An official appology

This is my official apology for all you Star Academy fans. For years i despised your messages of "Please vote of Ahmed/Moahmed". I thought you were shallow people with no lives, i thought your time should be invested elsewhere, and thought you were completely crazy for watching stupid reality TV. I did not get the obsession - the text messages - the fan sites - the constant conversations by the water coolers - and the way it dominated our big family gathering last month.
I passed judgment and i am sorry.

Today, i am officially one of you guys. Although i'm still not quite on the Star Academy boat, but on another boat that has a little bit more talent, that has no arabic songs that are all about love and has no face veiled parents coming on stage (sorry, but if i want to watch darth Vader I’ll watch Star Wars instead - at least it's a classic)

As my Thursday night was in desperate need for some quiet-night-in entertainment, I decided for laughs i would follow American Idol. It put me in the singing mood, and gave me good laughs (thanks to Norman Gentle). And then things started turning around after Michael Jackson week. The kids were good. I started having favorites and liking them. Started looking forward to what they do, and soon enough i was hooked.
I had no idea how AI worked, i had never watched it before - and i didn't realize it was running for 8 long seasons. And i knew that most of the people coming out usually achieve only mediocre success except for Carrie Underwood and Kelly Clarkson and Jennifer Hudson.

Soon i became the obnoxious one telling everyone to vote. And last nights result show has turned my head around.
And it was at this point i started realizing that Star Academy fans and not shallow and stupid (and no, i'm not defending them now that i am one of them). They are people who connect with other random-Joes (or mohameds in our case) and who like seeing how one person’s life can be turned upside down over night. And it's entertaining, so why not?

after a long wait,,,

it probably won't be worth it, but either way. Julie has surfaced again, inspired by her colleague's latest rambling over lunch about a long weekend that has gone a little sour.

what? a year already? crap!

So i limited my notes on facebook to cool people. So if you're reading this on Facebook pat yourself on the back. I think you are cool :)
Bloggers can see whatever - they're innately cool (yes, suck it facebookers)

On to more important things.
Things that have gone through my head as a result of my apparent quarter life crisis:
- How do you get 18 year olds to think you're cool and not old?
- I wish i identified more with Rory than with her mother in Gilmore Girls - i am closer to 18 than i am to 36!
- How would people at work look at me if i walked in with hair blue-black hair?
- How bout a Goth look? The cool kids at school were all a bit gothy (german influence i guess)
- How much would it hurt to get a nose ring?
- Where can i find a tattoo parlor has an anesthesiologist?
- Is it too late to shift careers to become an astronaut?

I'm not sure i like this "growing up" thing - it is just not cool...

i need to snap back to earth (or maybe just egypt)

An evening at our household is never event-free.
After a long discussion that was initiated by mentioning the movie "Milk" I can't help but find it mind boggling just how much lack of understanding there is out there.
I can understand if someone who was born in the 50ies wouldn't be so understanding, but even the not-so-religious 80ies generation? Seriously? I was surprised.
I think i'm living in a bubble, because i was genuinely baffled to find that very few young, not-so-religious, generally open-minded, well travelled and smart people still don't believe a "live and let live" attitude...
Ok, so you don't have to be totally on board with the whole marriage, kids and all (even though i see no reason why not) but seriously? i mean seriously?
still can't wrap my head around it...

on a day like today

is when I hate living in a 3rd world country...

Normally I think it's quite a privilege, an eye opening experience and definitely an advantage for someone like me to live in a developing country...

Except for today

Imagine a street that looks right from the scene of slumdog millionaire, there's a big restaurant on the corner where a man hands people greasy sandwiches with his big hands and black dirty nails. Opposite that is an ironing guy using his feet to maneuver a big iron, the street unpaved and the cars parked with a layer of dust and quite a bit of rust on the sides of their bumpers. A poor old woman, who looks like she's not a day under 90, sits with her cheek resting on her hand and a bag of bread to sell next to her. Right in front of her a guy passes on a bike with a box in the front that holds termes - a yellow seed - and paper cones - he uses his small hand with nails that have been bitten like there’s no tomorrow to grab some termes, stuff it down the cone and pass it to the buyer. He kisses the old raggedy one pound note and stuffs it down his pocket.

On that very same street is where I will go get a medical checkup for the National Insurance. Inside i have a few lines of thought: 1) i don't need to be doing this, it's not like I’m ever going to use a public hospital -  I hope 2) thank god and Ericsson for my insurance at the only 2 hospitals in Egypt that meet international standards 3) do i really need to do this?  4) i hope they don't stick me with a needle 5) what am i going to say if they show up with a syringe and i didn't see them open it. 6) my hep c and hiv tests came back negative, let's keep them negative please!

