[kictanet] Fwd: [igf_members] Good news! Contact with Tarek Kamel!

[warigia bowman]

Dear Waudo

I know you are passing  on a message, and that you did not write the message
to the IGF.You and I are old friends.

 As such, do not take the comments below as an attack on you, but rather, an
interrogation of George Sadowsky's email.

Since I have been in Egypt for the past six months, and have lived through
every day of the Revolution, here are the questions that spring to mind.

What was the role of Tarek Kamel  in shuttling off the Internet? Why are we
interested in helping people from the deposed Mubarak regime?

Was Kamel somehow involved in opposing the Mubarak regime, or is there
another reason we should have sympathy for him? If he was a minister in
Egypt, he more than likely shared in the ill gotten gains that were stolen
from the Egyptian people, who are still protesting for democracy in Tahrir
Square.

Just my two shillings.

Yours, Rigia

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:39 AM, waudo siganga <emailsignet at mailcan.com>wrote:

>
> Dear Listers - those who know Tarek Kamel, lately ICT Minister in Egypt,
> may be interested in his contacts as below:
>
> ----- Original message -----
> From: "George Sadowsky" <george.sadowsky at gmail.com>
> To: igf_members at intgovforum.org
> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:44:50 -0400
> Subject: [igf_members] Good news!  Contact with Tarek Kamel!
>
> All,
>
> Thanks to Nashwa Abedel-Baki, I made contact with Tarek yesterday,
> and we had a very good telephone call.  Here are the highlights:
>
> - He is in Paris and has been for some time.  He's being treated at
> the American Hospital for a malignancy of the stomach and intestine.
> (We did not go into detail.)  According to Tarek, his doctor gives
> him a very good prognosis for beating the disease.
>
> - He is living at an apartment hotel in Paris, connected to the
> Egyptian embassy.
>
> - His wife is with him in Paris, and his children are with his wife's
> parents in Egypt.
>
> - He is interested in resuming a professional career, most probably
> in the international sphere, and he is beginning to put out feelers
> and to re-establish his professional network.  Some of us, or course,
> are a part of that network.  I told him that he has many friends
> internationally, here in this group as well as elsewhere, and that he
> could count on whatever help we could give him.
>
> - Depending upon his medical condition, he talked about possibly
> visiting the United States (Washington, New York, maybe elsewhere) at
> the end of summer or early fall.
>
> - He now has a new e-mail address, independent of the Egyptian
> government:
>
>        "Tarek Kamel" <tmkamel at gmail.com>
>
> I encourage you to write to him.
>
> - He has a mobile phone number: +33 6 26 48 78 35.  When I talked
> with him, he seemed somewhat tired, but his spirits were good, and he
> enjoyed the contact.  My sense is that he has some preference for
> e-mail contact, but that's my sense only and I could be wrong, and it
> clearly depends upon the nature of the conversation.  When he is in
> the hospital for treatment he probably doesn't have access to his
> phone very much; in the U.S. the use of mobile phones is restricted
> when around any significant medical instrumentation.
>
> I hope that as a group, we have sufficient imagination, knowledge,
> contacts, and perseverance to help him to secure a really good
> position in which he can be effective, one that he richly deserves.
>
> Regards,
>
> George
>
>
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