There are very few times in your life when you know you are watching events that will change the world but today was one of those days. For those of us lucky enough to take our liberties for granted, you couldn’t help but have tears in yours eyes listening to people who tasted freedom for [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Egypt’
Things to ponder : 4 February 2011
Posted in Things to ponder, tagged Egypt, Things to ponder on February 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Some of my favourite articles on Egypt as the protests have continued and history has continued to unfold. I can remember watching the Berlin Wall being torn down in 1989 and never imagined that I would witness anything like that again in my lifetime : – The Revolutionary Moment (The Nation) ; If the world [...]
Ozymandias
Posted in What I'm listening to, tagged A History of the World in 100 Objects, British Museum, Egypt, poetry, Ramesses II, sculpture, Shelley on January 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
By complete coincidence I got to number 20 of A History of the World in 100 Objects – the British Museum’s statue of Ramesses II – as protests erupted in Egypt (incredible eyewitness photo). The giant statue inspired poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to create Ozymandias in 1818 – but it seems startlingly relevant to current [...]
Things to ponder : 28 January 2011
Posted in Things to ponder, tagged Challenger, Egypt, Richard Feynman, Things to ponder on January 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I spent the day trying to work while keeping one eye on Al Jazeera English’s excellent live stream of events in Egypt. – Robert Fisk writes about Egypt’s day of reckoning and a new truth dawning on the Arab World : It is not possible any more, for the people of the Arab world to [...]
