Egypt

The phenomenon of democracy to bloom, or “getting into the spring of Arab” (Arab Spring) Egypt filled with the hope that never appeared. But mingled with apprehension that I bite the inside of the unfathomable.

“Thieves and thugs my head,” This is a general view that the rural areas of Egypt after the revolution. It is for this reason the police face stares at the train station, so do not let me through. While I was shouting. “No foreigner is to train three or more”.

I’m on the road in the fall of 2011 with his guitar neck trim colleagues in Egypt. The track record of rebellion in Cairo for over 200 days, we are traveling from Abu Simbel in southern Egypt. Head to Alexandria, Alexandria, north of the country. By several stops. We plan to travel to far away from the center of the revolution. The City Club of Tokyo Square (Tahrir Square) in Cairo to see how changes affect other areas in Egypt.

“There is no reliability. There was security, “Mugabe Jobs Hasan enlisted in the 22-year-old when I asked about the protest.
Washington Square Gallery in Tokyo. “I’m not against him. But not with me, “he was not surprised by the bad behavior of the previous government. However, imply that corruption is deep-rooted trees. To cut down a tree, it grows up. “Democracy is not. The precipitation was not enough. If the harness is too loose. People are arbitrary. We also need not be rigorous, “he concluded.

This view is common to the provinces. Almost everywhere we visited. Egyptians have demonstrated their concern about Al Graham County. Or safety. Many people seem almost paranoid over the statistics of the increased firing rifle. It was almost unheard of before the revolution. The Rise and Fall of the rules of society. One taxi driver in Luxor with a pistol tucked under his seat under the shade of the Pharaoh.

The stress alone could not pull the country down. Tourism is a major source of revenue for the Egyptian economy. But things are rarely that we visited said that the desert people. Grand Ram temple in the line of Abu Simbel. Stall at take off quietly. The metal gates are still there. Eight months after the coup to overthrow President Neil Hosking said Barack drastically reduces the number of visitors to only about 150 people a day only.

Saw him a punch in the Egyptologists, neurology and director of the Temple of Abu Simbel. And other monuments in Nubia in the south and the border with Sudan, saying that “fear that if tourists come here, they may be attacked as” I am told that the product list. Many Egyptians are facing economic problems that are a necessary part of the transition. They are said to be Obama. “The Last Pharaoh,” and that a new era has arrived. This is the turning point of history. Genetic science for more than 5,000 years.

All in, “said the Ram line, and said Obama was a military regime and to establish their authority in the family by inheritance,” but in us, not sure. Obama said he was prepared to give up one to replace him since before the revolution is a dictatorship, the people of Egypt or not. “Egypt’s political culture has changed enough for us to say that. Obama said it was the last pharaoh. We have a democracy then. But not enough to do “list is so soft.

He said he is optimistic that the original page from the old rule still exists on many levels. Both national and local. Illiteracy rates are still very high. Egyptians are a revolution that is the only opportunity to grab what they want us in saying that “racism, Arabs do not accept people simply think it is because of the dominance of patriarchy within. family or the tribe. If the father said, ‘Do not play’ I will not play. He is a dictator. You can change the sentiment of the people of Egypt within a short time, how “the journey has not ended.

Abu Simbel, as well as small towns and villages in the Nile valley. Delta estuaries. Alexandria and Alexandria. We visited all points along the way. We see that the neighbors have to struggle to survive the anxiety that often. Living in poverty is even more difficult and more difficult. The Muslims who adhere to conservative ideals and hope to turn Egypt into a military bureaucracies of divinity. Or is it that most of the (secularist) which intend to establish Egypt as a country that respects multicultural and minority rights, guarantee freedom of all citizens.

Egyptians are apparently waiting for a clear pattern appears. The parts of Egypt, colorful pieces make up the new shape.

I asked the engineer Muhammad repeatedly with water and totalitarian ideas that existed in Egypt for a long time. The deeply rooted in family and tribal groups. And sooner or later lead the Power to come back. He was stubbornly opposed by saying that. “The relationship between me and the children of the relationship between my father so much. If my father ordered me to ‘stop saying’ I will stop talking. I did not do that to my children “.

If so, this means that 59-year-old trapped repeatedly that this revolution will be successful, however, or “Just as we wander through the desert and I do not like that,” he answered with a determined tone, as if to say that I do not feel ready to settle down. “We found the route. It would take longer to get it out of the desert “.