I walk in, they are mopping the floors, the water is grey with very little white soap bubbles in them. The man greets me with a smile takes my name, i go pay then i'm shown to the second floor where a female doctor greets me. She's short and round and veiled with a frown on her face - killer combo. She tells me "is this what you call 5:30" "they had me do a few things first before coming up" "you should be on time" i'm thinking in my head, oh boy i'm gonna give that lady attitude coz who does she think she is! I retract my thought and think, who do I think I am. I go in a corner covered left and right with curtains made out of latex in a color that used to be off white but time has taken a toll on it and it looks like a mesh between beige and grey. She does a bunch of stupid tests, eyes me up and down and asks me to lift up my shirt and holds the stethoscope. She basically asks me to flash her so in my head I’m like "shit, this is uncomfortable" I hold my breath, close my eyes really tight until she's done, it only takes a second. My mind drifts, my level of discomfort reinforces my belief that I am, in fact,  straight - i could watch the show "L-word" just in case i need further reinforcement..

Ok snap back; sit down on a chair, regular eye check, and just as I was about to let out a sign of relief for successfully avoiding the grueling duo (syringe and cup) the Doctor hands me….a cup!
Damn it, it was so close. Resigned i take my cup which has the number 318 written on it, the cup looks old and probably used. I walk into the bathroom which reeks of urine. The floor is wet. The toilet seat splashed with water (I hope). 3 other urine samples are sitting out on a table next to the toilet. I reach for my wet wipes - thank the lord for wet wipes. For the first time in my life I have trouble doing my business, despite of the constant sound of water dripping. 

I'm done, now I need to put this piece of paper with colors on its tip in the sample and off I go. As I leave the doctor, which I had chosen to hate, tells me "you're a pretty girl, I hope someone's said that to you before". She catches me compeletely off guard and i'm surprised, she didn't need to say this. I try to recall the last time someone's said that to me. I say "thank you" as sweetly as i can and think, ok maybe she's not that bad.

Downstairs I take my signed and stamped paper and walk home. It takes me 5 minutes to get home - I head straight for the shower - thank the heavens for Dettol. My mind drifts, i think i'll write a song about how much i love Dettol

The end

Is decoy effect the right word?

While i was championing the sport of wasting time i came across a blog that i would have enjoyed a lot more up until a month ago - back when i shared the writer’s frustration with the J O B.
My guilty confession is that i came across it while trying to find this particular American Idol's twitter. (yes, yes, i know - Olympic Gold Medalist in Waste of Time) I will remember to keep my AI obsession off my Harvard application...

So the blogger writes about what he calls the decoy effect, and when i read it I remembered a random thought.
Last year when the world’s worst boss stopped giving me work to do i started staying home more than ever. In the mornings you get old shows. So i started following this show called "American Dreams" which isn't an old production but place during the war in Vietnam. I remember thinking to myself, that show can be about today if only Vietnam will be renamed Iraq and the Russians would be renamed the Muslims.
Things haven't changed much, really. An old evil is replaced by a new one, hate is just shifted from one place to the next. For the old evil life is good, next to the man with the beard in a funny dress the black man with a scar on his cheek looks far less threatening.

I actually have no problem with that theory - if you think the world is, or even should be, fair then you're incredibly disillusioned, it isn't and it won't.

But the thing is that hate breeds hate. Before 9/11, there were much less people willing to strap on some explosives and go bomb some white ass. You can totally see the proliferation of hate over the last 8 years. Every person is shifting one inch closer to hate. Those who love the west, now only like it, those who liked it, now only accept it, those who accepted it, don't want to tolerate it, those who tolerated, decided not to verbally object, and those who verbally objected started organizing demonstrations and those who were already demonstrating have been pushed to the deep dark side. 8 years were enough for one person to keep shifting inch by inch.

And because this time we're not talking about a single country with borders, we're talking about people scattered over the world who can easily escape from the eyes of the law, the hate cannot be stopped overnight. It would take years to un-hate.

So you look at how things went down in these recent years and think, couldn't this have been handled better? The west reached the right root cause of the problem - lack of democracy, poverty and ignorance. Not to take away our responsibility in this whole thing, but couldn't the west have done better?
That said, I don't really disagree with the fact that Muslim extremism is something that needs to be dealt with, and if i were the one having to deal with this - I’d be pretty annoyed having to deal with the mess that my retarded little brother let grow out of proportions because of his mere incompetence and greed.

