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Update on Saad and family - Howard and I both spoke to the boys yesterday, Saad is outside together with all the other neighbourhood men guarding their properties basically with sticks and iron bars in their hands as there were some attempted and other robberies.
It all does sound very scary, but knowing teh streets very well there I am smewaht reassured, if the neighbours continue to stick together it will be very difficult for anyone to cause too much trouble, the streets where Saad lives are short and narrow and not easy to enter against determined resistance - and Saad's address is somewhere in the middle rather than at either end of it, so forgetting for a moment the volatile situation and local temperament and that they happen to be the only Christians in the street, things do look hopeful.
Supply of food will be a problem before long, so let's hope that some resolution will happen before that scenario could quicly change the mood of things ... Saad's son Shady and I had a giggle that now might not be the right time to organise a mosaic course in Alexandria!
I really hate the thought of Saad having to stand out there with an iron bar in his hand, but he is a sensible man not into heroics, so all we can do is just hope and pray for them all and send good vibes - I will keep you posted with news as I get them.
Update on Saad and family - Howard and I both spoke to the boys yesterday, Saad is outside together with all the other neighbourhood men guarding their properties basically with sticks and iron bars in their hands as there were some attempted and other robberies.
It all does sound very scary, but knowing teh streets very well there I am smewaht reassured, if the neighbours continue to stick together it will be very difficult for anyone to cause too much trouble, the streets where Saad lives are short and narrow and not easy to enter against determined resistance - and Saad's address is somewhere in the middle rather than at either end of it, so forgetting for a moment the volatile situation and local temperament and that they happen to be the only Christians in the street, things do look hopeful.
Supply of food will be a problem before long, so let's hope that some resolution will happen before that scenario could quicly change the mood of things ... Saad's son Shady and I had a giggle that now might not be the right time to organise a mosaic course in Alexandria!
I really hate the thought of Saad having to stand out there with an iron bar in his hand, but he is a sensible man not into heroics, so all we can do is just hope and pray for them all and send good vibes - I will keep you posted with news as I get them.