Egypt's Revolution: Coming to an Economy Near You - Umair Haque. By Umair Haque | 4:58 PM February 1, 2011 It was a society in stagnation, if not decline. Despite ostensible stability, its people — especially its young people — faced a future bleaker than the dark side of Pluto. For decades, the richest grew even richer, as national debt mounted, middle-class people tried to make ends meet, and upward mobility fell.
Government failed to address these problems, and the governed felt increasingly disenfranchised — and partisan. Mass unemployment metastasized from a temporary illness to a chronic condition. One of its major cities decided to erect a permanent tent city, for a permanently excluded, marginalized underclass. This isn’t Tunisia, or Egypt — but America. What we’re watching is a massive malfunctioning of the global economy. Lane Kenworthy has recently called America’s version of it “the Great Decoupling.” And my hunch is that it’s going to get worse, before it gets better.
How do we fix it? Some say it’s impossible. Cairo's biggest protest yet demands Mubarak's immediate departure | World news. Egyptian actor Mohsena Tawfik explains why she has joined the protesters in Tahrir Square Link to video: Egypt protests: 'The revolution shows the beauty of the people' The queue was a dozen wide and hundreds deep; it snaked past the pair of bronze lions at the mouth of Qasr El Nile bridge and fanned out across the river. Cairo has witnessed gunfire, molotov cocktails and backstreet anarchy over the past week, but today people flooded in to show the world something different.
"We are the heart of the Egyptian people, the ones who make this country work," said Samar Atallah, a 29-year-old anti-Mubarak protester. "We're here for peace. We are not hundreds, we are not thousands, we are millions. " Peace – alongside solid, stable community organisation – was the hallmark of Egypt's "day of departure", an event which produced the biggest turnout yet in Egypt's 11-day-old national uprising. Tantawi wasn't the only diplomatic celebrity in the square. Egypt's military-industrial complex | Pratap Chatterjee. In early January 2010, Bob Livingston, a former chairman of the appropriations committee in the US House of Representatives, flew to Cairo accompanied by William Miner, one of his staff.
The two men were granted meetings with US Ambassador Margaret Scobey, as well as Major General FC "Pink" Williams, the defence attaché and director of the US Office of Military Cooperation in Egypt. Livingston and Miner were lobbyists employed by the government of Egypt, helping them to open doors to senior officers in the US government. Records of their meetings, required under law, were recently published by the Sunlight Foundation, a Washington, DC watchdog group. Although the names of those who attended the meetings have to be made public, the details of what was discussed are confidential.
I called Miner to ask him about their meetings, but he referred me to Karim Haggag, the spokesman for the Egyptian embassy in Washington, who did not respond. Google Nexus S Review. For its next-generation Nexus phone, the unlocked Nexus S made by Samsung (but usually sold with a T-Mobile subsidy for $199.99), Google has produced what can be best described as an advanced basic smartphone. It features some bleeding-edge technologies such as a 4-inch AMOLED screen, Android 2.3 Gingerbread, NFC tag reading, a front-facing camera, and both tethering and mobile hotspot capabilities. These advanced features are undercut, however, by its lack of soon-to-be-standard features for smartphones of its ilk, such as high-definition video recording, HSPA+ 4G to fuel its mobile hotspot, and no pre-installed video chatting app.
It makes a fine introduction to Android, but is unlikely to appeal to more advanced users moving to their second or third smartphones. Features and design If the Nexus S looks vaguely familiar – that’s because it’s a slightly redesigned version of Samsung’s Galaxy S phone for T-Mobile, the Vibrant. Multimedia capabilities Sound quality. The Muslim Brotherhood After Mubarak. With the end of the Mubarak era looming on the horizon, speculation has turned to whether the Muslim Brotherhood will dominate the new Egyptian political landscape. As the largest, most popular, and most effective opposition group in Egypt, it will undoubtedly seek a role in creating a new government, but the consequences of this are uncertain. Those who emphasize the risk of "Islamic tyranny" aptly note that the Muslim Brotherhood originated as an anti-system group dedicated to the establishment of sharia rule; committed acts of violence against its opponents in the pre-1952 era; and continues to use anti-Western, anti-Zionist, and anti-Semitic rhetoric.
But portraying the Brotherhood as eager and able to seize power and impose its version of sharia on an unwilling citizenry is a caricature that exaggerates certain features of the Brotherhood while ignoring others, and underestimates the extent to which the group has changed over time. To continue reading, please log in. Register. Mubarak family fortune could reach $70bn, say experts | World news. President Hosni Mubarak’s family fortune could be as much as $70bn (£43.5bn) according to analysis by a Middle East expert, with much of his wealth in British and Swiss banks or tied up in real estate in London, New York, Los Angeles and along expensive tracts of the Red Sea coast.
After 30 years as president and many more as a senior military official, Mubarak has had access to investment deals that have generated hundreds of millions of pounds in profits. Most of those gains have been taken offshore and deposited in secret bank accounts or invested in upmarket homes and hotels. According to a report last year in the Arabic newspaper Al Khabar, Mubarak has properties in Manhattan and exclusive Beverly Hills addresses on Rodeo Drive. His sons, Gamal and Alaa, are also billionaires. Amaney Jamal, a political science professor at Princeton University, said the estimate of $40bn-70bn was comparable with the vast wealth of leaders in other Gulf countries.
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Motorola Mobility Inc. Continue Reading. Motorola XOOM Best Buy Launch Date Announced, Could Cost $699 | Tablets Planet. Archive for Dagens Bild. Mubarak. Egypten. Arvet efter Mubarak « Verbal förlag. Hårt förtryck och växande klyftor präglade Egypten under Hosni Mubaraks 30 år vid makten. Men 2011 hände det som ingen trodde kunde hända. Folket tog över gatorna och fick presidenten på fall. Arvet efter Mubarak tar dig långt från mediernas ögonblicksbilder. Frilansjournalisten Per Björklund träffar bloggare, strejkande statsanställda och fackföreningsaktivister – människor och rörelser som tillsammans gjort drömmen om demokrati tänkbar i arabvärldens myllrande hjärta.
Arvet efter Mubarak är ett reportage om de sociala rörelsernas Egypten och ett inlägg i Mellanösterndebatten. Per Björklund bodde tre år i Egypten men svartlistades av säkerhetspolisen och deporterades ur landet utan förklaring i september 2009. Köp boken på Adlibris, Bokus eller Akademibokhandeln. Läs även andra bloggares åsikter om egypten, mubarak, mellanöstern, revolution, tunisien, arabvärlden, tahrir, islamism Under Egypten, Per Björklund.
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