Demoralized by the failure of the 1977 Bread Intifada, and faced with an escalating witch-hunt campaign and purges by Sadat’s regime against leftists in the universities and civil service, thousands of Egyptian communists and radical nationalists left the country and sought refuge in Libya, Algeria, Iraq, Kuwait (yeah, believe it or not, Kuwait received tons of Egyptian communists back then!) and Yemen… Four months after my birth, my family left Egypt for Yemen in 1977, where we lived in Sana’a for two years. In the above photo, taken in 1978 or 1979, my father (on the left dancing while carrying a stick) is dressed together with an Egyptian friend in a Yemeni traditional costume, during a trip outside Sana’a. Below, is a pic of Hoss and Abu Hoss taken on 13 June 1979…
Hossam el-Hamalawy is an Egyptian journalist from Cairo
hossam [at] arabawy [dot] org
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June 26, 2008 - 12:22 AMyou look exactly like u r mum! but i guess from what u r posting u inherited u r father personality and maybe u r mum also , i dont know ..bas the pictures are very funny
although it was in very hard circumstances.
Jack Stephens
June 26, 2008 - 3:41 AMAwww…how cute habibi (not the situation of course, but your baby pic!).
Hossam el-Hamalawy
June 26, 2008 - 10:38 AMSursock
June 27, 2008 - 2:47 PMWhat are you doing with the toy plane… you little terrorist!
farfahinne
June 27, 2008 - 3:26 PMhahahahahah…. the plane thing is very funny
Hossam el-Hamalawy
June 27, 2008 - 6:42 PMI’m sure that will make them certain I’m involved in 9/11