Where were you on the day when....

Everyone's talking, tweeting, blogging about it , so must we. Egypt Special

This image captured the imagination of the media while Obama and Clinton were addressing the Egypt question

Where were you on the day when… 29, January 2011

Where were you when ....Such occasions are 9/11, MJ's death and Princess Diana's Death. Now this. At the tender age of 28 years old, I can only really claim to remember two events in the ‘where were you when?’ category. On 11th September 2001 I was about to go to work in the Rusacks Hotel in St. Andrews to confront tens of bewildered and worried Americans and (trivially, by comparison) when Diana died I had just returned from a holiday in Turkey.

The Huffington Post [3]

New Egypt Government To Be Appointed, But President Mubarak Refuses To Step Down

"Mubarak says he'll fire govt but people are asking for regime change not a change in the regime!"

The Angry Arab [4]

Anger at the US in Egypt

No new words here, anger and Arab, but maybe it's time to see what our angriest of Arab's has to say...

FP [5]

Obama's handling Egypt pretty well

And a slightly different point of view to that which has been aired the most from Marc Lynch. After President Obama spoke last night about the situation in Egypt, my Twitter feed and inbox filled up with angry denunciations. I think the instant analysis badly misread his comments and the thrust of the administration's policy. His speech was actually pretty good, as is the rapidly evolving American policy.

Chocolate Mints In a Jar [6]

28th January 2011 in Egypt

Another local voice. Yesterday was a very long day for me, I was up from 7 am trying to get as much news as possible. Egypt being under total lock down communication wise, I had to rely on AlJazeera and tweets. Aljazeera Mubasher was shut down and Aljazeera and AlJazeera English were doing live broadcasts all day. There was nothing else to do but follow the news and retweet and tweet about it. I managed to call my mother this morning. My mother and sister live in Alex and even though they are stressed and slightly scared, I know my mother understands that the situation was not only inevitable but is willing to pay the price.

The Lede (from the New York Times) [7]

Latest Updates on Protests in Egypt

Latest Updates on Protests in Egypt from a New Yorker... It is nearly 2 a.m. in Egypt now, so The Lede will wrap up live blogging for the day, as we wait along with 80 million Egyptians and observers all over the world to see what Sunday will bring...

Jaraad [8]

American-Made Tear Gas Canisters and Egyptian-Hope for Reform

The importance of Egypt: Although, there are more than 20 Arab countries spread throughout West Asia and North Africa only two the majority of the world are aware of; Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Every Arab country insists on its importance on the political map (border to Israel) or on its tallest European architecture built towers (Burj Khalifa) but the reality is Saudi Arabia and Egypt are the heart and mind of the Arab world, respectively.

The Sudanese Thinker [9]

The Arab World’s (Social Media-Facilitated) Uprising, 9/11, Why “They” Hate You Dear America, and What We Can Do About It

For years, America has supported many (but not all) oppressive and brutal Arab dictators... In recent days, nothing symbolically captured this fact as powerfully as the numerous pictures spreading on the Internet of Egyptian demonstrators holding up tear gas canisters labeled with “Made in U.S.A.”