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VIEWS:
HOT COLUMNS UPDATES:
(More than 2 million
words in 61 pages + 9 books of
original & daring
views, mostly in
Arabic)
Want to read them all?
Consult this guide.
Here are some of major entries:
POST-HUMAN CINEMA (1):
 December 18, 2007: Special
Guest Entry: Al-Ahram daily’s book review of Fantastic Cinema.
 June 29, 2005: War of the
Worlds: A Great Post-Human Material Hard to Be Corrupted (Even by Steven
‘E.T.’ Spielberg)!
February 11, 2004: The Lord of
the Rings —or the whole dark side of Humanity collective mind, is it about
Islam?
July 22, 2001: The ugly
confusion between Surrealism and Post-Modernism.
June 1, 2001: The first Web
introduction to Post-Human Cinema.
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CIVILIZATION (1
- 2 - 3
- 4 - 5
- Hypatia
page):
August 28, 2007: Almost two
years passed around and the Muslim mind dilemma deepens!
November 4, 2005: The
Muslim mind dilemma: Westerners shoot movies, Muslims shoot Westerners!
May 4, 2005: What’s
good in the leftist secular humanist ‘Kingdom of Heaven’ if all the main
issues about crusades are wrong? Here’s the ‘other’ secular point of view!
October
7, 2001: A whole
new page on the concept of civilization and the misconceiving of clash of
cultures as a clash of civilizations.
January
16, 2001: In a
galaxy far far away… before Huntington!
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Age of Innocence
Al-Mozneboun
(The Guilty) (1976)
(This photo from the 1970s’ Egyptian blockbuster was
the trademark of this site in its early months. It is back might not for
pure nostalgic purposes!)
What’s Guilt?
A question should be re-asked in the religious 2000s.
For more news, reviews, commentary and stunning images,
visit our extensive Popular Art page, the Censorship page,
or the Sex and Liberties page.
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POP ART (1 - 2
- 3
- 4
- 5):
May 4, 2006: What’s Charisma?
February 25, 2006: The magic about
James Bond movies!
July
1, 2005: 2005 summer movies and music reviewed. Plus: TV
Section launched.
May
19, 2005: What’s
Beauty?
August
8, 2004: Egyptian movies 2004: Talking about videoclips might be more
exciting!
August
6, 2003: Egyptian
movies 2003: Sexual themes strike back!
Plus: A
tribute to 1970s’ sex boom in Egyptian cinema.
May
19, 2003: Why Nancy
Ajram is a great threat to the Arab culture ‘Establishment?’
January
24, 2003: ‘Catch
Me if You Can,’ ‘Fish’s Tail’ and ‘Yacoubian’s Bldg’: Back to the art of very
well told stories, all with some interesting ideas!
August 7, 2002: Summer 2002
Egyptian movies are angry but no direct messages anymore. The age of Wahid
Hamed declines and the age of Ahmed ‘A-Lemby’ Abdullah prevails. Believe it
or not: it’s a sign of maturity!
May 20, 2001: Page main study on Popular
Art Mechanisms posted. It tackles most of art criticism issues by
distinguishing pop art, the big industry which addresses the mainstream
audience in movies, television, dance, music, videogames …etc, from both fine
art and folklore art.
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A Brief History of Porn
France to clamp down on porn,
prostitutes and pay-TV.
Read the continuous coverage of these
nasty events.
SPECIAL I: A brief historical recount of
pornography in movies.
SPECIAL II: The U.K. porn
industry restores old times great liberties. The legendary British
censorship decides self-disbandment.
ALSO: The fast-growing
$10 billion American imaged
sex industry.
PLUS:
A Brief History of Nude Modeling
Survey Reveals That 1 in 12
American Women Would Pose Nude on the Internet. What History Lies Behind
This?
Read the entry.
(Most entries are in Sex page. It’s available only offline.
Please read the disclaimer first).
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CULTURE (1 - 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6):
December
8, 2005: Heikal, a
case study!
August
13-29, 2004: Cultural footnotes on the margin of Athens Olympic Games! Also: The infiltration
of a clear and present Islamic agenda in the Olympic community is threatening
to repeat the history: As the Christianity ended the old Olympics the modern
ones are about to be finished by Islam!
February
20, 2004: We’re
not alone! Zeev Boim says Arabs have a ‘genetic defect!’
August
18, 2003: Zayed
Center closed. They should have listened from the start to our old Shut-up
advice!
August
16, 2003: Where
and why did Reda Helal vanish?
December
12, 2002: A little
apology for what so-called ‘racism.’ What about some scientific facts that
everybody ignores?
