reminder about the NY Times graphic

The NY Times has a fabulous graphic of Tahrir Square. Note that you are able to click through day by day since February 1 to see how the situation has changed.

The two uppermost, rightmost buildings in the graphic are part of the American University in Cairo’s downtown campus.

Just to the left of AUC, in the building with the letter “M” at the entrance, is the Hardee’s that has been transformed into a water distribution center for the revolution.

At the far left is the Ramses Hilton. It is said that the snipers were on the roof of this hotel.

The hotel on the river to the center of the graphic is the Nile Hilton (the one I joked about in my Lovecraft/Husserl essay) and the one at the far right is the Semiramis Intercontinental. Journalists have been hunted down and arrested at each of these hotels.

report from hosptials and morgues

The Telegraph has this INFORMATIVE REPORT.

A pattern in the media is now clearly visible. Those who are actually on the ground in Egypt aren’t the ones worrying about “chaos and instability in the region.” That’s coming only from people at a distance who aren’t grasping the true nature of what’s happening.

the photo gallery

The Huffington Post has now linked to my PHOTO GALLERY of young Egyptians killed so far. Thanks to Bob Vallier, my old DePaul classmate, for sending them the link.

The friends of the dead would like this information spread as widely as possible, so that you can see the dead “fanatics” who are threatening “chaos and instability” to the region.

good article

In the Christian Science Monitor. Look at the last sentence about what the Copts did, just over a month after their church in Alexandria was bombed. Deeply moving:

“The Brothers were there, or at least seemed to be (men with longish beards and trimmed mustaches, women with veils covering their faces). But so were girls with stylish sunglasses and flowing hair, looking like they’d just stepped out of a Cairo nightclub, not into the midst of a popular revolution. Ranks of Coptic Christians linked arms to provide symbolic protection to Muslims while they prayed at noon.”

the reporter who was killed

2145: The Egyptian reporter who died of his wounds today after being shot a week ago has been named by various media sources as Ahmed Mohammed Mahmoud.

My understanding is that he lived near Tahrir Square and was photographing the protests from his own balcony, when he was gunned down by a sniper.

Muhamed Emad Husien

Muhamed was 23 years old. He was protesting in the Gisr al-Suweis area of Cairo on Friday, January 28, when he was struck by bullets in the chest, shoulder, and head.

my comment on a comment

0023: The BBC’s Europe editor has been pinning down the debate as it appears to EU leaders writing in his latest blog entry: “There are those who say it is in the West’s interest to side with a new generation agitating for freedom and democracy. Those after all are the values the West signs up to. On the other hand are those who warn that once you begin dismantling power structures you may end up with an outcome you fear most.”

What “outcome” do we “fear most”? Egyptians policing their own neighborhoods peacefully and singing democracy folk songs in the square?