The Rag Blog quoted Dr Hasan Qayed al Subaihi, an assistant professor of Mass Communication at the UAE University, saying:

Shabaan Abdel Raheem is a popular Egyptian singer who has developed a style inherited from the musicians of the Egyptian countryside. Abdel Raheem worked as a dry cleaner for many years while keeping his talents for the entertainment of his local neighbourhood. Now his songs are heard across Egypt and the Arab world. He sings about important issues that touch the hearts of the Arab people and many admire him for his openness.
He has sung about Israel, the Palestinian occupation and the Iraq war, and he now sings about Barack Obama. The lyrics of this enthralling song about the next President of the United States echo the way the Arab world relates to Obama’s presidency.

Also Zeinobia wrote here:

Shabola released a new song about Obama and the over joy reaction for his victory in the Arab World.Shabola believes that we should not put a lot of hope on Obama because the dream can turn in to a nightmare like what he chanted.

Zeinobia tried to translate the song into English in her post.

The Rag continues:

Before the US elections, the majority of Arabs were vigorously supporting Obama, putting a lot of faith in his ability to help to resolve the situation in Iraq and mediating between the Arabs and Israelis. This desperate hope derives from disappointing past experiences that have led Arabs to believe that the US, for a number of reasons, will side with the Israelis.
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Now the Arab public is divided into a dozen or more schools of thought about Obama. The main group belong to those who believe that no American government is ever likely to show fairness towards the Arabs in their conflict with Israel.
After the election, this group has started to become even more pessimistic. They believe that it is better to deal with a clear enemy out in the open rather than a disguised, hidden foe – and Obama they identify as one of the latter. Their negativity increased when the President-elect chose Rahm Emanuel, his Jewish friend, as his chief of staff in the White House.
Emanuel has strong personal and family links with Israel, which leads this group to believe that the Obama White House is likely to be more supportive of the Israelis than even the Bush administration. These suspicions will only increase if Obama appoints other Jews to senior positions on his staff. After past disappointing experiences with Henry Kissinger, Dennis Ross and Madeleine Albright, many Arabs are now expecting the worst from Emanuel.

* This post also appears on Global Voices Online.

The Global Patriot, which was under short-term charter to the Navy's Military Sealift Command, entered the Suez Canal from the Red Sea after dark on Monday, when it was approached by several small boats, US and Egyptian officials say.

According to the Egyptian government and local reports, the vessel opened fire on one of the motorboats as it transited through the canal, killing an Egyptian man and injuring two others. Two men on the boat were injured and one man, identified as Mohamed Moqtar Afifi by Agence France-Presse, was killed.

The US Navy has been particularly alert to the activities of such small boats near its warships since Al Qaeda's 2000 suicide attack on the USS Cole in Yemen killed 17 sailors.

Isis (Egypt - The Reality) commented on this story in here:

“Global Container Lines (GCL) a worldwide leader in ocean transportation is proud to announce its US flag service. The multipurpose Ro-Lo vessel “Global Patriot” is at the service of all esteemed GCL customers. The vessel is ideally suited for carriage of rolling stock, containers, project cargo, heavy lifts, break bulk, and bulk cargo. The vessel will be primarily trading between the US Gulf, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, East Africa. All other destinations will be considered on inducement.”

And as their motto states “We Do It All” the US-Navy chartered cargo ship has, no matter what all the reports from their side or our side say, shot and killed a man…. and because Americans are the de facto superior race, no one's gonna do jack s**t about it…. and that's the bottom line…

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I just want to say that Egypt has all the right to arrest whoever opened fire because not only was the crime (yes a crime even if its just man slaughter) was committed against an Egyptian citizen and Egypt would have passive personality jurisdiction because the victim was Egyptian, the crime took place inside Egyptian territorial waters = which means on Egyptian territory, because the Suez Canal is inside Egypt…

If the American Government brainwashed Americans into believing their superior, why does the Egyptian government have to f*****g brainwash all Egyptians into believing that they're only 3/5th human? Will the orphan children of the slain man ever see justice?

Also Sharm Life wrote here:

لا اتحدث هنا عن الخبر و حسب و لكن سيادتنا على ارضنا , فتارة اسرائيل و تارة جنود حماس و تارة جنود امريكا و لكن لا اجد ردا رادعا او حتى معبرا على كرامة الشعب المصري و رادا للاعتبار

I am not just taking about this particular incident here, but our national sovereignty over our own land. One day it is the Israelis, the next Hamas guerillas and now the American navy. I do not see any response that saves the Egyptian people's dignity.