Dear Friends:
For me, 2011 is one of the most important, most difficult and most beautiful years of my life both personally and on the public landscape. In order to understand what is really happening in 2011, we need to go back a bit to 2005. At that time I decided to introduce a long process of change to my life and I started to express that by creating this blog with this name “wind of change” to reflect what was going on. Parallel, and for the first time that year, I saw the emergence of bloging with brave people like Wael Abbas who posted videos for the torture of human beings within the police stations as well as the brave diaries of Alaa Abdel-Fattah and his wife Manal and others. It was new too to see a movement like “Kifaya” forming and its organized activities. Escalation reached its climax by the return of ElBaradei and his unprecedented message about change that is coming and his focus on young people of Egypt as its only hope with tireless and constant way tell today.
From its first hour, 2011 was the beginning of the transformation of an almost impossible dream to an almost certain reality that wouldn’t be possible without the people who sacrificed their souls, their eyes and their future and even their dignity .
To those I say may Allah bless the martyrs, injured and the humiliated who gave us hope for a better future and anticipate their deed in Allah’s hand to reward them all.
The most important achievements of 2011 from my point of view is that the change engine has already started within each and everyone of us fuelled by the continuous escalations accumulating years and years. This put us all in front of ourselves in a confrontation between public and private interest, justice and absolute power and between truth and falsehood; and it’s our choice. And as the engine is still roaring, I presume that 2012 will as difficult, beautiful and important as 2011 if not more.
On the a personal side, 2011 was the harvest year to most of my efforts and attempts since 2005. It’s the year of soul-searching and the reinforcement of principles and convictions. 2011 did not want to go without rewarding me for all the fatigue, troubles and efforts of the past years so I finally achieved most of my goal by the end of this year.
In 2011, I came to know many for the first time and rediscovered many that I already know from long time, but certainly shocked by some and maybe some were shocked of me. To all of you I want to say “thank you” for fulfilling my life and I apologize if I upsetted anyone, but I want you to know my friends that my intention are always for the good, peace and happiness to all.
May Allah bless you all and Happy New Year
