Well first let me appologize once more for missing my weekly appointment with you this time it was due to Internet connection that was down since eve... Yes this is how I feel whenever I miss internet connection! Well while travelling obviously I'll not have internet but when you are at your own home and you miss Internet either because unstable service or due to land line problems that is way too much but well I still say Egypt has something really sweet! Sweet sweet home! There is so much going on arount as that we need to stay focus and allert to any and each event!let me start with the most recent events I missed commenting on them like Merkel visit to Egypt with a banch of German business men! Why? Because two years restless work started showing up to whomever wants to see! Here I do not say we are safe and Egypt is standing back on its feet, for safety we all know we are at war with terror and terrorism , unfortunately in this war you are not facing a regular aarmy and as well no way to say when this war ends or we are victorious! But obviously as long as we do have martirs for the army, police or civilians this means the war is still on!

Yes Egypt my home I was born on its earth and drunk from its Nile my parents were buried in its land I love Egypt! I've seen lots of its news proud with the efforts El Sisi and its crew are doing to improve our lives, financially, health efforts, and social efforts briefly our daily life! I do apologize for missing my weekly article, last week I feel like I did miss an important meeting but I was traveling no way6 to be on time in that meeting and right now I have to meet you all happy to be there but I have to leave you all as I do have difficulties with the Internet that comes and goes at its own choices no way to control it so I do have to end my article keep it short and brief so I do not miss this week meeting! May God keep blessing Egypt and EGYPTIANS Peace of the Lord be upon you ALL!

Being away from Egypt is usually a problem, I can no more follow Egypt news! While in Manchester I had a few choices Greece broadcasting and Cyprus closely related to Egypt do not forget Alexandria was built by Alexander the Great who took down Persian civilization of his time! So both channels will talk of Major events happening in Egypt but that is not enough I get ESC broadcasting or channel 1, and once again that was not enough to keep me updated of Egypt's news!

As I already said before as time passes and new article is due I start following the news in research of Egypt's news but all I could see a lot of JOY for qualifying to the finals in soccer football that thanks to Abudrika I stop following Soccer and Ahly my all time favorite team! I noticed too lots of comments on escalating prices that never go down, and as well government observations on prices but still no limits to prices rising non stop!

As time passes on and my new article is due I start watching the news I need to know what is going on in Egypt! A full day I did watch the only Egyptian channel I receive abroad -ESC- that is channel 1! The news I had were about the “Youth Conference” in Aswan, the visit of the Egyptian President El-Sisi and his visit to inspect the Hi Dam there his visit to Army and Police officers thanking them for their efforts to maintain security in upper Egypt! By the way I thank them too and wish them all the Best in the memorial of the Police day -25th January- and on this issue I saw some funny Facebook comments pointing out that the day was peaceful and wondering if President Trump did cut of supplies from Muslim brotherhood!

The funeral of Paul and Laura (daughter of Karl Marx) Lafargue in Paris is attended by Lenin; the two socialists died in a suicide pact in the belief that their political usefulness was at an end! Lenin said: Imperialism is caused by capitalism! Well talking of Russia I would jump in today's events, Trump accuses media of faking the story of Russian help to win elections, on the other hand I see and hear Tayyip Erdoğan expecting a meeting with Putin the Russian president to discuss Syrian problem as we see Syrian refugees still suffering! Moreover, Erdogan confirmed today that Turkey stays forever in Cyprus just like Israel remains forever in Palestine regardless of any UN recommendations!

With 2016 end I’ll end my series of Egyptian Traditions but this does not mean I’ll stop writing on Egyptian Traditions; I’ll just leave it to the circumstances but first let me with you all a Happy New Year 2017 may all the best come with this new year! May God keep blessing Egypt and Egyptians and his peace be with you all!

In my article Egyptian Traditions – from abroad I did mention that due to satellite receiver problems I was blinded from news in general, but as I love trying to resolve electrical problems so I did test my skills resetting the receiver to its Factory Settings and hora I did it I got back ERT and ERC Channels!