I think that's probably my first pro-Arab thought ever (minus the incompetence and greed bit - wouldn' want to get too carried away, would i)

Updated blog?

more like updated luli!
- So i have myspace to follow the music scene and where maybe one day i'll get creative and post something myself
- I'll move my TV-related rants (of which there's plenty of) to my Couch Potato blog
- I'm tweetering my tweets on the right-hand side

For this site, i'll stick to writing my non-tv related thoughts.
No Sex in the City is going slow - Julie, my alterego, doesn't show up quite as often as some of you hope she would (judging by the responses i get for her posts) I'll let you know here when Julie makes her new post.

I really want to update the color to this blog coz it makes me want to pee everytime i see it, but i can't be bothered, it's the old version where you have to edit HTML code.

Fox was brilliant and stupid on the same night!

Update: Ok fox, you're forgiven for your glitch - he's safe!

So This morning i jumped out of bed to check CNN and find out how American Idol went, and thankfully things looked good in Adam Lambert land. So i dashed to work with a smile on my face. As the day progresses i find out that Fox - the channel that airs american idol - has fucked up during the show and it went on for 10 minutes longer. This meant that all the american viewers who DVR and TIVO the show missed out on the last performance of Adam Lambert (practically the next American Idol). Now the concern is, how will people vote for someone that they haven't seen perform?

The reason why i'm so passionate about this is coz i really think we are whitnessing the birth of a true star, and i'd hate to see stupid Fox mess that up! And c'omon, they have dress rehearsals and they've been doing this for 8 years, how the hell could the mess it up?

Alas, we'll see what happens tonight - but i'm not too worried because if Adam's in trouble the judges will save him using their one save for the season - let's face it, the "save" was made for him.

And now we get to the stroke of genius that Fox has managed to pull of on the same night. Right after American Idol comes a show called "Fringe" which is by the creator of "Lost"and "Alias".
I love that show because if combines two of my fantasies/dreams/ambitions: It takes place in Harvard University and stars Joshua Jackson (Pacey from Dawson's Creek - remember?) , seriously - it's like a show tailor-made for ME!It's like i don't know what to oogle and drool for - the boy or the school.

The fringe follows a series of events called " The Pattern" - unexplained phenomenons and incidents all linked to fringe science (basically science that has a big IF next to it, like telepathy for example). Each time right before a pattern occurs "The observer" - a bald creepy looking guy who cannot taste food and has looked the same for the last 30 years which makes me think he's a robot - is seen looming around the scene where the pattern occurs.

Last night as American Idol started, the camera focused on Ryan Secrest (the host) as usual, then turned to the audience, and guess who was seated in the first row? "The Observer" looking like he's waiting for another pattern!

I dunno why, but i found that brilliant! It's cool mixing shows up - expecially when a sci-fi thriller like Fringe leaks into reality TV - you get a nice "what the F?!" effect when that happens.

I guess it's needless to say that i'm a TV addict?

random thoughts

Things i've learned this week
- If you stretch your abdomenal muscles while you sing you sound much better
- Making the sound of a train will train you to take short breaths, all while streching your muscles
- the piano note has 3 strings, so when you break one, you'll never know till you open up the thing
- mspace is a cool place for musicians
- myspace page is www.myspace.com/Jshazly
- a good script in egypt will land you 50,000 L.E. - translating a foreign script still counts
- Fall out Boy has a new album
- Do is the equivalent to the note C
- i'm freaking out about turning 26

My weekend treats :)

2009 so far has been all about the weekends!

What started off as some "let's poke fun at the dorks who think they can sing" became an addiction! Thursday nights - 6 pm is my queue to leave work to get home just in time for another episode of American Idol. I had never thought of myself as one to like reality TV but I find myself wishing i were with AT&T and texting the word "Vote" to idol zero-adam lambert!

And that has become my weekend treat! I wish he'd just release his album already so i can go out and buy it (not illegally download it, i promise dude!) I also wish there were any straight guys that looked like this; you know the whole blach nailpolish, ear rings, tatoos and eyeliner. Apparently Pete Wentz doesn't count since he has a stylist. Plus he's not that great..

I wonder what he's still doing at the show? Is there really a point? Just drop out and start working on that album, yalla! But i guess the show would lose like half of its viewership huh?

