Geneive Abdo is a long time journalist and academic who has worked and studied Egypt's political and social changes for 20 years. She has a telling article in the Washington Post titled: Is the US ready for Egyptian democracy?In the article she rebukes the Bush administration for always casting failues as success, whether in the mess that is post invasion Iraq, or hailing the recent flawed re-election of Mubarak, while ignoring the real opposition there: the elephant in the room, the Islamic minded Muslim Brotherhood.

Every now and then, I come across someone named "Omar" in the Western hemisphere. Having a brother called Omar, as well as my family claiming descent from another famous Omar, I am intrigued.

The name Omar عمر is a pre-Islamic male proper name. Several of the Prophet's companions were called Omar, the most prominent of which is the second successor to him, Omar Ibn Al Khattab.

Shukri Mustafa (1942-1987) was an agricultural engineer who became the leader and ideologue for a radical Islamic splinter group: Al Takfir wa Al Hijra التكفير و الهجرة.The name literally means "Declaring Apostacy and Immigration", and was not the official name, but rather a derogatory name derived from them attributing apostacy to all other Muslims, and them urging members to immigrate out of non-Islamic lands. The group adopted the name "Jama'at Al Muslimin جماعة المسلمين"  meaning "[The] Group of Muslims", emphasising that they are the only true Muslims.

Ayman El Zawahri: Long time militant and Al-Qaeda ideologue.Coming soon.

Sayyed Qutb سيد قطب is the ideological father of modern militant movements in the Arab and Islamic world.

His first name could be transliterated in English as Syed, Sayyid, Sayed.

Born in 1906, he was not a radical ideologue at first, but rather someone with a social reform agenda.  He visited Colorado, USA on a government program in 1949, and wrote a book titled: The America I Have Seen. Upon his return to Egypt he joined the Muslim Brotherhood before the 1952 overthrow of the monarchy in a coup d'etat by the Free Officers.

His writing focused on social reform from an Islamic perspective, as well as a literary analysis of the Artistic Representation in the Quran. It is ironic to see that modern Salafis do not approve of this latest work.

Here is an article by Waleed Ziad, in the New York Times, titled Jihad's Fresh Face. In it, he traces back violent militancy, in which current terrorist movements are grounded. The root cause is post-colonial chaos created in the Arab world that lead to the rise of absolute dictatorship. When these dictatorships are challenged, they ruthlessly and brutally suppress the opposition. This suppression did not stop at banning and imprisonement or those who opposed, but more heinous measures such as torture, continued persecution, harassment, ...etc.

Ziad Elmously briefly attended E.G.C. , moving in third grade to E.B.S. He later went to the Faculty of Engineering, in Architecture.He is now in the USA, and works for a multi-national market research company, Taylor Nelson SOFTRES Intersearch as a statistical consultant.  He does considerable work for clients in the IT industry. See how Ziad looked like in 1968. 

Mohamed El Meligui was a soccer fan in E.G.C., just like Magdy El Rayyes, and Yasin Mansour.His physique helped with this, being tall and well built.He worked in McDonalds franchise in Egypt, when they started opening branches there. Later, he moved to the  USA, working in McDonalds in New York, and then in California.Recently, he works in Bank of America in the Los Angeles suburb of San Bernadrino.See how Mohamed looked in 1968. 

Some time ago, there was a question on the Drupal forums about wrapping content from another site to your site.

Here is a basic PHP code snippet that would do just that. You may need to fiddle with the HTML to make the paths absolute to the site that you are wrapping.

If you have improvements, please let me know. 

Also, please do not use this to leech content from other sites, and obey their copyright rules. 

Method 1: Using fopen on a URL 

$url = "http://example.com";

$handle = @fopen ( $url, "r" );
if ( $handle ) {
 while ( true ) {
   $data = fgets ( $handle, 4096 );
   print $data;

   if ( true == feof( $handle ) ) {
       break;
       }
 }

 fclose ( $handle );
}
else {
 $result .= t("Could not contact host: ") . $url;
}

Method 2: Using fopen on a URL - more concise way

After writing the above, Drupal hacker par excellance, Karoly Negyesi (a.k.a. chx), found  a much more elegant and simple solution:

Those who like sausages should not see how they are made -- Anonymous

When you are in the midst of developing a web site, you often do not want anyone to see it while it is work in progress. Things are often broken, look ugly, ...etc.

Keeping humans off is not the only reason as well: you also need to keep out search engine crawlers, comment spam bots, email harvesters, Internet Archiver, ...etc.

At the same time, you want specific people to be able to access the site, such as the theme designer, fellow developers, someone from the client's company, ...etc.