Egyptian revolution
Michael Labib
Professor Cran
English 101
12/08/2011
Egyptian Revolution: Age of the Renaissance As a response to the long reigning dictatorship of the former President of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian revolution began on the 25th of January 2011 in a form of peaceful civil resistance involving non-violent marches, protests, labor strikes, and acts of civil disobedience demanding Mubarak’s immediate resignation. Later on the revolution transformed into several scenes of violent clashes between the protesters and the security forces when hundreds of thousands of people from different religious and political groups joined this non-violent resilience, according to the Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper, these clashes caused the death of 846 people and injury of another 6000 innocent people (Shiha).
Legal and political matters appeared as some of the main reasons for the Egyptian protesters to start the revolt as these matters were cases of police brutality, routine torture and abuse by mandate of the country’s never ending emergency law, as well as restrictions on free speech and freedom of the press. Furthermore, economic issues came to light as people could no longer endure the poor economic conditions that the country was experiencing; these conditions were clearly evident by the low income, elevated unemployment rate, reduced GDP growth, and the long promised but to date non-existent minimum wage. The accumulation of these unbearable problems caused the protests to rise and the protesters to demand a responsive non-military government to be established, to listen to the public’s opinion on managing Egypt’s resources, study possible solutions for the current crises, and hopefully guide Egypt into a new era of real development that would benefit its people. First of all, one of the major problems Egyptians have been suffering from for decades was the poor economic conditions the country was facing which were a clear reason to protest, as the people didn’t
Professor Cran
English 101
12/08/2011
Egyptian Revolution: Age of the Renaissance As a response to the long reigning dictatorship of the former President of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian revolution began on the 25th of January 2011 in a form of peaceful civil resistance involving non-violent marches, protests, labor strikes, and acts of civil disobedience demanding Mubarak’s immediate resignation. Later on the revolution transformed into several scenes of violent clashes between the protesters and the security forces when hundreds of thousands of people from different religious and political groups joined this non-violent resilience, according to the Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper, these clashes caused the death of 846 people and injury of another 6000 innocent people (Shiha).
Legal and political matters appeared as some of the main reasons for the Egyptian protesters to start the revolt as these matters were cases of police brutality, routine torture and abuse by mandate of the country’s never ending emergency law, as well as restrictions on free speech and freedom of the press. Furthermore, economic issues came to light as people could no longer endure the poor economic conditions that the country was experiencing; these conditions were clearly evident by the low income, elevated unemployment rate, reduced GDP growth, and the long promised but to date non-existent minimum wage. The accumulation of these unbearable problems caused the protests to rise and the protesters to demand a responsive non-military government to be established, to listen to the public’s opinion on managing Egypt’s resources, study possible solutions for the current crises, and hopefully guide Egypt into a new era of real development that would benefit its people. First of all, one of the major problems Egyptians have been suffering from for decades was the poor economic conditions the country was facing which were a clear reason to protest, as the people didn’t
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