May 7th, 2011 
Rowan El Shimi If you were on Twitter on Friday May 6th, you might have noticed that starting 4 pm your timeline was pretty much spammed with people using #Come2Egypt hashtag with photos, videos and tweets on why people should, well, come to Egypt! In case you are a curious person, wondering how this whole thing started, then this post [...]
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Tags: #come2egypt, Egypt, Published Articles, tourism, Travel 
1 Comment » February 28th, 2011 Rowan El Shimi Definitely a favourite song of mine from the revolution so far. Other than the nice music, moving lyrics and great video, I think what sets it apart from other songs that were produced this month was that it was not nationalistic. It was not about Egypt, it was about something bigger than that. The [...]
Posted in Art, Music & Culture, Blog Tags: Local Music, nationalism, Published Articles, Wust El Balad 1 Comment » February 26th, 2011 Rowan El Shimi On January 25th, various Egyptians across different spectrums took the streets in peaceful protest demanding the removal of the regime, bread, freedom and human dignity. The 18 days of protests that inspired people around the world caused many changes, the most notable of them was the resignation of Mubarak. Egypt’s streets spent the night of [...]
Posted in Blog, Cleo Magazine, Published Articles Tags: Army, Attack, Cairo, Civil government, Egypt, Peaceful Protests, Published Articles, Tahrir 2 Comments » February 23rd, 2011 Rowan El Shimi Egyptians have always been known for their sense of humor across the Arab world. From our movies to our witty theatre, to the new emerging stand up comedians, to the ongoing jokes that are circulated all over Egypt, we are known for managing to turn pretty much everything, including our revolution, into a witty joke. [...]
Posted in Art, Music & Culture, Blog, Published Articles Tags: Creativity, Egypt, Humor, Published Articles, Tahrir 2 Comments » February 20th, 2011 Rowan El Shimi One the many failures of the Egyptian regime has been its state media. Never mind that we have press laws that restrict the freedom of the independent (or rather striving to be independent) media. The state owned media, and it’s private extentions such as the Mehwar Channel, were completely used as propaganda machines telling lies [...]
Posted in Blog, Cleo Magazine, Published Articles Tags: Egypt, Media, Propaganda, Published Articles 1 Comment » 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?”. [...]
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