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TGD III: كن مصري Released
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New AnarchitexT release:
TGD III: كن مصري , the 3rd video in “The Great Deception” Political awareness Series.
This time it is a message of unity, and peace, for a better future… For Egypt.
لم ثرنا في 25 يناير؟
ثرنا ضد الظلم
ثرنا ضد الجهل
ثرنا ضد القهر
لنتذكر دائماً أننا ثرنا
من أجل مصر
لم ثرنا في 25 يناير؟
ثرنا ضد الظلم
ثرنا ضد الجهل
ثرنا ضد القهر
Reuters Special Report: Inside the Egyptian revolution
Reuters, By Marwa Awad and Hugo Dixon
In early 2005, Cairo-based computer engineer Saad Bahaar was trawling the internet when he came across a trio of Egyptian expatriates who advocated the use of non-violent techniques to overthrow strongman Hosni Mubarak. Bahaar, then 32 and interested in politics and how Egypt might change, was intrigued by the idea. He contacted the group, lighting one of the fuses that would end in freedom in Tahrir Square six years later.
The three men he approached — Hisham Morsy, a physician, Wael Adel, a civil engineer by training, and Adel’s cousin Ahmed, a chemist — had all left Egypt for jobs in London.
Inspired by the way Serbian group Otpor had brought down Slobodan Milosevic through non-violent protests in 2000, the trio studied previous struggles. One of their favorite thinkers was Gene Sharp, a Boston-based academic who was heavily influenced by Mahatma Gandhi. The group had set up a webpage in 2004 to propagate civil disobedience ideas in Arabic.
At first, the three young Egyptians’ activities were purely theoretical. But in November 2005, Wael Adel came to Cairo to give a three-day training session on civil disobedience. In the audience were about 30 members of Kefaya, an anti-Mubarak protest group whose name means “enough” in Arabic. Kefaya had gained prominence during the September 2005 presidential elections which Mubarak won by a landslide. During these protests, they had been attacked by thugs and some women members had been stripped naked. Bahaar joined Adel on the course and his career as an underground trainer in non-violent activism was born.
Adel taught activists how to function within a decentralized network. Doing so would make it harder for the security services to snuff them out by arresting leaders. They were also instructed on how to maintain a disciplined non-violent approach in the face of police brutality, and how to win over bystanders. Read more…
Where is Mubarak? – فين مبارك؟؟ فين؟
هل تصدق أن الرئيس، المخلوع أو المتنحي أو المتخلي محمد حسني مبارك في شرم الشيخ؟
نعم تصدق؟ لماذا؟؟؟
فلنسألك السؤال بصيغة أخري… هل لديك دليل مادي واحد ثابت على أن مبارك موجود حالياً في شرم الشيخ؟
بلاش
هل لديك دليل مادي واحد ثابت على أن مبارك كان موجود في شرم الشيخ في أي فترة من بعد يوم 11 فبراير؟
دعنا نجاوب بالنيابة عنك و عن الشعب كله،
لا… لا يوجد دليل… و لا حتي صورة واحدة، و لا شهادة شاهد واحد شاف لحظة وصوله، و لا صور ليه و هو بيتشمس على شاطئ شرم!
