Tahrir Square Quotes

• The achievement of Tahrir Square wasn’t just its grand political movement but the tiny personal battles fought and won against the frictions wearing down Egyptian society: between religions, classes, sexes, and generations.

  Shereen El Feki

  Sex, Class, Squares

  Shereen El Feki (2013). “Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World”, p.4, Random House

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• I thought it was interesting to see that Israel did not play a role in this revolution. The man on Cairo's Tahrir Square doesn't want anything from me, but he does want something from his government. That's a good sign.

  Tom Segev

  Men, Squares, Israel

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• There's a long history in the Middle East of "bread intifadas," starting with 1977 in Egypt, when Anwar Sadat tried to lift bread subsidies. People rebelled and poured into Tahrir Square, shouting slogans against the government just like they did earlier this year. Sadat learned his lesson and kept bread subsidies in place, and so did a host of other Middle Eastern dictators - many of whom were propped up for years by the West, partly through subsidized American wheat.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Government, Egypt, Years

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm optimistic, though. Now, with the Arab Spring, I think that people in the region are beginning to overturn some of these clichés, and Western editors are starting to catch up. We're seeing some exceptions to the stereotypes, like Elizabeth Rubin's great piecein Newsweek, "The Feminists in the Middle of Tahrir Square." But an article like that shouldn't be the exception. It should be the rule.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Spring, Optimistic, Thinking

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• All the signs of incipient activism and uprising, from Tahrir square to Zuccotti Park to [the recent] shutdown of the Internet to protest web censorship. People are getting smart and getting connected.

  Bill McKibben

  Smart, Squares, Uprising

  Fuente: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• Ambos lugares, el centro de El Cairo y la plaza Tahrir, están en el corazón del centro de El Cairo. Son lugares donde los jóvenes se reúnen para intercambiar ideas políticas y culturales. Es posible que ese sea uno de los motivos por los que persiguieron a estas instituciones, aunque el gobierno no ha hecho ningún comentario público sobre los motivos de estas redadas.

  Leila Fadel

  Heart, Ideas, Squares

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• Let's remember that the revolution in Tahrir Square was not anti-American, it was not anti-Israeli, it was for democracy and freedom. That's a good thing.

  Stephen Hadley

  Squares, Democracy, Revolution

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• I don't demonize the downside. As we've seen in Egypt and Tahrir square and other recent event, the adhesiveness through [technology] kinds of communication is extraordinary. Interesting times we live in.

  Anne Waldman

  Communication, Technology, Squares

  Fuente: logosjournal.com

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