The neighbors of egypt Videos

+Boshkash77 And you as well. Be blessed in all you do.

+TRUTHTEACHER2007 Man, it's a breath of fresh air to see someone like you. Take care bro 

Well... It's like this, you're going to find good and bad anywhere you go. You have to take people on an individual basis. If you're in a tourist area, of course you're going to have people hustling you. However, generally speaking, I find them a lot friendlier than most places I've been to. I would say that they're even friendly and open with each other. I don't know if your familiar with Cairo, but one of my favorite things to do is go down by the cornice and ride the fleeces, the ones with the lights that have the dj in the back playing shabby music. Everybody's dancing and having a good time. Even if you don't know them, people are pulling you up to dance. Nobody's high, (well... maybe on bango), nobody is drunk. This could never exist in NYC. Somebody would start a fight etc. I feel much safer in Egypt than I do in NYC in a group situation. I don't have to worry about being mugged etc.What I don't like is the fact that under all the joking there's a lot of sadness. People's spirits are broken and they lack a belief in themselves. They have no self confidence or appreciation. Anything that is Western is automatically assumed to be better and because of this they make no effort to do things to the best of their ability. Everything is m3alish, insha Allah. Therefore, it's very hard to find anything made or done with quality in Egypt. It's not that they can't do it.... It like they feel, "what difference does it make"? The system doesn't give people the chance to breath or to use their talents. To get by, it's not what you know, or how good you are at it, but who you know, whose your family, what does your father do? If you're a brilliant person, but you come from a poor background, society doesn't let you forget it or give you the opportunity to advance yourself. So for this reason going to Egypt for me is always bitter sweet. I see so much frustrated talent and potential and people who are convinced that they're not good enough, smart enough, attractive enough because that is the brainwashing that the society gives them. It's heart braking. If I were a typical tourist, perhaps it wouldn't bother me, but when I travel, I like to be with the real people, so you're much more likely to find me in a family hotel in El Ezbekiya than a 5 star hotel. I had high hopes with the revolution, but now... well...I kind of saw it coming.So I haven't been back because I don't know what I'm going to find. When you remember the time when things were better, it's hard to see it when it's worse, know what I mean? Same reason I haven't been home in over 30yrs. CIA invaded us and fucked up our country. So now we have KFC and satellite t.v, but we've lost a big part of our identity. I still want to visit but.... My little brother goes often, but he's not old enough to remember what I do. I'm afraid my heart will brake to see what we've lost.

+TRUTHTEACHER2007 Yeah. One last question: what did you notice about the Egyptians or your opinion in general? Are they kind? Have sense of humor? Bad? I am Egyptian but to me, most Egyptians are hypocrites lol

Haven't been there yet, but truth be told I'd like to see Siwa first. Luxor use to be a major tourist destination, but with all the trouble  tourism in Egypt is all but dead.

+TRUTHTEACHER2007 Haha yeah. Have you ever visited Saint Catherine, colored canyons, Siwa, Fjord bay, etc? it's a shame that they're very underrated tourist attractions. our government sucks so bad at tourism.. It's funny because Luxor has 1/3 of the world's statues and it barely attracts tourists. So much potential...

+Boshkash77 Missed him. Hey, I couldn't list everybody. If I was a kid I'd love to grow up inAswan it's so beautiful. I love the energy of Cairo because it reminds me of New York, but after a while it gets on your nerves. When you're in the Said you can actually smell green things in the air. Only thing I don't like about Aswan is the heat. I still have sunburn scars on my forehead. I thought because I'm asmar I couldn't get sunburn. Guess who wears sun block now?!

+TRUTHTEACHER2007 I am surprised that you didn't mention El Sobky xD I agree with you on all what you've said. Nubians are as Egyptians as everyone else, they know it, we know it. In fact I like Nubians more than most Boharics (those who live in the Norths) because Nubians are clean. I mean look at their houses and how they paint them. Unlike those in the North who's favorite hobby is to throw garbage on the streets. I wish someday I live in Aswan or Sinai.

+Malkibaal yes there are north africans like that. i like tifinagh alphabet. but i dont like any cultures beside ours.

+ajgelgal adeghmus Punic existed at least as a spoken language from 800 bce till 500 a.d. in Carthage and in Malta and in Sardinia.The Carthaginian culture which had Punic as its official language was more than just rock carvings." phoenican or punic doesn't concern us " who is "us" ? You cannot be possibly speaking for all North Africans, I have many Tunisians and Algerian and Moroccan and some Libyan friends who are big fans and adorers of the Punic language and Punic culture asking me frequently about the Punic language. And with such an attidude of yours you miss important influences and important events of history and reasons why things are like they are today. Not all North Africans are like you neither are all lebanese as open minded and multi-cultural open, and open to new theories and to truth and science and philosophy.Punic left a big impact on the romans and greeks and on the developement of the Amazigh Alphabeth, don't forget that!

+Malkibaal phoenican or punic doesn't concern us the same way Berber doesn't concern Lebanon. just rock carvings. just like Arabic, Greek roman, and french all foreign languages that dont belong in our lands. 

+ajgelgal adeghmus Listen , I am not an Arabist nationalist nor I am a Semitist nationalist nor am I a Canaanite-Phoenician nationalist. Politically speaking I identify myself as an Anarcho-communist far left. I am a Lebanese by modern ethnicity. But I am not a lebanese nationalist nor a Ba3ath party sympathizer, nor a Pan-Syria symphathizer nor Aramean nationalist, I am human first who loves his ancestors and but also loves all humans.According to the Phoenician themselves to be "Phoenician" is mere a cultural linguistical religious identy rather than a blood /ethnic relationship thing. The Canaanites descend from a soceity/ ethnic mixture of Amorites, Anatolians, Egyptians, Hurittans which formed after time and this made the Phoenician language a relatively easy semitic language.