October
11-16, 2002: A HISTORY MADE AND STILL TO BE MADE: U.S.
decides to occupy Iraq and assign a new General MacArthur as a military ruler.
BUT: Could it work
in Egypt also?
July
23, 2002: Masters
of defeat gather to celebrate the most notorious disaster in the modern Arab
history: Egypt’s July 23, 1952 ‘revolution’!
January
31, 2002: What’s
‘Right?’ A simple question has never been answered in the eternally left-wing
Arabic language!
January
1, 2002: How
to repair the image of Islam in the West? Here’s our advice: JUST SHUT UP!
December
1999: A major study
written between 1992-96 on Arabs and the Future of National Cultures posted.
This is the third opinion page in the Think Internet! Month and the
biggest in this site and in the whole Arabic Internet.
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SECULARISM (1 - 2
- 3 - Hypatia
page):
December 7, 2005: Question:
What happens when a critical percentage of people believes in demons? Answer:
They will exist! The Exorcism of Emily Rose or medieval ages are here
and now!
April 24, 2005: The new Pope
Benedict XVI: Declaring war on Islam? Applying for a membership in
contemporary Christian-Zionist civilization camp? Reversing the criminal
record of John Pole II, the keenest ally to Saddam, Arafat and Qaradawy?
Vowing an open-minded and liberal new Catholicism? Maybe, yes!
August 25, 2004: After 9/11,
not only the Islam is in trouble, Christianity also! Introducing a
wonderfully shocking movie titled ‘King Arthur!’
March 31, 2004: Isn’t it time for a
secular, historic and accurate cinematic retelling of Jesus story? Mel Gibson’s
is definitely not! Also: The launch of this new
page on the concept of religion.
December
24, 2001: The
ever-secular Christmas still the same pagan fertility feast of sex. It just
took a better taste after September 11!
September
28, 2000: Should the
religious mania end by the year 2005? A stunning theory from a new American
book.
SEX (1 - 2 - 3) (Available Offline
Only):
November
9, 2005: What’s Love?
June
18-29, 2003: A HISTORY MADE: Canada allows homosexual marriage! Wait a moment: A BIGGER
HISTORY MADE: America is going forward as well!
June
18, 2003: Nude
Recreation, a U.S. $400 Million Industry!
May
8, 2003: Paid
sex, aka prostitution, gets its recognition as a global mainstream industry!
October
29, 2002: Survey
reveals that 1 in 12 American women would pose nude on the Internet. What
history lies behind this? Also: A Brief
History of Nude Modeling!
October
12-31, 2002: A French
crusade targets porn, prostitutes and pay-TV. SHAME! Also: A Brief History of Porn!
October
23, 2000: Thanks to
technology, imaged sex has become a $10 billion annual American industry.
While the U.S. and other politicians fight Hollywood, what lies beneath in
the society?!
EXTERMINATION (1
- 2 - 3
- 4 - 5
- 6 - 7
- 8 - 9
- 10 - 11 - 12 - 13):
December
25, 2008: The Eighth War: War Against Gaza!
July
12, 2005: The Seventh War: War Against the Hezbollah Gang!
September
11, 2005: A HISTORY MADE, AND STILL TO BE MADE: U.S. envisions
pre-emption atomic strikes against terrorist and rogue nations?
April
30, 2004: Torture?
What torture? Our Arab primary schools have much tougher measures!
January
7, 2004: From
Badr Battle to Darfur Battle, Arabism and Islam are just pure banditry. The
special beauty of Darfur’s ethnic cleansing is its most classic style:
Bedouins raid farmers!
November
16, 2003: In Iraq’s Sunni Triangle, nobody is innocent. What should
Civilization do?
August
19, 2003: How
to solve the American dilemma in Iraq? The answer is measures that might
escalate up to mass extermination! Plus: A proposition of the World Declaration for Protecting the
Future!
April
30, 2003: The
‘Roadmap,’ a wrong project in the wrong time for the wrong people. Here’s our
own Roadmap to eliminate Hamas and the other nationalist and Islamist Arab
terrorist organizations!
March
9, 2003: The Nuclear Promise —Day 365: War against Iraq is anytime this
week but still waiting for the big event [A
symbolic entry in English].
March
29, 2002: Full
Israeli invasion. Is it at last a real war against Intifada and its lords? We
just hope!
March
14, 2002: Nuking
Mecca. What an idea, but …!
March
9, 2002: A
HISTORY MADE, MADE AND MADE: Pentagon adopts what so called ‘theater’ atomic
bombs in its recent wars. Plans aim at seven ‘rogue’ states. Still
dismantling the U.N. and nuking France is the big idea, we think. But this is
A HISTORY STILL TO BE MADE: Would the wars of tomorrow be one-bullet wars?