Well I missed you last week for personal reasons but you all know – my readers if there is any one – I love talking to you all not too sure if I do have any followers or readers but in my imagination I feel like talking to you not writing an article! My comment of the News I got of Egypt You all know I'm not in Egypt since some time back and due to TV receiver problems I have no Egyptian channels EMTV or CBC or and broadcasting from Egypt the only channel I follow is RIK 1 TV a Cyprus related channel that brings new of Aleppo in Syria -حلب فى سوريا- or Peter's cathedral bombing and I see afterwards Egyptians' reactions on Facebook, and on this issue I would like to say:- Remember we are fighting and in war with terrorists and terror, do not let the issue get out of proportions; When a TV presenter reads the news he might not be a terrorist himself, or the one who wrote the news or the director of that channel they are just doing their job and are not supposed to think ahead how we would receive the news, we clam dead of the bombing are Martyrs others see them victims and many more they just see a dead person, nominations is not the issue but using your sorrows on those victims, martyrs dead or what so ever nomination is to ignite vengeance and revenge forgetting that Christianity calls for redemption and forgiveness!

As time passes and people keep blaming ex-president Mubarak for all the misery Egyptians still suffering from; Very poor people; corrupted police officers, military forces still helping around no one else capable to solve those problems? Should it be the Army? Well the collapse of Education system was it Mubarak's fault? Our new respectful parliament that all they could do is prosecute R.I.P. Naguib Mahfouze or call all university girls “Whores” and they can not see the degradation in male's attitudes and more is it still Mubarak's fault? Long time ago when the King was still a King in power, he had a parliament that its members refused to be pawns in a chess board they refused the British occupation and was the 1919 revolution Saad Zagloul was expelled not by the King but by the occupation British forces but history did open all doors to him!

Well as much as I'm happy to write to you (Egyptians or whomever reads my weekly articles) I'm truly sorry for the absence of updated news of Egypt in my exile abroad yes I'm in exile since ex-president Nasser -a former Muslim Brotherhood member- decided Egypt was an Arab country its main religion is Islam, and with all due respect to all religions COUNTREIS Never had a religion! Moreover when ½ my family -the Greek side- was still in Egypt I would feel Christmas coming way before the 25th of December -or the 7th of January which ever is right- there was a Greek / Egyptian tradition that children and grown up children will go around in the neighborhood to well known Christian houses and sing about Father Christmas coming and offering presents!

Finally on my old beloved laptop with my old provided word processor to write a quick note about the newly elected USA president ! Well a lot of Egyptians expected all the presidential elections in USA was just for local consumption like in Egypt for decades and decades president was assigned and people do not even had the right but to say “Yes” the “No” voters should disappear ex-president R.I.P. Sadat asked once to see those people who dared and said NO! My own neighbour a very respectful true Egyptian the son of R.I.P. ex-army officer who in his old days was being treated in the same hospital with R.I.P. Omar Soliman in the next room! I resume this True Egyptian -my neighbour- predicted HELARY CLINTON will win! I said -Forgive me God as I sin- I hope she dies before Elections!

After the longest ever Trip over time and time I traveled and as I refuse to let go of my weekly article I must keep it short and to the point! I'm in Manchester in the heart of all atrocities happening in this world! And yes I know with today's Technology each and every word I say or type it is recorded in my file with with MI6 awaiting the right time to eliminate me cause they see in me their enemy number 1! It would not be long before I die like King Farouk in a 100% clean mission, but I had made God my defender the most powerful protector, so no deadly diseases neither violence will hit me... Psalm 91!

With the 1st ever Egyptian Youth Conference I’ll stop counting the Egyptian Traditions cause when I started I had in mind 3-5 points I wanted to discuss under that title but as I go and dig up more and more traditions come to my mind and as I do not intend to keep counting in ROMAN NUMBERS (I..V..X) I decided to stop this count up but will keep going as I can! Today’s tradition is about my lost youth learning and getting educated just because when my parents had my age they had no Radios or TVs to help them learn, they had to go SCHOOLS! We all know Education system in Egypt is in a very BAD SHAPE however we could see youth in that 1st conference that took place in Sharm el Shekh 3 days ago very sophisticated obviously sophistication does not mean manners; generation 4 mobiles, Facebook and Internet help new generations to understand facts but do not teach manners on the contrary they might contribute in spoiling the little manners your parents could teach you, and those little manners they could teach you was not because they lack manners but because they did lack time to provide you in those difficult times when each and every commodity price climbs sky hi but they still can buy for you a Samsung or I phone pay for your private school lessons that will end up with you sheeting to pass your exams!

