Arab Spring – CALL ME MAGGIE

July 21, 2013

Maybe There is Something Wrong with our Notion of Paradise

Slavoj Žižek, one of the more public philosophers of our day, considers the difference between revolution and reformation. On which cusp do we find ourselves today? He identifies two traps that must be avoided in order to answer the question… Continue reading

July 2, 2013

Millions of Egyptians Demand Morsi’s Downfall

Originally posted on Paper to Use: CAIRO, Egypt — June 30 proved to be very different from January 2011, which was made to look like a minor protest in comparison. Tens of thousands of protesters spent the night in the… Continue reading

February 6, 2013

From Arab Spring to global revolution | Paul Mason | World news | The Guardian

Two years on from the fall of Hosni Mubarak, the new Egyptian president is from the Muslim Brotherhood; on the streets of Cairo, the same kind of people who died in droves in 2011 are still getting killed. On the… Continue reading