Egypt's Military Throws Its Weight Behind Mubarak. Egypt's Facebook Police Target Protesters Facebook Page. In an earlier post, our French editor, Fabrice Epelboin, detailed his discovery that the crew that had harassed our French edition's Facebook page, was in fact a squad of Tunisian Internet cops.
These days, official groups and allied militia, frequently attack dissidents. It has now happened in Egypt. The most important Facebook page for the protests is being flooded with abusive comments and criticism. In September, we wrote about the creation and activity of the Egyptian government's Facebook cops. They were created because Egypt's young people have frequently used Facebook as an organizing and informational tool. As Evgeny Morozov points out in his new book The Net Delusion (review upcoming) tyrannical regimes - well any regime actually - have come to utilize social media as a tool of oppression as much as the oppressed use it as a tool for liberty. The "Facebook cops" have targeted the We Are Khaled Said page - one of the best resources for information on the protests.
Revolutionary Women – JustImage.org. A dear friend from Chicago called me last night to check in on me and the uprising in Egypt.
She’s been following my work closely and wondered why it seemed like there are few women taking part in the protests. I was shocked, but then I realized that most of my pictures contain mostly men. It may be true that the majority of people at the protests are men, but it’s certainly not by a big margin. While I do try to represent a wide variety of people in my images, I find myself sometimes being overly sensitive when photographing women in this region. I’ve also been told to stop at least a couple times when taking pictures of veiled women. Here are some images of revolutionary Egyptian women from Tahrir Square today: (matthew cassel) 'Mutabanash mutabanash, al-hurriyeh mish balash' -- English translation: 'We're not tired, we're not tired, freedom isn't free' (matthew cassel) A young girl holds a paper with the images of the revolution's martyrs.
FREE EGYPT. Egyptian protesters feel world has passed them by. CAIRO - Abdel Zaher Dandarwi does not look like a revolutionary.
At 53, his hair is graying at the temples, and his eyes betray more fatigue than fury. But it was fatigue - with the daily corruption, the detached ruling clique and the rot permeating this once-proud nation at the heart of the Arab world - that drove him to the streets this week to voice a revolutionary thought: "Down with Mubarak! " Every one of the tens of thousands of Egyptians who did the same had personal reasons for joining the unexpectedly massive demonstrations that have rattled authorities here and continue to threaten the 30-year rule of a man who once seemed invincible, President Hosni Mubarak.
But for many it came down to this: a pervasive sense that the world has passed Egypt by, that money and power have become hopelessly entrenched in the hands of the few and that if the country is ever going to change, it has to do it now. This time, the protests have no clear leader, and no limit to how large they could grow.
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