The Meaning of the Revolution
Against The Current vol. 151
Naber, Nadine
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/3186
Date Written: 2011-03-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2011
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13747
These are the words of Asmaa Mahfouz, a 26-year-old woman whose January 18 blog is said to have helped mobilize the million that turned up in Cairo and the thousands in other cities on January 25. Asmaa’s blog, like the stories of many Egyptian women of this revolution, offer a challenge to two key questions framing U.S. discourse on the Egyptian revolution.