My second weekend treat is that i finally have a hobby! (Haaaaleluya) Much to the horror of my neighbors, I've joined the "Osiris Singers" which is a local singing group that performs a Musical every year. We sing, we don't act, but i'm thinking in some years or so i'll convince them it's time for us to give that a go. This year it's "The Sound of Music" on the 27th of May in Sawy. I'll be standing at the waaay back hiding behind someone tall :)

The Pope's visit to Africa

Since i check the news basically every hour wherever i am (thank you GPRS) i tend to look at the headlines quickly and see what catches my attention.
The first time my eye hits "Pope reaffirms ban on condoms" and i thought, ok, valid, expected, known, nothing especially noteworthy about that.
The second time i read it well, and that's when i decided to read the article. Apparently, on his first trip to Africa which took place earlier this week, he took the opportunity to reaffirm where the Catholic Church stands on condoms. He does that in a continent that has lost 1.5 million people to HIV/AIDS just this past year alone. This left me a little troubled.

From a religious perspective, i understand, you can't promote sex outside of wedlock and the use of  condoms - let's face it - lies at the heart of that. But from a humanitarian perspective, this condom will save more than one life possibly. I don't expect him to stand up and root for durex but toning down the messages might be an idea. But then again, if people decide to disobey the church by having sex outside of wedlock, i doubt they'll care much for how it feels about the use of condoms.

So i guess we could be talking about married couples then? As i read on the Pope also set a committee to see whether the church could allow the use of condoms by a couple where one of which is HIV positive. My first reaction was, and you really need a committee to decide? Isn't it obvious? Is the church expecting married couple to abstain? Or to infect one another and bing yet another HIV infected child into this world?

While i could see a round table argument about the first point (the ban) with arguments both for and against, it's the second one i struggle with a lot....
It's things like that, that turn so many people off organized religion, and religion all together, and that's a sad thing. 
What is interesting is that the Pope's position on all of this is not unique to the Catholic Church, i can see it happening in other religions too which explains why the world gets less and less religious.
Now i know that it's not a popularity contest, and religion doesn't aim to please, but when you fail to appeal to people's common sense then you're left with blind followers, and is that really what God wants? Blind - not enlightened - followers? I think not

a startling discovery

It was only after talking about Aliza's plan to visit Israel for Passover (oh wait,the censorship panel that banned Prince of Egypt says i'm supposed to deny that ever happened) that i realized that direct flights to Israel were kept tightly on the down-low here.
So here's the entertaining story.
EgyptAir wants to fly to Telaviv, but for some reason has no balls to announce that. So it creates this other airline - that technically still belongs to Egypt Air - and calls it Air Sinai. Air Sinai has only one plane in its fleet, and only one route. You guessed it: Cairo-Telaviv-Cairo!
On top of all of this, Air Sinai has no website, cannot be booked online from any website (trust me, i just spent the last hour trying) and is not mentioned in any official EgyptAir anything. So to book it you need to get in contact with your Egyptian, or Israeli travel agent and book it the old fashioned way.

Now there's a pathetic side and a somewhat amusing social observation to this whole story.
Let's start with the pathetic side: It's been 20 years and Egypt is still worried about showing open ties with Israel? They have an embassy here for god's sake. So yes, we think they're doing evil evil things but last time i checked there was this thing called Darfur in Sudan that is also quite evil too...
i can't really tell whether the gov is afraid of the reaction of your average mohameds in Egypt or the reaction of the Arab world. Either way it's a clear case of lack of balls on our behalf!
And seriously, it's just a flight, it's not like we're starting NileTV Hebrew! (Funnily enough the egyo radio has a Hebrew channel)

But alas, i will always be baffled by our double standards and our love of that grey area...

So now i turn to the somewhat amusing social observation side. The "kalaam el naas" syndrome that is actually quintessentially Egyptian!
The cleaning lady who tells her neighborhood she works in a factory, because they will think it's "improper" for her to clean houses - even though it pays 3 times as much. The girls who put a full on veil when leaving or entering their house all the while they go wait tables at the Hard Rock. The parents who when abroad or out of town let their kids party out till dawn, but at home give them a curfew of 10:30. The guy who acts all jealous and possessive over his girl even if he doesn't want to coz otherwise everyone will call him a wuss.

I don't know why the force that pushes everyone to conform is so strong it forces people to hide things that they are really convinced of for the fear of being judged by those who aren't convinced.

