On This Day: Protests kick off Egyptian revolution
On Jan. 25, 2011, thousands of Egyptian citizens, expressing their dissatisfaction with the government, clashed with riot police in Cairo, Alexandria, and other cities throughout the country. This rebellion, locally referred to as the January 25 Revolution, would lead to the ousting of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak less than three weeks later.
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Egyptian demonstrators protest in Cairo s main square January 31, 2011. Protests began January 25 in what would come to be a revolution toppling President Hosni Mubarak. UPI File Photo | License Photo
Members of the 101st Airborne Division board an American Airlines Astrojet Boeing 707 to leave for the Vietnam War at Campbell Army Airfield, Fort Campbell, Kentucky in June 1966. On January 25, 1959, the first scheduled transcontinental passenger jet flight took place, a non-stop American Airlines trip from California to New York in a Boeing 707 similar to the one pictured. File
Dr. Mohamed Aboelgheit fled to London after joining calls for revolt, Taqadum al-Khatib was an academic who left to avoid prosecution, while journalist Asma Khatib escaped to Malaysia after fellow reporters started getting arrested
In early 2011, as she watched the removal of the graffiti that had been scrawled around Tahrir Square in the heady days of the popular uprising, followed by a “cleansing” of that space of revolt, Dina Heshmat realized she was witnessing the deliberate rewriting of history, a deletion of the people’s spontaneous discourse, to be replaced by a more elitist narrative.
Guided by this awareness, Heshmat sets out, in
Egypt 1919: The Revolution in Literature and Film, (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) to re-examine the Egyptian revolution of the previous century, looking into the country’s archives to find unpublished novels and out-of-print articles that reflect the people’s mood during what she argues was the early 20th century’s equivalent of Egypt’s Arab Spring: a popular uprising against an oppressive regime by society’s poorest and most downtrodden classes, that was later claimed by the nationalist bourgeoisie.
January 13, 2021 at 12:46 pm | Published in: Africa, Egypt, News
Hany Mehanna, an Egyptian musician, 11 January 2021 [EremNews/Twitter] January 13, 2021 at 12:46 pm
A musician who was jailed with the late, ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak s sons has revealed that they had a sauna, a gym and a football pitch in jail.
Hany Mehanna told Youssef El Husseiny on
Nogoum TV that he was in prison with Gamal and Alaa Mubarak, businessmen Ahmed Ezz and Hesham Talaat Moustafa, and former Interior Minister Habib Al-Adly.
He said that there were 16 of them in the Tora Agricultural Prison in a building that was large enough for 3,000 people.
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WASHINGTON In the summer of 2010, the Obama administration had a thorny problem to solve.
The FBI was on the verge of finally arresting 10 members of an undercover network of “illegals,” Russian sleeper agents who had spent decades embedding themselves in American society, but senior officials wanted to salvage the administration’s ongoing diplomatic efforts to reset relations with Moscow. The White House was concerned the arrests would undermine Moscow’s help in pushing Tehran to the negotiating table, and its cooperation on other major international issues.