Wednesday, February 9, 2011

CE: The Faces and Rhetoric of Egypt's Protests

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/09/world/middleeast/09ghonim.html?_r=1&ref=global-home

" Mona el-Shazly. “They said what the previous generations couldn’t do, we can do.”

Newly freed Google executive and activist Wael Ghonim. He is a tech-savvy organizer of the antigovernment protests, secretly detained by the authorities as demonstrations gathered force.

Mr. Ghonim, emotive and handsome, quickly became the movement’s reluctant icon, and Ms. Shazly, poised and defiant, its champion.

Professor Bahrawy quit his post in the ruling party and for the first time traveled to Tahrir Square to join in the protests.

Mr. Ghonim said, “I want to tell every mother and every father who lost a child, I am sorry, but this is not our mistake,” he said. “I swear to God, it’s not our mistake. It’s the mistake of every one of those in power who doesn’t want to let go of it.”"

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