Mosa'ab Elshamy

"Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a..."

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:50:43 +0300

““Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, the freshest milk and butter, flowers before my window, and a few fine trees before my door; and if God wants to make my happiness complete, he will grant me the joy of seeing some six or seven of my enemies hanging from those trees. Before their death I shall, moved in my heart, forgive them all the wrong they did me in their lifetime. One must, it is true, forgive one’s enemies–but not before they have been hanged.””

- Sigmund Freud’s Civilization & Its Discontents

sorrow found me when I was youngsorrow waited, sorrow won

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 23:46:27 +0200

sorrow found me when I was young
sorrow waited, sorrow won

fotojournalismus: Palestinian children play football in front...

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 20:22:28 +0200

fotojournalismus:

Palestinian children play football in front of the Israeli separation barrier in the West Bank village of Abu Dis on November 8, 2012.

[Credit : Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images]

"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully..."

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:36:37 +0300

“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed.”

- 1984

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Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:35:06 +0300

kodakboi: Everyone puts their phones in the middle of the...

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 01:06:57 +0300

kodakboi:

Everyone puts their phones in the middle of the table. Whoever cracks first by touching their phone, pays for the entire meal. The purpose of the game was to get everyone off their phones, away from twitter, facebook, texting, etc and to encourage conversations. In other words, help cure the “Anti-Social Social Media Craziness”. Here are the rules: 1. The game starts after everyone sits down. 2. Everybody places their phone in the middle of the table. 3. The first person to touch their phone loses the game. 4. Loser of the game pays the bill for everyone’s meal. 5. If the bill comes before anyone has touched their phone, everybody is declared a winner and pays for their own meal. Are You Game? (Taken with Instagram)

16 Months of Revolution - سنة ونصف ثورة A compilation of my...

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 04:42:05 +0300

16 Months of Revolution - سنة ونصف ثورة

A compilation of my photography from the ongoing Egyptian revolution. The slideshow mainly covers the bloody clashes of Mohamed Mahmoud street, Cabinet, Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Defence.

مجموعة من صوري خلال معارك الفترة الانتقالية ابتداءً من أحداث محمد محمود ومجلس الوزراء الى اشتباكات ما بعد مذبحة بورسعيد وانتهاءً بأحداث العباسية.

16 Months of Revolution - سنة ونصف من الثورة A compilation of my...

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 08:44:33 +0300

16 Months of Revolution - سنة ونصف من الثورة

A compilation of my photography from the ongoing Egyptian revolution. The slideshow mainly covers the bloody clashes of Mohamed Mahmoud street, Cabinet, Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Defence.

مجموعة من صوري خلال معارك الفترة الانتقالية ابتداءً من أحداث محمد محمود ومجلس الوزراء الى اشتباكات ما بعد مذبحة بورسعيد وانتهاءً بأحداث العباسية.

هو في كده؟

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 08:14:10 +0300

هو في كده؟

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Sun, 01 Jul 2012 18:36:55 +0300

A pro-Mubarak reacts to the life sentence handed to Hosni.

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 02:21:32 +0300

A pro-Mubarak reacts to the life sentence handed to Hosni.

Ministry of Defence clashes. Abbaseya, Cairo.

Wed, 16 May 2012 05:22:00 +0300

Ministry of Defence clashes.

Abbaseya, Cairo.

Birthday night blues.

Thu, 10 May 2012 04:32:00 +0300

Birthday night blues.

Downtown Cairo.

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:46:51 +0200

Downtown Cairo.

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Fri, 09 Mar 2012 01:21:48 +0200

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Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:57:53 +0200

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Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:08:13 +0200

"People say, “I’m going to sleep now,” as if it were nothing. But it’s really a bizarre activity...."

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:42:32 +0200

“People say, “I’m going to sleep now,” as if it were nothing. But it’s really a bizarre activity. “For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I’m going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.” If you didn’t know what sleep was, and you had only seen it in a science fiction movie, you would think it was weird and tell all your friends about the movie you’d seen. “They had these people, you know? And they would walk around all day and be okay? And then, once a day, usually after dark, they would lie down on these special platforms and become unconscious. They would stop functioning almost completely, except deep in their minds they would have adventures and experiences that were completely impossible in real life. As they lay there, completely vulnerable to their enemies, their only movements were to occasionally shift from one position to another; or, if one of the ‘mind adventures’ got too real, they would sit up and scream and be glad they weren’t unconscious anymore. Then they would drink a lot of coffee.” So, next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you’re in a science fiction movie. And whisper, “The creature is regenerating itself.”

- George Carlin (via imbeaker)