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Yehia Ghanem: From Cage To Exile
April 3, 2014 by Yehia Ghanem
Yehia Ghanem, one of Egypt's most respected journalists, is living in exile in New York, separated from his family and uncertain of his future. If he returns to Egypt, he faces two years of hard labor in prison after a sham trial that convicted several dozen Egyptians with connections to international NGO's of illegally taking money from foreigners. A Dart Center exclusive.
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Yehia Ghanem in the caged docket during the opening of his trial in Cairo, Feb. 26, 2012.
Editors note: Yehia Ghanem asked that this story be prefaced by the following statement: "This story is not meant to be for me but for the al Jazeera journalists and all of the innocent people facing injustice in Egypt right now." Ghanem spoke at Columbia Journalism School on April 7. Click here for details.
I turned around angrily and grabbed the police officer's arm, almost twisting it. There was no need to push me through that huge ugly iron door. He pushed so hard I stumbled. Yet, I was so angry I could not speak. Instead, I glared at him in silence, and after we stood there for almost a minute without uttering a word, another officer hurried in to help push me in the cage.
It took the soldier only seconds to shut the iron door while I stood facing the bars. The roaring sound of the door slamming in my face woke me up to reality. "My God, it is not just a bad dream; it is so real I can almost touch it." I closed my eyes for a few moments then opened them again. Yes, I was still in the cage. I turned around and saw 14 others inside the cage—three of them young women in their twenties—all squeezed into that small dirty hole. It seemed they all knew each other. They were standing in groups of twos and threes whispering, yet they stopped once I entered, or rather, was shoved inside.
In my 20 years as a war correspondent, covering eight brutal wars in Serbia, Afghanistan, and the Congo, I was not a stranger to detentions, arrests and even imprisonment, all in the name of truth. Nevertheless, as I stood there caged inside that tiny hole in the criminal court building in Al-Qahira Al Jadida, a suburb east of the capital city of Cairo, I could not recall ever feeling so estranged. I felt foreign, in spite of the fact that my fellow caged defendants were all Egyptians. It never occurred to me that the military would indict me for something I had only agreed to do but had not yet done—especially since this alleged crime was that I was going to extend my role as a newspaper managing editor to teach journalism students, an act they should have thanked me for.
I also felt like a foreigner for another reason: I had covered brutal dictatorships abroad. Being jailed in Egypt made me feel like I must be somewhere else. Unless my country's regime was no different from the others.
The cage was so small that I could feel my cellmates' breath in my face and on the back of my neck; the atmosphere was suffocating. I did not want to talk to anyone, so I made my way through to the corner, only to stumble onto a man sitting on the cage floor.
"Sorry, could I get to the corner?" I asked in Arabic. I could see heavy smoke coming up from the cigarette the man was smoking while staring down on the floor. The man looked up and motioned his hand, a welcome sign normally used only by Egyptians.
Once he looked up, I could tell he was one of the American defendants who had also been charged. I was confused. As far as I knew, all Americans accused of crimes took refuge in their embassy in downtown Cairo, and that the US had declared that its citizens would never stand trial for false and politically motivated charges. Another reason for my confusion was that the American seemed to have understood my Arabic.
I crossed over the American to the corner and stood gazing through the iron bars of the cage window, which stretched from floor to ceiling, and looked out onto the vast courtroom packed with people. The noise was deafening. The public gallery was a strange mix; the majority had nothing to do with my case, which struck me as even more strange. I later discovered that the security authorities maintain and compensate audiences for political purposes. The audience consisted of a few family members of the defendants, lawyers for both sides, security in uniform and in plain clothes, and most importantly, other members of the media.
Members of the gallery began to shout. Al Mawt Lel Gkawana! Death to the traitors! Eaadam! Death penalty!
Death? I asked myself. I was just planning to provide training to my fellow journalists to improve their skills as professionals. So why death?
The American stood up and whispered in my ear. "Are you afraid?" he asked.
I looked at him and moved my head to say no.
"Nervous?" he asked.
I closed my eyes meaning yes.
He had a big smile on his face. "Don't be. They are not going to hang us today."
At that moment, I smiled for the first time since the ordeal began weeks ago. He introduced himself. His name was Robert Becker, a trainer for a U.S.-based NGO. It was the beginning of a friendship that has continued since that day almost three years ago.
"What state are you from," I asked.
"Egypt," he replied, with a touch of sarcasm.
"I meant which state in the United States," I said smiling.
"Does it really matter? I am from the United States, but in terms of love I am as much Egyptian as any of you."
"Why didn't you take refuge with your fellow Americans at the U.S. Embassy?"
