Christianity Today on Pope Shenouda
Just a short post today to direct to the article I contributed to Christianity Today on why the death of Pope Shenouda is also mourned by Egypt’s Protestants. If you click on the link above today you will see it highlighted as the lead story. Afterwards, please click here for the permanent link. I hope [...]
Tameem Youness: Sons of [BEEP]!
Tameem put together a vlog that has all the ingredients of a viral video. It’s short [39 seconds], funny, talks about current events in Egypt. The above video is an Arabic. The one…
Church, State, and Revolution in Egypt
Many Christians in America are keen on emphasizing that the ‘separation of church and state’ is found nowhere in the constitution. Rather, they state, it was from the personal letters of Thomas Jefferson – his guiding opinion, of course, but never adopted in America’s founding documents. This is true. The constitution guarantees freedom of religion [...]
Friday Prayers for Egypt: Elections
God, Thank you for peaceful elections. Thank you for having them relatively free of major violations. Thank you for the excitement and commitment of the people to stand in line for hours. May they not get tired, as they must do it again in a few days for the runoff. Thank you for that which [...]
Video: CairoKee ft. Aida El Ayouby – Ya El Medan (w/ English Subtitles)
Amir Eid’s CairoKee released a new music video yesterday that has quickly become viral on the social networks. ‘Ya El Medan’ (Hey Square) features Egyptian singer Aida El Ayouby, captures the…
Did the Egyptian Revolution spark the Occupy Movement?
On February 11, at the peak of the Egyptian Revolution, a memorable photo of Tahrir Square filled to the brim with millions and millions of Egyptian activists circled the world—a photo that will remain glued to memory forever. Egyptians watched, but the world watched too struck by the Egyptian stamina…
Egypt’s Facebook revolution faces identity crisis – The Washington Post
Each night during the revolution in Tahrir Square, after the skirmishes, we talked with other youths and among ourselves,” said Kamal Samir Fargallah, 38, a business consultant, whose first act after the revolution was to create a Facebook group, as he had seen other groups do, calling for reform in…
Ousting Mubarak, from Westwood
by Colin Kielty John Scott-Railton is a doctoral student at UCLA’s School of Public Affairs—where he spends virtually all of his spare time running a Twitter page dedicated to airing voices from the protests that broke out across Egypt on January 25th. Using a Blackberry and his laptop microphone, Railton…
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