February 19, 2002: A generous
initiative from Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah. But could the Arab rejectionist
front appreciate it!
November
20, 2001: The first
evidence of the all-original 21st Century’s systemized extermination: Donald
Rumsfeld orders ‘No Prisoners!’
December 18, 2000: This separate
page was launched to answer this: What’s best for reading the future: reading
the present, reading the past or reading the future?!
ECONOMY (1):
June
13, 2005: Fight
Michael, Fight! Michael Jackson is acquitted on all counts in molestation
case: Question: Whom should be punished? Answer: Thomas W. Sneddon Jr. and
every fame-wealth-and-power-hungry prosecution attorney! Today, prosecution
of the prosecution is a matter of life and death for our modern societies!
March
22, 2002: The U.S.
imposes new conditions of aid for poor countries. Not enough at all, not the
aid, the conditions!
December
20, 2000: Nasdaq
collapse of 7.1 percent today might be just the beginning. But isn’t it the
time to question about who actually was responsible for the last years great
American economic performance? Now it’s clear Bill Clinton was not. Ronald
Reagan (if not Margaret Thatcher or even Richard Nixon) might be the most
likely [Main Entry of Page].
GLOBALIZATION (1
- 2 - 3
- 4 - 5):
May
29, 2005: A HISTORY MADE AND STILL TO BE MADE:
The
final steps in the collapse of the criminal institution so called European
Union: its own people vote against it!
December
14, 2003: ‘Ladies
and Gentlemen, We Got Him!’ Saddam Hussein should be tried by the American
Empire before a military tribunal. Saladdin should be Guantanamized!
July
17, 2003: A HISTORY MADE: Tony
Blair establishes the British left wing as a far right for the American
Democratic Party. Wow!
April
12, 2003: The
new war started building up, so immediately. The next plain vanilla high-tech
war is waiting for you, Bashar! Also: A
proposition of a world ‘Roguery Indicator!’
April
9, 2003: A HISTORY MADE AND STILL TO BE MADE: A
great day, the Day of the Statue!
February 02, 2003 07:36 PM First Use of new.gif January 30, 2003: A HISTORY MADE AND STILL TO BE MADE: After only a
week after Donald Rumsfeld’s provocative but insightful remarks on the ‘Old Europe,’
comes the greatest continent crack since the Cold War: Eight
nations to support the U.S. in war against Iraq, even without a UN
resolution. The terrific part of this is not only the shameful isolation of
the leftist France and Germany, but that it would be the very first
declaration of the next United Nations!
September
12, 2002: A HISTORY MADE AND STILL TO BE MADE: Somebody
(except us of course!) says that the United Nations would deserve the same
miserable fate of the League of Nations. The name? George W. Bush!
May
4, 2002: A HISTORY MADE AND STILL TO BE MADE: YALTA
LAW, AKA INTERNATIONAL LAW, IS MELTING DOWN! In the beginning
there were Noriega, sanctions on Iran and the Law of Internet. Then came
Rumsfeld’s ‘No
Prisoners!,’ Guantanamo Bay prisoners and theatrical
atomic bombs and George W. Bush’s ‘Steel Tariff‘
and dismissing
of Arafat. Now comes the withdrawal from Kyoto, ABM and (today’s) International
Criminal Court treaties. Should we leave Yalta’s
notorious age alive until the ‘natural’ retirement age of sixty? Our
very old answer is here.
The most recent one is here!
April
23, 2001: Koizumi
wins!
Also: His victory from a very personal point of view!
December
19, 2000: Imperialism
- Dictatorship - Monopoly (if with vision, of course): The Three Wings of
Civilization! [Main Entry of Page].
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POST-HUMAN (1 - 2
- 3 - 1989’ Book - nOusia.com
Project):
March 22, 2005: Terri
Schiavo, not a clinical death, nor a euthanasia case. So what? And how
the religious ridiculed themselves and their God in their frenzy about
Schiavo’s case?
July 12, 2002: A HISTORY MADE, MADE AND
MADE: From Scratch Creation achieved, BIOLOGICALLY! …YES, IT’S A HISTORY
MADE, MADE AND MADE: Polio is the first ‘creature’ ever on planet Earth!
April
27, 2001: A HISTORY
MADE! Immune self-managing relatively small computer, the biggest machine
intelligence project from I.B.M. since the Deep Blue.
January
11, 2001: A HISTORY MADE,
MADE AND MADE! The real Genetic Engineering has begun! The first genetically
engineered primate, ever! Who’s NEXT?!
