Launched in Cairo on April 1, 2010, Wasla was advertised as the Arab World’s first “blog-to-print” periodical. Publishing in broadsheet form an assemblage of blog posts, digital artworks, and informational articles on a semi-weekly basis, its principle raison d'être, according to the editors, is to make the work of younger bloggers more accessible to an older generation of journalists and policymakers accustomed to print genres. In doing so, Wasla attempts to address a major tension in both Arab politics – where “gerontocracy” looms large – and Arabic literature – where “generation” persists as a classificatory scheme for many authors. Both for and against the “old,” Wasla articulates an alternative ethics and aesthetics of association. In this paper, I probe the nature and significance of the “connections” that Wasla (lit. “connection”) forges through the “shared” praxis of narrative craft and technological reconfiguration. These connections, I argue, serve to break the familiar ideological commitments of older generations by bringing together writers from Islamists and communists to liberals, artists, bohemians, and the bourgeoisie. Additionally, I suggest, Wasla as a form of "cooperative parasitism" stands in clear contradistinction to the links and connections on which the ancien régime based its legitimacy: "Mubarak of the bridges," the victory of the "Crossing" in 1973. Articles by Gamal Eid, Ahmed Naje, Amr Gharbeia, in addition to artwork by Muhammad Gaber, form the basis of my analysis.