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Page one of Sing! In Arabic…  All you lovely Arabic editors out there: Please correct, my written is awful.

While many films have been made about the Egyptian revolution, many of them with very similar names, and many books have been written about it, very little actual storytelling seems to have happened, stories that leave realism behind and talk about the underlying spirit, or the meta of events, adding imagination to politics and a soul to culture. I wrote my first short comic book script in years yesterday. 1 It's called "Sing!" and attempts to thematise the power of music and song in resistance. It may fall flat on its face, but I'm gonna draw it anyway, let's see where it goes. It helps that the characters took mental shape as I was writing. So, don't expect to see much of me in the next days. The title is: Stories from the imaginary Revolution 1, implying that more are to follow. The concept is not exclusive to me and intends to bring together more than one imagination, so if anyone feels like joining in, please do.

This is a reaction to January. What still bothers me is the lack of Pharoe… Maybe someone will come up with one. Updated version to follow.

In an attempt to avoid all media on Friday, I stayed at home and worked on a website. The day after, in spite of rather pressing social commitments, a friend kidnapped me and took me to a Schumann (Bert? I may have the wrong Shu here), mostly to keep me from going crazy from watching the current round of violence in Egypt.  Having missed an office party, clashes in Egypt, a Tsunami in the Philippines and dire warnings for the Eurozone, some festivities in Wedding, I woke up one morning feeling the world was, in its own weird way, alright. My parents have flown to Cairo and are happily on holiday there. Except, as it turns out, during my self-imposed media blackout, civil war seems to have erupted in Egypt. My only indication of this was a comment by a friend "Why is Goldfish posting so many horrible pics on Facebook?" This morning, scanning my feeds, I read of "clashes", "fires", "military attacks protesters", "Prime Minister denies vi...

That's about it, for now.

Tahrir: Berlin | تحرير برلين collects the opinion of protesters on the streets of European cities.   We start out with a collection of opinions, spoken at a demonstration against the Egyptian Military Regime in front of the foreign office in Berlin on the 26th of November 2011. It is difficult to watch a revolution happening from afar, especially when your heart is very much rooted in your home country. In stead of shouting at the wall, a cameraman was in place to record the opinions of the individual protesters.   The need for documentation is one of the things we learned from spring. Welcome to winter. This is an initiative by Spring Lessons , supported by OMRAS .