Comments on: Mahmoud Darwish on Football Game محمود درويش على مبارة الجزائر http://madas.jordanplanet.org/2009/11/19/mahmoud-darwish-on-algerian-football-game-%d9%85%d8%ad%d9%85%d9%88%d8%af-%d8%af%d8%b1%d9%88%d9%8a%d8%b4-%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%89-%d9%85%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ac%d8%b2%d8%a7%d8%a6%d8%b1/ Casting the first stone Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:19:00 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: All Right, I Give in, Novels about Football (Soccer) « Arabic Literature (in English) http://madas.jordanplanet.org/2009/11/19/mahmoud-darwish-on-algerian-football-game-%d9%85%d8%ad%d9%85%d9%88%d8%af-%d8%af%d8%b1%d9%88%d9%8a%d8%b4-%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%89-%d9%85%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ac%d8%b2%d8%a7%d8%a6%d8%b1/comment-page-1/#comment-221474 All Right, I Give in, Novels about Football (Soccer) « Arabic Literature (in English) Sun, 13 Jun 2010 05:02:15 +0000 http://madas.jordanplanet.org/?p=969#comment-221474 [...] great poet Mahmoud Darwish talks soccer, among other things, in Memory for Forgetfulness, which you can read as part of our Summer Reading [...] [...] great poet Mahmoud Darwish talks soccer, among other things, in Memory for Forgetfulness, which you can read as part of our Summer Reading [...]

]]> By: Madas http://madas.jordanplanet.org/2009/11/19/mahmoud-darwish-on-algerian-football-game-%d9%85%d8%ad%d9%85%d9%88%d8%af-%d8%af%d8%b1%d9%88%d9%8a%d8%b4-%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%89-%d9%85%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ac%d8%b2%d8%a7%d8%a6%d8%b1/comment-page-1/#comment-220734 Madas Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:34:12 +0000 http://madas.jordanplanet.org/?p=969#comment-220734 Egyptian girl, For me as a Jordanian, it does not matter who started what... the situation would be equally sad... for me Maser will always be the mother of the world, and Algeria will always be the land of the million martyrs! I tend to agree with those who claim that the situation was escalated by political agendas... I started thinking that nationalism killed us, we became so engaged in our individual problems that we forgot about the beautiful dream of the fifties... I am a Muslim, I am an Arab, and I will always be proud to be part of these two identities. Egyptian girl,

For me as a Jordanian, it does not matter who started what… the situation would be equally sad… for me Maser will always be the mother of the world, and Algeria will always be the land of the million martyrs! I tend to agree with those who claim that the situation was escalated by political agendas…

I started thinking that nationalism killed us, we became so engaged in our individual problems that we forgot about the beautiful dream of the fifties…

I am a Muslim, I am an Arab, and I will always be proud to be part of these two identities.

]]> By: Egyptian Girl http://madas.jordanplanet.org/2009/11/19/mahmoud-darwish-on-algerian-football-game-%d9%85%d8%ad%d9%85%d9%88%d8%af-%d8%af%d8%b1%d9%88%d9%8a%d8%b4-%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%89-%d9%85%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ac%d8%b2%d8%a7%d8%a6%d8%b1/comment-page-1/#comment-220731 Egyptian Girl Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:29:26 +0000 http://madas.jordanplanet.org/?p=969#comment-220731 "Not only did they beat them up, but thousands of people spent their night honking and beeping around the hotel in which the Algerian team spent the night… They made sure the team stayed up all night without a moment of sleep." Correction, this never happened. Actually it was the Algerians who did that to the Egyptian team in the 1st match and there were calls for "an eye for an eye" treatment. But the secuirty couldn't let the fans do it. Truth to be told, Egypt stayed up cheering all night. Not only Cairo, so if the Algerians couldn't sleep it is because the whole country was up. Fear is what kept them up not the Egyptian horns. They are a team of sissies. And this has to do nothing with Arabism or whatever they did after the match in Sudan. They have always been a team of sissies. They fake injuires and they waste time. It is the Algerian style of football. You should play against them to know the real deal. Lucky that Jordan don't compete in Africa. You would have adopted the "eye for an eye" philosophy after 2 hot receptions in Algeria! “Not only did they beat them up, but thousands of people spent their night honking and beeping around the hotel in which the Algerian team spent the night… They made sure the team stayed up all night without a moment of sleep.”

Correction, this never happened. Actually it was the Algerians who did that to the Egyptian team in the 1st match and there were calls for “an eye for an eye” treatment. But the secuirty couldn’t let the fans do it.
Truth to be told, Egypt stayed up cheering all night. Not only Cairo, so if the Algerians couldn’t sleep it is because the whole country was up. Fear is what kept them up not the Egyptian horns.

They are a team of sissies. And this has to do nothing with Arabism or whatever they did after the match in Sudan.
They have always been a team of sissies. They fake injuires and they waste time. It is the Algerian style of football.

You should play against them to know the real deal. Lucky that Jordan don’t compete in Africa. You would have adopted the “eye for an eye” philosophy after 2 hot receptions in Algeria!

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