Jimmy gets his 15 minutes of fame on CNN

But is is going to be his only 15 minutes or just the beginning?

downloading conscience

It's hard to have a conscience with downloading when you do not live in the US and the UK.
For a couple of years now I've been trying to develop one. I signed up for buy.com so i can buy my music and got tricked into bogus movie sites but gave up.
This morning i decided to download Milk. I didn't feel any guilt about it because i know such a movie would never come out here. I also like to think that artists in general wouldn't mind if i download their stuff if there's no way i could actually legally get them, it's art and should be appreciated even by those that can't be reached by it.
Then i got distracted and started downloading a few other films but then i remembered, i can go see them in the movie theaters when they come out, why bother - so i cancelled all those downloads.

I think I'm making progress :) Next step is to actually use that buy.com account of mine....

I'm just surprised as to why there's no one big popular site where one can legally purchase films and download them instead of running to the DVD store (or wait till someone comes from abroad) to get them.... and itunes doesn't count coz not everyone has an ipod...

My fat thumb!

I don't think that you're born beautiful. I think god gives each individual good things and bad things and then sees how you work them. For example crooked teeth, there is no beauty what so ever in crooked teeth, yet it's god gives them a lot of the times. How you get people who are naturally better looking than others is because some people fix things - braces, nose jobs, contacts; and some people accentuate the right things through make-up, hair; some people take good care of themselves like skin care, teeth whitening, cleanliness; and of course there are some people who are more lucky than others - i.e. they have more good things and fewer bad things about them.

If i apply it to myself, i think god has done a pretty darn good job! (Thanks, Big Guy)Mostly everything i would change or have already changed about me is completely self inflicted. I'm not arrogant, i'm just fair.

The big exception is my fat thumb!
It is the one thing that is not self inflicted. You see my thumb has a really wide joint so no matter what it will stay the same size. Now you might think to yourself, what a self-absorbed post that is, but i tell you it affects my life greatly. As a kid i had to endure lots and lots of jokes about it. It's always a challenge to shape and paint the nail in a way that makes it look less stupid.

Another thing is Bowling! I can never bowl properly! Just can't find the right ball. I'm not that strong so i need a light ball but the lighter the ball the smaller the finger and thumb holes are. Now finger holes are no problem, but then as I throw my ball it always gets stuck in my thumb and takes a split second to wiggle out of there and all the technique i try to put in there is ruined, and i end up with a score of 32 after a full game.
Now i could take the bigger balls - sizes 14 and up, but they are super heavy. Since they are much heavier, i can never throw well enough to score.

This is why i am pretty sure god didn't set out for me to become a professional or even a decent bowling player.
He has different plans. I hope they are just as fun, coz i think bowling is a lot of fun.




_____________________________
Dear future husband;
You might need to re-think our future couples bowling night. Perhaps couples guitar hero night?

Thanks dear
x
Luli

fall back careers

Over the weekend I spent some time in Alex contemplating my Plan Bs Cs and Ds for my career. It's always a good thing to have.
It’s also a good way to escape from having to make some serious decisions – which, if ever selected to be an Olympic sport, I’d be the Michael Phelps of. (Minus the bong… ok who am I kidding, bring on the bongs)
One option was to just move back home come September and put an end to my big city adventures. Can't be that bad huh? And then I could pick a new line of work and start from scratch again, perhaps wait out this economic shit till things we better and I can execute my "get the f outta here" (GTFOH) plan.
The other option was to explore the marriage for club membership option. Just like people get paid to marry people and keep them in the country, in Egypt that can be done to give your club membership to someone. But after some pondering I decided to make that Plan Z - stuck in prison, need bail money type situation.
Then I thought maybe I should explore my sitcom writer dream. I am so prepared to stick it out being some writer’s beeatch for some time - get coffees, pick up dry cleaning and basically eat shit so I can at some point write some funny sarcastic scripts. Instead of the MBA I’m beating myself about I could just apply for another program that qualifies me to do that. There has to be some sit-com writing course somewhere. And competition can't be that fierce, I mean how many people grow up thinking they want to become sit-com writers. It seems like something someone would settle to after failing to become a stand-up comedian or a novel writer or a movie script writer....
I'll call that plan D....
I didn’t come around to a viable Plan B or C…. And here’s why! An Olympic Gold Medalist in Decision Evasion doesn’t become a gold medalist by making viable plans that can work out eventually. That is for losers!

Next weekend, I’ll try and brain storm reasons why my Plan A can't be all that bad..

Till then....It's Sunday - definitely not Funday!

the first "first" of the year!

