MMW - Interview

An interview that I was proud to do with my MMW family. It was one of the most interesting interviews I have ever had!

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MMW - Movie Review - 678

Egypt, like the rest of the Middle East, has been suffering for a long time from street harassment. Naturally, different Egyptian intellects have been trying to emphasize the problem and highlight what can be the start of solving it. Mohamed Diab, a young Egyptian writer, wrote and directed the movie “678,” which focuses on this very dangerous phenomenon. You can see a trailer (in Arabic) here.

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Compassionate Communication

I can handle your telling me
what I did or didn't do.
And I can handle your interpretations
but please don't mix the two.
If you want to confuse any issue,
I can tell you how to do it:
Mix together what I do
with how you react to it.
Tell me that you're disappointed
with the unfinished chores you see,
But calling me "irresponsible"
is no way to motivate me.
And tell me that you're feeling hurt
when I say "no" to your advances,
But calling me a frigid man
won't increase your future chances.
Yes, I can handle your telling me
what I did or didn't do,
And I can handle your interpretations,
but please don't mix the two."

~Marshall Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

Pride and Vanity

Vanity and pride are diff things, though words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us!

Jane Austin – Pride and Prejudice

Pride!

"His pride," said Miss Lucas ", doesn't offend me so much as pride often does, because there's an excuse for it ... If I may so, he has a right to be proud."

"That is very true" replied Elizabeth " and I could easily forgive his pride, If he had not mortified mine!"

Jane Austin – Pride and Prejudice

Egyptian Women's Union is not Nawal El Saadawy's Union!!

نريد أسرة ديموقراطية لا سلطة مطلقة فيها لأى فرد الأب أو الأم أو غيرهما

Which means “We want a democratic family/country with no absolute power to a certain person be it the father or the mother!”

These words were in the opening words of a new Facebook page that is titled “Egyptian Women Union” and another one ; “Egypt’s Women Union – Germany” with the picture of Nawal El Saa’dawy on its main page.

So isn’t Nawal El Saa’dawy a person? Why is her picture identifying this union whatever it is? Is it El Saa’dawy’s union? So if I’m interested in such a union, I have to know that I am in Nawal El Saa’dawy’s one? If we need a real life symbol for such a union, we have the pictures of the hundreds and thousands of Egyptian women who have actually been participating in the revolution – Like the Revolution Women’s Coalition – or these “Women of Egypt” pictures, we have the pictures of the female revolutionary martyrs, we have so many figures. And the fact that some people look up to Nawal El Saa’dawy and they want her picture to represent what they are doing, the shouldn’t mention this “No absolute power” thing because I personally see it contradictory, especially when you check out the links in the page and you find out that the international image that whoever making the page is trying to build is that it is something that is closely related to El Saa’dawy.

What if I am an Egyptian woman who believe in each and every cause Egyptian women have been fighting for, and I would like to be part of such a union and help if I can, but I am not willing to be in anything that is related directly to Nawal El Saa’dawy? There’s a difference between working together despite our differences for the bigger cause because we both work for the bigger cause, and working for the bigger cause through and along with someone’s specific image!! Not to mention Saa’dawy’s image!!

I’m sorry Dr. Saa’dawy; you don’t and you shouldn’t own the Egyptian Women Union or any other way to unite Egyptian women under your name. This is not proper and I personally don’t accept it.

I don’t think I can ever work on something that is your image, does this mean, I won’t be able to part of the Egyptian Women “Union”??

I just don’t get it and I don’t like it!

We have passed this time when only one person can own ideas, dreams, visions, not to mention, people, especially women. Egyptian women don’t need to be lead or guided in their own union. This is just a new form of patriarchy that I don’t accept!!

Keep your score!

what is the name of that circular thing that you target with darts? Oh yea, ME!!!

How many shields you have unshielded, how many times you have proven me wrong about myself, or how many hidden flaws that you smartly discovered about me!

keep you score!

“You are not who you think you are.” “I know you!” “see? hahaha, gotcha!”

keep your score!

Wasn’t it obvious? Did it need explanation? You think you would have ever won with me if I didn’t want it?? You are soooo wrong!

Keep your fake score!

I will submit when I want, how I want, to whom I want. There’s no other way around it. Don’t just fool yourself you took anything by force from me. You would be really surprised!

Bravo! Happy with your score?

You have used all your darts, and I have been catching them from the other side, and you have been celebrating this given victory. And now you are thinking you point that score in my face??!! Fine!

Hope you are happy with that score, cause it’s all you’ll ever get!


And one more thing, I’m not a checklist target