طائفي, فهذا شأنها..
فلنتذكر من نحن و ما هي معاركنا! انتبهوا على دينكم
Friday, May 31, 2013
I know for a fact you have been lied to "at least a dozen times" by your religious institutions regarding something, no matter what faith or even if you are agnostic or athiest, you have been lied to when it comes to religion and faith.
My question has been for a while now..
how much have we been lied to??
I have been asking friends for the past 3 days about this and nobody have given me so far an answer more than a word!
Beside the point for all my fighting religious/ sectarian folks or even agnostic peeps here’s something to think about:
Dear Atheist, Dear Faithful: Why are you fighting all the time? You see, the solution here is simple (if we are talking about our perception and believe of God).
Dear Faithful, Sectarian etc.: God exists the way you think he does, the worst case scenario for your opponent is they are going to hell, which is awesome enough of a revenge for your trouble. Why are you wasting so much time and energy being upset on what "other" ppl are doing?
If you know you are right, try telling them about it. If they don’t agree.. sit down, enjoy a glass of berry juice and watch them go to hell!
Dear Atheist, if you think this is just it! Good, why are wasting all that time and making up stuff to let them agree, they are gonna waste their lives not enjoying what you do and that would be it!
Monday, October 8, 2012
Monday, September 24, 2012
Our place under the sun
The change in the region fulfilled or not, complete or not, to your liking or not has happened and the transformation is going from whatever state we were in to having basic rights and freedoms, regardless of how hard and uphill the struggle seems and more likely to be.
Bunch of facts the "youth of the revolution" recognized are as follows
1- In the game of international relations, its business baby, nothing personal. foreign interest in the region has nothing to do with morals, democracy, human lives or maybe even strategic gain, it is mainly about money and what's gonna keep relevant till next election.
2- We grew over the notion of caring about the worlds recognition of our cause, and if it was for nothing it would be for the fact we don't care what world thinks, it is in our hands.
3- Politics is not about one person or a group of individuals deeming to be enlightened and wanting to spread the bliss on the society, this is a communal effort, this is the job of everybody poor, rich, educated or less so, in cities and rural areas.. and it will take time, and our main challenges are poverty, lack of access to decent education, equality, and of course the change of political paradigms from despotic to democratic.
Hypes coming out like Muslim rage and hooplas regarding incidences here and there let me say this:
Our image in the west is doomed, and will never be fixed, we might as well live with that recognition and treat it like a chronic disease.
There are ppl making hundreds of thousands of dollars every year just to spread fear and hate and there's huge invested media apparatus to excuse their pathetic existence.. you heard me fox news you and news week
The generation that created the Arab spring doesn't care what Thomas freedman think, or what news week publishes, not because it is connected but really we pity them not only because they are fear and war mongers and we know those on daily basis, but also we know no matter how tom f thinks he knows, he just doesn't! Moreover he has alot of his own park to clean before he jumps and preach about our priorities!
For one reason only We earned our place under the sun with hard work, and sacrifices (real ones) and we wont give it up for anything!
Business as usual is changing in the middle east weather u accept it or not! so think outside the box for a change!
