Caramblogage

Don't you miss  the easy days the black and white days when you didn't wake up  to wonder where you stand The early days when you thought you were old and the world no longer the place  you once knew? A reboot, a reboot! A loss of innocence regained. Days of wonder, long passed the red days are here what was once true is not, but is but wasn't when you look again But you can't forget — Begun in August 2013. It's not over

In the past months, it has become increasingly difficult to write about Egypt. On an emotional level, it is disappointing to watch hope for change turn into a desire for stability and a return to the way things were. On a more political level, the Committee to Protect Journalists has ranked Egypt as one of the most dangerous places on the planet to report from, along with Syria and Iraq. That it ranks there, along with a country in which people are reduced to nourishment from blades of grass, and one devastated by almost 20 years of ongoing civil, secterian and militant strife, is worrying. The reasons for which it is ranked there- according to me- are quite different from the two other countries: while in Syria and Iraq, I count casualties of war, in Egypt, they are casualties of politics. In the aftermath of the June 30th / July 3rd coup (soft, or otherwise), the powers that currently steer Egypt towards an Orwellian police state, revived the old idea that "no bad...