خواطر- اية الابنودى

وحشتني مصر، مصر بتاعتي إللي بشوفها في بالي

اللي اطمن فيها على عيالي ..25 يناير غيرت كتير



بس أنا نفسي النفوس تكمل التغيير..



ترد الحق لأصحابه من غير تباطؤ ولا تأخير



نفسي الشباب يآمن بجد .. يقوم ، يصلح، يعلي ، يكبر وميخنش ورود التحرير ..اللي طلعوا إسم مصر في العالي واللي بشوف نفسي واحد منهم ساعة في خيالي



هو أنا بطلب المستحيل؟؟ عايز بلد تحترم الكبير



أنا مش خبير ، يمكن بحلم بالمستحيل .. بس التحرير كان مستحيل ..



أنا بغير.. بطبعي بغير .. لما أشوف بلد جميل في وش طفل صغير عنده أمل ف بكرا



بس ولدي أنا يقدر يحرك جبل ..حمال اسية نادى بثورة مصرية .. فتحت طريق من نور.. زرعت بذور هزت ميدان ..



بصراحة أنا قلقان ..قلقان على بلد نسيت معنى الإبتسامة -عودت نفسها عالملامة .. ليهم حق يضيع الضمير منهم ..سنين ووطنهم بعيد عنهم



سكنت الأهات قلوبهم ..بلعت صوتهم ..جردتهم من أبسط حقوقهم ..كلي سموم .. كلي ظنون خايف من اللي هيكون .. لو الشباب نسي الميدان دم شهدانا هيبقى ديدان.. مش هنام .. أكيد قلقان



أنا المصري أنا القرفان أنا الغلبان نفسي ف بلد تقدر الإنسان ..نفسي أتكلم بصوت عالي أكمل ثورة عملها الشبان ..

أقول كلام مجرد كلام .. يمكن ينسيني إلي كان ..



يديني أمل ف وطن أحسن ..



أنا المصري أنا المريض أنا الجاهل أنا البعيد



واقف ف الطابور مستني الرغيف مستني أعيش .. واقف بعافر فالأتوبيس ..



أنا إلي نستني الهموم همي ..بقيت خسيس، مش ظريف، بقيت تعيس ..



حرجع وألوم النظام القديم كان عقيم ..



لزم أغير اللي كان أنا النديم أنا عرابي أنا سعد .. أنا واحد من المصريين ..



أنا حزين



كان لي حلم صغير ..بس حرك ميادين ..حرك شعوب ..هز القلوب ..ادى أمل لكل المحرومين ..المذلولين اللي قضوا حياتهم ماشيين ..تايهين ..ذي السكرانين مش دريانين



نفسي الحلم يكمل وألاقي مصر بتاعتي من تاني..



مزروعة أماني والطير يرجع البناني ..



الضمير لازم يعود ..يوحد شعوب



يمحي الألم وأكتب كلام .. وأحكي اللي كان بقلب جامد ..حكاية شعب صامد



شعب واحد



شعب شارك .



شعب ببصيرة جديدة شعب واعد

مش مجرد



شعب شاهد

The Hymen Reconstruction In Egypt

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The hymen reconstruction surgery in Egypt

My talk show is mainly about the spread of the hymen surgery in Egypt and how people like Mr. Waleed Sokkar-an account executive at Tarek Nour advertising agency-disagrees with it very much. In comparison to miss Mai el Sebaai who finds it acceptable at times when for example a girl is raped.

My Guests: Mr. Waleed Sokkar-an account executive at Tarek Nour advertising agency.
Miss Mai El Sebae- Assistant director in the Egyptian Television.

Question 1: Mr. Waleed Sokkar:
What is your opinion about replacing the hymen in Egypt?

Question 2: Mr. Waleed Sokkar:

If you were put in the same situation what would you do?

Question 3: Mr. Waleed Sokkar:

How could you make the situation of premarital sex better?

Question 4: Miss Mai El Sebae:

Are you OK with making that hymen issue to the public and can be used by any one?

Question 5: Mr. Waleed Sokkar:

Do you have any suggestion for making this situation better?

Question 6: Mr. Waleed Sokkar:

Do you think Egyptian guys think the same way as you think that replacing the hymen is unethical?

Fnal Script

This is How JRMC Students End up Being Honorable Society Members

Abnoudy

6th December, 2009

Lead in: Today, the history of AUC is remembered by the great effect it brought on its mass communication students. Our reporter Aya El Abnoudy has more.

