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Au Caire, l'opposition se cramponne place Tahrir - Monde - la-Croix.com. Un homme se repose entre les chenilles d'un char de l'armée sur la place Tahrir, au Caire (Abed/AFP).

Au Caire, l'opposition se cramponne place Tahrir - Monde - la-Croix.com

La place Tahrir est une forteresse assiégée, entourée de chars de l'armée égyptienne et de quelques soldats à l'air tranquille. Tout autour, des vestiges de scènes de guérilla : voitures calcinées, magasins pillés, verres brisés et branches d'arbre coupées témoignent des combats qui s'y sont déroulés. La place est le dernier carré d'une résistance encore visible au Caire, où la vie a repris dimanche 6 février.

Banques et magasins rouvraient petit à petit. Dimanche 6 février, les militants « pro-démocratie », qui se sont organisés pour tenir le siège de la place, affluaient à nouveau, après un bref répit samedi. Au centre de ce qui est en temps normal l'un des carrefours les plus embouteillés de la capitale, des tentes ont été plantées pour se protéger des nuits froides et de l'humidité. Le lieu de la fraternisation C'est un lieu de la fraternisation. Agnès ROTIVEL, au Caire. Egypt remembers. Egypte. Egypt: Inside the Revolution. How To Start A Revolution 12.58K Views0 Likes Half a world away from Cairo’s Tahrir Square, an ageing American intellectual shuffles around his cluttered terrace house in a working-class Boston neighbourhood.

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His name is Gene Sharp. White-haired and now in his mi... The Forbidden Education 3.05K Views0 Likes The film documents diverse alternative education practices and unconventional schools in Latin America and Spain and includes educational approaches such as popular education, Montessori, progressive education, Waldor... On Modern Servitude 2.62K Views1 Likes The central objective of this film is to reveal man's condition as a modern slave within the context of the totalitarian mercantile system and to show the forms of mystification which mask his servile condition.

Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview 1.25K Views2 Likes. Alive in Egypt. Gamal Al-Ghitani seminar at Egypt’s cultural center in Paris 14 March 2011 The Egyptian cultural center in Paris was host to a seminar by the prominent Egyptian writer Gamal al Ghitani (Al Zeini Barakat, Hikayat al Gharib) , entitled “L’Egypte de l’apès 25 Janvier 2011”, or “Egypt after the 25th of January 2011”.

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The seminar also featured the participation of Egypt’s ambassador to France, Mr. Nasser Kamel on the subject of the diaspora’s right to vote. The center, which is essentially one large hall in avenue Saint-Michel, was fully packed, the audience being mostly composed of Egyptians living in Paris, with a not-insignificant presence of French as well as other-Arab audience. (A word of caution – this account is written mostly from memory and not necessarily in the right order that Mr. al-Ghitani presented.

Mr. al-Ghitani started his talk by an admission: Prior to the revolution, he had never heard of Facebook and still is not exactly sure what it is. Mr. Provided by @ihagha. Egypt (and Beyond) LiveBlog: Away from the Cameras. 0255 GMT: The Iranian government has jammed BBC Persian's broadcast into Iran in anticipation of protests on the 14th of this month. 0250 GMT: Blogger and activist Kareem Amer has been released. 0200 GMT: President Barack Obama released a statement on Egypt this evening.

Egypt (and Beyond) LiveBlog: Away from the Cameras

We are publishing it in full: The Egyptian people have been told that there was a transition of authority, but it is not yet clear that this transition is immediate, meaningful or sufficient. Too many Egyptians remain unconvinced that the government is serious about a genuine transition to democracy, and it is the responsibility of the government to speak clearly to the Egyptian people and the world. 0155 GMT: Protesters have divided themselves into four groups almost now. 0150 GMT: Reports indicate that many protesters are continuing their march towards the Presidential Palace which is a very long walk away from Tahrir Square.

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