Reply #6: Caught part of a discussion about this on PBS [View All]

[suffragette]

Found the transcript. Much more there, but of note is something Mona Eltahawy said in speaking about Wael Ghoniml:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/jan-june11/egypt2_02-07.html

And he is the Google manager for the Middle East and North Africa, but he also came to be known as this -- the anonymous administrator of a Facebook page that was instrumental in launching this uprising on Jan. 25. Now, he was released after 12 days in jail.

And the youthful protesters that we heard about in the story had made it as one of their conditions before negotiating with anyone that he be released. And, upon his release, he gave a live TV interview that captivated the entire country, and dare I say the entire region, because I was -- I was following it on Twitter.

And people across the entire Arab world were watching it and crying with him, because he -- he was told that people had died over the past few days while he was in jail. And he -- he broke down. And he said: This is not our fault. This is the regime's fault.

And in those few moments that he spent on live television, he managed to snatch back the revolution that young people in Egypt had launched and that was being threatened by takeover by these older people who are negotiating with Omar Suleiman, the Egyptian vice president.



Very powerful.