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katelynklug

Lack of unity stalls Egypt's youth revolution - 0 views

www.aljazeera.com/...201321712247375525.html

Egypt youth activism leaders unity Morsi constitution

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      katelynklug on 10 Oct 14
       
      National Salvation Front group? Demands to Morsi that constitutional declaration be rescinded, that the referendum be called off, and that a new constituent assembly be formed.
  • ongoing protests
  • sceptical about including the youth of the Muslim Brotherhood
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  • part of the current regime
  • "silly"
  • ke all groups in Egyptian society
  • belong to different parties and ideologies
  • how to move foward
  • more cautious approach
  • used more carefully
  • work more with the people
  • Protest movements alert society - they don't rebuild the country.
  • Abdel Fatah, Harb, and El Elaimy, who all support ongoing protests
  • street is always ahead of the SF
  • SF is not responding fast
  • should continue as long as we have a government that neglects people's demands
  • different from that of the youth
  • negotiates to reform the regime from inside
  • new regime
  • getting rid of the Muslim Brotherhood
  • youth leaders will lead most political parties in 2-3 years
  • rejectionist generation
  • raised to reject the Mubarak regime
  • political alternative
sgriffi2

Mona Eltahawy- Columnist - 0 views

I found the website of the female writer Mona Eltahawy. On her website it says "during the 18-day revolution that toppled Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, she appeared on most major media outlets, ...

#women #womensrights #egypt

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agomez117

Banksy on the Nile: Graffiti Art from the Egyptian Revolution - 1 views

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egypt graffiti art

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  • agomez117 on 10 Nov 14
     
    Since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak sent Egypt into turmoil in 2011, Egypt has been home to a street-art movement of unprecedented vitality. A living record of Egypt's mercurial political situation, these murals have once again proliferated in the wake of the recent coup d'état.
sheldonmer

How an Egyptian Revolution Began on Facebook - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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revolution egypt Facebook digital citizenship egyptian technology Mubarak nytimes

shared by sheldonmer on 19 Oct 14 - No Cached
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      sheldonmer on 19 Oct 14
       
      This article highlights the Egyptian Revolution and it's ties to social media. We have talked about how Khaled Said was beaten. This talk about how a man in Dubai saw his picture on Facebook and how it prompted him and many other to become activists in the revolution.
  • This article highlights the Egyptian Revolution and it's ties to social media. We have talked about how Khaled Said was beaten. This talk about how a man in Dubai saw his picture on Facebook and how it prompted him and many other to become activists in the revolution.
  • And he’s right. But his individual story resonates on two levels: it epitomizes the coming-of-age of a young Middle Eastern generation that has grown up in the digital era, as well as the transformation of an apolitical man from comfortable executive to prominent activist.
  • sheldonmer on 19 Oct 14
     
    This article highlights the Egyptian Revolution and its ties to social media. We have discussed Khaled Said in class and this article talks about the image of his dead beaten body appearing on Facebook and how it inspired Wael Ghonim, born in Egypt, living in Dubai, and many others to become activists in the revolution.
allieggg

Can Libya Rebuild Itself After 40 Years of Gaddafi? - 0 views

www.newsweek.com/f-after-40-years-gaddafi-68601

Gaddafi libya Arab Nationalism recontruction political tabula rasa Revolution politics middle east

