TweetFrom Tahrir with Love Today will mark the 10th anniversary of the Egyptian revolution sparked in Tunisia a few days earlier. No public place symbolized this revolution like Tahrir Square. Where , 18 glorious days of protest toppled 30 years of dictatorship. Tahrir Square where everyone was welcomed, and everyone felt safe empowered. “We can…
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THE DEATH OF A DICTATOR! … Mubarak, tested positive for Mortality at age 91!
Tweet “I have never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with pleasure.” There is a lot of debate about the origin of this quote and variations of it. Most agree it has a Mark Twain flavor. Regardless, there is no debate about the sentiment I had when I learned of ousted…
My Conversation with Francois Verster, director of The Dream of Shahrazad
Tweet THE DREAM OF SHAHRAZAD is a feature-length documentary film which locates political expression before, during and after the Egyptian revolution – and also within recent times in Turkey and Lebanon – within a broader historical and cultural framework: that of storytelling and music. More particularly, it looks at the legacy of the famous collection…