Photo by suezinthecity http://yfrog.com/hsynvtj
2/11/2011
2/09/2011
Beautiful Egypt, Beautiful Egyptians, Beautiful Tahrir
Stunning photo by Sarz Republic. Date unknown.
http://yfrog.com/h3lyk6j
Guardian Reporter was not tortured but heard it happening all around him.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/09/egypt-torture-machine-mubarak-security
This reporter arrived the same day as my husband. He is not a reporter but holds US and Egyptian passports. He wasn't able to let me know he arrived for too long. I told myself it was far too early to feel this rising sense of panic but feared the worst.
This regime should not be our ally.
This reporter arrived the same day as my husband. He is not a reporter but holds US and Egyptian passports. He wasn't able to let me know he arrived for too long. I told myself it was far too early to feel this rising sense of panic but feared the worst.
This regime should not be our ally.
Caught offguard by the scale of their success READ THIS!
Leaders of the initial Jan 25 uprising explain their tactics.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/10/world/middleeast/10youth.html?_r=1&hp
Another leader is interviewed in the Globe and Mail. He says:
“The plan was to start with as many nucleus points as possible and in different areas from the back streets of Cairo. Then we moved from those back streets, chanting for others to join the rally, and the march grew bigger. What started with 20 or 30 activists turned into tens of thousands. It brought tears to my eyes. We were trying to make it the beginning of something, not actually the revolution itself.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/crisis-in-egypt/beyond-tahrir-square-a-turning-point-for-egypt-awaits/article1901125/
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/10/world/middleeast/10youth.html?_r=1&hp
Another leader is interviewed in the Globe and Mail. He says:
“The plan was to start with as many nucleus points as possible and in different areas from the back streets of Cairo. Then we moved from those back streets, chanting for others to join the rally, and the march grew bigger. What started with 20 or 30 activists turned into tens of thousands. It brought tears to my eyes. We were trying to make it the beginning of something, not actually the revolution itself.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/crisis-in-egypt/beyond-tahrir-square-a-turning-point-for-egypt-awaits/article1901125/
Tweets tonight are full of links to pictures of "unidentified martyrs" and an injured boy with downs syndrome who doesn't know his name or address
I cannot get their families out of my mind.
Postscript: The boys family has been located. His name is Sayed.
Postscript: The boys family has been located. His name is Sayed.
Today in Tahrir: Writing a revolution. Drawing a revolution.
Photo by Frederik Pleitgen of CNN
http://plixi.com/p/75989199
Photo by mosarabizing
http://yfrog.com/h3pd8uoj
Nick Bygon's poster
". . . please use it to promote the struggle of the Egyptian people and not to profiteer."
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickbygon/5412410519/#/
Today in Tahrir: Quiet Optimism
First hand account by Ursula Lyndsey at The Arabist:
http://www.arabist.net/blog/2011/2/9/dispatch-from-tahrir-1.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
http://www.arabist.net/blog/2011/2/9/dispatch-from-tahrir-1.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
More information on the worker's strikes
Dan Murphy writes about how socialist activists have been working to encourage workers to support the pro-democracy movement but also about how the links between the two types of unrest are tenuous.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/0209/Egypt-protesters-seek-to-spread-beyond-Tahrir-Square
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/0209/Egypt-protesters-seek-to-spread-beyond-Tahrir-Square
Personal stories of Egyptians from the provinces traveling to join the protesters in Tahrir
http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/tahrir-square-egypts-new-transit
by Noha al-Hennawy
"Standing in his religious uniform among a dozen fellow preachers, Ahmed Gamal Eddin, a 38-year-old state-sanctioned imam, explains why he left his wife and two small children to join the sit-in last week.
“This is a national cause, nobody asked me to be here. We were dreaming of this day long time ago. ..I dream of a better life for my children. I hope my kids can enjoy freedom and good education away from oppression and despotism,” says Gamal Eddin.
“My wife is happy that I am here. She never asked me to go back,” he says. Gamal Eddin has been sleeping in Tahrir for over eight days.
By adopting a clearly anti-Mubarak stance, Gamal Eddin and colleagues might be jeopardizing their jobs with the state religious establishment. These low-rank clerics have refused to toe the line with Egypt’s top religious figures, namely the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar and the Grand Mufti, who have remained supportive of Mubarak’s regime throughout the uprising."
by Noha al-Hennawy
"Standing in his religious uniform among a dozen fellow preachers, Ahmed Gamal Eddin, a 38-year-old state-sanctioned imam, explains why he left his wife and two small children to join the sit-in last week.
“This is a national cause, nobody asked me to be here. We were dreaming of this day long time ago. ..I dream of a better life for my children. I hope my kids can enjoy freedom and good education away from oppression and despotism,” says Gamal Eddin.
“My wife is happy that I am here. She never asked me to go back,” he says. Gamal Eddin has been sleeping in Tahrir for over eight days.
By adopting a clearly anti-Mubarak stance, Gamal Eddin and colleagues might be jeopardizing their jobs with the state religious establishment. These low-rank clerics have refused to toe the line with Egypt’s top religious figures, namely the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar and the Grand Mufti, who have remained supportive of Mubarak’s regime throughout the uprising."
Background on Khaled Said
"Egyptian man's death became a symbol of callous state" by Ernesto Londono.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/08/AR2011020806421.html?hpid=topnews
See the facebook page administered by Wael Ghonim and others in memory of Khaled Said and where the call for protests on Jan 25 began here:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/elshaheeed.co.uk
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/08/AR2011020806421.html?hpid=topnews
See the facebook page administered by Wael Ghonim and others in memory of Khaled Said and where the call for protests on Jan 25 began here:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/elshaheeed.co.uk
Another brilliant video from NYTimes
"Cairo's Facebook Flat: A new generation of Egyptian revolutionaries, ensconced in a communal apartment, are trying to bring down President Hosni Mubarak's government by broadcasting the revolt in Tahrir Square on Facebook."
