After Egypt’s Tahrir Square Revolt, Uncharted Ground. What Happens Next in Egypt? A Look from Cairo. <br/><a href=" US News</a> | <a href=" Business News</a> Copy After almost two weeks of tectonic protests in Cairo that have rocked the Arab world, Christiane Amanpour sat down with five top journalists to look at a key question: what happens next? Veteran Egyptian journalist Nadia abou el-Magd said it comes down to the protesters. "They that made revolution and they are in the position to impose their conditions," said el-Magd, who works for the newspaper Al-Ahram and The Associated Press. "They don't see that ... anybody else is in a position to impose their conditions on them. " Egyptian journalist Lamia Radi said the protestors "will try to stay as long as they can," but, she warned, there is "mounting pressure from the people who want to be back to business [and] ... the sympathy is waning a little bit, especially among the people.
"But, of course, no one wants to give up. Contemplating a post-Mubarak Egypt - Focus. As Egypt's president, Hosni Mubarak, turns 82 this year, many Egyptians are growing increasingly concerned about the fate of their nation. With 28 years of his presidency behind them and 2011 general elections fast approaching, even the country's ruling elite are unsure as to whether Mubarak will step down or continue for a sixth term. "We can now count the months before elections and we still don't know who we're going to nominate," says Ashraf Naguib, a member of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP).
"What we do know is that the NDP isn't going anywhere and change is imminent. " Contemplating the prospect of such change and the legacy that Mubarak will one day leave behind divides many Egyptians. Historical comparisons Saad Eddin Ibrahim, a once-jailed political dissident, gave a lecture at the American University in Cairo on Mubarak's birthday in 2006. He opened his speech by saying: "After Pepi II, Ramses II was the longest ruling pharaoh of Egypt. The lecture hall fell silent. Leah McElrath Renna: Obama's Egypt #FAIL? President Obama and his Administration appear to have made a familiar deal with the devil in response to the popular pro-democracy uprising in Egypt. Early on in the pro-democracy, anti-Mubarak protests, President Obama was walking a fine line between supporting the concerns and rights of the protesters while avoiding appearing as a puppet master in Egypt's internal affairs.
It's a hard line to walk, and, initially, the Administration and its representatives, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, appeared to be walking it well. On Tuesday night, following a day of both objections by the White House press corps to lack of access and floods of calls into the White House comment line demanding action, the President himself made remarks that echoed the cautious yet noncommittal tone and discussed his conversation with President Mubarak in which he asserts he urged restraint.
All good. Wednesday morning, however, things changed. And we were not alone in waiting. We have influence. What the Return of the Internet in Egypt Looks Like so Far - Advertising Age - The Media Guy. Egyptian Sovereignty versus the Networked Public Sphere - J. D. Fielder. The title is a bit of a misnomer, given that the focus of my argument rests on Jillian C. York's position that protests in neighboring Tunisia are not a "Twitter" Revolution, but rather a "Human" revolution. Social media is simply a tool, which happened to prove useful for Egypt's historically vibrant local civic culture (Long, Reich, and Gasiorowski 2010).
Gigaom's Matthew Ingram adds: Foreign Policy magazine columnist Evgeny Morozov has argued that Twitter and Facebook should not be credited with playing any kind of critical role in Tunisia, and suggested that doing so is a sign of the “cyber-utopianism” that many social-media advocates suffer from: that is, the belief that the Internet is unambiguously good, or that the use of Twitter or Facebook can somehow magically free a repressed society from its shackles.
I also contend that social media is merely a tool for challenging state sovereignty, as was the printed pamphlet during the U.S. That said, the outcome remains to be seen. Egypt protests: Youths in Egypt protests lead a proud moment in its history - latimes.com. I'd been looking forward to greeting my Egyptian students Sunday, the first day of the spring semester at American University in Cairo. Instead, classes have been canceled and Egypt burns. I am hunkered down in my apartment with the cat. Outside, gunshots ring out through the night. My local supermarket was looted and burned, and our landlord, Tareq, came by Saturday to say that he and other neighbors have barricaded our street and formed a private militia to protect us from the anarchy. Yet I have never been more optimistic about Egypt's future. Whatever happens next — and there is still plenty of time for the government to do something stupid — this youth-led revolt on the Nile will somehow prevail.
As an American journalist who has lived and traveled in the Middle East for 30 years, I am dumbfounded — and dismayed — that President Obama hasn't fully grasped what is happening. Change is seldom orderly. This push to transform Egypt is coming from a broad nationalist movement. Octavia Nasr / Blog. Emergency plan to cling to power. Global Guerrillas. Tesla's autopilot went live a couple of weeks ago (it's one of the first car brands to do this). Unlike the autopilots and cruise controls of the past, it's an autonomous system. This means it isn't limited to the capabilities you get when you pop it out of the box. It gets better as you train it and provide it with experience. Tesla's AP Here's some first hand feedback from Tesla drivers on how fast the autopilot is learning: So far I have a little over 300 miles on autopilot, mostly 20 miles at a time on my commute to and from work.
Here's another driver training the autopilot to navigate tight S turns: I noticed that on sharply curved ramp connecting I-80 west with CA-113 north in Davis, the first time it took the curve at full speed and wasn't able to stay in lane resulting in a "take control immediately" alert. Here's another: AP is definitely is learning. These drivers aren't alone. Here's a heads up 0n what this means...
That approach is on the way out. Note the Animation Sincerely, It’s Not Twitter or Facebook, It’s the Power of the Network: Tech News and Analysis « Just as it was during the recent uprisings in Tunisia, the role of social media in the recent upheaval in Egypt has been the subject of much debate since the unrest began on Thursday. Daily Show host Jon Stewart on Friday poked fun at the idea that Twitter might have played a key part in the demonstrations, and there are many observers who share his skepticism. The real trigger for the uprisings, they argue, is simply the frustration of the oppressed Egyptian people — which is undoubtedly true. But it also seems clear that social media has played a key role in getting the word out, and in helping organizers plan their protests.
In the end, it’s not about Twitter or Facebook: it’s about the power of real-time networked communication. But is anyone really arguing that Twitter and Facebook caused the revolutions in Tunisia or Egypt, or even the earlier public uprisings in Moldova or Iran for that matter? Did Twitter or Facebook cause the Tunisian revolt?