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8 P.M. (HBO2) IN TAHRIR SQUARE: 18 DAYS OF EGYPT’S UNFINISHED REVOLUTION

(2012) A year ago today, the filmmakers Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill were in Cairo, capturing the sights and sounds of a protest that ultimately ended the 30-year regime of President Hosni Mubarak and helped ignite change in the Arab world. Their colleague Sharif Abdel Kouddous, an Egyptian-American journalist, led cameramen into Tahrir Square and provided accounts of the turmoil, in which nearly 850 people were killed. “Everyone is proud to be Egyptian today,” Mr. Kouddous said in an American news broadcast on Feb. 11, when it was announced that Mr. Mubarak would resign. “Everyone who fights for democracy and fights for freedom is Egyptian today, and stands with us.” - NYTimes

High-res As Clashes Continue in Egypt, a Media War Breaks Out On the third day of clashes between security forces and protesters in the center of the capital, a new battle broke out Sunday between Egypt’s state-run and independent media over whom to blame for the violence. Read more —> NYTimes

As Clashes Continue in Egypt, a Media War Breaks Out

On the third day of clashes between security forces and protesters in the center of the capital, a new battle broke out Sunday between Egypt’s state-run and independent media over whom to blame for the violence.

Read more —> NYTimes

  • The New York Times

“Egypt election turnout was 62 percent — “the highest since the time of pharaohs,” election officials say.”

AP

Whoa. Time Magazine responded to our Tumbl-zine about their news coverage *in the magazine*.

shortformblog:

Last week’s issue also caused considerable consternation among bloggers and readers, who objected to our putting the protests in Egypt inside our domestic edition and on the cover overseas. “Why is anxiety the most pressing issue in the U.S. while the Egyptian revolution gets front-page treatment internationally?” read a typical e-mail. Observers at ShortFormBlog analyzed a year’s worth of our covers and concluded each edition gets the same amount of hard news, give or take an issue or two. We’re glad to be held to high expectations, especially when the bar is set by one of our own editions.

Good on Time for directly responding to the controversy.

High-res A car passes by a giant statue showing the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, second right, and defaced face of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, left, in 6th of October city, in Egypt on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011, a day before Mubarak, his security chief Habib el-Adly and six top police officers will face trial, on charges they ordered the use of lethal force against protesters during Egypt’s 18-day uprising, in which some 850 protesters were killed. At second left is Egyptian Nobel prize winner Ahmed Zewail, and at right Egyptian novelist and Nobel Prize Winner Naguib Mahfouz. The arabic reads ” Mubarak.” PhotoBlog

A car passes by a giant statue showing the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, second right, and defaced face of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, left, in 6th of October city, in Egypt on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011, a day before Mubarak, his security chief Habib el-Adly and six top police officers will face trial, on charges they ordered the use of lethal force against protesters during Egypt’s 18-day uprising, in which some 850 protesters were killed. At second left is Egyptian Nobel prize winner Ahmed Zewail, and at right Egyptian novelist and Nobel Prize Winner Naguib Mahfouz. The arabic reads ” Mubarak.”

PhotoBlog

  • MSN

Obama's 'disappointing' Mideast speech

theweekmagazine:

In a much-hyped speech, President Obama said the U.S. would help Tunisia and Egypt enact democratic reforms by offering both countries new aid and investment. He also endorsed, more clearly than ever, the idea of establishing a Palestinian state along pre-1967 borders as a way to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As well, Obama denounced regimes in Libya, Syria, and Iran for using violence to silence demonstrators demanding greater freedom. Did the president spell out a brave new vision for U.S. policy in the Middle East, or merely make a lot of empty promises?

Here’s what the political responders are saying

“Lara Logan thought she was going to die in Tahrir Square when she was sexually assaulted by a mob on the night that Hosni Mubarak’s government fell in Cairo.

Ms. Logan, a CBS News correspondent, was in the square preparing a report for “60 Minutes” on Feb. 11 when the celebratory mood suddenly turned threatening. She was ripped away from her producer and bodyguard by a group of men who tore at her clothes and groped and beat her body. “For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands,” Ms. Logan said in an interview with The New York Times. She estimated that the attack lasted for about 40 minutes and involved 200 to 300 men. Ms. Logan, who returned to work this month, is expected to speak at length about the assault on “60 Minutes” on Sunday night.”

Lara Logan told the NYT about her experience in detail. She will be on “60 Minutes” this Sunday. - @brianstelter
High-res abudai: Egyptian woman and activist Bothaina Kamel announced her candidacy for president of Egypt. “I intend to run for [the] presidency in 2011,” Kamel wrote. Coinciding with the announcement, she also changed her profile description to “Journalist & Mother and Egyptian presidential nominee.” Kamel was active before and during the 18 day revolution that brought down former President Hosni Mubarak on February 11. She is known as being a supporter of the youth movements and a familiar face at almost all pro-democracy protests in previous years leading up to the January 25 movement. Kamel began her career in radio where she hosted a popular radio show called “e3terafat li’leya,” or “Nightly Confessions,” where anonymous callers told her personal stories. She later moved to television, and until recently hosted “argook ifhemny,” or “Please Understand Me,” where she interviewed many social and political figures in Egypt.   She announced the news on her twitter account. 

abudai:

Egyptian woman and activist Bothaina Kamel announced her candidacy for president of Egypt.

“I intend to run for [the] presidency in 2011,” Kamel wrote. Coinciding with the announcement, she also changed her profile description to “Journalist & Mother and Egyptian presidential nominee.”

Kamel was active before and during the 18 day revolution that brought down former President Hosni Mubarak on February 11. She is known as being a supporter of the youth movements and a familiar face at almost all pro-democracy protests in previous years leading up to the January 25 movement.

Kamel began her career in radio where she hosted a popular radio show called “e3terafat li’leya,” or “Nightly Confessions,” where anonymous callers told her personal stories. She later moved to television, and until recently hosted “argook ifhemny,” or “Please Understand Me,” where she interviewed many social and political figures in Egypt.

  She announced the news on her twitter account. 

(via nickturse)