☫ Egypt: deja entendu

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Egypt: deja entendu

Egyptian celebrations

Stomaching the oppression of own and foreign peoples: Capacity or disability? Rights to victory and liberation demand the duties of struggling and resisting. We all look forward to the day when Egyptians rightly celebrate.

It was not long ago that Cairo and Alexandria dressed their streets up in euphoria, following Egypt's achievements in football. A chance that Obama's favorite dictator in the Middle East, Hosni Mubarak, seized to silently display his architectonic taste - or total lack of it - in the iron wall devised to further choke and humiliate the people of Gaza.

Shortly after, the death of the regime's religious backbone, Sheikh Tantawi, lit up fresh carnivals in the private corners  where Egyptians can still take shelter from the dictatorship.

Yet the fact that such corners remain confined to their inner selves and some internet channels, begs the question of whether the North Africans' celebrations go beyond the domain of random events that carry no merit or not.