December 2, 2000: A year passed today on site’s
adoption of Think Internet! phase of intellectual discussions. A new
posting titled ‘From Scratch Creation’ is found here [in English].
September 4, 2000: Eleven years passed today on the
first publishing of Medhat Mahfouz’ Post-Human Civilization. Though it
was not a largely distributed edition, it was a futuristic study that also
included some new ideas that could fit in what might be called
‘right-wing-counter-culture’! Read more in this new page launched here to
summerize the book and follow-up its topics.
LIBERALISM (1 - 2
- 3 - 4):
February
28, 2005: Hollywood
chooses to honor a republican with pro-social-liberties attitudes rather than
a leftist going right!
April
21, 2002: Though it was one of our simplest predictions for years and years, it’s
still A HISTORY MADE, MADE AND MADE: Something ‘right’ in
France for the first time in centuries!
January
30, 2002: The
Fascists Are Coming! The Fascists Are Coming!
October
26, 2000: General
Pinochet —The Last of Great Builders, a new section dedicated to one of the
greatest liberal reform endeavors in the Third World [partially in English].
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SEPTEMBER (1 - 2
- 3):
September 11, 2004: The
third anniversary but the problem yet to be properly diagnosed: the Islamic
terrorism, the Islam itself or the entire Muslim population (who invented and
adopted Islam)?
December
17, 2003: What
secularism in a French law that bans Islamic veil but allows wearing ‘hands
of Fatima’ and ‘small’ Korans?
November 17, 2003: Instead of
sending Muslims back to their original countries, Jacques Chirac awards them
$8 billion for killing Jews!
October
27, 2003: Our new
self-proclaimed title: The Best Ever to Understand the Egyptian Mentality!
Our theory about the ‘Egyptian Touch’ of the September 11 attacks is no more
a theory. Today, it’s FACTS!
November
6, 2001: The
East-West 09/11 blame game of Tyranny-Democracy duality. A reply to today’s
Thomas L. Friedman column on Fighting Bin Ladenism [in English].
September
11, 2001: THE LIBERATION
OF DARKNESS HAS BEGUN: New York’s great World Trade Center towers collapse in
a few minutes. Given the ignorance of Western leaders of the real religious
dangers, the rest of our civilization will never come too late!
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POLITICS (1 - 2
- 3)
(Views’ Newest Page!):
July 12, 2004: Egypt:
Somebody on the steering at last… Gamal Mubarak!
January 29, 2003: Floating of the
Egyptian Pound, a very good step indicates a very bad economical situation!
January
3, 2000: Whatever
Happened to Baby Egypt (and lead her to strangle her best Prime Minister and
ride a one-way ticket, well, to HUNGER)?
CENSORSHIP (1):
November 7, 2003: Egyptian
censorship bans Bruce Almighty for ‘infringing on God’s sacredness by
featuring actors playing the role of God.’ Here’s just a list of much much
worse ‘Gods played by actors (and actresses)!’
May
29, 2002: A
HISTORY MADE: The legendary British censorship decides self-disbandment!
April
16, 2002: A
HISTORY MADE: The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down ban on virtual child
pornography!
January
6, 2001: Walima
Part II: Elected Islamic butchers to win their first battle against the
weak Egyptian Prime Minister without a single drop of blood! Also: A Special
Forum on this.
HOLLYWOOD (1 - 2)
(Views’ Oldest Page!):
June 29, 2003: The woman
who refused to be an ‘Adam’s rib!’
March
4, 2003: Hollywood’s
greatest year since the greatest of them all, year 1946. Movies dramatically
thrive almost everywhere inside and outside the U.S. It’s depression time
again, friend!
December
2, 1999: The
famous and extremely controversial Hollywood Film Theory study is
posted here as the first dedicated Arabic columnist page on the Web. Our
publishing project under motto Think Internet! is born.
INDUSTRY (1 - 2):
January 8, 2003: ‘When
addressing Egyptian Cinema, to whom I should talk?’ The Answer: To the
corrupt film critics.
March 1, 2002: Does the Arab
culture worth $2 Billion? A question arises while the long-awaited bankruptcy
of Al-Arabiia looms.
TECHNOLOGY (1):
October
31, 2001: The Final
Fantasy. Don’t think so!
January
17, 2001: The
magnetic resurrection!
August
1, 2000: Made-for-Internet
movies premiers on the Web.
July 28, 2000: Dispute over .mp3
file sharing; who’s right and who’s wrong?
April 10, 2000: Digital camera for
high-end film production.
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