see how and experience a Mülheimer with Egyptian roots of the revolution in the homeland of his father, which he himself knows well from personal experience. I talked about it for the NRZ with Adel Saliman.
Do you have the revolutionary Events in Egypt surprised? The
has surprised me in any case. That is a process that is not decided over night. The thought had to first set up times and people's fear to be overcome. It all started with the Tunisian student who burned himself and sacrificed it. When I saw that, I have indeed thought that the protests could also spill over to Egypt. But I have not anticipated that the protests were on such a scale.
Have you during your visits in Egypt and in conversations with relatives and friends living there, some of the discontent of the people and the repressive apparatus the Mubarak regime felt?
this apparatus of oppression, I myself have felt. This was a military regime. The suppression was there. Time and again people have been oppressed and massacred. It was torture. There was murder. There were families whose relatives had disappeared for weeks. Everywhere there are from city to city military checkpoints. I'm with friends once drove 500 kilometers from Sharm El-Sheikh to Suez and controls on the route five times been. They wanted to know: What are you doing? Where do you come from and where do you want? And why do you want to go there, where are you going? That was scary. This is a police state in any form, in which people not feel comfortable because they want to be free.
Were you even harassed by state security forces?
The problem I had not even because I do not like an Egyptian, but look like a foreigner. Therefore, they used to always left alone.
How could freely speak with people in Egypt?
With my family could not and I can talk about anything. Since I do not have to worry that something is divulged. But outside you had to have to be careful with his statements. There is a secret police, the President and do not work for you. All that being said wrong will be used against you. I mean we can talk about policy, but some topics so addressed, as should be done. It has for example not to say that the president is doing wrong. Among friends we have talked about it and everyone knew what it is, without express it concretely. Because the fear was great, tomorrow to be gone.
See the events in Egypt different from the German television viewers and newspaper readers without family links to Egypt?
course. This is a part of me, because my family lives there. And it hurts me to see that the people there so many years had to endure suffering and injustice and the more I am now about what they tun.Frage: Would you be a contribution to the mass protests Answer: I would go immediately to the streets. But I would distinguish between violence and demonstration. The escalation of violence is not correct, because it does not over what you want, namely a peaceful life in a democratic welfare state and that the current president is now in a fair manner.
In the West many people are afraid of a takeover by the Muslim Brotherhood. As you can see the future of Egypt?
I see it with mixed feelings. The Muslim brothers to come to power. The remains from not at all. They are the strongest opposition group in Egypt. It is good that they accept Mohammed El-Baradei. Because this is a person who knows about as a former Secretary General of the International Atomic Energy Agency in the world. He received the Nobel Peace Prize and is known on the political level and knows the international law. accept the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood such a personality, suggests that they are not as Islamist, as you might think. Surely they must engage in cooperation with El-Baradei to compromise. It would be my wish that Egypt is a social state and a democracy in which all people can live freely and peacefully, without fear of saying something wrong.
needle Saliman was born 34 years ago, the son of an Egyptian father and a German mother in Mülheim. As the needle (This name means: the mediator) was five years old, the family moved to Suez, where his father worked as a draftsman for six years for British and American companies. Then the family returned to Mülheim zurück.Doch Saliman, who now works at the central field of the regulatory office, the close contact kept to the homeland of his father, as he visited every year for several weeks, his relatives living in Suez and Alexandria. Also survived his sister, who is married to an Egyptian, by now Vaters.Nach lived in the home of the detail of the Urban Research in Mülheim end of 2010, 72 Egyptian citizens
This text was published on 9 February 2011 in the NRZ
Do you have the revolutionary Events in Egypt surprised? The
has surprised me in any case. That is a process that is not decided over night. The thought had to first set up times and people's fear to be overcome. It all started with the Tunisian student who burned himself and sacrificed it. When I saw that, I have indeed thought that the protests could also spill over to Egypt. But I have not anticipated that the protests were on such a scale.
Have you during your visits in Egypt and in conversations with relatives and friends living there, some of the discontent of the people and the repressive apparatus the Mubarak regime felt?
this apparatus of oppression, I myself have felt. This was a military regime. The suppression was there. Time and again people have been oppressed and massacred. It was torture. There was murder. There were families whose relatives had disappeared for weeks. Everywhere there are from city to city military checkpoints. I'm with friends once drove 500 kilometers from Sharm El-Sheikh to Suez and controls on the route five times been. They wanted to know: What are you doing? Where do you come from and where do you want? And why do you want to go there, where are you going? That was scary. This is a police state in any form, in which people not feel comfortable because they want to be free.
Were you even harassed by state security forces?
The problem I had not even because I do not like an Egyptian, but look like a foreigner. Therefore, they used to always left alone.
How could freely speak with people in Egypt?
With my family could not and I can talk about anything. Since I do not have to worry that something is divulged. But outside you had to have to be careful with his statements. There is a secret police, the President and do not work for you. All that being said wrong will be used against you. I mean we can talk about policy, but some topics so addressed, as should be done. It has for example not to say that the president is doing wrong. Among friends we have talked about it and everyone knew what it is, without express it concretely. Because the fear was great, tomorrow to be gone.
See the events in Egypt different from the German television viewers and newspaper readers without family links to Egypt?
course. This is a part of me, because my family lives there. And it hurts me to see that the people there so many years had to endure suffering and injustice and the more I am now about what they tun.Frage: Would you be a contribution to the mass protests Answer: I would go immediately to the streets. But I would distinguish between violence and demonstration. The escalation of violence is not correct, because it does not over what you want, namely a peaceful life in a democratic welfare state and that the current president is now in a fair manner.
In the West many people are afraid of a takeover by the Muslim Brotherhood. As you can see the future of Egypt?
I see it with mixed feelings. The Muslim brothers to come to power. The remains from not at all. They are the strongest opposition group in Egypt. It is good that they accept Mohammed El-Baradei. Because this is a person who knows about as a former Secretary General of the International Atomic Energy Agency in the world. He received the Nobel Peace Prize and is known on the political level and knows the international law. accept the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood such a personality, suggests that they are not as Islamist, as you might think. Surely they must engage in cooperation with El-Baradei to compromise. It would be my wish that Egypt is a social state and a democracy in which all people can live freely and peacefully, without fear of saying something wrong.
needle Saliman was born 34 years ago, the son of an Egyptian father and a German mother in Mülheim. As the needle (This name means: the mediator) was five years old, the family moved to Suez, where his father worked as a draftsman for six years for British and American companies. Then the family returned to Mülheim zurück.Doch Saliman, who now works at the central field of the regulatory office, the close contact kept to the homeland of his father, as he visited every year for several weeks, his relatives living in Suez and Alexandria. Also survived his sister, who is married to an Egyptian, by now Vaters.Nach lived in the home of the detail of the Urban Research in Mülheim end of 2010, 72 Egyptian citizens
This text was published on 9 February 2011 in the NRZ
0 comments:
Post a Comment