Well, it’s really sad and ugly that after the revolution of 25th Jan people can’t live in Egypt peacefully and can’t enjoy freedom of thought or get a decent living, thanks to the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (i.e. SCAF), who are basically sucking the life out of anybody who loves and cares about this country and protects the corrupt ex-president and his family and friends!!!
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| Sign in Tahrir Sq. on 18 Nov asking to Free Alaa Abd El-Fattah; young Egyptian Activist who has been falsely put in Military Prison |
Anyway, I’m not going to go into criticizing the SCAF and its continuously failing ways in managing the country and responding to the demands of the revolution for a decent living, freedom, and democracy, because a lot of people have already wrote about that and continually writing about that from all around the world. I’m going to highlight something different, based on my personal experience. So, here it goes.
After 25 Jan Americans in Egypt with a Tourism Visa had to renew their visa every month. A few Americans I know who were working here in Cairo and couldn’t get a work permit (As a lot of employers here hire foreigners illegally and don’t give them a work permit, even some governmental organization does that !!), left Egypt because it’s a burden to keep going every month to Tahrir Compound (AKA: Mogama’a Tahrir) to renew their Tourism Visa.