Picture courtesy of the awesome AbdulRahman Jaber @ARJaber
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Thursday, December 22, 2011
In ALjazeera Stream, about Yemen Revolution and why AQAP will eat your cat
This was my first contribution in Aljazeera stream with couple of cool guests first was Alec Ross, Senior Adviser for innovation in the State department and the other was Turi Munthe from Demotix, you can see my part from
http://youtu.be/zOBc361cNiA?t=40m10s
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
أصوات الشبكة مرة أخرى, حول المبادرة الخليجية
مرت المبادرة الخليجية لأنقاذ صالح و توريط الشعب اليمني بمراحل عدة و كان هدفها هو تعطيل الحراك الثوري في اليمن و استدراك الاحزاب بجزرة لا يزالوا يتمنوها, للخلاص من تبعات ثورة بدأها غيرهم و تولي زمام الامور في مرحلة انتقالية
أعتراض الشباب في الساحات كان مبكرا على المبادرة ككل و بالذات البند الخاص بمناعة صالح و عائلته
من جهة أخرى تحدثنا حول دعوة الفاضل علي صالح(على اساس) بمنع الاختلاط في الساحات
أصوات الشبكة: الأطباء في قلب الانتفاضة اليمنية
كان هذا ظهوري الاعلامي الاول على قناة دولية, كانت المشاعر متقدة حينها بعد مجزرة جمعة الكرامة الذي قتل فيها قناصة تابعين للنظام اكتر من 35 شاب في ساعة المجزرة و توفي اكثر من 20 متأثرين بجراحهم خلال الايام التي تلتها.. و كنت قد شاركت بعلاج الجرحى في المستشفى الميداني و بعدها في أحد المستشفيات القريبة من ساحة التغيير
كان من حسن الحظ ان الأعلامية تاتيانا الخوري هو أول من قابلني في الاعلام الدولي, أحترافيتها العالية و مقدرتها على ادارة الحوار و اختيار الصور المناسبة كان اكثر من رائع
الجدير بالذكر ان في ذلك اليوم اصيب حوالي 625 شخص بالرصاص حسب احصائية نشرها المستشفى الميداني في حينه, و قد تم هذا كله في اقل من نصف ساعة فأذا فرضنا ان ما اصاب الناس هو 50% من الرصاص المقذوف فقد اطلق على مجموعة من المعتصمين المسالمين حوالي 1200 رصاصة في نصف ساعة فقط
و قلك نظام صالح مش دموي؟ ماذا تركت؟
Thursday, July 14, 2011
polarization come!
I was talking to a young Egyptian politician the other day prior to me meeting a prominent American official, I knew this Egyptian guy for years as a friend and as a doctor, and although our political views differed we managed to be very good friends
the question that I had to ask him and delay his sleep for 90 minutes was: why do you guys in Egypt have it heavy against the Americans in your politics and what does he recommend regarding this big meeting of mine? he simply answered don't meet the man your interests don't match (just like our interests in Egypt don't match with the Americans! I could understand his logic, but I had to dig a little further knowing our situation in Yemen differed a bit, so I went further.. I know your party speaks to the American here and there! and he kept denying and he said it is a core fundamental issue for them not to speak to the Americans unless it s all in the open and very well documented and on Camera.
after 90 minutes of back and forth along those lines, I had to hang up our little chat and let my tired friend go to bed!
That was the starting point for me to think, how did all the parties ended up here, and where to head from here to the future?
my answer to self was (stupid ass governance along with dictatorships from the end of 70s till now) surly did no good from the Arabs side to present themselves to the world in one side.. and overly pragmatic and overly (lets stand with Israel for this time only) policy from the Americans that led to more polarization and to slogans like (American is the greatest devil)
The Arab spring is bringing an unprecedented chance for this polarization to end, however I still see all sides not investing to make it fade, in the contrary one can clearly see how limping the US foreign policy is behaving when it comes to expressing discontent towards their old dictator friends (we know he is a SOB but he is our SOB) to the over blaming of the US role in Arab politics and insisting on the the Americans said not to do this to us ??? ( I thought in your country u should be more relevant than the us (if u wanna play politics) other wise go do some gardening!
I don't like any anti sentiment, anti American or anti Iran for that matter in the Arab world right now, we wasted our chance to alliance with Iran in the 80s with our stupid Iraq/Iran war and we wasted our chance to play it well with the Americans in 50s
I can understand how difficult it was back then, since no1 knew anything about the other rather than orientalist tales and pillars of wisdom of the one and only Lawrence of Arabia (which i hate)
but this is not accepted now! why? because you are reading this!
** picture of the BBC Channel still thinking Tunisia had a crisis (rather than a revolution) on the day Ben Ali departed the country
Monday, June 6, 2011
Dont just stand there and whine!

