Very good reality jolt from Frank Rich:
“Let’s get a reality check here,” said Jim Clancy, a CNN International anchor, who broke through the bloviation on Jan. 29 by noting that the … [Keep reading >>]
Nick Kristof in one of his posts from Tahrir Square in Cairo, talks about a hero of his, Dr. Nawal El Saadawi.
In the center of Tahrir Square, also known as … [Keep reading >>]
Al Jazeera reports tens of thousand massing in Alexandria: Photos … [Keep reading >>]
Graeme Wood, writing in The Alantic
CAIRO, Egypt — The demonstrators have been calling today “the day of departure” for Hosni Mubarak and, with their mission complete, presumably for themselves, too. … [Keep reading >>]
This may be interesting to readers of this blog, from Waging Nonviolence. org
Like so many people around the world, it has been difficult to pull myself away from the television … [Keep reading >>]
It is damned hard to keep track of what is happening on the streets of Cairo — in great part because the main eyes we have is still the main-stream-cable … [Keep reading >>]
I wouldn’t credit too much the reported words of one retired Egyptian general, but it does seem that the active duty army has done something to remove stone throwing pro-Mubarak … [Keep reading >>]
Politics Plus
I have heard progressives wonder why Americans are not in the streets like Egyptians, demanding a redress of grievances against corporate plutocracy. Perhaps the reason is that an average … [Keep reading >>]
Wed evening (morning in the US) in Tahir Square, Cairo. Scenes of molotov cocktails being tossed into the crowds and into buildings; men on camel and horseback rampaging through the … [Keep reading >>]
There were several elements about this unprecedented political event that stood out. First was the secularism of the whole affair. Women in chadors and niqabs and scarves walked happily beside … [Keep reading >>]
President Hosni Mubarak announced that he would not run for another term in elections scheduled for the fall, appearing on state television to promise an orderly transition but saying he would … [Keep reading >>]
As a follow up to my earlier posting of Arabic authors in English translation, as grass-roots democracy boils across the Arab world, I ran across the Times Literary Supplement announcement … [Keep reading >>]
