September 12, 2005

First Egyptian Bloggers meeting tonight

We are holding what I hope will become the first of many Egyptian Bloggers meeting tonight at my home in Cairo. About ten political bloggers have agreed to come, along with guest journalist Mona ElTahawy.

I am hoping we come away from this meeting better organized while maintaining our unique, and often very diverse, perspectives. The central objective I hope to promote in this first meeting is Sandmonkeys initiative to get out the vote for the upcoming Egyptian Parliamentary Elections this November.

I will be writing on our developments for GV as well as a latter round up piece on the results of all of our collective efforts towards that initiative.

I will then be traveling to Amman, Jordan and will try to set up a similar meeting there. If you are a Jordanian Blogger and are interested please email me at onearabworld(at)h o t m a i l(dot)com

Karim Elsahy


Posted by Karim Elsahy at 12:03:11 | Permanent Link | Comments (17) |
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1 - heh, this is not the first meeting of its kind at all, we had several bloggers gatherings before. (Comment this)

Written by: Alaa at 2005/09/12 - 13:45:06
2 - Lets hope this one to be more diverse as almost everyone else thats coming has not even met most of the others. See you at 7 Alaa. (Comment this)

Written by: Karim Elsahy at 2005/09/12 - 14:00:19
3 - But many bloggers have met before; in homes, concerts, cafés, protests!

Of course not everyone has met everyone. But *almost* everybody who has been blogging over the last year and who resides in Egypt has met with others at leats once.

Since you're in Cairo you may be interested in this organised meeting. (Comment this)

Written by: Alif at 2005/09/12 - 14:46:10
4 - I beg your pardon, Karim. This is one bloggers meeting among many, but not the first by any means, not even for "political" bloggers. Seven of those spent sometime under siege in front of Cairo's Ministry of Interior and State Security.

Egyptian's blogging in English are at an advantage of reaching outside to those who speak no Arabic. How about if they get more in the loop and tell the stories?

See you in a bit. (Comment this)

Written by: Amr Gharbeia at 2005/09/12 - 14:47:06
5 - Hello Karim,

Jordanian Bloggers meeting is on long time ago. In fact the next meeting is on 14th September, so if you happen to be around in Joradn during then, drop in and meet the guys. I met them last month when I was in Jorda.

You can follow up on the Jordainian Bloggers meeting here: http://jordanplanet.net (Comment this)

Written by: Haitham at 2005/09/12 - 15:09:17
6 - Hey guys, give the guy a break. Its the first meeting they know about that has so many bloggers (its atleast the first Egyptian English bloggers meeting I guess, if it has to be a *first* something). Why not, and they have a good objective too out of the meeting. I'm sure it'll have a different perspective than the previous bloggers meetings, so good stuff, and keep up the energy. (Comment this)

Written by: Mohamed at 2005/09/12 - 16:46:23
7 - Eh.. why don't they BLOG instead?
Why don't the arabic bloggers 'get in the loop' and tell the stories in English too? (Comment this)

Written by: Magda at 2005/09/12 - 20:55:27
8 - What the heck is wrong with you people?. The guy is having a meeting go attend or don't show your face. This Bull crap attitude is what gets on my nerves.

Sorry Karim I'm not in Egypt and I don't own a blog (thank God I don't if this is the attitude really).

Good luck with whatever you do and say hi to SM for me.

 (Comment this)

Written by: twosret at 2005/09/13 - 03:31:20
9 - "This Bull crap attitude is what gets on my nerves."
No Twosret. I'm sorry. This is not Bull crap attitude, and the guys who commented do not have "attitudes". They just express the fact that bloggers have met at least 20 times in Egypt. Some of those who blog in English have also met. Bigger meetings took place.
So, I don't think the comments were irrelevant or they are out of proportion. The title was a bit misleading.
The meeting is definitely a great thing, and it was the "first one" that Karim attended. Let's hope for more meetings. (Comment this)

Written by: Ramy at 2005/09/13 - 16:33:31
10 - Ramy,

You are entitled for your opinion and I'm entitled for mine. On so many different occasions SOME of the people above have much more than a crapy attitude oh let me re-write it ATTITUDE. Karim wrote a simple post to request a meeting and may be he thought it is the "First" simply because he lives in Boston U.S.A. Makherbetsh el Dania ya3any he might have been unaware of meetings that took place already.

It wasn't about "First" or "Bigger" it is about a meeting for the love of God!

End of story. (Comment this)

Written by: Twosret at 2005/09/13 - 17:37:15
11 - As I can see here, Karim is the cool one. He accepted the offered due correction and moved on. He didn't freak out or feel cornered as SOME others have :) (Comment this)

Written by: Alif at 2005/09/13 - 19:39:19
12 - If I miswrote concerning the meeting being the “first” than I apologize. I have been reading a lot of blogs for a while and I’ve never come across a story on one, also none of the bloggers I’ve spoken too has ever been to one so I thought it would be a good idea for as many of us as possible to get together.

That aside I had a great time, it was very interesting meeting you guys, and I hope we do it again.

Karim Elsahy
 (Comment this)

Written by: Karim Elsahy at 2005/09/13 - 19:40:09
13 - Alif huh?! have we met before? (Comment this)

Written by: twosret at 2005/09/13 - 21:26:28
14 - Whoops forgot the smilie face :) (Comment this)

Written by: twosret at 2005/09/13 - 21:28:48
15 - taf7a awee 2sret deei. nekbar ba'ah shewaya.
:) (Comment this)

Written by: threeset at 2005/09/15 - 07:08:41
16 - sure I'm the tafha who hides behind idiotic names to post supidity. (Comment this)

Written by: twosret at 2005/09/16 - 13:34:07
17 - d77 | d77 | d77 | d77 | d77 | d77 | d77 | d77 | d77 | d77 | d77 | d77 | d77 | d77 | d77 | d77 | d77 | d77 | d77 | d77 | (Comment this)

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