A building on fire is right next to the Egyptian Museum. Ohhhh. Headquarters of the ruling party burning down.

Walk like an Egyptian poster.

Follow live on Al Jazeera English. Reports that even “apolitical people” are out in the streets, that today’s imposed curfew is meaningless because not enforced by the military.

On Twitter, I’m trying to stay on top of it (@jengraves) or follow #Jan28.

UPDATE: The last I heard from my friend in Egypt is that she has left Cairo for her hometown of Alexandria. She is about 30 years old and says she “never have been the patriotic activist type but I feel this time is different!” More from her, with my emphasis:

People in the streets this time dont belong to any party or religious movement. The Egyptian are on the streets for the 1st time!

Al Jazeera just now: “The reality on the ground is changing, and changing rapidly.”

UPDATE: AP <a href=”http://tinyurl.com/4e96smt
“>video of the moment a protester is killed by an Egyptian police sniper. Warning: Watching will hurt.

An American bureaucrat is mealymouthing it on Al Jazeera right now. No wonder the Arab world calls us hypocrites. Ugh. Even in the Obama administration, the US point of view is tortured and torturous.

UPDATE: Praying protesters in Cairo attacked by a water tank (picture).

Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male...

8 replies on “Egypt Today”

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  4. 30 years of dictatorship, perhaps ending. I saw some video recently (can’t find the link now) where the captions said people were yelling something like, “Christian, Muslim, Atheist, we deserve our rights!”

    For the Middle East, that’s amazing. Actually, that would be pretty amazing in the U.S., as well.

  6. Before we applaud Mubarak’s being booed off the stage, we might want to consider whether the Muslim Brotherhood is the next act. They are very well organized, and in the absence of a government, could be the first to step in. The Enlightenment still hasn’t hit the Arab world, and it’s unlikely that by toppling a dictator that Egyptians will put a personal-freedom respecting, secular democracy in its place.

  8. I sure hope that my tour guide from my 2008 trip is ok. He lives in Alexandria and when I went to Egypt our tour stayed in a hotel near the old museum. I should contact him somehow.

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