Archive for the ‘Kefaya’ Category

Viva Egypt! Viva Bouazizi! Viva the Egyptian 300+!

Posted: February 12, 2011 in April 6 Youth Movement, Arab people power, Barack Obama, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, Jordan, Kefaya, Muslim Brotherhood, Non-violent politics, People power, Tahrir Square, Tunisia, Yemen
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Viva Egypt! After 18 days of non-stop, non-violent protests, marches, and general strikes, former air force general and supreme leader of Egypt for the last 30 years, Hosni Mubarak, skedaddles to a Sinai peninsula resort town while his designated VP Omar Suleiman announced that Mubarak has resigned as Egypt’s president. The chairman of the Grand [...]

War of attrition in Tahrir Square, Cairo

Posted: February 3, 2011 in Arab people power, Barack Obama, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, Kefaya, People power, Tahrir Square
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As I write this blog entry, a pitched battle between pro- and anti-Mubarak forces is raging in Tahrir Square (aka Medan Tahrir or Midan Tahrir) in central Cairo and nearby surroundings, including the Museum of Antiquities.  It started yesterday afternoon as pro-Mubarak forces mounted on horses and camel charged into the ranks of anti-Mubarak demonstrators [...]

The April 6 Youth Movement in Egypt

Posted: February 1, 2011 in April 6 Youth Movement, Arab people power, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, Kefaya, Muslim Brotherhood, People power
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The protest against Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak is being amped up with a million-man-march planned in a few hours. The broad opposition coalition, which includes the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and the April 6 Youth Movement, said it will march from Tahrir, or Liberation Square in central Cairo to the Presidential palace to force Mubarak to [...]

Introducing the Egyptian anti-Mubarak resistance

Posted: January 29, 2011 in Hosni Mubarak, Kefaya
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Who, what is the anti-Mubarak resistance in Egypt? Resistance to the thirty-year-old Hosni Mubarak government is not spontaneous and did not develop overnight. Wikipedia has the following lines to enlighten us. _________________________________________________________________________________ Kefaya (Egyptian Arabic: كفاية kefāya, IPA: [keˈfæːjæ], “enough”) is the unofficial moniker of the Egyptian Movement for Change (Arabic: الحركة المصرية من أجل التغيير‎ el-Haraka el-Masreyya men agl el-Taghyeer), a grassroots [...]