Comments on: What to make of the “general strike” http://arabist.net/archives/2008/04/07/what-to-make-of-the-general-strike/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:49:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: ramses http://arabist.net/archives/2008/04/07/what-to-make-of-the-general-strike/#comment-404077 ramses Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:55:27 +0000 http://arabist.net/archives/2008/04/07/what-to-make-of-the-general-strike/#comment-404077 The Egyptian masses need to revolt against the police state of the corrupt Mubarak. The Egyptian masses need to revolt against the police state of the corrupt Mubarak.

]]> By: Helena Cobban http://arabist.net/archives/2008/04/07/what-to-make-of-the-general-strike/#comment-399270 Helena Cobban Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:25:45 +0000 http://arabist.net/archives/2008/04/07/what-to-make-of-the-general-strike/#comment-399270 Nice round-up, Arabist. Thanks! The first time I ever set foot in Egypt it was to cover the January 1977 riots. I should dig out some of the clips from what i wrote there. My main recollections are of (a) the desolation along the Pyramids Road, where all the sleazy nightclubs had been torched, and (b) Heikal telling me something to the effect that the Egyptian people "are like the Nile: they run deep and quiet until the point when they simply burst the banks." Hey, I better go over to own blog and use that quote there... Nice round-up, Arabist. Thanks!

The first time I ever set foot in Egypt it was to cover the January 1977 riots. I should dig out some of the clips from what i wrote there. My main recollections are of (a) the desolation along the Pyramids Road, where all the sleazy nightclubs had been torched, and (b) Heikal telling me something to the effect that the Egyptian people “are like the Nile: they run deep and quiet until the point when they simply burst the banks.”

Hey, I better go over to own blog and use that quote there…

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