[New-imc] Re: imc Egypt

[Petros]

Marhaba mohojay,

Thanks for your reply.

It sounds like you're on the right direction.
As long as you make sure to keep the process oriented toward 
embracing a collective character, and generating a group- 
sense, things will go well.

Please don't rush. Take your time to link up with as many 
progressive and radical organizations as possible.

Also, Egypt is a very large country, and there are some 
regional particularities, it might make sense to begin by 
narrowing the identity of the group somewhat, or narrowing 
the scope of the project, to  city-wide identity. Are yo 
mostly based in Cairo? Your group might become the imc-Cairo 
group, if things work out.

Many millions of people are in Cairo, so even that is a 
large bite to chew on, for a beginning. So please allow 
yourselves time for dialogue, time to define shared 
political and social values, and also to clarify 
disagreements among yourselves, so that there will be no 
surprises later.

I've enrolled you in the imc- eastern-mediterranean email 
discussion group, as you had requested (but not on the 
tech-related email group. The scope of our talk now is not 
technical, yet.)

I still think that you should contact our Arabic- speaking 
colleagues in imc-Beirut, Raida and Imad whom I had 
mentioned earlier (I'll send you their email addresses 
separately). They are experienced and committed imc activists.

Goog luck,
Petros
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