I’m not blogging to reform anything or anyone, that’s for sure. I’m just expressing my thoughts, and my blog looks at things from a more of a cultural and human perspective –certainly not political. My objective maybe to connect cultures (a bridge or a window as Hoder puts it).

What is important here is why not? Why don’t you “believe that blogs and internet will reform the Arab world and make people rise”? And if that is what you believe, then why are you blogging? There must be some objective.

I personally believe that one day they (blogs) will. This is the first step of the thousand miles… Just mentioning some of the Egyptian bloggers (and other elsewhere) in the media is a change that will lead eventually one day to the reform.

And why go far, the Christian Science Monitor article few days ago is another example. Beside that it was talking about the Egyptians bloggers, at the end of the same article was a part about the Bahrain Bloggers, where I was quoted saying “Without the bloggers of Bahrain escalating this, and trying to pressure the government, I don’t think anyone would have ever cared or heard about these guys”, and this is true.

Therefore, yes we can make changes in the Middle East. Slowly and steady, but it will be of a great effect in the future…

The AFP piece quotes me saying the exact opposite of that.