Blog Post Number 52

I wanted to write 150 blog posts this year, but clearly that was way too optimistic. This is the 52nd post of the year and probably the last one for 2024. Not bad honestly. Next month this blog will be 20 years old! Alaa's mother Dr. Laila Soueif is entering her 81st day of her hunger strike to free her son. Her protest seems to be ignored by the Egyptian and UK governments . She lost …