On Excellent Nawnaw, in case you missed it...

(that's really a post of local interest, apologies to people outside of Egypt...)

Mumtaz El Qott is editor-in-chief of government newspaper Al-Akhbar. Akhbar once used to have a little bit of an edge over Al-Ahram - a few of their columnists did veer away from the party line at times - but now it's just a second-tier state propaganda medium.

Anyways. So Mr. El Qott - whose first name means "Excellent" and his last "the cat", I kid you not - just wrote an incredibly ridiculous article yesterday - entitled "حمد الله عالسلامة", basically 'thank God you're well'. The article is, basically, a blowjob to the President's ego.

The Twittersphere found it hilarious. So hilarious, in fact, that a new hastag was created: #ExcellentNawNaw. Click on it to follow what's being said...

Someone also created Mr. the Cat a wiki page - now it will probably be removed sometime soon so a screenshot was in order (click for the full size):


Then a Facebook group was created, which is also worth a click.

I have to say - it seems that Al-Qott has gotten more notoriety by writing an outrageously dickish article than by doing real journalism.. Hilarious.