Egypt

[rm]

If you're not watching the Al Jazeera feed right now, you should be if you can.

Many of their correspondents are crying, talking about being born the week Mubarak came into power. There was just an interview with one women who was sobbing and she said, "This is everything I've ever cared about. As a woman. About Palestine. Now anything is possible."

Then a male correspondent: "I've seen people give birth, I've seen people get married. I've seen people graduate, and I have never seen happiness like this."


LfT: http://lettersfromtitan.com/2011/02/11/egypt/ (although it's even more brief than this).

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yup. I'm really sad Patty can't get any media where she is. She's too young to remember the Berlin Wall coming down, and me relaying this to her on the phone just doesn't have the same effect.

[adelheid-p.livejournal.com]

And watching videos of it afterwards isn't the same either. I still have a piece of the Berlin Wall somewhere that my uncle got for us when he visited not too long after it came down.