After several days of unrest, Hosni Mubarak finally stepped down from his 30-year reign last Friday and a transition of power to the armed forces took place.
More than two weeks of nonstop protest have passed and the Egyptian people are on their way towards a new government. Despite this situation, the transition isn’t going…
Topic: Revolution
Egypt prepares for democracy
World Wide Web: Has social media revolutionized revolutions?
Both the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions may not have been possible without Mark Zuckerberg.
Anti-government protestors used Facebook to organize huge demonstrations in the streets of Tunis and Cairo. Then when Ben Ali and Mubarak began cracking down on media outlets, protestors used hashtags on Twitter to let the world know what was going on.…
Egypt following in Tunisia’s footsteps
Egypt President Hosni Mubarak is a man with an incredible knack for survival. In his 30-year rule of the country, Mubarak has faced five assassination attempts and lived through all of them. But this time, it is not an ambush of his motorcade or a sniper’s bullets that are coming at him. It is the…
World Wide Web: The Middle East is burning
It was embarrassment that drove Mohamed Bouzazi to douse himself in paint thinner and light himself on fire. After the apples that he sold to support his family were confiscated by government workers; after he was slapped in the face and publicly beaten by them – twice; after one of them insulted his dead father;…
Revolution in Tunisia ‘rocks the Casbah’
Tunisians took to the streets in late December to protest against high food prices, limited political and social freedom, unemployment and government corruption. That quartet of factors had been as much a part of their lives as the 23-year rule of former President Zain Al Abidine Ben Ali.
Initially, their aim was to see their…