فلننظر على عنواين الأخبار من أول يوم الجمعة 11 فبراير:
اليوم السابع:
مبارك توجه لشرم الشيخ قبل خطابه بـ 3 ساعات
الجمعة، 11 فبراير 2011 – 02:57
تسريبات متعمدة عن سفر الرئيس مبارك إلى شرم الشيخ ثم الإمارات
الجمعة، 11 فبراير 2011 – 14:23
آخر كلام.. الرئيس مبارك فى شرم الشيخ
الجمعة، 11 فبراير 2011 – 15:36
أنباء تؤكد مغادرة الرئيس مبارك شرم الشيخ متوجها إلى خارج البلاد
الجمعة، 11 فبراير 2011 – 16:42
ثم بعد التنحي، كانت اليوم السابع الصحيفة الأكثر نشراً للأخبار المتعلقة بالرئيس السابق فكتبت:
تفاصيل هروب مبارك وعائلته لشرم الشيخ.. الرئيس السابق غادر القاهرة قبل الجمعة بطائرتى هليكوبتر وتأمين 4 قناصة.. وعلاء وهايدى وخديجة خرجوا بعده بـ30 دقيقة.. وسوزان وصلت فى السادسة مساء.. وجمال فى لندن
السبت، 12 فبراير 2011 – 09:57
و مع هذا الخبر نشرت اليوم السابع صورتين لا يظهروا أي شيئ، تحت إدعاء: شوراع شرم الشيخ تستقبل موكب مبارك
The Great Deception 2011 English Version Released
The Great Deception 2011 – الخداع الأكبر is a short video feature, about a number of questionable connections & suspicious information relating to the Protests which are rocking the foundations of the Arab world & Middle East.
The questions asked in this video are:
Given the M.E. economical importance to the US & the billions of USDs invested in the GREATER MIDDLE EAST PROJECT & democracy spreading programs…
Does the US have a role in Arab Uprisings?
Why did the US suddenly stop it’s war on Mohamed El Baradei in 2005?
Why are the US State department, Department of Defense & Defense Intelligence Agency funding the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace???
What is Amr Hamzay’s job at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace?
What is Amr Hamzawy’s role in the revolution?
Who benefits from the military attacks on Libya?
All these questions and many more must be answered before embracing those who lecture us about freedom and democracy in post revolution Egypt.
However, this video is not an attack on any particular person of the ones mentioned, nor is it an attack on Egypt Freedom Revolution, whom we are most proud that we were part of it, since the first days.
But this video is an invitation to open your mind to broader ideas, to research and to question and not to be a follower to any one person or one entity.
“Question Authority, Think for yourself”
The Links:
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The Greater Middle East Project
Disclaimer about “The Great Deception 2011″
To make one thing clear:
Anarchitext is not Pro Mubarak,
Anarchitext is not Pro NDP,
Anarchitext is not Pro Dictatorship in anyway shape or form…
Quite the opposite, Anarchitext is against Mubarak, his corrupt faction, his corrupt government, his corrupt parliament, his corrupt election and his 30 years rule of torture and oppression…
We are with the calls for his prosecution and trial…
AND we are proud that we have taken part of the glorious Egyptian Revolution…
“The Great Deception 2011″ is not about defending Mubarak, and those who understand it that way are ill-advised and misinformed.
Visual timeline of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution
The Days of Rage: Tahrir 25 – 28 Jan 2011
2011 Egypt Revolution: 25 - 31 Jan
Tahrir: 25 - 28 Jan
Tahrir: 29 - 31 Jan
2011 Egypt Revolution: 1 - 7 Feb
Tahrir: 1 - 3 Feb
Amr Hamzawy
Amr Hamzawy is research director and senior associate at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. His research interests include the changing dynamics of political participation in the Arab world and the role of Islamist movements in Arab politics. He is co-author, with Nathan J. Brown, of Between Religion and Politics, published in 2010, and the author of The Arab Future–Contemporary Debates on Democracy, Political Islam, and Resistance, published in 2010 (in Arabic).
Hamzawy serves on the Middle East Advisory Council of Human Rights Watch, and the boards of Crisis International and the Arab Council for Social Science. He regularly contributes articles in Arabic and English to various academic journals and writes a bi-monthly op-ed for the leading Arab daily al-Hayat.
He Co-authored the book “The New Middle East” with Marina Ottaway, Nathan J. Brown, Amr Hamzawy, Karim Sadjadpour, Paul Salem, published by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in February 2008.
He played a key role in the 2011 Egyptian revolution of January 25, later on, he was chosen as the spokesman of the Wise Men Board which was setup during the early stages of the revolution to negotiate & mediate between the protesters & the government. He was offered a position in Ahmed Shafik’s cabinet as the Minister of Youth but he refused the offer.
