What's Happening in Egypt Explained: Egypt, protests, etc 101

This is a "quick" summary of the events that have been happening in Egypt from Jan 25 to Jan 28th. It is by no means a comprehensive account of events. But some of the bigger, key highlights.

Things that happened after I finished recording:

• Mubarak spoke (It's a recorded speech). Max Fisher "just breathtakingly oblivious and dishonest." Mubarak doesn't sound like he's leaving. He's trying to align himself with the protesters. Mubarak says he has asked the government to resign—everyone but himself.

• Obama had a 30-minute phone call with Mubarak

• Obama says there "must" be reform. The bottom line seems to be that the US will continue to back Mubarak for the time being.

• The army is reportedly making protest gatherings in Cairo's streets very difficult. It's also 2:30 a.m. there, so things may be starting to wind down for the evening.

Below is a list of links that are used in this video, including the sources for most videos and photos that I've used:

The Economist's Democracy index (a widely accepted measure of political freedom) http://bit.ly/dminx

Photo of beating death of Khaled (GRAPHIC)
http://bit.ly/khaleddeath

Al Jazeera English live
http://bit.ly/aljazrenstream

Ustream from Cario
http://bit.ly/carioustream

The Arabist
http://arabist.net/

"Tiananmen Square moment" (VIDEO)
من مظاهرات يوم الغضب - شاب شجاع جدا
http://youtu.be/YtTUsqra-MU

Jumping on Police Photo
http://yfrog.com/h36s1cj
from http://bit.ly/abanidrees


Cario bridge protest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4OSMFYc9Mc

Iconic Kiss Photo woman and Egyptian Police officer
http://bit.ly/KissPic

CNN Article on the topic:
http://bit.ly/CNNonMubarak

Important Twitter's to Check out:
http://twitter.com/abo_mazen
http://twitter.com/sultanalqassemi
http://twitter.com/shadihamid
http://twitter.com/arabist
http://twitter.com/NickBaumann
http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23Egypt

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Egypt
• protests
• protestors
• lesson
• 101
• news from egypt
• news about egypt
• what s happening in egyp
• mubarak
• obama
• Democracy index
• Tiananmen Square moment
• من مظاهرات يوم الغضب ش

[mjoffencomedy]

Can you please do an update? This was great.

[SamProof]

@mjoffencomedy - I would, but I've sadly been so busy that I'm missing too much. I need someone else to do an update so I can catch up :D

[deeje8]

Some powerful stuff here. But for heaven's sake, it's ALEXANDRIA!!!, not Alexander!

[SamProof]

@deeje8 - I know, I know! I was just trying to get it all out as fast as I could talk, and didn't even notice that till it was up.

(my grandfather even lived there for a period of time...sigh)

[HickorySquirrel]

This was JUST what i was lookin' for. Thank yoou samproof. I subbed!

[SamProof]

@HickorySquirrel - awesome, glad to help/inform!

[ellol12345]

I am from Egypt this is the first video i have ever seen for you, All I have to say is thank you your info was very accurate and thank you again for showing interest in our cause even though you are not a person that is into politics

All the best my friend

Alaa Nabil

[gr8skater]

Death METAL face!!!!! Significant day

[reham532]

u really talk too fast.................and i really wanna know is that was a bad talk about Egypt or not

[au33987]

Slow down.

[227Morgan]

Huh, Egypt and Yemen watched this as much as the US

[TheCasu305]

...what's really going down is just crazy. It needs to really just stop.

[jagalskarjames]

Thank you johnathan Davis for your informative video.