CATEGORY: Egypt

Egypt’s Own WikiLeaks

The historic collapse of the once feared Egyptian police state has spawned a Wikileaks-style flood of secret information into the public sphere. Starting on 5 March, crowds of protesters forced their way into buildings around the country belonging...

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After Pharoah

The cars started flowing through downtown Cairo’s Tahrir Square again on Sunday. Most of the protesters, who had made the massive public space their revolutionary home since 28 January, departed willingly. They meticulously cleaned it before they...

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Egypt: Protesters move from euphoria to fury

I watched President Hosni Mubarak’s speech Thursday night from Tahrir Square, where a live broadcast of Al Jazeera was being projected onto a sheet hanging from some lamp-posts. The sound was terrible, so it was hard to hear too much of what he was...

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Cracks widening in Egypt’s internet wall

As Egypt enters a seventh day of open revolt against the rule of President Hosni Mubarak, the country’s internet access continues to be largely shut down. That extended closure is one of the clearest signs that Mubarak still sees this as a fight he...

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Egypt’s Twitter-less revolution

The cell phones started working this morning again, although I’m not sure they’ll stay that way. The internet (as of 7pm local time) was still blocked. The fact that one but not the other has been restored perhaps indicates that the government...

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