Arab-American identity crisis; from when the deluded ideal was ever the more real.
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One year on from Jan 25 - the date in 2011 many Egyptians will mark as the beginning of the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak.
Blogger Gigi Ibrahim reflects on a year of revolution:
I never had the illusion that a revolution was an easy road for change, but in Egypt, it was inevitable. The people broke their fears and risked their lives because they could no longer sustain a life under Mubarak’s repression. Egyptians, young and old, rich and poor, Muslims and Christians, men and women, all took to the streets risking their lives in confrontations with police bullets and tear gas for one demand, “the downfall of the regime.” A year later, with 19 more repressive dictators in power, we are still demanding the downfall of the regime represented in the Supreme Council for the Armed Forces (SCAF). This was never a surprise to me because I understood as early as 11 February with SCAF in power that this is only the beginning of the revolution.
On Twitter, Egyptians are sharing what #jan25 means to them, while on Comment is Free, Ahdaf Soueif writes about the road to parliament for the revolution.
Sydney’s artworkkkkk :33
So proud of her xoxoxoxo
And yes that is my body don’t b jel ;)thank you for being the perfect model :-) <3
Haruki Murakami, Japanese novelist known for his extensive use of Western pop culture references which spin off into a crazy form of postmodern pastiche, turns 63 today…
A film based on his novel Norwegian Wood is in cinemas here right now…
“But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.” ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
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