Because of the fame he acquired throughout the revolution he is being suggested as a potential candidate to the Presidency, although he expressed no desire to run, it is also rumored that he is forming a political party.
Wael Ghonim
Born 23 December 1980 in Cairo, Egypt, Wael Ghonim is an Internet activist, computer engineer and since January 2010 the Head of Marketing of Google Middle East and North Africa. In 2011, he became an international figure and energized pro-democracy demonstrations in Egypt after his emotional interview, following 11 days of secret incarceration by Egyptian police; for investigations regarding him being the admin of a Facebook page “We are all Khaled Saeed”, which is thought to be one of the main reasons that sparked the Jan 25 revolution.
Wael Ghonim was born to a middle-class family in Egypt and grew up in Abha Saudi Arabia until he was 13 years old, then he moved back to Cairo, currently he resides in the United Arab Emirates. He earned a BS in computer engineering from Cairo University in 2004 and an MBA, with honors, in marketing and finance from the American University in Cairo in 2007.
Wael’s career to date has included a period as a consultant to the development of the Egyptian e-government portal. He also helped in the launch of Islamway, one of the most visited websites in the Arab world. currently and since January 2010, he works as the Head of Marketing of Google Middle East and North Africa based at Google’s UAE office in Dubai Internet City in Dubai.
Role in setting the stage for the revolution.
After Ayman Nour, leaked the photos of Khaled Said’s dead body on June 10, 2010, Wael Ghonim, picked up the news and set up the famous “We are all Khaled Saeed” facebook page, which played a key role in moving and integrating the protests of the 25th of Jan revolution.
Prior to that, Ghonim also set up the official campaign website for opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei and volunteered as a tech consultant for other opposition groups, according to Ziad Al-Alimi, a senior aide to Mr. ElBaradei. Ghonim and ElBaradei then concurrently campaigned for the coming November 2010 Egyptian election and built up an opposition network in support for ElBaradei. This network included the April 6 Movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the independent labor unions now making up the bulk of the protests.
Read more…
Al Shaheed
The “martyr” a.k.a Khaled Saeed facebook Page
There is no doubt that Khaled Saeed Page on facebook was one of the main drives of the success of the January 25 revolution in Egypt, and maybe Tunisia Revolution too.
On the 25th of January, “We are all Khaled Saeed” page on fb had more than 600,000 followers, and during the following 18 days it jumped to a staggering +1,000,000 followers. While the actual impact of Khaled’s page on the revolution cannot be determined, it was this page which first published a call to protest on January 25th and throughout the revolution protesters carried banners and posters displaying the photograph of Saaed’s disfigured dead body.
The page has been named one of the catalysts of the 2011 Egyptian protests, and in Tunisia activist and revolutionaries said it even inspired the Tunisian Revolution, a month preceding the Egyptian Revolt. The page was a key force in urging the youth to go down and join the protests, and it succeed greatly in motivating and activating the young soldiers of the revolt. On February 11, 2011, these protests resulted in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak after 30 years in power. But how? And more importantly, why did this particular page succeed in doing what many others failed at?
To understand how a fb page triggered 2 revolutions, we must know a little background about Khaled Saeed himself and then his fb page.
Khaled Mohamed Saeed was a young Egyptian man who died under disputed circumstances in the Sidi Gaber area of Alexandria on June 6, 2010, after being arrested by Egyptian police. Khaled (God bless him), an unemployed Alexandrian, was sitting in a cybercafe, when two police detectives from the Sidi Gaber police station entered the premises and arrested him. He was then reportedly tortured to death in the doorway of the building across the street, and in front a number of witnesses. No one knows why the police officers killed the young man, and quite frankly it is irrelevant, because there is no justification for the murder whatsoever.
But why is this torture case different than many others that were revealed in Egypt, during the past decade?
