My third article is about the role young people had in the political movements of the Middle East. The article quotes a science professor at Cairo University, Hassan Nafaa, that gave the name “Miracle generation” to the young protesters for doing more in weeks time than their parents have done in years against Mubarak’s political dictatorship. Nafaa honestly admitted that would not ever believe that his students would be accountable for the recent democratic change in Egypt. Furthermore, a college student named Kamel, describes his experience with Egyptian police when he accidently fell of a train onto the station’s platform, lying there an Egyptian police came and hit him because he is not suppose to be doing that. Kamel then creates a blog and posted about this event of police brutality. This article also talks about a Google executive, Wael Ghonim, who is responsible for helping organize protests throughout Egypt. Ghonim created a Facebook paged called ‘We Are All Khaled Said”, Khaled Said was a young businessman that was a victim of police brutality; he was beaten to death by the Egyptian police. Kamel later joined and became one of the Facebook page’s lead organizers. Ghonim became the face of the revolution in Egypt by using this Facebook page to organize protests all through Egypt. Kamel and many others also helped organized protests in Egypt that sparked a revolution that would in result overthrow their evil dictator.
This article relates to my paper because in the television series Firefly Mal hides the two fugitives from the Alliance, maybe this act is the beginning to something bigger like a revolution in the later episodes or even in the movie Serenity?
Massimo Calabresi, et al. "Rage, Rap And Revolution. (Cover story)." Time 177.8 (2011): 32-37. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 14 Apr. 2011.
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