“Revolution changes everything- past, present, future”
My friend Ayesha, medical doctor and lyrically leaning blogger, tagged me in this note on Facebook: revolution’s gone viral dear young unemployed Arab may I tweet your revolution from my Apple Mac? may I go viral with revolutionary tweets? I you-tube you praying on the streets and yfrog your flag-covered corpse while riding high on revolutionary retweeting fervor In response, I’ve written this: Some years on wrinkled from living too long in the shine of a mythical sun bodies old and minds undone regaling the children who may have already gone With pining...
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As the world trains its eyes on Egypt, a solidarity protest will be held today at 13:30 outside the Egyptian embassy in Pretoria. It’s unclear who exactly is organising the protest but a call to an advertised number gleaned this information: ”It is a friendly protest, supporting the desired change in Egypt, asking for freedom and corruption elimination. We will be in front of the embassy at 270 Bourke Street.” A call to the Egyptian embassy, meanwhile, revealed that the embassy was unaware of the planned protest but welcome it and ‘will listen to...
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