By Wael Ghonim
The revolutions that swept the center East in 2011 stunned and captivated the realm. Brutal regimes that were in energy for many years have been overturned by means of an irrepressible mass of freedom seekers. Now, one of many figures who emerged throughout the Egyptian rebellion tells the riveting inside of tale of what occurred and stocks the keys to unleashing the ability of crowds.
Wael Ghonim used to be a little-known, thirty-year-old Google govt in the summertime of 2010 whilst he anonymously introduced a fb web page to protest the demise of 1 Egyptian guy by the hands of defense forces. The page’s following elevated fast and moved from on-line protests to a nonconfrontational movement.
The adolescence of Egypt made historical past: they used social media to time table a revolution. the decision went out to greater than 1000000 Egyptians on-line, and on January 25, 2011, Cairo’s Tahrir sq. resounded with demands switch. but simply because the revolution all started in earnest, Ghonim used to be captured and held for twelve days of brutal interrogation. After he used to be published, he gave a tearful speech on nationwide tv, and the protests grew extra severe. 4 days later, the president of Egypt used to be gone.
The classes Ghonim attracts will encourage each one people. He observed the line to Tahrir sq. outfitted now not through anybody individual, yet by way of the folks. In Revolution 2.0, we will be able to all be heroes.
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The Theban Tomb of Nebwenenef The importance of the office of high priest in the early Ramessid period is apparent both in Nebwenenef ’s ownership of a mortuary temple southwest of the temple of Sety I on the Theban West Bank at Qurna (now largely destroyed) and the location of his tomb in the high-status sector of Dra Abu el-Naga in the northern part of the Theban necropolis. His later successors Bakenkhons (no. 2) and Roma (no. 3) were buried in the same area. The text recording Nebwenenef ’s appointment to his position in year 1 of Ramesses II is carved on the south wall of his tomb’s transverse hall.
Lichtheim 1976, 86–89; discussion: Gnirs 1996, 215–17). This practice continued in the Ramessid period. Biography generally gains prominence in the Eighteenth Dynasty both through its expansion into temple domains and through the increased space accorded it in tombs, particularly on stelae in Theban tombs (see Hermann 1940). In the earlier Eighteenth Dynasty, career biographies developed in new directions, a phenomenon that Gnirs (1996, 230) relates to increased competition among elites. Accounts of travel and military exploits, which can be compared with royal narratives and annals, include complex presentations of dramatic setting and action: “And then the great elephant which was among them became belligerent near His Person.
However, expansions in boundaries of decorum that made possible the transformation of tomb function in the Ramessid period also meant that, when biography was selected as a focus for the tomb, its character could shift to make play with these religious concerns. 2). 4. 1. Selection of Material The selection of monuments presented in this book is not comprehensive, but intended to illustrate the diversity and complexity of biography and elite self-presentation in the Ramessid period. Most texts are longer narrative inscriptions, but I include some shorter statements or epithet-based formulations in order to highlight the range of what was created.