An other old old tradition of newly graduated youth looking for a job in far far away countries, Why? Cause the pay check month end equals more than 10 times they salary they would get in a similar job in Egypt! However the vital question here is “Is the cost of living in those countries as low as in Egyptd?” Well in fact few years back in France I would get a cup of tea or coffee for almost 5 euros price should have gone up by now but I have no idea how much however the cup of tea or coffee would come with some pastry donuts or sweets this was included in the price but you do not have to eat them because you initially go to the coffee shop for a cup of coffee (or tea) I personally can not start my day before having at least a cup of tea! As a matter of fact today while I’m writing this I had so far 4 cups of tea! It’s still mid day and defiantly before day end I’ll have more tea and coffee as I love coffee as well but have no patience to make it! Egyptian coffee is not made of some boiling water and and Nescafe neither in a boiler called coffee maker with some grains of coffee to make American coffee or put grains of coffee in a separate compartment and let steam of water pass through them and be condensed to make the French coffee; No Egyptian coffee needs patience and hi tech management cold water mixed with the proper amount of sugar -just 1 spoon coffee and 1 spoon sugar for regular coffee or 1.5 sugar for sweet coffee or 2++ spoon of coffee for sweet sweet coffee- and let the mixture boil in low low fire and cook the grains of coffee but carefully remove it from fire seconds before boiling so we preserve the top of the coffee called FACE - wesh in Arabic-!

Back to the Egyptian Traditions that I missed so much bu how could I write the article without a Laptop or a Computer? Moreover; how would I send it without Internet? Any way this brief forced vacation was an opportunity to renew my views and hear other opinions one of them was an old old Egyptian Tradition that any problem Egypt faces is the Israeli-American plot! I fed up with this excuse that I always heard rather than solving that problem!

Shimon Peres died of 93 years old he was awarded Nobel Peace prize -I wander HOW- and a lot of world top politicians will assist in his funeral including reps from Egypt! LEADER ARAFAT & ISREALI FM PERES REACH AGREEMENT ON PALESTINIAN … Shimon Peres was born August 2, 1923 in Weinlawa, Poland, (now Vishniev, Belarus). His family was committed to Zionism and as anti-Semitic violence escalated in central Europe in the 1930s, they migrated to then British-controlled Palestine when Shimon was 11. His family members who remained in Europe were murdered by the Nazis.

Last week’s article Egyptian Traditions Part V that was in fact a re-write of the overdue article Egyptian Traditions Part IV never published due to a system crash and lost the file, that is 2 to 3 weeks ago I saw the clear and present danger and was trying to warn Egyptians no to fall in to the generation 4 wars traps where; “You do what I want you to do!” without any forces or fights!

This week I resume the Egyptian Tradition as if part VI of last week was published but in fact this week's re-write of article Egyptian Traditions P VI of last week that unfortunately the program and my computer crashed and was lost, I could not even apologize via e-mail as Internet was on/off and my laptop keeps crashing and over hitting and very slow due to over hitting! Moreover, I had a copy on Drive One a network site offers free space to save files kind of backup but the site was down and since then this file is out of limits of free space offered and can not open, in brief I would say either that file has a virus or it is cursed!

In old times a mother's only job was to take care of her house meaning her husband and kids, they all needed food so she had to cook and this included lot of kitchen side work like washing dishes and sometimes she had to go in the market to buy vegetables and other cooking staff, she had as well keep every thing in the house clean clothes or bed shits carpets and the floor! Sometimes kids would help around as they grow but was not a must it was pure volunteer same holds with the husband some would help and it had nothing to do with men being overworked or tired, it was a pure affection and wanting to be part of his wife's life!

When I was just a kid playing with my toy train suddenly it was two pieces and a big melancholy hit me until R.I.P. My uncle with magical hands and moves fixed it back into one whole piece! What a joy erased that melancholy and asked amassed “How you did it?” and his answer hit my brains for years to come “Engineer I am not just a teacher of mathematics!” The obsession begun somehow I knew the faculty of Engineering needs Mathematics and studying did not stop my hobby to dig up any instruments to discover their functionality and that is how I got obsessed with computers and internet!