MUSIC ( Fade out)

Looking through the glass they see a crowded round about known as Tahrir square, with the sun in their eyes; many thoughts pass through their minds. Quickly they exit their cars and rush through the American University’s Cairo downtown campus gates. This is where it all started. walking through its doors for the first time timid, hesitant, but somehow still full of hope.
Students come in two kinds, the kind that go into those gates with the mere hope of simply graduating. Maybe ending up with a career they like or one that is far dissimilar to their major even dreams.

Ultimately sometimes end up feeling like “nobody” s in the bigger picture of societal productivity. The other kind of students are initially similar yet develop very differently. From day one they strive to become better in everything they do, succeeding becomes a virtue, recognition a means, remembrance an end to making society a better haven. Those are not the figures destined for greatness, those are the figures who carved their futures by writing their own destiny.

The difference between both attitudes can be accounted to several reasons. Some of those are the lack of ambition, with no positive expectations from their college experience. Those are the ones who block out the education they receive and simply refuse to learn. whilst a select few actually want to do something influential with their lives.

Falling into the kind of students who go to college for the sake of graduating, is the quality of just graduating to get a typical job, creating a normal family, and working to support themselves and no one else. However, the other kind of students, the ones with hopes and dreams, are the ones who can not wait to graduate, in order to do something for those who taught and educated them and for the others who can not be educated at all. Also, you see them staying up all night, working hard, staying strong feeling like the world is collapsing around them; those are the ones who end up enjoying life. They even used to learn personal traits from their teachers as Ms. Badra explains,



Sound bite: Mrs. Shaimaa Badra

Back in the day, only 3 segments of Mass communication were offered. First was journalism, second was broadcasting in addition to Integrated marketing communication. Students who really worked hard flourished and proved themselves not only in university but among the whole society.

AUC is the only university in Egypt that requires its Mass communication students to take critical, scientific thinking as well as psychology and many other diverse courses throughout their years in AUC. These courses; if taken good advantage of , will leave a strong effect on the long run in terms of the students’ careers and also their personal lives.

Let me present to you a few examples of some of those people who walked through the same gates of AUC, with the typical negative attitude of the freshmen arriving each year, but worked to help those incapable of helping themselves. Those students are now the ever-flourishing figures that graduated from the Mass communication and now play significant roles in the daily lives of the Egyptians and the Arab world.

An example of success is Shaimaa Badra, who states how AUC and Mass Communication taught her a lot.

“Sound Bite: Critical thinking SB”

As mentioned in the AUC website, the mass communication department is recognized throughout the whole world by producing amazing and well-rounded graduates who play a major role of paramount importance in developing the region's print, advertising and broadcasting. Not only that, The Kamal Adham Center for Journalism Training and Research offers practical work for the undergraduates .



Sound bite : Mrs. Hamsa

It also gives courses to improve the students editing skills, studio management and electronic newsgathering. Another example of that successes is an IMC graduate Hazem Nasr,



Sound bite: Mr. Hazem


Communication and media arts cover a broad spectrum of critical perspectives on the media and introduces a range of contemporary media practices. The department's highly competitive integrated marketing communication major is a cross-disciplinary program that blends marketing education with advertising and graphic design skills.


With all the help and support AUC offers its hard working students, they finish university with good experience. It has been said as well that the Mass Communication graduates of AUC are very qualified in comparison to other students in the region to the extent that many of those graduates hold high positions internationally and locally.

Sound bite: Mrs. Shaimaa

Some graduates are now working in the news field in places like “CNN, The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, NBC, and Reuters, as well as playing key roles in the region's growing transnational media organizations, such as Al Jazeera, MBC, Dubai's Al Arabiya, Radio Sawa, Nile TV, MSNBC in Arabic and CNN Arabia“. Many of them helped in flourishing important newspapers in the region, such as Al Sharq Al Awsat, The Middle East Times, Al Ahram and Al Ahram Weekly. Alums include CNN's White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux, commentator and analyst Mona Eltahawy, senior producer and anchorman for CNBC Arabia Sami Zeidan and managing editor of Alam Al-Youm Lamees El Hadidy.

The Mass Communication program at AUC has also produced an influential generation of media researchers and professionals at universities.

