SCAF Sex Call

    I have many phone stalkers. I found the best way to deal with them is to answer the call and just leave the phone. This way they'll technically be paying you to ignore them :) Sometimes when I'm bored I'm curious to listen to what they're saying: sometimes they're dirty-mouthed sick freaks, but mostly they just blabber empty-mouthed desperate words. Sometimes they say they threaten me saying they're state security, sometimes they play recorded music or songs. Sometimes they actually sing! And I remember one actually reading me poetry...

    It's just this morning that I related: we're yelling our lungs out in vacuum. They can let us chant with their toppling, demonstrate against their torture, blog and curse at their monstrosities, make songs and movies that we imagine will expose them, sit in fasting in June in the middle of Tahrir square... But they don't even care to sometimes listen to what we have to say, as opposed to me. فاتحين السكة وسايبيننا نبؤ.

23 May 2011 يوم نقد المجلس الأعلى للقوات المسلحة #NoSCAF

This is my first Vlog. I had done it hurriedly as a contribution to the 23rd, thought I had to do something!  I wasn't exactly proud of it; until the demo in front of C28 on the 26th of May when Ganzeer, Kuta & Nadim got arrested and a stranger came up to me and asked "What's your name?" and I paused puzzled, then said "Mona El Sabbahy...?" Then he said "انتي بتاعة الفيديو؟" And so I was like "... Yeah...?" which was when he smiled and said "Ana Loai ******. Well done, well done, WELL done." And shook my hand :)

My First Steps Into The Ugly World Of Grown-Ups

Today I was physically sexually harassed for the first time. I did not do anything. At first I didn't even notice. I hadn't once thought that it would happen to me. Then I thought it was my fault. Then I decided I won't tell anyone, because I was ashamed. I was angry. Now I was angry with myself. And him and all the other people on the bus. Then I thought. When I got off the bus I decided I won't be angry. I will tell everyone. I will tell everyone that it happened to me and that I didn't do anything. But I will also tell them that next time it won't go unnoticed. علشان أنا بتاعة نفسي مش بتاعة حد.

"Welcome to the ugly world of grown ups.."

                              -Hala Omar, my godmother

Cairo, 2009