A Whisper

مش ممكن، إتسألت السؤال ده أكتر من مليون مرة خلال أقل من شهرين. وساعات نفس الشخص يسأل نفس السؤال كل يوم بعد: "صباح الخير، عامل إيه ... هه أخبار الجواز إيه؟؟" ... نفس السؤال، بنفس الصيغة، وحتى بنفس التون والإحساس والضحكة الصفرا...

فى الأول كنت بحاول أدور وأعصر دماغى عشان أعرف أتكلم عن الجواز فى محاولة ناقصة للإجابة على السؤال المنيل ده. لكن أصلاً الشخص اللى قدامك مش عاوز يسمع، ده كان بيسأل وخلاص. مش لازم بقى نفلسف المواضيع ونعقدها. هى الناس متبرمجة على إنه الجواز عسل فى الفترة الأولى وبعدين بيقلب بصل بعد شوية، هتوجعله دماغه ليه بقى عشان يفكر فى حاله وإزاى ممكن يتغيير، فبقيت بجاوب دايماً وأقول: "ميه ميه" وأصبح هذا السؤال بالنسبة لى مثل باقى الأسئلة المعتادة يومياً والتى نستخدمها ونجاوب عنها بدون تفكير مثل: "إزيك، عامل إيه؟" فتكون الإجابة الآلية: "الحمد لله وإنت؟"

الغريبة إنه ممكن واحد ناوى يُخُطُب أو خاطب وناوى يتجوز، يسألنى بعد كده: "يعنى ندوس؟!!!!" وكأن تجربتى هى مؤشر للجواز من عدمه!!!

السؤال الوحيد اللى إحترمته وخلانى أفكر شوية سألهونى صديق فرنسى: "How deeply did the fact that you got married change you?" ولنا هنا وقفة آخرى

From long time, people working behind non-free encyclopidias, like Britannica, are fighting out behind Wikipedia claiming that it doesn't provide accurate information.

Wikipedia Founder, Jimmy Wales, decides to make an opening montage for the documentary film Truth in Numbers: The Wikipedia Story, an intimate study of the rise of Internet technology and one man’s (and one hundred million volunteers’) quest to provide free knowledge to the entire world. May be to prove to the world that Wikipedia is important and realiable as a reference for information for research.

As being reported in Wikidocumentary About page:


It seems that John and Brishen (people working on the documentary film) decide to visit Egypt and make some interviews with Wikipedia contributors in Cairo and Alexandria. It's out of the schedule plan and no arrangement for anything.

Mido know about it from English Wikipedia by chance and he send an email to Arabic Wikipedia Mailing List on Apr 21, 2007 to ask for volunteers that's interested in such meeting in Cairo.

Mohamed Mostafa, Alnokta (Mohamed Magdy), Ahmed Hashim and me managed to join the meeting at 8:00 PM downtown in Cairo.

We had difficulty getting in time because of traffic jam in Cairo streets and had another difficulty, also, finding a place that could allow us to have video recording but at last we managed to find a good place and we start the interview managed by John and Brishen.

We enjoy the time chatting about Wikipedia effeciency, benefits, motivations to contribute and difficulties in Arabic Wikipedia.

Their next step to meet Wikipedia guys in Alexandria.

See more interviews in different cities around the world:
Cape Town, South Africa
Delhi, India
Varanasi, India
Chennai, India
Jakarta, Indonesia
Taipei, Taiwan
Seoul, Korea East Coast, USA
Beijing, China

Wish ours being broadcasted soon and thanks for John and Breshin for that enjoyable meeting.

That was nice. I finished very late (at 9:00PM) finding that it's raining. It wasn't good nor bad day, just normal. I can't drive home like this, so I go in the mall thinking of something to do until it stop raining. "Why don't spend the night in Cinema?", I thought and wished to find an interesting film out this Cairo Film Fest not like yesterday schedule.

Well, I checked the cinema schedule and found a Spanish movie called "Sin Ti (Without You)" and a Netherlands movie "Guernsey". Choose the Spanish, seems romantic.

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Why google is developing everything (GTalk, Google Desktop, ...) for Microsoft Windows only and not for Linux too, knowing that Linux is being very popular now?!!!