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Tweeting about a revolution: Social media and social movements

#NOSCAF لا للمجلس العسكري

Anti-army graffiti in downtown Cairo, whereby the artist sprayed “#NOSCAF”, the twitter hashtag used by Egyptian activists to criticize the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces…

VIDEO – #TweetNadwa جذور الثورة المصرية

Roots of the Egyptian Revolution جذور الثورة المصرية

I was honored to speak on Tuesday night, together with activists Wael Khalil, Asmaa Aly and Kholoud Saber, at the 2nd Tweet Nadwa, hosted by Alaa, at the Rawabet Theatre. The topic of discussion was the roots of Egyptian revolution. The audio recording of the entire event is available here. You can also check out some videos and photos.

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Poverty: it is not coincidental or natural, it is the consequence of a capitalist system that glorifies hoarding and resource concentration.

June 6, 2011 2:52 AM via webReplyRetweetFavorite

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The Overt Dictionary

If you are on Twitter, please follow the Overt Dictionary. It has jewels…

A frank capitalist

Good morning Egypt! Can we have one day with no strikes,demonstrations,riots and sit-ins?? Give Egypt a break!

May 16, 2011 8:06 AM via Twitter for BlackBerry®ReplyRetweetFavorite

@NaguibSawiris

Naguib Sawiris

Egyptians wake up.. work overtime...agree on stopping strikes and demonstrations until next elections to restore stability and security

May 20, 2011 10:41 AM via Twitter for BlackBerry®ReplyRetweetFavorite

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Naguib Sawiris

I absolutely love how shamelessly frank Naguib Sawiris‘s tweets tend to be…

#PostJan25 changing times

أمي:رايح فين يبني؟ أنا:رايح الجامعة يا ماما و بعدين رايح مظاهرة. أمي:طيب ما تتأخرش علشان نتفرج علي أيمن نور بليل علي أون تيفي#PostJan25 #fb

April 28, 2011 5:07 PM via twidroydReplyRetweetFavorite

@CVirus

CVirus

My friend Mohamed tweeting about a conversation between him and his mother:
My Mom: Where are you going son?
Me: I’m going to university, then heading to a protest.
My Mom: Ok, don’t be late, Dr. Ayman Nour will be on ONTV tonight.

Compare this conversation to pre-25 Jan times. One had to lie to his parents about going to protests. Parents wouldn’t really care that much whether some “politician” showed up on TV speaking or not. And probably mothers would urge their children to come back home on time to catch a soap opera on TV with the rest of family members.

Everyone is “political” these days. That’s what revolution does to people…

General Rushdi el-Qamari اللواء رشدي القمري

During the uprising, the regime took down the internet from the night of 27 January till 3 February, after blocking websites like Twitter and Facebook on the previous day. The government also took down the mobile phone networks and SMS, with the complicity of the three operators Mobinil, Vodafone Egypt and Etisalat, as well as internet service providers like TE DATA.

The government body that orchestrated the blackout was the National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (NTRA), headed by the former Telecommunication Minister Tarek Kamel (whose brother Cairo University President Hossam Kamel is currently the target of an impeachment campaign by faculty staff and student protesters over his ties to the Mubarak regime), together with representatives from the police, Mukhabarrat and government officials.

From SS Officers

The Interior Ministry’s representative on the board of NTRA during the revolution was General Rushdi el-Qamari, whose profile pictures I found on the Nasr City SS DVDs.

Little I managed to find out about the career of General Rushdi Mohamed Sayyed Ahmad el-Qamari, before he became the head of the General Administration of Police Communications in July 2010. But usually heads of such sensitive departments in the interior ministry come from the ranks of State Security Police, especially as he assumed the membership of the NTRA board, sharing seats with the Mukhabarrat.

Essam Sharaf’s cabinet has come out few days ago saying the regime’s shutting down of telecommunications was “inappropriate.” But has anyone been held accountable? What happened to NTRA board members, including General Qamari? Have they been investigated? Do they still keep their posts? Or are we continuing with the musical chairs game?

What the world tweeted on #Egypt the day Mubarak resigned

#Jan25 MSM, Social Media and the Egyptian Revolution

Graffiti on one of the buildings in Tahrir Square: Twitter, Al-Jazeera, Facebook…