I know some of you guys like to follow world events and the Egyptian Revolution was certainly a spectacle in that regard, especially with the coverage of Tahrir Square and all that's happened there. I was at Tahrir tonight with two friends for a concert on Mohamed Mahmoud street (a street where protesters and police clashed last year and some 21 people died), for a band called Eskenderella, (check em out on the fb). We were amongst thousands of people chanting and waving flags because the band (who happens to have a few members of my friends family in it) play very pro revolutionary music and played in Tahrir for hundreds of thousands of people during the revolution last year. The atmosphere was intense tonight and if you guys are interested i will post videos and pictures of it. There were a lot of young people who were in the revolution, they showed a video on stage of footage of the events last year, stuff that noone else around the world actually got to see from the networks. They held this concert today because it's a national holiday in egypt, and also it coincides with the birthday of a young man who died during the revolution last year and is now a martyr in the eyes of the public. My two friends and I are just visiting Egypt for a month and we've gotten to see it in a very special kind of way thanks to my friends family. So if any of you guys are interested or have any questions of what is actually going on in the country (as opposed to the stupid reporting and shameful coverage by CNN or any other mainstream news media) the things that are going on here will be important for a long time, and it's also a country where the people actually have been brave enough to stand up against their own rulers so that deserves recognition as well. I hope I've made this somewhat readable, I was pretty moved by what I saw tonight and thought that it might be worth posting about seeing as NS during the summer is a little dry sometimes.
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