The advent of blogging in Egypt is tied up with the Kefaya
movement (Egyptian Arabic for "enough"), which gained momentum in 2005 as the
first social movement in Egypt that actively used the Internet to organise its
events. It set a landmark in organising the first anti-Mubarak demonstrations
ever expressing the protesters' anger, featuring the tearing down and the
burning of Mubarak posters. This natural symbiosis between Egypt's early core
bloggers with the movement has given new popular attention to the Egyptian
blogosphere, and bloggers have used their skills to help organise campaigns
independently from classical Egyptian opposition politics.