"I told you, I am Egyptian," he repeated.
"Do you realize we may not get out of this cage throughout the trial, and God only knows if we are going to be acquitted?"
"That's exactly why I refused to abandon my Egyptian brothers and sisters," he responded.
At that point, I realized how badly my friends, many of whom I viewed as brothers and sisters over the years, had betrayed me. I looked at my American cage mate. "Excuse me, are you for real?"
"Of course I am, he laughed. You are allowed to touch me if you want to make sure I am real."
I reached out to shake hands with him while we exploded into laughter. We laughed so loud it seemed to attract the attention of those in the audience seated closer to the cage. Soon that audience started calling us names and labeling us as U.S. agents and spies.
My new American friend then asked me what all the shouting was about. I told him that they were accusing him of things that might result in him receiving a life sentence. And, if they could find me guilty, I could get a death sentence.
Becker understood and replied instantly: "I heard you are a prominent journalist and that you are being tried because of your intentions to train Egyptian journalists. Why worry? When the people realize the truth during the course of the trial, they will come to appreciate you." I told him that I ended up in a cage because my teaching plans were in cooperation with Americans. "Don't you get it?" I asked. "It is the U.S. who is on trial here, Becker." He looked at me and stretched out his long arms, hitting several of our cage mates in the process: "Even so, it is becoming one world." He paused like this for seconds until I said: "Fold in your arms Robert. Our world now is this filthy cramped cage."
For more than 19 months, we endured a humiliating medieval inquisition-like trial. It was not until it was all over—almost a year after we both received unjust prisons sentences—that I came to realize that I was wrong. Of everyone involved—convicts, prosecutors, judges, Egypt and the U.S.—Becker had been the most free of us all. He endured everything we endured and yet he was the only one of us who had the choice to leave. But instead he chose to stay. As much as I came to admire Becker, I also envied him. In spite of the two-year prison sentence we both faced, he was free.
During my 20-plus years serving as a war correspondent, I have lived by an old saying that I learned from the warrior Zulu tribe in the southwestern part of South Africa: "If you are bent on crossing the river, don't think too much about crocodiles."
As an Egyptian journalist, I have always been aware of the crocodiles in the river, especially while working in third-world countries, including the Middle East. But it never occurred to me when I took an offer from the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), the Washington-based NGO that specializes in advancing quality journalism around the world, that I would face so many crocodiles.
After Egypt's January 25, 2011 revolution that ended 30 years of former President Mubarak's tyrannical reign, ICFJ offered me a position to initiate a program aimed at enhancing the skills of Egyptian journalists. The timing was perfect, as the media had acted like a runaway train, inflicting damage on both society and individuals.
In late August 2011, we set the curriculum, prepared the logistics, and signed a partnership agreement with the region's most prestigious newspaper, Al-Ahram, where at the time, I was a managing editor. The program had not yet started when I received a seemingly innocent summons from the Ministry of Justice in November 2011.
During the meeting, the investigative judge charged me with illegally opening a branch office of a foreign organization, accepting foreign funding without government approval, and several others fabricated charges. I was shocked.
During numerous and lengthy investigations, I provided extensive documentation which discredited their claims. Nevertheless, the investigative judge lodged criminal charges against me and 42 other defendants, including 15 Egyptians and 27 foreigners. A large number of these foreigners were Americans.
In spite of the injustice of bringing a criminal case against someone who had been in full compliance with procedures set by the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and although it was evident that the case was politically motivated at a time when the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) had taken over after Mubarak stepped down, I decided to stand trial out of respect to the Judiciary, assuming it would be fair.
I did not know at the time that this was never intended to be a process based on facts. Rather, the trial was just a show of arm wrestling between the Egyptian and U.S. governments. And sadly, I found out that the courtroom's political conflict was rewriting my past, present and future: in short my whole life. Though invisible, politics was the prosecutor, the judge, and the gladiator.
In free democratic countries, defendants are innocent until proven otherwise. In our case, however, that principle was nowhere to be found.
As I write these words now, while in exile from my own country due to bogus charges, an unjust trial and a sentence of two years of hard labor, I am left with many questions, some of which include:
-	What do you say about judges announcing your indictment on TV without bothering to inform you and your family first?
-	What do you say to my distraught 10-year-old daughter, who hears this and asks me, crying over the phone: "Are you really a U.S. agent, a traitor to Egypt?"
-	What do you do when the authorities create media frenzy against you in a deliberate character assassination campaign, and then leak all your personal contacts to the press? What do you do when angry half-crazed people show up at your home seeking revenge because they consider you "an enemy of the state?"
