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Andrew Light Speaker Tour in Europe May 14, 2013 / Berlin, Germany; Brussels, BelgiumGMF Senior Fellow Andrew Light participated in a speaking tour in Europe to discuss opportunities for transatlantic cooperation on climate and energy policy in the second Obama administration.
In this podcast, GMF Vice President of Programs Ivan Vejvoda discusses last month's historic agreement to normalize relations between Kosovo and Serbia.
Anchor Elaine Reyes speaks with Andrew Small, Transatlantic Fellow of the Asia Program for the German Marshall Fund, about Beijing's potential role in brokering peace between Israel and Palestine
Embrace Egypt’s protesters
February 03, 2011 / Lamis Khalilova
Freedom, change and social equity were demands that resonated across the world, when hundreds of thousands of Egyptian protesters took to the streets demanding an end to Hosni Mubarak's regime. Their demands were clear: an end to the emergency law that has been in effect for three decades now, the disassembling of the lower and upper houses of Parliament, the release of political prisoners, free and fair elections, and most importantly, Mubarak's resignation and an end to speculations about his son Gamal's dynastic accession to power.
Inspired by the events in Tunisia (where in a truly Jan Palach moment, Mohammed Bouazizi, a 27-year-old man, set himself on fire to protest the corruption and dire economic conditions he lived in), young Egyptians continued what has now been several years of activism against dire political and socio-economic conditions.
Empowered by social networking, the protesters applied the tools of modern technology to spread the word among the large number of "plugged-in" Egyptians. The majority of the country's population is under 30, which means that all of them have known just one president, Mubarak, now age 83. What it also means is that unlike the older generation of Egyptians, they are not burdened by the hardships of history, the wars Egypt has fought (with Israel) and the international crises (Suez and others). Instead, they are burdened by the outlook of a bleak and depressing future.
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