It is absurd how many ppl are dealing with the revolutions in their countries as they are watching a tennis match on TV! they advice Nadal through the screen shouting Go left .. faster,, no no right u fucking idiot! revolutions ladies and Gentlemen is not a show on TV ending up by a tyrant going home.. today in Syria 80 people died in one incident, I lost a childhood friend in Syria, and some got imprisoned, I lost several people I know in Yemen as well, I know an Egyptian blogger who was stripped in public when the central security caught him in Jan 25th, and doctors who were trapped in the hospitals in Banghazi in Libya under air raids.. this is a very close call, very personal and very dangerous!
The situation is difficult, our phones are tabbed, we are being harassed at work (if we still have work left) we wake up everyday with all the possibilities of our lives to be shattered by a single wrong move! activists in the middle east are doing the arab spring without expeirence, no support, with everything to lose and nothing to win but the dignity that our regimes are trying to break since ever. then we find all sorts of ppl lecturing us on what to or not to do without real knowledge on the ground!
I had a call today from someone in Alhasba saying they had rotten bodies on the street and they dont know how to deliver them out! because the partys cant agree on what s a neutral car to pass in.. news about a possible outbreak of cholera in Abyan, and a devastating situation of IDPs in Aden scattered in schools! about 20'000 ppl are there now with no real support systems to catch them!
as of course impotent local NGOs fight over how to suck their donors and how to find routes to build a sustainable capacity bu.. blah blah blah barf!
ppl are dying on the streets because of Tyrants, and what everybody is lending is another lecture on what to do.. i will tell u what to so SHUT UP AND DO SOMETHING!
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Sunday, May 22, 2011
I see dead political intiatives
although i despised the way the political initiatives wants to maneuver around the revolution in Yemen, and how indifferent international community was and still is to the cause of the revolution and to the desire of the Yemeni ppl for justice and moving forward towards a modern state that we deserved along ago and kept out of!
Tthe GCC initiative which became very popular in the EU and backed by the US to keep Yemen from exploding into a million pieces that will eat the whole universe and leave it to ashes ( am i being dramaric enough?)
The initiatives went into several phases and I will use ther term Mobadara: initiative
Mobadara 0.8: that was brought up after ali saleh has asked the (Brothers in the Gulf) to intervene to stop the blood bath
that Yemen might up in (he said) this one suggested that ali saleh was to leave immediately and give up his authorities to
vice president who is ironically enough not legally the vice president (wasnt appointed by a republican decree but was appointed verbally in a random day in 1994)
-the JMP welcomed this (to prevent the country from sliding into a blood bath),
-the revolutionary youth have rejected it because it is not an issue with the president however it is against a whole regime.
-alisaleh has rejected the thing before it saw life! and said anything that comes from qatar or aljazeera is rejected rejected rejected!
Mobadara 1.0 : the immediate departure of saleh was replaced by a transition period of 60 days but the president had to sign alone! so he rejected it because he sees himself not as a political player, but as a leader that .. whatever, so he says the party should be the entity signing.
mobadara 2.0 : by then the GCC and basically ksa started becoming restless, and they asked the JMP and the some politicians from the regime to discuss terms of what should happen, but still it didnt move much and everyone had to go home empty handed.. JMP basically accepted the initiative but said they wont participate in the next gov, and they have no control on the protests.
mobadara 3: and that s when things became interesting, EVERTHING was asked by the president was answered and the JMP was pressured to accept the deal negotiated in alriadh including 50\50 participation in a unity gov and commitment to remove all reasons of tension from the street (that's the revolution)
-ali saleh refused this time, he has to sign as the head of his party since this is a political crisis not a national uprising..
mobadara 4.0 : thats when all was set and the GCC secretary started visiting Sana'a and leaving back and forth because one or the other was refusing to sign! to the point when he left last Wednesday and said damn it i am going to expose u all guys! then suddenly he decided to come back and as of last night the jmp signed! and then the president said it is dirty to sign behind closed doors .. lol
what gets my attention in all of this, how all the parties involved in this pathetic political move ignored the real deal behind all of this.. the revolution and the youth in it!




