February 10th, 2011 
Rowan El Shimi As we were stopped yesterday in one of the citizen check points, asked for our IDs and car license, we were also asked an important question “Are you going to Tahrir?” we had actually just came back from Tahrir and were going home. My friend asked them humorously “Why? You don’t send people to Tahrir?”. [...]
February 10th, 2011 Rowan El Shimi Feb 2, 2011 I write this during the first hour that we as Egyptians have had the internet back since last thursday. For that I would like to thank the current regime for being oh-so-generous. You guys are awesome. Thanks. For the past eight days Egypt has seen an unprecedented uprising. I don’t know if [...]
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Tags: brutality, Corruption, Egyptian, freedom, government, grassroots movement, internet shutdown, Jan 25, Mubarak, Revolution, Speech 
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