Rad Pitt.

As most of you are aware, the past week has been stressful for my family to say the least. Tom (aka, @Tom_el_rumi as he his seemingly more widely known) my oldy brother has been stuck in Cairo during the protests. I say stuck, rather he was reluctant to leave, as any journalist would be when the country they report on so frequently is mid revolution.

I don't have much opinion on the problems in Egypt at the moment (or more, the problems with Egypts government.) Me, my mum and dad have sat up endlessly for nights watching Al Jazeera England with brakes only to watch neighbours. I have spent hours when I should have been doing work at college trying to get in touch with Tom and checking twitter for the latest news in Cairo. More recently, spending my time reading up on what my brothers, and the press have written on it. The one conclusion any sane human could make is that its so shocking Mubarak is holding it out, watching his 'motivational' speech last night made me want to punch him in the face, and today when the pro-Mubarak supporters road into Tahrir square on camels and horses injuring many of their fellow Egyptians, that made me want to kick him in the face. After blocking out the whole internet in Egypt (which, to record has never been done to the scale of this size) there is once again a struggle to get the sufficient information out, but seemingly, Egypt will not stop.

"Mubarak had convinced many with his bravura performance that democracy was coming, the revolution was over and -- with food and fuel running short -- it was time to get back to normal. 

In what appeared to be a coordinated plan, immediately after the speech was broadcast, thugs began to tussle with protesters in Alexandria and other cities.  

State television blasted patriotic songs and images of Mubarak superimposed over a map of Egypt. Groups of pro-Mubarak youth appeared on some roads around Tahrir."

http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE7117HA20110202

I think it's hard to read that and not be angry.

However, on a much more pleasing note, both Tom and his girlfriend Andrea have both made it out of Cairo and are waiting it out in Istanbul, and as my grandpa put it "What luck to be there as an eyewitness!!!" Let's just hope Mubarak hasn't won, the people of Egypt have stood strong, and the way they have formed a united front is something I fear England would never be capable of. 

Do check out my brothers blog about the Egyptian Protests and his photo stream from the past week at:
Www.experimenthol.com 

Like I said, I don't really have much to say about it, except its about time Mubarak left. Check out the links I've put up.

Keep Egypt in your prayers, God Bless, L x

#Jan25