Egypt Protests: The Week In Review

The ongoing Egyptian anti-government protests have dominated the global headlines for more than a week as protesters continue calling for President Hosni Mubarak to step down.

As the demonstrations entered their second week, they were plagued by violence, with journalists and human rights advocates coming under attack, reportedly by pro-government forces. Meanwhile, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak unveiled a new cabinet in an effort to quell the protests, before declaring he wouldn't seek another term in the upcoming September elections. Doubtful protesters nonetheless held a "Day of Departure" Friday in an effort to expedite Mubarak's resignation.

Take a look at some key events in the second week of protests across Egypt here:

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Democracy advocate and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mohamed ElBaradei arrives in Cairo's Tahrir Square to address the crowd, telling them: "You have taken back your rights and what we have begun cannot go back ... We have one main demand - the end of the regime and the beginning of a new stage, a new Egypt."

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Democracy advocate and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mohamed ElBaradei arrives in Cairo's Tahrir Square to address the crowd, telling them: "You have taken back your rights and what we have begun cannot go back ... We have one main demand - the end of the regime and the beginning of a new stage, a new Egypt."

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[Chandrasing Patil]

04:04 AM on 02/11/2011

hmm

[Thelonius]

04:55 PM on 02/07/2011

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/201127114827382865.html

"Suleiman: The CIA's man in Cairo"

By Lisa Hajjar

Excerpt:
"On January 29, Omar Suleiman, Egypt’s top spy chief, was anointed vice president by tottering dictator, Hosni Mubarak. By appointing Suleiman, part of a shake-up of the cabinet in an attempt to appease the masses of protesters and retain his own grip on the presidency, Mubarak has once again shown his knack for devilish shrewdness. Suleiman has long been favoured by the US government for his ardent anti-Islamism, his willingness to talk and act tough on Iran - and he has long been the CIA’s main man in Cairo.

"Mubarak knew that Suleiman would command an instant lobby of supporters at Langley and among 'Iran nexters' in Washington - not to mention among other authoritarian mukhabarat-dependent regimes in the region. Suleiman is a favourite of Israel too..."

Also, why is Hillary trying to accelerate America’s declining reputation and influence in the region? The Independent of London has just reported that Frank Weisner, Obama’s ‘envoy’ to Mubarak was “employed by an American lobbying and law firm, Patton Boggs, which works for the Mubarak regime and several leading Egyptian commercial families”. Why was Weisner hand-picked to negotiate an "orderly transition" with a dictator he still does business with?

His father, Frank Weisner Senior, was the Directorate of Plans at the CIA and was instrumental in supporting pro-American forces that toppled Iran's democracy led by Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953.

[Henry Braun]

03:23 PM on 02/07/2011

DOVES ADDRESSING HAWKS

(from a roof in Cairo, Egypt)

"Before this hour is pried by your hawk's wing
rising from its gray nest above the lawns
and shades of the lifting day, early to fling
a furrow in the sun and cleave our songs
apart from the strong and heartless not our own,
we would hurl nets of cries into the air
to wind you hawks in flight that you drop down,
yourselves prey to our questioning, our fear.
Before the roofs fly from our shallow hells
and there is green fire that unties the pen
with flowering of the flesh in syllables
to pilfer each thing from its foxes' den,
0 hawks, we must make whole what you have torn.
What womb must we all sleep in to be reborn?"

Henry Braun

[TheyCalledMeSandN]

02:16 PM on 02/07/2011

http://www­.facebook.­com/album.­php?aid=21­44112&id=7­08999&l=94­209a1659

[Bob Tanner]

12:49 PM on 02/07/2011

CRANK CALLS: FOR OUR SISTERS AND BROTHERS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
If arrogance brings on destruction,
America is surely doomed -
Providing help with its instruction
For status quos should be entombed:
We preach against an insurrection
And cry it won’t bring resurrection
Of freedom from its prison cells
Or riches from the big cartels.
Surrounded as we are by billions -
Who, tired of leaders who donate
Their services as chief of state
To us but not their own civilians, -
They’ll finally have us by the balls
And cut ’em off for our crank calls.

Please see more at http://poemsonaffairsofstate.blogspot.com/

[uniquindividual]

09:34 AM on 02/07/2011

Where are the women?

[TheyCalledMeSandN]

01:54 PM on 02/07/2011

feel free to flip through my pictures, women of all persuasion are definitely part of the process. I am starting to think that many western news outlets are working overtime to keep certain images that challenge stereotypes out. enjoy my album:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2144112&id=708999&l=94209a1659

[TheyCalledMeSandN]

04:24 PM on 02/07/2011

more women pictures:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=16500774#!/album.php?aid=47355&id=100001256040548

[uniquindividual]

09:16 AM on 02/08/2011

What is your opinion of this?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nina-burleigh/egypt-and-the-universal-r_b_819178.html

[Whatchutalkinabout]

08:30 AM on 02/07/2011

Sure was convenient for Mubarak and the protestors to come to a so-called agreement in a timely fashion to not interrupt the media attention needed for the Super Bowl and have people criticize Obama for watching the game rather than focusing on Egypt.

Looking at the articles posted on the homepage of HP, Egypt is so last week.

[Aview Nolastname]

08:38 AM on 02/07/2011

I was just looking for their Egypt coverage...and your right. I see nothing new or updated here. That's messed up.

[Whatchutalkinabout]

09:12 AM on 02/07/2011

I posted a more straightforward comment on this subject and the moderators deleted it. Hit a nerve I guess.

[Mohamed Elazab]

07:35 AM on 02/07/2011

i love egypt

[frameofmind]

12:26 PM on 02/07/2011

I love the Egyptian People.

[SkelDaddy]

06:25 AM on 02/07/2011

Looking at the photo of the crowd on the home page, I would have to say that there were more people there than at the Beckster rally on 8/28/10.

[fairwayhill]

03:50 AM on 02/07/2011

I've never seen so much covered cens0rship as I'm seeing in these news related to Egypt? Why? Who is cens0ring?

[TheyCalledMeSandN]

01:58 PM on 02/07/2011

I am starting to think that many western news outlets are working overtime to keep certain images that challenge stereotype­s out. enjoy my album:

http://www­.facebook.­com/album.­php?aid=21­44112&id=7­08999&l=94­209a1659

[fairwayhill]

03:46 AM on 02/07/2011

US / 2ionist supported dictator Mubarak should go in exile to lsrael, where he belongs.

Protesters­­: "Leave, leave O Mubarak. Tel Aviv is waiting for you."

http://www­­.youtube.­c­om/watch­?v­=zw168J­G3_­Uo

[Luis Soto]

02:42 AM on 02/07/2011

we live in a culture ruled by corporations that re=produce machines, our 'religion', increasingly part of such super-organism, unable to come out and shout for our rights like egyptians, but r=evolutions are not emailed, televized, facebooked and twitted. On the contrary all those placebo gadgets of freedom substitute the real thing. The egyptian r=evolution has nothing to do with digital companies, which censor anyway inconvenient truths, but on the 5000 years old sense of community of the oldest superorganism of history, and the model to desire is not tianamen neither iran but turkey, since the muslim brotherhood is a non-corrupted moderate group focused in social work and egyptians are a neolithic, hihgly intelligent, pacifist people
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