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  • the man has hollowed out the Libyan state, eviscerated all opposition in Libyan society, and, in effect, created a political tabula rasa on which a newly free people will now have to scratch out a future.
  • Jamahiriya, a political system that is run directly by tribesmen without the intermediation of state institutions
  • the problem is, of course, that much like in the former Soviet satellites in Eastern Europe, virtually everyone at one point or another had to deal with the regime to survive.
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  • Libya is truly a case apart.
  • the disastrous Italian legacy in Libya, has been a constant element in Gaddafi’s speeches since he took power
  • inspired by Gamal Abdel Nasser, neighboring Egypt’s president, whose ideas of Arab nationalism and of the possibility of restoring glory to the Arab world, would fuel the first decade of Gaddafi’s revolution.
  • he was unimpressed with the niceties of international diplomacy,
  • In a brilliant move that co-opted tribal elders, many of whom were also military commanders, he created the Social Leadership People’s Committee, through which he could simultaneously control the tribes and segments of the country’s military.
  • When it turned out that Libya, which was still a decentralized society in 1969, had little appetite for his centralizing political vision and remained largely indifferent to his proposals, the young idealist quickly turned activist.
  • Green Book, a set of slim volumes published in the mid-1970s that contain Gaddafi’s political philosophy, a blueprint is offered for a dramatic restructuring of Libya’s economy, politics, and society. In principle, Libya would become an experiment in democracy. In reality, it became a police state where every move of its citizens was carefully watched by a growing number of security apparatuses and revolutionary committees that owed loyalty directly to Gaddafi.
  • Having crushed all opposition by the mid-1970s, the regime systematically snuffed out any group that could potentially oppose it—any activity that could be construed as political opposition was punishable by death, which is one reason why a post-Gaddafi Libya, unlike a post-Mubarak Egypt, can have no ready-made opposition in a position to fill the vacuum.
  • The tribes—the Warfalla, the Awlad Busayf, the Magharha, the Zuwaya, the Barasa, and the smallest of them all, the Gadafa, to which he belonged—offered a natural form of political affiliation, a tribal ethos that could be tapped into for support. And perhaps, in the aftermath of Gaddafi, they could serve as a nucleus around which to build a new political system.
  • Gaddafi feared they might coalesce into groups opposing his rule. So, during the first two decades after the 1969 coup, he tried to erase their influence, arguing that they were an archaic element in a modern society.
  • comprehensive reconstruction of everything civic, political, legal, and moral that makes up a society and its government.
  • After systematically destroying local society, after using the tribes to cancel each other out, after aborting methodically the emergence of a younger generation that could take over Libya’s political life—all compounded by the general incoherence of the country’s administrative and bureaucratic institutions—Gaddafi will have left a new Libya with severe and longstanding challenges.
  • the growing isolation of Libya as international sanctions were imposed.
  • Lockerbie was the logical endpoint for a regime that had lost all international legitimacy.
  • while the regime still had the coercive power to put down any uprisings that took place in the 1990s, it became clear to Gaddafi’s closest advisers that the potential for unrest had reached unprecedented levels.
  • way out was to come to an agreement with the West that would end the sanctions, allow Libya to refurbish an aging oil infrastructure, and provide a safety valve by permitting Libyans to travel abroad once more.
  • intent to renounce weapons of mass destruction in December 2003—after a long process of behind-the-scenes diplomacy initially spearheaded by Britain
  • “The Revolution Everlasting” was one of the enduring slogans of his Libya, inscribed everywhere from bridges to water bottles.
  • regime that had, for four decades, mismanaged the country’s economy and humiliated its citizens
  • country was split in half, with eastern Cyrenaica and its main city Benghazi effectively independent—a demonstration of the kind of people’s power Gaddafi had always advocated. Reality, in effect, outgrew the caricature.
  • used a set of divide-and-rule policies that not only kept his opponents sundered from each other, but had also completely enfeebled any social or political institution in the country.
  • Beyond Gaddafi, there exists only a great political emptiness, a void that Libya somehow will need to fill.
  • the creation of a modern state where Libyans become true citizens, with all the rights and duties this entails.
  • the terrorist incidents
  • Regimes can use oil revenues strategically to provide patronage that effectively keeps them in power.
  • allieggg on 12 Nov 14
     
