[Note for TomDispatch Readers: Here’s a book recommendation for this Egyptian moment. Get your hands on Jonathan SchThe Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People. You ... [Keep reading >>]

A very good first sketch of what went on behind the scenes in Tunis and Egypt that made the people’s push and the government collapse possible.  As I posted on … [Keep reading >>]

It looks like the extraordinary lack of violence during the 17 days of the people’s insurrection in Egypt was not simply an accident.
Dalia Ziada, a long-time human rights activist and … [Keep reading >>]

8 am PST in California  6 PM in Egypt the VP, Omar Suleiman, read a statement was read on state TV that

“I President Hosni Mubarak have decided to step down … [Keep reading >>]

Glenn Greenwald has a great “imagine that!” column:
We also learn this about Egypt:

While hard facts are difficult to come by, Egyptians watching the rise of a moneyed class widely believe that … [Keep reading >>]

Wael Ghonim vs. Barack Obama: Change we Can Believe in, Yes we Can
Unlike Obama, Wael Ghonim, the 28-year-old Google executive who helped instigate the Egyptian uprising, wants genuine change.

He wants long-serving … [Keep reading >>]

In light of current events I’ve been reading, particularly, Egyptian authors in The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction. I thought you might like this short, Tolstoy-like tale, from Yusuf … [Keep reading >>]

Update: NOPE

Mubarak came out and gave another speech like the first one he gave, more or less affirming his love for his children, the citizens of Egypt, honoring the martyrs … [Keep reading >>]

I rushed home last night to watch the Egyptian movie “The Yacoubian Building,” just arrived from Netflix.  It was released in 2006, based on Alaa Al Aswany’s  2002 novel of … [Keep reading >>]

Whew!  Watch Wael Ghonim’s interview.  [click cc, lower right, to get English subtitles)

(Part 2 )
In a tearful, riveting live television interview only two hours after his release from an Egyptian ... [Keep reading >>]

Krugman looks at Egypt, food prices and the fast changing world climate:
We’re in the midst of a global food crisis — the second in three years. World food prices hit … [Keep reading >>]

Famed Egyptian writer, medical doctor and anti-government activist Nawal el Saadawi, at 80 years old, is in the middle of things in Tahrir square.  Here is a video of her … [Keep reading >>]