Title:	Connected in Cairo
Authors:	Allen Peterson, Mark Paul A. Susan Slyomovics Susan Slyomovics
Keywords:	Consumption (Economics)—Egypt—Cairo
Issue Date:	2011
Publisher:	Indiana University
Description:	Th ere is a scene in the brilliant egyptian comedy fi lm Irhab wal-Kabab (terrorism and barbecue) in which an old man on a crowded cairo bus, who has been griping about all the frustrations egyptians must put up with, is told by a young man that he sounds like a fi zzing coke bottle. Th e man retorts that even coke bottles explode once in a while when you shake them up enough. Th at’s what the egyptian revolution of 1 was all about. so what, he asks the younger generation on the bus, is their excuse? Many observers of the Middle east have asked the same question. egyptian apathy was a byword. Th en, on January 2, 2011, the coke bottle fi nally exploded. Protesters marched into tahrir (“liberty”) square in unprecedented numbers. although repeatedly forced out by police, they returned again and again, ultimately staking out a symbolic space in the center of cairo and declaring that it belonged to the people, not the state. aft er , nearly 00 deaths, and over 1,000 injuries from clashes with police, baltigiyya (hired thugs), and counter-protesters, President hosni Mubarak resigned, and the supreme council of the armed forces formed an interim government
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/51553
ISBN:	978-0-253-22311-1
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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