Tuesday, June 21, 2005

How a King Should Be?

Every day on my way to the office in Maadi, I pass by a series of big pictures of Mubarak, especially at the entrances into Maadi...However lately one of them was removed for a couple of weeks...only 5 days ago was it replaced with a newer one, in which the president had a bigger smile and looked younger...that was nothing strange or wierd since it has been the norm lately in Egypt that there would be as many pictures of the President on the streets as the number of buildings on those same streets (slightly an exaggeration but then not completely false)...

However, what was strange and shocking that on Sunday I passed by it and it was covered in yellow spray with 3 Arabic words written around the picture..."El 3adl Asas el Molk"... literally meaning: Kings need to be just (it sounds more intense in Arabic)...The statement indicates two things:

1. Someone feels that the President is not being just...
2. Someone is being sarcastic about his 24 year old presidency that they are referring to him as a king...

Whats the most shocking is that 2 days have passed and the grafitti is still there...

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