    This article from News Week basically paints a picture of Libyan history and how Gaddafi's reign devastated the state economically, socially, and politically. Author Dirk Vandewalle uses the phrase "a political tabula rasa" which in Latin means a blank slate, to describe the fate of Libya after Gaddafi's rule and convey the extent to which the country has to literally reconstruct every component that makes up a society and its government. He highlights major events that led to the downfall of both the Gaddafi regime and the Libyan state as a whole such as Arab nationalism, Jamahiriya, the Green Book, security apparatuses snuffing all opposition, terrorist incidents, isolation and international sanctions, the Lockerbie bombing, weapons of mass destruction, human right violations, divide and rule policies, and his use of oil revenue to fuel his insurgency. Vandewalle concludes the article with uncertain ideas thoughts towards Libya's future and the way the state is going to literally rebuild themselves from this "blank slate" that Gaddafi left behind. 
mpatel5

Ruthless pragmatism has triumphed over the people's revolutions - 1 views

www.middleeastmonitor.com/...d-over-the-peoples-revolutions

Arab-Spring revolution ISIS Mubarak Egypt Islamic-Resistance-Movement

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  • mpatel5 on 26 Oct 14
     
    Democracy was the key word during the Arab Spring demonstrations of 2011. Rather than violent uprisings, they were protests calling for free elections, parliaments and, more generally, a stake in society for millions kept alienated and impoverished.
mkulach

Egypt's revolutionaries - where are they now? - BBC News - 0 views

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Egypt activists revolution change oppression 2016

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  • mkulach on 27 Jan 16
     
    These are some snaps of where activists and protestors from Egypt's revolution are today. Many of them are in prison, some have fled abroad and others are restricting their activism. Some still have hope for change, but many see that Egypt actually is more oppressed today than under Mubarak.
mkulach

Egypt Revolution: 18 days of people power - 0 views

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Egypt Revolution Arab Spring pictures

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  • mkulach on 31 Jan 16
     
    This articles expresses what happened in 2011 in Egypt during the Arab Spring in the photos that have been put together. They express emotion and meaning that spread through the media to know what was occurring at the time in Egypt. Marches, demonstrations, and civil resistance occurred January 25 to overthrow the regime, President Hosni Mubarak.
aacosta8

Egypt I: Cyberactivism - 0 views

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Egypt Cyberactivism History of Egypt

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  • aacosta8 on 23 Feb 16
     
    Egypt exerts a spell: the Luxor Sphinx, Cleopatra VII, those marvels of engineering, the Pyramids. Yet modern ills shook this legendary landscape as pro-Mubarak mobs brandished Molotov cocktails and satellite dishes ripped from rooftops.
jherna2a

Four Years Later, Egypt's Revolution Is In A Coma - 0 views

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Egypt revolution protest

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  • jherna2a on 10 Feb 16
     
    In 2011, Egypt began its revolution strong and "brought forth a wave of optimism and hope." Despite the removal of President Mubarak, chaos ensued under the rule of Mohammed Morsi and, only one year later, the rule of Abdel Fattah el-Sis. Now, the revolution seems to have been a failure and life seems worse than before.
natphan

Police Presence in Egypt Mutes Most Protests on 5th Anniversary of Uprising - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...h-anniversary-of-uprising.html

egypt arab spring Abdul Fattah al-Sisi

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  • natphan on 09 Feb 16
     
    Egyptian police forces, as ordered by president Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, have heavy numbers in Egypt leading up to and on the day of the anniversary of the outsing of Hosni Mubarak, January 25th. This attempt to silence protestors is further evidence of the problems the nation still faces.
jherna2a

Egypt Under Sisi -YouTube - 0 views

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Egypt Sisi protest violence

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  • jherna2a on 10 Feb 16
     
    After the deposition of President Mubarak, a democratic election was held, placing Mohamed Morsi in power. Shortly after, the Egyptian people demanded the new president's deposition. Now, under the rule of General Sisi, the government has responded to any protesters with violence.
eyadalhasan

Egypt bomb kills 21 at Alexandria Coptic church - BBC News - 0 views

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Egypt bomb church

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  • eyadalhasan on 01 Mar 16
     
    President Hosni Mubarak has urged Egypt's Muslims and Christians to stand united against terrorism after a bombing outside a church in Alexandria. At least 21 people were killed and 70 hurt in the suspected suicide attack, which happened during a New Year's Eve service at the al-Qiddissin Church.
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