Sound bite: Mr. Hazem

Thus, it is clear that the AUC influences the way of thinking and its students positively especially those ambition hard working ones. Mrs Badra mentioned that it’s because of the AUC she is where she is today

Shima sound bite : Shaimaa Badra


And when you see those students going out of those gates for the last time, you would find it hard to believe they were the same timid, hesitant individuals in the crowd, who are now our cultural leaders, they are our future.
Music (fade out)


Credits:
I would like to thank my interviewees
Mrs. Shaimaa Badra, Mr. Hazem Nasr, and Hamsa Rabiee

The sound track was the music of Jasey Rae.

The AUC website was a very influence source,http://www.aucegypt.edu/academics/dept/jrmc/Pages/default.aspx

Special thanks to Mohamed Anwar who helped me in the editing process.

Total Time: 11:30

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Religions of the world

Hinduism and Buddhism are two very influential religions, though both are not very widespread throughout the world. Both affect each other in many ways and have had many effects on India. India’s culture is primarily based on the regimes of both religions. Hinduism is the oldest and most fundamental religion in India and Buddhism is a religion solely based on just one idea: the end of suffering. Both religions are vastly respected and are subjects of deep interest throughout the countries who do not practice them. Hinduism and Buddhism can be compared and contrasted in means of their prime beliefs, routines and rituals.

Even though both religions arise from identical cultural and philosophical backgrounds. Hinduism and Buddhism were both established in India, so why are they both so diverse? There are many distinctions between both religions that depict the ways of life and the actions a Hindu or Buddhist makes.
Guatam Buddha, the founder of Buddhism was born and raised as a Hindu; this shows that the origin of Buddhism is subsequent to that of Hinduism.

The ideas Guatam Buddha achieved were all following Hindu threads however, the few yet large differences separate both Hinduism and Buddhism from each other; making two separate, unique religions. A similarity both religions share is the fact that they are both polytheistic, like many other ancient religions. Another correspondence between both religions is the fact that they believe in the idea of ‘Samsara’, meaning ‘the cycle of birth and rebirth’.
A major difference between both Hinduism and Buddhism is the fact that Hinduism is based on a series of things you should manage to complete throughout your life, and Buddhism is like a guideline for how people should live their lives in order to reach the stage of enlightenment. Another imperative difference is that Hindus aim to accomplish redemption but Buddhists believe that their main goal is to achieve nirvana during their afterlife.

Hindus follow laws called the laws of Manu, those laws convey Karma. Manu expressed his religious views very clearly in a legal code. The big picture that Karma comes to show is how there are effects or consequences for certain actions, this makes Hindus strive to be better in order to gain good karma. Karma is also existent in Buddhism. A difference between both religions is the caste system, a commonly known social structure in India. Hindus believe that people are more important than others, and the caste system is a social hierarchy; because of this hierarchy, no intermarriage between different castes is allowed, however, Buddhists have no such beliefs.

Both religions must follow certain rituals during and before marriage. Those rituals are formed and created by the people attending the wedding ceremony with a huge focus on the close family and parents of the bride and groom. The rituals are made in order to please the gods watching them, and fire is set so the wedding vows can be carried to the Gods.

A parallel aspect between both religions is their solid belief in non-violence. Buddhists must follow five precepts in their lives, and the first of those being that they should avoid harming or killing any living thing. Violence is never mentioned or used as a way of resolving conflict or ending differences in the Buddhist religion or scripts. Both Hindus and Buddhists believe that non-violence is the most vital virtue of all.

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Egypt in the 19th Century ..

European history has been affected by Egypt for more than five thousand years. Egypt, being Muslim and Europe, being Christian was one of the reasons that made Europeans curious about Egypt at the time. The negative influence by the Crusades and the ensuing wars did not enable open communication; which was why Europeans knew so little about Egypt.

Also, Egypt’s ancient Egyptian societies were lost during the Greek occupation of the coast. Many people had witnessed ancient Egyptian remains like hieroglyphics and temples, but few knew their source or purpose.

The birth of Egyptian modification was when the Napoleonic wars began. The French army, led by Napoleon, were responsible for the Napoleonic wars. They had begun when the French army landed near the Nile river in 1798. The reason for their attack was to disrupt the British trade with India. Even though Napoleon was futile, Napoleon’s army overpowered the Ottoman defenders but then the British sunk its fleet.
By invading Egypt, Napoleon had Europeans engrossed by Egypt’s ancient history. Following the withdrawal of Napoleon’s army, Muhammad Ali, an Albanian military officer, established his own sovereign government in 1811 in Egypt. Preceding his death in 1849, Muhammad Ali had taken over Sudan and Syria and founded an educational system that was a replica of the French’s. Muhammad Ali also presented new crops and technology, nationalized Egyptian farm land and, finally, expanded the Egyptian army and brought reform to it.

