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thepoliticalnotebook:

Remembering #Jan25: Days of Rage and Dignity. The Egyptian revolution really isn’t over, but the eighteen days of rallying and demonstrating across Egypt starting on 25 January 2011 that ultimately ousted longtime dictator Mubarak deserve an incredible amount of celebration.

Here is a photographic retrospective of those eighteen days, shot by some of the best. I will never fail to be blown away by the images of the demonstrations in Tahrir.

Yannis Behrakis/Reuters. 1/30/2011.

Nasser Nasser/AP. 1/25/2011.

Peter Macdiarmid/Getty. 2/1/2011.

Lefteris Pitarakis/AP. 2/1/2011.

Ed Ou/NYT. 2/1/2011.

Hannibal Hanschke/EPA. 2/2/2011.

Moises Saman/NYT. 2/11/2011.

Felipe Trueba/EPA. 2/11/2011.

I can’t believe it’s been a year! What an amazing moment in history.

(via yogabunny)

thedailywhat:

Breaking News of the Day: Watch history live.

[aje.]

I hope the transition is smooth, I hope I hope I hope.

(Source: thedailywhat)

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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak announced he is handing his powers over to his vice president, Omar Suleiman, and ordered constitutional amendments. But the move means he retains his title of president and ensures regime control over the reform process, falling short of protester demands.

Protesters in Cairo’s central Tahrir Square, hoping he would announce his resignation outright, watched in stunned silence to his speech, slapping their hands to their foreheads in anger, some crying or waving their shoes in the air in a sign of contempt. After he finished, they resumed their chants of “Leave! Leave! Leave!”
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Egypt’s Mubarak transfers power to vice president - Yahoo! News

I know this can’t be a “just can’t take a hint” situation but…

thedailywhat:

Another Photo of the Day: Getty’s Kim Badawi captures Anderson Cooper being confronted by pro-Mubarak “thugs” on the streets of Cairo. Cooper says he was struck repeatedly in head by the mob, but appears to have emerged from the violence relatively unscathed.

[mediaite.]

(Source: thedailywhat)

thedailywhat:

Egyptian Unrest News Round-Up:

Live Reports: BBC; NYT; Reuters; CNN; Al Jazeera; Mother Jones.

What You Need To Know:

Protests continue for fifth straight day (yesterday), with military standing down, joining in. Police seen retreating in some places; widespread reports of looting (“near-anarchy,” says WaPo), people setting up barricades, army publishes looting hotline.

Curfew once again ignored; Interior Ministry building stormed by protesters, police fire live rounds, 5 dead; death toll so far according to Al Jazeera: Cairo 25; Suez 38; Alexandria 36; mummies destroyed at Egyptian Museum, human chain formed to prevent further looting (photo: afp, via):

Egypt’s intelligence chief Omar Suleiman sworn in as first Vice President since Mubarak took office. Who is he? See Also: Reuters Factbox.

Former Air Force commander Ahmed Shafiq named new Prime Minister (factbox); US: “The Egyptian gov’t can’t reshuffle the deck and then stand pat”; ElBaradei on AJE calls on Mubarak to step down, says VP, PM appointments are “useless.”

BBC: Mubarak’s son and his family have fled to London; other high-profile Egyptians expected to follow.

Mobile, BlackBerry service partially restored; unconfirmed Twitter reports that Internet service is back up in some places.

Further Reading:

Interactive Map: Locating the protests in Cairo; photos from today’s demonstrations; firsthand accounts of Egyptian life amid the turmoil.

Paul Krugman: “I don’t know anything.” Who does? Here’s a list.

[tweet @mayousef via @andrewbaron.]

(Source: thedailywhat)

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