Maya Sarsa Dance Troupe, Cairo, 2010:
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Whether from the Muslim Brotherhood perspective or the latest in secular democratic fashion, Egypt has not been “squared away” merely by its military’s recovery of unwanted administrative power.
Morsi during his authority was not able to ensure security and order on the Sinai Peninsula which the gas pipeline pass from Egypt to Jordan and Israel. As a result, militants systematically arranged explosion on the gas pipeline that deathly affected on country economy.
Today Egypt is dragging into a civil war day by day. The Statements made by General Abdul Fattah al-Sisi directed to the ousted president gives a hope for some citizens towards a brighter future.
Sahbazov, Fuad T. “Overthrown Morsi: Civil War or Solidarity.” Strategic Outlook, July 22, 2013.
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Fuad Sahbazov appears to be an undergraduate studying international relations at Baku Slavic University in Azerbaijan, and his note in Strategic Outlook may remind that practically any view of political drama will be one among many in the open conversation of a vastly enlarged multi-state intelligentsia.
I may be alone at my desktop, but “we” are not alone at all, and some portion of political polarity falls away with a crowd of talkers too large and too mixed to sustain it.
There’s no going back to what was, this possibly a recurring theme with today’s inputs from Russia perhaps still dragging the chains of the Soviet empire.
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With Mubarak’s exit, which may be far less about an American arrangement with a military than the forestalling of the establishment of a Mubarak Dynasty (mission accomplished on that), Egypt has been shaken up, and with the Muslim Brothers the first to foam and bubble away from the surface, the state has now to establish its themes as a democracy IF its people in cooperation with the military, rather than subordination by it, prove capable of compromise, practicality, and realism across a broad spectrum in the invention of a truly contemporary Egypt.
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Maya Sarsa & Troupe, July 3, 2013:
– A song that TALKS OPENLY about MARIJUANA breaks SOCIAL TABOOS
– The BREAKING of SOCIAL TABOOS is a CHALLENGE to a ‘HIDING’ society
– The song promotes SECULARISM and undermines RELIGOUS FUNDEMENTALISM
– The song promotes INDIVIDUALITY and TRYING NEW THINGS
– ‘SIGARA BUNI’ pulls the MASK OFF Egyptian Society
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When Tahrir Square quiets down and that preceding becomes safe again, tourism and expanded trade will return — and perhaps a few progressives too may attend to more difficult and pressing combined economic, ecological, and social issues.
For authentic people — good people; prudent, responsible, and responsive politicians; professionals of high integrity, start with journalists and teachers, but much including dancers and other artists who engage their work with beautiful, lively, and soulful connection — a whole society is a “big tent”, a “great salad”, a circus and a fair with room for everyone, some perhaps a little easier to take and to work with than others, but even so, everyone.
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Still recent: CNN. “Fighting reported in Egypt’s Tahrir Square.” July 22, 2013.
Additional Reference
Maya Sarsa Dance Troupe (web site in French)
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