Britain became interested in Egypt. Their key purpose was to stabilize the region so the British government had the tendency to support the Ottoman empire in opposition to all rivals. During this time, an “overland route” was introduced in the 1840s, linking Alexandria and the Gulf of Suez.

George Stephenson’s railroad and the telegraph line accelerated contact between India and Britain. Those were put to exceptionally good service to suppress the Indian rebellion in 1857.

In 1869, when the opening of the Suez Canal occurred, it confused the British stance in Egypt. The government was not in favor of the Suez Canal production, however, this had only forced the Egyptians to enter a joint venture with the French in order to construct the canal.

The British canal adversaries were afraid that British shipping would lean towards the canal, becoming solely reliant on it, then undergo disruptions during war time because of its vulnerability.
The adversaries were not at all incorrect, in fact, the canal was immensely successful and productive. This caused merchants to migrate collectively to its direction. Passing through the canal in its first thirteen years, the tonnage mounted from beneath half a million up to five million. By 1882, British ships were in possession of eighty percent of it.

Only paying minimal fees for the passing of their own ships through the canal, owned by mostly French investors and the Egyptian government, the British government seemed to abide by this arrangement. As indicated by the British Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston, as long as Egypt was “well-run and hospitable”, Britain had no reason to possess it. What the BFSLP meant by “hospitable” was that the British merchants could function freely there.

The Egyptian nationalist movement had only started when Egypt became dependent on French military advisors, British capital and many other foreign impacts for modernization. This presented the British government with the opportunity to get immediately and directly associated with the canal.


The Egyptian nationalist movement became operational in the 1870’s, this was when trouble arose. The nationalists began to aim at Europeans and Turks. Muhammad Ali and his successors were considered “Turks” by those nationalists. When the Ottomans were defeated in the Russo-Turkish war, nationalists were encouraged. Ahmed Arabi, one of the nationalists, accepted officer training in a school created by Muhammad Ali. Under Ali’s son, Said, he received an elevation to the rank of colonel. Ahmed Arabi and his compatriots became enraged at the huge amount of money Egypt owed to foreigners under the rule of Said’s nephew (Ismail).

Egypt was in debt by £3 million before Ismail’s reign, however, by the end of his rule (1863), Egyptian indebtedness rose to nearly £100 million. This drastic change was the result of Ismail’s endeavors to modernize Egypt. He accomplished many achievements such as completing the Suez Canal and he paid Ottoman leaders in Constantinople (now Istanbul) to consent Tewfik, Ismail’s son, to succeed him.



Before the year 1875, Egypt had returned £29 million of its loans. However, Egypt still owed £46 million and was reaching bankruptcy. The British prime minister learned that Egyptian investments in the Suez Canal were for sale, he decided to buy those shares for his government.
In 1876, Tewfik’s government asked for British advisors, specialized in finance. Stephen Case was sent to examine Egypt’s economic circumstances. Stephen Case informed Disraeli, the person who sent Case, that Egypt was stable but still required further European guidance. Britain’s and France’s governments then sent representatives to overlook the Egyptian financial position.
The existence of foreigners in the Egyptian government provoked the nationalists, even though they managed to reduce the debts. They became more aggravated when the strangely low Nile flooding instigated starvation in Upper Egypt in 1876-1877.
As the government went further into debt, it fell behind on payments of wages to the army, risking their loyalty. The first army mutiny came in February 1879 and Ismail was overthrown by a second revolt in June 1879.
Ismail's son Tewfik took over. Europeans welcomed the change because they believed Tewfik, a weak ruler, could be influenced more easily. Tewfik proved too weak to control the Egyptian nationalists, however, and his reign turned out to be a disaster for all parties.

Egyptian military officers rose up against Tewfik's government in February 1881 and again in September, both times under the leadership of Colonel Arabi Pasha. Tewfik responded by dismissing the pro-European Prime Minister Cherif Pasha and replacing him with Mahmoud Pasha Sami, a nationalist leader. Sami then picked Arabi Pasha to take charge of one of the government ministries.

