Dashboard weirdness

This is bizarre because it is so common to see a copy of the Quran on dashboards, not technical refrigeration and air conditioning German-Arabic-English dictionaries! Someone's got their priorities straight!

Ramadan day 11; كتاب مالوش اسم، التأميم

I've been fasting from food everyday so far except one. So far so good.

Here's some of what I did today, going to try to memorize this by Tuesday, it's the first half (3min long) of a text by Ahmed El asili about nationalization. Sorry for the background noise; it was recorded above Ramses Square at the Everest Hotel :-)

His book, kitab maloush ism (book without a name) has been very useful to me in learning Egyptian. Thanks!

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/37788909/Kitaab%20Maloush%20Ism/nationalisation.mp4

Photo: I am the Government... of coffee and mess

Thought this photo is funny and was worth a share:

It's from a commons area at Cairo University and it basically says "eating and beverages on these tables will be banned if you keep on leaving your garbage around" 

It's signed by "the director" and next to that, someone wrote "I am the government" in Arabic. I'm not quite sure if they meant that the director is the government or if the writer is.

Also notable that there are coffee marks on the paper, a blatant provocation... ahh... youth these days...

I guess the "I am the government" addition is funny, but it also exemplifies the I'm-a-rich-Egyptian-and-there-are-poor-people-around-to-clean-up-after-my-shit syndrome.

"I am the Government" of coffee and mess. 

Soon, I'll probably write another post going into more detail about this syndrome and other things that illustrate some of this country's underlying problems.

قد النملة ويعمل عملة

قد النملة ويعمل عملة


"the same size as the ant and does trouble"  which means that although he is tiny at the ant but he is troublemaker

miskuu fi amlitu مسكه في عملته they caught him in the act, they caught him redhanded.

thank you to the friends who helped make this happen. it was amazing. :-P (just fuckign around)

نكران الذات

Shout out to Naser, the taxi driver last night who was trying to explain to me what the term "self-denial" (نكران الذات) means, in Arabic. Thanks dude.

superman was here

What do you see when you see this? I tested Adriana as we walked by this spot one day. She didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. When I see this, first of all, I notice it, second of all, I think: "oh, that's probably where "The Hulk" or "Superman" landed last time they came to Buenos Aires, and things are just too slow here to fix it.



Also, I would like to thank meem for the arabic practice site: http://www.ikea.com.sa/index.php?lang=en
Ikea does a great job a translating, just switch back from page to page.