-	How can a judge lure an innocent defendant, like the 27-year-old ICFJ program officer who never faced an investigation in his life, to a meeting without his lawyer present by claiming that he (the judge) will play both the interrogator and defense lawyer at same time, then indict the young man with criminal charges?
-	Or when the defense establishes the judge's flagrant violation of law, something that necessitates dropping the charges altogether, and the presiding judge ignores it?
-	How can judges get away with flagrantly committing a felony by going public at a choreographed press conference, right after indicting innocent defendants, and slandering them with charges never included in the indictment, such as attempting to divide the country, photographing military sites and other false charges aimed at inciting public anger?
-	What can be said about a government which launches an orchestrated media campaign to incite hatred against helpless innocent people? What do you do when a passenger in the Cairo subway spits in your face, as he did mine, and calls you a traitor?
-	What can I say to my 15-year-old son who had his arm broken trying to defend his father's reputation in school?
-	What can we think about an Egyptian judiciary that packs 16 defenseless people in a small dirty cage with no chairs for at least six hours during each court hearing? How humiliating is it for me to plead for young women defendants to be allowed to go the bathroom or be excused for prayer during the recess, most of the time unsuccessfully?
-	How do we describe the caged defendants who are deprived of their basic right to hear what is being said in a case that has tremendous bearing on their own lives?
-	What democratic country allows a "mobilized" public to attend court hearings and loudly call for the death sentence for the defendants by name, adding to the media show?
-	What can be said about a judge, who when upset during the hearings, punishes defendants by throwing regular criminals including rapists, drug dealers and killers into the packed cage just to harass the defendants?
All these questions and many others kept buzzing in my head during the trial.
I was seldom able to even hear the proceedings over the shouts from the audience calling for my death. I spent most of the trial reflecting on many of the graffiti on the walls of the cage. The graffiti was very telling in light of the injustice that so many had endured, some of which included: "When I pass away, I will place my complaint against you to Allah." I thought to myself: "I place it now before you God, I need not wait until I pass away."
Other graffiti read: "We were here and so will be others." In rereading this, I would always tell myself that whoever wrote this understands that injustice for oppressors is like salty water; it makes them thirst for more.
But the one that really got me read: "What have I done to deserve all this?"
I kept asking myself the same question. And as I sit here in my cramped apartment in Manhattan, New York, deprived of my children and my life-long career, even my humanity, I realize that what I did, I did with a clear conscience. I did it for the sole purpose of enhancing the expertise of my fellow journalists.
In spite of the offer the judge made me to testify against wrongly accused staff of the U.S.-based ICFJ, in order for him to view my position in a different light, I would not commit such a crime against innocent people.
Their offer was blunt: Either give false testimony so that we can make a case against the ICFJ and the other NGO's on trial, or stand trial myself. I was dismissed and given two days to consider their offer, yet as the next round of investigations began, I responded without hesitation: "If I take the offer, I might be saving my skin. However, I am not ready to lose myself. I am sorry."
I soon found out that the cage I was forced into, and later broke out of, led me to yet a bigger cage: that of exile. I also realized that this exile is not a monopoly to me: I could see the security apparatus behind the case, the judiciary who delivered unjust verdicts, the military who instigated such investigations, Egypt, and the U.S. itself, all in cages of different sizes and forms. This story is not only about my cage, it is also about yours, ours, and their cages—and the hope that we can all break free…
Yehia Ghanem
Yehia Ghanem is the international journalist in residence at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. An Egyptian journalist and writer for more than 30 years, Ghanem has been a foreign correspondent and an editor for Al-Ahram International newspaper, and is currently living in exile in New York following a sham trial that convicted several dozen Egyptians with connections to international NGO's. His wife and three children remain in Egypt. Ghanem is also the supervisor of Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism Network (ARIJ) in Cairo, Egypt. He worked as the Bureau Chief for Al-Ahram newspaper in Southern Africa, and has won numerous awards for his work covering wars around the globe including 1995 Man of the Year from the Egyptian Doctors Syndicate for coverage of the war in Bosnia from 1992-1995, and Best Foreign Investigative Reporting on the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo from the South African Association of Foreign Correspondents in 2002. Ghanem has published four books based on his experience in covering war zones: "I was there: Journal of Military Correspondent in Bosnia," "What is Going On in Asia?: Impacts of Pakistan & India Nuclear Testing on Strategic Balance," "Media Disinformation: Applied Study on Iraq, Libya," and "Egypt and Bosnia and the True Account of Arab-Israeli Arms Reduction Negotiations." He has participated as a panelist in numerous national and international seminars, workshops and conference. Ghanem is also a senior mentor and trainer on investigative journalism in Egypt and the Middle East.