+ajgelgal adeghmus I meant that the Punic dialect of Phoenician had a change in its pronounciation with my former comment about the suffix "-im" (his) and the comparison between Punic and standard Phoenician.I never claimed that Punic is spoken today and I never claimed that the Canaanite-Phoenician culture changed your culture and languages , the Canaanite-Phoenician culture infiltrated only in the mentioned regions which are the Punic areas which were small and mostly coastal. And for those areas we have evidence : temples for canaanite gods built like canaanite tempes, altairs, Canaanite gods are mentioned in inscriptions , Tyrian purple dye factories, Canaanite names. I never said that the Punic culture lost its Berber culture completely , it was a fusion of the Canaanite and Berber culture. These people spoke a Canaanite-Phoenician dialect and worshipped Canaanite-Phoenician gods and called themselves "kan3ani" and built temples in the likeness of Canaanite-Phoenician temples.The Punic language helped that the Arabic language could spread in North Africa, because both were semitic languages.Although the Punic influence is very weak and smal in the most conservative coastal Arabic dialects of the Maghreb, probably because of the heavy Arabization.

+Malkibaal ok it was spoken in those 3 or 5 settlements in north africa . but its not spoken at all today, and any remenants of it is dead except in those graves. You claimed that "Changed" our culture and languages. there is no evidence of that today. Berber languages sound different than any semitic languages. Berber is still thriving and flourishing in 25 million speakers in north africa and even in west egypt with many dialects. 

+ajgelgal adeghmus Well I did not say or claim that all North Africa became Punic or is Punic or that all North Africans spoke Punic. Nor did I claim that there is big influence of Punic in the Berber languages, there are only a few surviving Punic loanwords (under >20 Punic words) only in some Berber langauges.All I said was that not only in Carthage but also outside of it there were Punic speaker areas with Punic culture mostly concentrated on the coast and we are not talking about "one site or three sites" , it is a longer list and Algeria and Libya and Tunisia each of them has almost the same amount of Punic Inscriptions, but as I said, Algeria just some coastal places, as well as in Libya, and in Morocco only 2 possibly places, Malta and Sardinia had more settlings and Sicily had a few too, a few in Spain.Not in every case were the writters representatives of the local culture but if you find a whole graveyard with Punic names and inscriptions you cannot deny the Punic-Canaanite culture as it is in Leptis Magna.

+Malkibaal North africa wasn't close to being punicized as it was arabized. there is little Genetic change, J2 < 5%. and most hybridized Berber language (takabylit) is 1/3 Arabic/Latin and not phoenician.a punic = Phoenician + Berber. Even the Punic soldiers were composed mainly of Numidians Berbers, Augustine hippo was from annaba, which situated close to Tunis. But as i said the rest of North africa is unchanged by punic culture. one site or three sites doesn't mean North africa spoke Punic. There were berber civilzations in North africa like Numidia, Mauritania, and Libya.Hippo is a punic. he is of Berber heritage aswell. "an African, writing of Africa, or at any rate, with that flat nose you see in Africans".

+ajgelgal adeghmus "but as for Berber languages/culture outside carthage, there is minimal change"This is not true, late Punic inscriptions, onamastics, temples, graves 100 years after the destruction of carthage appear in Malta( a few), Morocco (a few in volubilis), many in the Algerian coast till 150 a.d. , Augustin of Hippo (from an algerian region, lived till the 5th century a.d.) said that Punic was still spoken in his region and that he can speak it little bit and the Punic speakers call themselves a CHANANI (kan3ani = Canaanite-Phoenician) the Punic identity was a Canaanite identity, Lybia till the 4th centuary a.d. inform of Latino-Punic inscriptions in Leptis Magna

+ajgelgal adeghmus the main change is the pronounciation and the new more prefered third male person singular suffix "-im" (his) instead of the standard Phoenician "-yo/yu" (his), philogist speculate the pronounciation was once more like yiw<yiv<yuw<yu.Grammarwise it was very close to the standard Phoenician, in writting late Punic used some letters as vowels especially in foreign words which is totaly unusual in standard Phoenician.

+Malkibaal  J1 in north africa came mostly through banu hilal .  J1 is still small in Berber coastal populations , in Kabyles its about 15% frequency. and in some areas in Tunis its even smaller like bouomrane, djerba and jradou. its smallest in morocco.Punic language was phoenician but it changed due to intermingling with Berber. but as for Berber languages/culture outside carthage, there is minimal change. Berber dialects west of Libya have few foreign loanwords. 

+ajgelgal adeghmus J1 was proably also part of it, but Phoenician presence was not big in North Africa, just in the coasts and the biggest presence was in the region around CarthageThe Phoenicians are the Canaanites and they canaanitized the coastal berber populations and a few of the Canaanites intermixed with the Berbers. But these Berbers fully absorbed the Canaanite-Phoenician culture and language and religion and traditions and were later known as Punic people

+Malkibaal if J2 is phoenician haplogroup then there is little phoenician presence in North Africa. about 5% or less.

Of course. koranimals will always kill their fellow arselifters over the tritest of things to do with pislam. Killing the kuffar is no big deal either.

Yes, but the arselifters will always spout takiya to the kuffar.

Uncertainty Of Peace!