Friday, February 10, 2012

Digital Road to #Egypt’s Revolution, 'fed up with #military, not afraid of Islamist rule'

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xaime aguiar  -  2:09 PM  -  Public
very interesting use of a timeline. worth it. The road to Egypt's revolution.
An interactive timeline of some of the groundwork in the virtual world that helped make revolution a reality.
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Sébastien Turban  -  2:04 PM  -    -  Public
"the campaign against pro-democracy activists and NGOs is not the badly misjudged action of a military council flailing desperately as it struggles to retain control of Egypt's transitional process and protect its special powers and exclusions from civilian oversight. Rather, it is a calculated ploy."
Critics are right to interpret the decision by the government of Egyptian Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri -- to refer 43 pro-democracy activists, including 19 Americans, to trial before a criminal co...
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The scene in Egypt, after Mubarak has been gone for one year, is of political confusion, fury over military rule – during which dozens of lives have been taken in demonstrations – and constant pilgrimages to Tahrir Square. Euronews spoke with the deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper Al-Ahram, ...
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