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Butcher & Bolt: Two Hundred Years of Foreign Failure in Afghanistan
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Monstering: Inside America's Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War
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England holds its nerve to win
WELLINGTON, March 03, 2018 21:30 IST
Updated: March 03, 2018 21:30 IST
Williamsons' unbeaten century to no avail
Ben Stokes' brilliant diving catch proved the catalyst for a spectacular middle-order collapse, while Chris Woakes bowled a superb final over as England beat New Zealand by four runs in their third One-Day International on Saturday.
The hosts had looked comfortably placed to chase down England's 234 when Stokes turned the game as spinners Moeen Ali and Adil Rashid took five wickets for 23 runs between them in the space of 41 balls.
New Zealand captain Kane Williamson, who scored his 11th one-day century, however, combined with Mitchell Santner to halt the slide and then gave the hosts hopes of achieving a remarkable win with a 96-run partnership.
Freak dismissal
Santner was then unluckily run out for 41 when Woakes got his hand to a straight drive from Williamson and deflected the ball back onto the stumps, leaving the all-rounder stranded and New Zealand at 199 for seven with 4.4 overs remaining.
Tom Curran and Woakes then bowled brilliantly at the death, with the latter restricting Williamson from scoring the 15 runs needed to win in the last over.
Williamson, who needed a six off the final ball to win the game, or a four to secure a tie, failed to make contact and finished 112 not out with his side on 230 for eight to leave England with a 2-1 lead in the five-match series.
"Brilliant game of cricket," England captain Eoin Morgan said. "Our spin twins did a fantastic job.
All of England's batsmen had got starts, but only Morgan looked comfortable on the drop-in pitch that appeared to be two-paced and providing inconsistent bounce as he top-scored with 48 and shared a 71-run partnership with Stokes.
Late charge
England's lower-order, however, accelerated with Jos Buttler smashing 29 from 23 balls and the bowlers then added another 50 in the final seven overs.
New Zealand had been comfortable at 80 for one in the 18th over with Colin Munro on 49 and Williamson on 28 before Stokes came up with a stunning catch at cover to dismiss the opener off Rashid.
Moeen, who took wickets off successive deliveries, and Rashid then took three wickets for one run between them to leave New Zealand floundering at 98 for five.
"We were in a position of strength at one stage but lost a lot of wickets that hurt us and we had to take the game even deeper," Williamson said. "They deserved to win, just a shame we got so close."
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Encore: 9.25 p.m. - 9.32 p.m.
Greta Gaines opened with a 25 minute set (7.30-7.55) which was allright.
The drums were way too loud, Tori's voice and piano drowned.
It worked only on iieee, Cornflake Girl, Crucify and Blood Roses.
iieee that I haven't really fallen for on the album but now in this version live, it was great.
Sadly Tori didn't say much during the show.
It was supposed to be a full-length set but I don't think that 73 minutes is a full-length set.
Alanis closed with a 85 minute set, with more songs from the latest album, than I expected.
She sang great but quite a few songs were the worst ones from the latest album so overall she couldn't top Tori.


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A couple of months back, the director had revealed at a college function that he would be teaming up with Dhanush for Pudhupettai 2. Digital Native. As a result, Jayakkodi prefers to live with his second wife and her children, Parthiban (Kathir) and Prema (Ammu). He made his breakthrough playing the lead role in Madha Yaanai Koottam (2013), gained critical acclaim for his performance in Kirumi (2015), Vikram Vedha (2017), Pariyerum Perumal (2018) and Sigai (2019). Though he was taken out of the waters within eight minutes of the accident and rushed to a private hospital at Thodupuzha, his life could not be saved. Speaking to reporters here on Saturday, its executive director A. Kathir said that after the media reported the incident on December 12, a fact-finding team visited Sirukudal in Perambalur district. 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So the 'silent' retreat continues… It is funny… 'silence' is used to go deeper here at the Monastery… and I have been having some 'outgasing' over the recent 'release of stuff' at the yard sale… 'Outgasing' is a term I use for 'debriefing' my self With God. Clearing the apparent 'backlog' of emotional ties to anything I let go of that appears to have been 'special'.
Bouts of tears periodically come flooding forth… and I ask God… Why do I Grieve letting go of what kept me separate from You?
And God gave me One Hell of a Whopper… I Project Special Things to SEE How Beauty Full I AM!!! … omg… My projection of 'Beauty and Love'… in the horizontal are ALL MY PROJECTIONS.
