Here’s a phrase you never, ever want to hear from the person in charge of a country, in this case…
Happy belated birthday, Facebook Jamal Ibrahim! You are a baby girl born last week in Egypt. Your parents named you, in honor of the role the social networking site Facebook played in your country’s recent revolution. Your…
by Christian Vachon
“In other words, for all its many missteps of the past two decades, America is remarkably well placed to win the war of ideas now unfolding in the Middle East. This is not because Arabs are fond of America. Most aren’t, right now. But…
I guess this is a good transitional place??? Eek: “President Mubarak has gone and the army has been entrusted with the republic, it has just been announced.” This is an amazing thing. Just (“just”) 18 days of protests! And now the really complicated stuff begins.
The thugs #AJ keeps reporting at pres palace is group of 30 posh-looking men & women chanting EGYPT. They just want others 2 stop protestingFri Feb 11 13:37:48 via Mobile Web
I’ll believe Mubarak is stepping down when I see it with my own eyes (uh, through Al Jazeera). Also? Oh great, stepping down to the evil, Cheney-esque Vice President! (Or, you know, the military. Neat.) But signs do look good: “Hassan…
• Over the course of the demonstrations, the Egyptian military detained “hundreds and possibly thousands” of “government opponents”: some of them were tortured, receiving “extensive beatings and other abuses.”
