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aboutegypt:

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To anyone who knows me, in real life, or on the interwebs: it would bring me great joy to have this bathing suit.  It is so lovely.  So, so, lovely. 

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Hey remember that time when voting actually meant something to someone?

kilele:

An old man is carried by a volunteer after casting his vote at a polling station during parliamentary elections in Cairo Nov. 28.

Photo by Amr Abdallah/Reuters

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I would totally rock the toe coverings. Those are insane.

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Edfu Templ, Egypt 

kalakutaqueen:

Stumbled on this set of vintage travel posters by David Klein a while ago - aren’t they stunning?

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Pharaoh statue unearthed in Egypt

I am her and I am there.  In my mind.  All the time.

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Women in the Sultan Hassan Mosque, Egypt

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Amazing.

I choked up a little; such an Egypt nerd, am i.  WHO WANTS TO COME WITH ME?!

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A video campaign to welcome tourists back to Egypt in different world languages.

No longer relevant, but still funny. I LOVE INTERWEB JOKES.

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I think that the chant made popular by protesters at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, IL, USA, “THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING,” rings just a bit truer today.

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Police shoot boy in cold blood From Egypt

This is why no one will leave Tahrir Square. This is a video from Alexandria, 31/01/2011

The kid was probably angry because his friend was shot, so he walked up to the police, he showed them he had no weapons on him, but they still shot him anyways when he was leaving.

The death toll from the violence had risen to 54 dead and 1,000 injured by 28 January. As of 30 January, Al-Jazeera reported as many as 150 deaths in the protests. As of 29 January, at least 102 people were known to have died, many or most shot. The dead included at least 10 policemen, 3 of whom were killed in Rafah.

By 29 January, 2,000 people were known to be injured.[ The same day, an employee of the Azerbaijani embassy in Egypt was killed while returning home from work in Cairo; the next day Azerbaijan sent a plane to evacuate citizens and opened a criminal investigation into the death.

Funerals for the dead on the “Friday of Anger” were held on 30 January. Hundreds of mourners gathered for the funerals calling for Mubarak’s removal. By 1 February, the protests had left at least 125 people dead, although UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay stated that as many as 300 people may have died in anti-government unrest in Egypt according to a report by Human Rights Watch. This unconfirmed tally included 80 HRW-verified deaths at two Cairo hospitals, 36 in Alexandria, and 13 in the port city of Suez, amongst others; over 3,000 people were also reported as injured.

Leading up to the protests, at least six cases of self-immolation were reported, including a man arrested while trying to set himself on fire in downtown Cairo. These cases were inspired by, and began exactly one month after, the acts of self-immolation in Tunisia triggering the 2010—2011 Tunisian uprising. Six instances have been reported, including acts by Abdou Abdel-Moneim Jaafar, Mohammed Farouk Hassan, Mohammed Ashour Sorour, and Ahmed Hashim al-Sayyed who later died from his injuries.

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