Fearing that the nationalists had become too powerful, France and Britain tried to strengthen Tewfik by signing a secret "Anglo-French Joint Note" on January 8, 1882, pledging to support Tewfik against anyone who disturbed the peace. The move backfired, however, when Egyptian nationalists interpreted this as a signal that the Europeans would invade to protect Tewfik. In May 1882, France and Britain each sent small naval squadrons to protect "European interests," and on Sunday, June 11, Egyptians rioted in Alexandria and killed about 50 Europeans including three British military personnel. The British responded by bombarding Alexandria on July 11, and Arabi's army set siege to Alexandria and cut off its water supplies.


Arguing that Egypt was descending into "anarchy" which threatened the Suez Canal (located about 180 miles to the east), the British government sought international support for an invasion of Egypt. Neither the Ottoman sultan nor any European governments joined in, so in August 1882, Britain acted alone. Within two months, they captured the canal and defeated the Egyptian army at Tel-el-Kebir. Arabi and the other nationalist leaders were sent to exile in Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka).

Although British prime minister Gladstone tried to withdraw the British forces immediately, there was no Egyptian government left to maintain order, and even worse, the British invasion ignited a revolution by fundamentalist Muslim forces in the Sudan on the Upper Nile River under the leadership of a man known as the Mahdi. Under British pressure, Tewfik withdrew the remaining Egyptian forces (and their British advisors) from the Upper Nile, but not before General Gordon, a British officer employed by Egypt, was killed at Khartoum in January 1885. His death made him a martyr in the minds of the British public and for many years afterward, the cry "avenge Gordon" was sufficient to rouse enthusiasm for imperial expansion.

Gordon's death triggered endless recriminations and criticism of Britain's Egypt policy. Critics argued that the Egyptian intervention was fought on behalf of British investors using taxpayers' money. Later, others charged that Egypt was the prototype for a form of financial imperialism that used loans of questionable value to gain an interest in local affairs, and then a subsequent default as justification for invasion to protect "European interests."

PROMO "JRMC" , Script

00:25 sec


MUSIC (fade in)

Reporter:

Years of effort, months and months of hard work had a role of paramount importance in flourishing the career of the Mass com AUC graduates.

They owe it a lot for what they are today.

Be there on Dec the sixth and the ninth for more.

Sound bite: Shaimaa Badra:

“I owe the Mass com department for who I am today, I owe it for what I have achieved in work and I owe it for what I have achieved in my personal life”.

MUSIC ( fade in)

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Egypt and I

Life is so hard when there are many choices to make. Too many theories too and too many quotes. Is it all about love?, is it all about career?, or is it just a choice? I do not want to be part of the Egyptian-Algerian conflict I do not want to see Egyptians going to the embassy and destroying it. Egyptians have never been like this destruction is not the solution. What the Algerians did to Egyptians in Egypt and Sudan is unacceptable but Egyptians in the 50s were not used to solving issues that way.

Egyptians are taking that issue now as a national move, where were they when Palestinians were dying everyday I am really upset of the fragmentation of the Arabs due to football. I love my country very much, I feel so down when anyone talks bad about it. Egypt let me down a lot I take it as a best friend that I give many chances to and lets me down every time. For example my father was in the American hospital in France he was treated so good even though they did not know who he is. However, in Egypt with all the effort and the preparations they made they did not take care of moving him from the ambulance and he was about to fall off the wheel chair. That incident really ruined Egypt’s picture in my eyes. I gave Egypt another chance by winning these matches and I was very happy that we won the first match.



However, it let me down again by losing and I was cheering till the last minute and at the end I erased the flag I drew on my face with Pepsi. That was how angry I was. Back to the Algerian-Egyptian issue Egypt is not wrong in this issue however I wished that such a revolution would be for a better cause. Its amazing how all Egyptians united together why cant this be for something more meaningful.

I want to be proud of my country I want it to change I want to see progress. I want to miss my country when I leave it. I stopped getting the “missing” part. I think I will always give it chances after all it is my mother, my father, and my best friend that I cant let it go..

If the match is big issue then send a petition to the National Democratic Party to complain about the lack of health care, the housing crisis, corruption, the selling of the country's assets, the collapse of education, the pollution, traffic deaths, exploitation, poverty, unemployment, the lack of clean water, freedom of expression and religious beliefs, the oppression of women, the piling up of garbage on the streets, etc...