Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Egyptian Sandmonkey Rules

Did you know that the blogger who runs Rantings of a Sandmonkey once invited me to be his co-blogger. I turned him down. Good thing, too, cause the guy is humongously prolific. I couldn't keep up. Anyway, this young guy, educated in the US (has an MBA from some university there) has been blogging from his home town of Cairo for several years now. You can always count on some cynical and hilarious commentary on incidents occurring in the Middle East. Soooooo, here's the rantings of Sandmonkey on the recent shoe throwing incident.

On the Shoe Throwing Incident

Is Throwing Shoes at Someone Free Speech?

Sock and Awe

And try scrolling through these entries for a glimpse at how the Egyptian government deals with dissent.

Speaking of which, that reminds me of the famous Seven Rules of the Arab Parallel Universe, coined by our hero, the Sandmonkey. All you seven or eight fans of my blog might also want to read this entry at Iraqi Bloggers Central for a fuller understanding of the APU. (Note: the entry on "Akbar's" blog that Jeffrey [Iraqi Bloggers Central] refers to is here. So many of the good Iraqi bloggers quit blogging once the real violence began in Iraq. I often wonder what happened to them. Are they still alive? Did they find refuge in another country? Akbar was one of the best.)

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