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/02/08/world/middleeast/1248069622796/cairo-s-facebook-flat.html?hp
The activists in this video echo the unbridled optimism I hear on the phone each morning.
The activists in this video echo the unbridled optimism I hear on the phone each morning.
Muslim Brotherhood discussed.
Here are links to two articles on the Muslim Brotherhood with rather different conclusions.
Muslim Brotherhood uncovered: In an exclusive Guardian interview, Egypt's Islamist opposition group sets out its demands by Jack Shenker and Brian Whitaker
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/08/egypt-muslim-brotherhood-uncovered
How would democracy change the brotherhood: Operating within an authoritarian regime has moderated the group, but that could reverse by Daniel Blumburg
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/02/how-would-democracy-in-egypt-change-the-muslim-brotherhood/70926/
Muslim Brotherhood uncovered: In an exclusive Guardian interview, Egypt's Islamist opposition group sets out its demands by Jack Shenker and Brian Whitaker
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/08/egypt-muslim-brotherhood-uncovered
How would democracy change the brotherhood: Operating within an authoritarian regime has moderated the group, but that could reverse by Daniel Blumburg
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/02/how-would-democracy-in-egypt-change-the-muslim-brotherhood/70926/
Youth Coalition Comittee Formed
This useful article names the participants in the coalition and the representatives of each movement.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/5257/Egypt/Politics-/Egypt-revolution-youth-form-national-coalition.aspx
A different view of what things look like by Blake Hounshell on the ground here:
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/02/07/a_new_leader_for_egypt_s_protesters?hpid=topnews
"The organization that administers the square itself, it's important to understand, is a completely separate entity from the various other Facebook groups, political parties, and other movements that often get (or take) credit for the uprising. Ahmed Naguib, 33, a member of the 1,000-plus strong Tahrir organizing committee, told me that few of the volunteers who man the barricades, seek to root out regime infiltrators, staff the increasingly well-stocked field hospitals and pharmacies, and bring in supplies are "political" types -- as is the case with the roughly 100-member steering committee that more or less makes key logistical decisions. Many if not most of these people didn't even know each other before last week -- and they aren't necessarily activists. The ad hoc organizers have resisted efforts by some groups to secure representational seating in the inner circle of the steering committee, Naguib told me."
This article also points out what I have heard from multiple sources that the "representatives" of the youth movement at the meeting with Suleiman on Sunday did not represent anyone.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/5257/Egypt/Politics-/Egypt-revolution-youth-form-national-coalition.aspx
A different view of what things look like by Blake Hounshell on the ground here:
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/02/07/a_new_leader_for_egypt_s_protesters?hpid=topnews
"The organization that administers the square itself, it's important to understand, is a completely separate entity from the various other Facebook groups, political parties, and other movements that often get (or take) credit for the uprising. Ahmed Naguib, 33, a member of the 1,000-plus strong Tahrir organizing committee, told me that few of the volunteers who man the barricades, seek to root out regime infiltrators, staff the increasingly well-stocked field hospitals and pharmacies, and bring in supplies are "political" types -- as is the case with the roughly 100-member steering committee that more or less makes key logistical decisions. Many if not most of these people didn't even know each other before last week -- and they aren't necessarily activists. The ad hoc organizers have resisted efforts by some groups to secure representational seating in the inner circle of the steering committee, Naguib told me."
This article also points out what I have heard from multiple sources that the "representatives" of the youth movement at the meeting with Suleiman on Sunday did not represent anyone.
Violent conflict between protesters and security forces near Kharga Oasis
Tweets report a forth person has now died from conflict in a small town in the eastern desert, al-Wadi al-Jadid. Not much information on this yet. The conflict began late last night.
First report I've come across:
http://www.emirates247.com/news/world/three-dead-100-wounded-in-south-egypt-clash-official-2011-02-09-1.354039
First report I've come across:
http://www.emirates247.com/news/world/three-dead-100-wounded-in-south-egypt-clash-official-2011-02-09-1.354039
Regime's effort to divide the protesters seems to have failed
"Muslim Brotherhood give Muabarak a week to resign. They need some time. We give them this chance. A week," said Essam el-Erian.
From the Guardian's live newsblog
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2011/feb/09/egypt-protests-live-updates-9-february
From the Guardian's live newsblog
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2011/feb/09/egypt-protests-live-updates-9-february
Feb 8 protests in al-Mansoura
Another relatively rare view of popular discontent outside the capital. This protest is in my husband's home town, on the road we walk to catch the microbus to his home.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB1tjMZrJzY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB1tjMZrJzY
Rural Egyptians add voices to demand for change
http://af.reuters.com/article/egyptNews/idAFLDE7171TQ20110209?sp=true
A reporter interviews Egyptians who live "outside Tanta." and finds most people are ready for Mubarak to go. A rare media piece about someplace outside Cairo and Alexandria.
A reporter interviews Egyptians who live "outside Tanta." and finds most people are ready for Mubarak to go. A rare media piece about someplace outside Cairo and Alexandria.
Andrew Burton photo-essay of Feb 6 in Tahrir.
http://www.andrewburtonphoto.com/blog/
The beautiful and the mundane on last Sunday on the square. LOOK AT THESE PHOTOS!
The beautiful and the mundane on last Sunday on the square. LOOK AT THESE PHOTOS!
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