When i reminded myself that i need to experience new things in life i did not mean this particular first. But Alas, what's done is done.
Today marked a new first. The first time i got scammed! I signed up for www.tvmaximum.com thinking it will give me access to a database of torrents or streaming options so i can follow my series without hearing "you're screwing up my share ratio" from my brother and without putting up with mininova's limited seeders (seriously people, sharing is caring).
The website seemed pretty cool and user friendly. And at 39 US Dollars, for an unlimited membership, i was not ready to complain at all.
I probably should have googled it first so see if there's something fishy about it, but i did not.
So i signed up, and paid with my credit card and got the user name and password. As i excitedly browsed the website it took me about 10 minutes to understand that i have been scammed. The website gives you instructions on how to browse the internet for torrents and download them, and recommends which programs to use. And i paid almost 40 dollars for that.
Bastards.

So i reluctantly called the bank to see if i can stop this transaction. The very helpful agent seemed a little entertained by my fuck up and told me that it's already been taken out from my credit, so tough luck. So i asked him if i should cancel my credit card or not, and he came back with a wise-ass answer "if you don't trust the website then yes, cancel it and we'll send you a new one" so i told him "well since they obviously scammed me i do not trust them" and stopped myself from saying "duh!"
After i hung up i took out my scissors and cut my dear credit card into pieces and threw it out.

And the stupidity award for the day goes to?

Speed Dating in Cairo

So with valentine coming up, and me having some free time at work this week, my mind is drifting off all the time...

So i was thinking, why is there no speed dating in Cairo? It would be easy to organize, just get a venue, everyone pays 100 L.E., post an open event on Facebook and there you have it.
Personally, i think it's a great idea! first off the ticket price would control a little who would come, you have 5 minutes to decide, so if you meet Mr. Creepy Creeperson you would only have to spend 5 minutes with them. You could decide to give guys your email account or Facebook account as a test first, or buy a new sim to receive the call(s) which you can throw out if you end up with a stalker.

You could hold it in different venues to attract different crowds with a different entry charge, that way you give people a chance to meet. It would be like chaperoned dating so it could also be very islam-friendly

hm, why not?

'08 was a good year for Tom Cruise

Yesterday i went to the cinema - initially we were going to see Bride Wars - but the two boys with us decided they don't want to go to a chick flick and we ended up in Valkyrie.

It's pure coincidence that i blog about this topic two times in a row.



I really liked the movie, even though i heard a few people say it was not good. Since the beginning of the movie, you know the ending - it's a true story so we all know that Hitler did not die as a result of an assassination plot. The interesting thing is that despite of your knowledge, for a brief part of the movie, you sat in anticipation experiencing what those men experienced only briefly - Hope. Hope that the mission succeeded, and that in fact the 15th and final known attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler would be successful.

Entering the film and at the beginning i questioned, how are they going to make it interesting, how are they going to get us to experience this, when we all know what happened. And somehow they pulled it off.

So aside from the poor pronunciation of German names, and a blooper with the type writer keyboard not being German ones even though they were shown typing in German (the place of the Z and Y are exchanged in a German Keyboard - in the movie they were not) i say the movie was a success.

Good Job Tom Cruise - first Tropic Thunder, now this.



Once I got home, as expected i ran to wikipedia, and decided to brush up on my knowledge. And of course wikipedia gives you info that they never taught at school, like Hitler's surviving relatives. He has 3 remaining descendants - sons/daughters of his nephew. They live in the US, and even though they changed their names, one of them has the middle name Adolf, and their new last name is remarkably similar to that of famous British anti-Semitic ideologist.

There are rumors that they have a pact to not reproduce but it's unconfirmed. I guess even if they wanted to reproduce, i doubt it's easy find someone who would want to share DNA with that family!



Next movie: Bride Wars!

Nazi Dr. Death lived in Cairo!

"One of the world's most wanted Nazi war criminals died 17 years ago in Egypt, the German public broadcaster ZDF reported Wednesday."

"The network says research it conducted with the New York Times shows that Aribert Heim died in Cairo in 1992, according to ZDF's Web site."

"The investigation found that Heim lived under the false name of Tarek Farid Hussein in Cairo until August 10, 1992, when he died of intestinal cancer. "

"ZDF says it has spoken to Heim's son, Ruediger Heim, who told the broadcaster that his father fled Germany to Egypt via France, Spain and Morocco.Ruediger Heim told ZDF that he visited his father in Cairo several times, including in the final weeks of his life when the terminal cancer was discovered."

Source: CNN

I followed that story months ago, this is an unexpected twist!It would make a good movie...

He probably sat at Horreya every night sharing his stories with some admiring Egyptians staring him with wide eyes and smiles. What a shame...