With the foreclosure…and cancer… I got my 'icky' projections… I Learned the process of Asking for Holy Spirits guidance in Seeing Every Thing Differently… and with 'icky' things… this is so very easy at this moment. But the 'stuff' I 'loved' with ego specialness… now there appears to be the 'rub'… I have these thoughts that if I let go of 'love' in any form… I will be 'sacrificing'…omg… what a narly mess of 'thoughts'.
And God said…. Your Projections of what brings you happiness in the horizontal is nothing but you projecting a dream of happy. Your illusions (projections) are nothing but your desire to become One… and we KNOW the 'desire to be happy'… is a small minded idea… 'desiring' anything keeps you out of the present! YOU ARE LOVE… AND BLISS IS YOUR BIRTHRIGHT… YOU JUST FORGOT!
So the release of all 'things special'… drops ALL VEILS that prevent You from BEING LOVE. The One With God LOVE that YOU ARE.
So I Experienced the COST of Special Love… and if you feel you have a 'holy relationship'… test this by 'giving it up'… does it cause discomfort or concern?… Then it is NOT a HOLY Relationship.


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Editor's Note: Holiday Orphans | December 2019
By Brian K. Mahoney
The extended Mahoney family.
My family took in orphans for the holidays. Not actual parentless children, mind you, but grown-ass people with nowhere to go. Postal workers and industrial parts salespeople. German exchange students and maiden aunts. They fell into two main categories: colleagues and roommates who were far from home, and friends with suboptimal familial situations who preferred our family to their own. On Thanksgiving and Christmas, there was always room for another place at the table; when we ran out of seats, we'd just add a card table. Or two.
Each successive holiday at our house seemed to generate its own "orphan" story that was added to family lore. There was the Thanksgiving Wally had five Harvey Wallbangers before dinner and slept through it on the couch. Poor John, whose name will live in infamy for adding Parmesan cheese to the mashed potatoes. My brother's girlfriend, Sophia, who worked with him in construction, was goaded into telling us how she murdered a yappy Maltese on a job site by dumping the dog in a vat of tar. Cousin Mary from Kansas City, who made her meatballs with raisins. Ebony, who spent all of Christmas in her Winnie the Pooh onesie.
On New Year's Day, mom threw an open-house party, an old-time New York society tradition dating back to a time when friends would go from house to house raising a glass for the year to come. People moved through the house by the dozens, with a constant ferrying of coats up and down the stairs. There were chafing dishes of food crowding the table. The ice bucket needed constant refilling for drinks and more drinks. Jim Flaherty, a building inspector who trained as a classical pianist, led holiday singalongs at the baby grand and was all hands under the mistletoe. Jim, who spent his days sticking his head into crawl spaces and airshafts, would eventually die of histoplasmosis, an infection caused by fungal spores in pigeon shit. (Jim's death would spark a lifelong hatred of pigeons in my father, who would shoot them with a pellet rifle for spite and sport on Saturday afternoons.)
If mom was worried there wasn't enough food to feed all the guests—despite the fact that she always prepared more than enough—word would go out to one of the children, who would whisper it to the others: FHB. Family hold back. My siblings and I would add food to our plates sparingly, under the watchful gaze of our mother, who would eventually give the all-clear signal that we could now stuff ourselves in the time-honored holiday fashion.
I don't know how exactly we became the holiday orphanage, but I imagine it was a mix of my mother's upbringing, which made much of the role of good hostess, and the general boisterousness of our family. We made such a clatter that our gatherings felt capacious and inviting. One could either dive into the maelstrom or lounge poolside, but you were welcome to come as you were and do as you liked. (Unlike those deadly quiet homes where it feels like nothing is ever out of place, nothing was ever broken by children acting like actual children, no one ever got too tipsy or did something memorably stupid, and no one knew what joy felt like.)
And now, at the age of 49, I find myself a literal and metaphorical orphan—no parents and no clear sense of where to spend the holidays. Aside from one disorienting Christmas spent in Florida (85 degrees and sunny) when Lee Anne and I were first dating, I've always gathered with my family in Queens. What now? Our parents were the magnetic force that drew our family together—filial piety runs strong in the Mahoneys. We showed up for every holiday. Without the pull of our parents, I wonder if my siblings and I will eventually fly apart into our own holiday constellations of Friendsgivings and Friendsmases and Friendukkahs and Friendzaas. And we have our own nuclear families, of course. But the holidays without my parents and without bickering with my siblings will seem deeply strange. It was never about the pilgrims or Jesus with us (okay, it was about Jesus for a while; then the whole pedophile priest thing soured mom on the Church). It was about getting together for the holidays. It's just what family does. But just not anymore—at least not in the same way.
So watch the mail, because Lee and I will either be adopting a bunch of misfits and sending out invites or politely pleading for a seat at your table.
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