New Orleans Once again Tahrir Square in Cairo stands for dream of freedom, rather than the disappointment of struggle. Tens of thousands have held the square for days against scores that have died and thousands injured by the military. Finally, the demands have been clear and consistent and directed at the brazen power play …
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Egyptian Presidential Candidates Offer Surprising Perspectives
Cairo In an amazing development I had to split the Organizers’ Forum delegation into two tracks, one political and the other labor, to accommodate the packed schedule of high level meetings. On the political side the confluence of Ahmed Rehab’s experience in Tahrir Square and contacts he made there and the novelty of an …
Egypt’s Protests and Gene Sharp
San Pedro Sula Newspapers, as the saying goes, write the rough drafts of history. In Egypt is is fascinating to watch the 20-day process of rewriting, revising, and re-framing that is already taking place in papers like the New York Times. The first drafts desperately wanted this to be a Facebook or Twitter revolution…young and …