Date of source: Saturday, February 12, 2011
My daughter Natalie Ebeid who resides in Los Angeles noticed that the Western media consider his fall a momentous event as important as the fall of the Berlin wall!
It is now up to the new Egyptian to prove them right!!
Let us taste with joy and accept with a great sense of responsibility the...
Date of source: Friday, February 11, 2011
President Mubarak resigned today. We have witnessed much of the events leading up to his resignation showing that reporting in the West provided a biased image. Images of Tahrir Square dominated most media since January 25 but little was reported about other parts of the country.
Foreigners...
Date of source: Friday, February 11, 2011
Date of source: Friday, February 11, 2011
Date of source: Friday, February 11, 2011
Date of source: Friday, February 11, 2011
It finally happened !! Mubarak has stepped down and cleared the way for the necessary change in the country.
Nothing can parallel the emotional roller coaster ride Egypt has gone through these past weeks, but in a way events parall the fall of the Berlin Wall 1989.
Watching from the distance like...
Date of source: Thursday, February 10, 2011
President [Muhammad Ḥusnī] Mubārak is still clinging to his seat and to the dignity that goes with it. Many have been trying to convince us that chaos will ensue if he steps aside now. Up until then I was a proponent of the peaceful transition of power, that he need not step down, and could remain...
Date of source: Thursday, February 10, 2011
According to the Pew Research Center, US media attention for the Egyptian protests has exceeded every foreign policy story over the last four years, commanding 56% of all news coverage. While initially surprising, upon reflection this story hits at the conjunction of many popular flashpoints:...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Editor-in-chief Cornelis Hulsman: Dr. Michael Burslem (78) is a retired Canadian medical doctor and is a longtime friend of mine. He and his wife usually spend the winter months in Cairo when weather is substantially more pleasant in Egypt then in Canada and they spend the summers in Canada when...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 9, 2011
I was invited a few days ago to Egyptian state television, to take part in the program “Good Morning Egypt,” to comment on the protests in Tahrir Square, and to comment on Iranian statements on the Nile News Channel. Iranian Foreign Minister ‘Alī Akbar Salhi had said that the “revolution” in Egypt ...