محمد رجب سيد

الأربعاء، 11 مارس 2015

West Beirut

Years ago when I watched "West Beirut" I was wondering, how people would have a normal life in country where a civil war has just broke down, where people got killed for simply being in the wrong place in the wrong time with the wrong religious identity. But days ago I found an answer to this question. It doesn’t happen all the sudden at once, no it happens gradually. Two days ago on one night I told my wife about six or seven bomb explosions in Cairo I knew about with just one scroll on facebook. Couple years ago a bomb explosion was something that would shock people and make them take about it for days. Now it’s nothing, it’s an every-day-thing. Internet satirists are throwing jokes about it, one I liked was of Amr Mustafa Sokkar . Instead of wires the terrorists are equipping bombs with PlayStation consoles. The bomb squad have to game against him and win, otherwise the bomb will go off. Egyptians are reporting the Police about another Egyptians, who listen to Hamza Namira or reading a novelle of Naguib Mahfouz (Can you imagine the paradoxe) in the subway. The police is killing people in front of their own children.
No one declares civil war. Civil war or whatever kind of civil unrests is not an event, that just happens one day or another. It’s a process and during this process people get used to it that they don’t even realize they are living in a civil war.
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