One Little Girl

Once upon a time, there was a little girl living in a quiet city. She wasn’t so beautiful yet people liked her (or so she though). She was funny and intelligent. She had the same friends for many years but she felt lonely for a long time.
One day, she woke up to find herself in a completely different city. New faces, new places, new talks…etc. A city that is different from the world she got used to in everything.
The little girl felt really scared. She felt unsecured and losing control of her life and this was what really freaked her out.
Her insecurity is something that rare people understood it. Security is the thing she was searching for. For someone had built his entire world on feeling secure and being in control of every little detail going in his life, this new city was more like a nightmare for her.
Surprisingly, unlike her habit of running away when she got scared, this time she decided to stay and explore this new city instead of going back. May be this was because she doubt she could go back, but what matters for her that this time SHE STAYED. She thought that she is going to fight to survive but she accepted the challenge.
During her fight in this new city, the little girl discovered that it wasn’t a fight from the start. It was more like a trip. It is true that through this trip, she lived many happy events and more sad ones than she ever lived before, but the experience she got through this trip exceeded what she ever had.
She learned a lot during this trip. She met a lot of great, nice and respected people who she wouldn’t have met if it weren’t for this trip.

She learned how to be independent, trust herself and she started to trust other.
One of lessons she learned from this trip is “There is no prince charming.” May be, there is a prince but not a prince charming. Likely, she also found that the knight of her dreams can be found ….

Our little girl is now a young lady but she is still going in her trip ... hoping for more good stuff to happen…let’s pray for her to reach the end of her trip safely.

Amazing Movie to Watch

Few days ago, I watched an interview with Dr Madkor Thabet. Dr Thabet is one of the most experienced people in movie making field. He held important positions in the Egyptian Ministry of Cultural. The interview was about his new movie that is called “Magic of the past in the video’s treasures سحر ما فات في كنوز المرئيات”. This movie is produced by Dream TV.

In the movie, dr Thabet tried to tell the history of Egypt over the past century since 1889. He went on a search travel to collect the rare videos taken in important events happened over the past century. He collected some videos from Lemerre Brothers Corporation in Paris, Egyptian and Arab Production Companies.

Dr Thabet arranged the videos he collected in such an amazing creative way. While watching the movie, you will hardly notice that these scenes were taken by different people over different times. And this is the most amazing thing about this movie. While watching the movie, you will be accompanied with a comment written by dr Thabet and voice of both great actors “Mohamed Wafee” and “Mahmoud El gendy”. Dr Thabet asks really important questions that worth thinking in.
The movie contains videos that record important moments in Egypt history. Most of these videos were never seen before, and this is what makes this movie a real treasure.

Some of the scenes I saw were the Egyptians gathered to meet Saad Zaghlol when he came back from his exile in1919, the arrival of King Farouk as a handsome young man to Egypt to rule it and a meeting of the Arab leaders upon the Palestinian war in 1948. There are also many scenes during July revolution, 1952. One of the rare scenes (in my opinion) was a march for President Mubarak between normal citizens in an open ceiling car.
There are videos for many other moments of the history of Egypt. You can see parts of the movie on YouTube. You will find the introduction of the movie here

The movie forced me to think about the past. If you look closer to the history, you will notice that history always repeats itself. This is a fact. You will see that people are still the same. People in that movie don’t differ much from us now, same appearance, same look and same differences.
It made me think how Egypt will look after 100 years from now. I couldn’t imagine that there will be people living in the same places we are living in now, without even knowing that we had ever existed here. It is a strange thought but that is what I thought of.

Anyway, I only watched few scenes from the movie, but I can’t imagine how I will feel while watching the whole movie. I can’t wait to see the whole movie.