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

Mon Jul 18 09:07:58 EAT 2011

Dear Rigia - thanks for your feelings regarding Tarek and
certainly will all impress on George and other colleagues.
Personally I do not think that there is any human being who does
not make mistakes. Some people also make some mistakes while
doing great things. It just depends on what we want to remember.
I do not know to what extent we can ascribe the Internet shutdown
during the uprising to Tarek as a person or whether it was orders
from elsewhere. However since you are on the ground I think you
have better info! Let us talk more during the Pasha visits.
Waudo
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:53 -0500, "warigia bowman"
<warigia at aucegypt.edu> wrote:

  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
<[1]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" <[2]george.sadowsky at gmail.com>
  To: [3]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" <[4]tmkamel at gmail.com>
  I encourage you to write to him.
  - He has a mobile phone number: [5]+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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References

1. mailto:emailsignet at mailcan.com
2. mailto:george.sadowsky at gmail.com
3. mailto:igf_members at intgovforum.org
4. mailto:tmkamel at gmail.com
5. tel:%2B33%206%2026%2048%2078%2035
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