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Friday, January 28, 2011
EGYPT: Day of anger suggests a new protest scene driven by youth, free of ideology
"...the citizens’ protests in Egypt were driven purely by domestic demands. No signs read “death to Israel, America, and global imperialism” or “together to free Palestine and Iraq.” In the streets of Cairo, Alexandria and Suez the only slogans heard demanded change, freedom, social justice and a stop to corruption in Egypt—they weren’t mixed with regional matters. Egyptians are rediscovering that politics, before anything else, is concerned with citizens’ living conditions within the borders of the relevant nation-state." EGYPT: Day of anger suggests a new protest scene driven by youth, free of ideology
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