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How Wael Ghonim Sparked Egypt's Uprising - Newsweek - 0 views

  • The telephone call from Cairo came late on Thursday, Jan. 27. “I think they’re following me,” the caller told the friend on the other end. “I’m going to destroy this phone.”
  • Ghonim began to feel he was leading two separate lives. “In the morning I lead a 1m budget,” he mused to Wahab in June. “At night, I am a video editor at YouTube.”
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CBBC - Newsround - Newsround's guide to the protests in Egypt - 0 views

  • egan on 25 Jan
  • began on 25 January 2011
  • used water cannon and tear gas to try to stop the protesters,
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  • 300 people were killed in the first 10 days
  • protesters cheered, embraced, waved their flags and honked car horns
  • military would run the country for the time being.
  • after 30 years in power.
  • wasn't doing enough to stop poverty and corruption
  • enough jobs
  • a Google marketing executive called Wael Ghonim.
  • Facebook to help start the protests, but was locked up in police custody for 12 days.
  • helped to re-energise the protests.
  • protests were well educated and tech savvy people like Wael Ghonim, who had only known an Egypt under President Mubarak.
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    Newsround's guide to the protests in Egypt
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