Sean Rocha

What makes Egypt beautiful

This exceptionally moving interview with Waseem Wagdi, an Egyptian living in London, about the last four days of protests in Egypt to force Hosni Mubarak to step down begins as many other such interviews do but then, suddenly, becomes something else: a portrait of how much these 29 years have cost Egypt and the hope that so many have that now, finally, it will have a government deserving of its people.
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This entry was posted on Saturday, January 29th, 2011 at 8:56 pm. It is filed under That is Genius and tagged with Cairo, Egypt, Middle East, North Africa, politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.