Egypt
Tahrir Activist Speaks Out
“Tahrir can’t be told. It has to be witnessed,” El-Nadi said. “I want you to see what I saw.”
Egypt Experts Examine Islam’s Role
Three experts discussed the Muslim Brotherhood’s role in a democratizing Egypt during a panel discussion entitled “Islam and Politics in the New Egypt” at the Harvard Kennedy School yesterday.
Experts Say Turmoil Alters Peace Prospects
A Middle East composed of democratically elected governments will dramatically alter the behavior of the Israeli government and change the terms of an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, according to experts.
Egypt Panel Gauges Media
David E. Sanger ’82, Chief Washington Correspondent for the New York Times and adjunct lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and Micah L. Sifry, co-founder and editor of the Personal Democracy Forum discussed the role of the Egyptian people and social media in the country’s recent revolution last night.
Mubarak Resigns, Future Unclear
On Friday morning, Tarek Anous, a research assistant in physics, stepped out of class to receive a phone call from his mother. She was calling from Egypt with the news: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had resigned.
Panel Discusses Mubarak’s Departure
As Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak announced yesterday that he would not immediately step down from his post, History Professors E. Roger Owen and Serhii Plokhii were examining the nature of the Egyptian democracy movement in a discussion for Harvard faculty and graduate students.
Harvard Grad Leaves Egypt During Uprising
About a week after the first anti-government protests erupted in Egypt’s Tahrir Square, Devon A. Youngblood ’10 reflected on the movement that had displaced her from her post-graduate year of working and studying abroad in Egypt and decided that, since her neighbors had begun to arm themselves against looters, it was time to leave Cairo.
Harvard Panel Calls Egyptian Protests 'Historic Moment'
A panel convened at the Harvard Institute of Politics yesterday called the situation in Egypt “the most historic moment in the modern Arab world in the last century.”
