By: Michael Oya @ThePamphlet
18 political parties in Egypt are calling for a million man march in Egypt. In an attempt to "reclaim the revolution".
Female Egyptian Author Adhaf Soueif has always taken part in the protests in Egypt. As an author she's been an active person of change in Egypt for a long time. It's not her speeches or lectures that give her power, but the truth of her fiction. Soueif's novels have told the story of real Egyptians and what worries them. She created a model of an aware Egyptian conscience and this let others know, especially other Egyptians, that Egyptians do think, they are allowed to think, and they're thinking the same thing; "Things aren't working in our country".
Here's an excerpt from her new work Map of Love:
"Each week brings fresh news of land expropriations, of great national industries and service companies sold off to foreign investors, of Iraqi children dying and Palestinian homes demolished, fresh news of gun battled in Upper Egypt, of the names of more urban intellectuals added to the Jama’at’s hit lists, of defiant young men in cages holding open Qur’ans in the hands, of raids and torture and executions."
Soueif has captured something which is beyond a nation's distrust of government policies. A spirit that goes beyond the specifics of this protest. Revolution is spreading across the middle east. It's a feeling, not a matter of political barganing. That's the message politicians never seem to understand, whether here in America or in the Middle east or Egypt.
A large number of those millions of people who will hit the streets won't know exactly why they're there, and some will be misinformed. Still though, the cause is alive, and revolution will be sought after until the people feel they have a government which serves them and is part of them.
You can read more on the story here:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2011/09/egypt-million-man-protest-revolution.html
Egypt - Protests - World
By: Michael Oya @ThePamphlet
