‘Time = Hope + Disappointment’ from the Notebooks of Thomas Kinsella I have never lived through a revolutionary period before, so I have nothing to compare this to. But it’s certainly more draining then I…
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Today We Should Remember the Martyrs
Today millions of Egyptians, for the first time, will get to decide who will be their President. Yes there is some cynicism and concern about the election. (Which I wrote about in ‘The Agenda’ magazine last…
A Year of Revolution
In a year of revolution, causes have been easier to identify than consequences. In 1989, following the end of the Cold War, the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama wrote in The End of History? of the…
The real Yacoubian Building and how “there is often a woman involved”…
When I arrived in Cairo three months ago my first stop was not the Pyramids. Not the Egyptian Museum. Not even the beating heart of the revolution- Tahrir Square. (Be warned your first trip to…
Covering the Sphinx in Wax or talking about Shaw and Mahfouz
“You are Irish, I like George Bernard Shaw” “Shaw. Wow…I don’t know much about him” The disappointment on the face of the Egyptian man sitting beside me would have made the Sphinx cry. It was…
A Day Spent in Tahrir Square
David Lynch spent Sunday on the streets around a Tahrir Square in revolt. He will be writing about the events in Cairo in the Sunday Business Post on Sunday and we’ll be putting his posts…
“can, Spring be far behind?”
Book Review: ‘On the State of Egypt- The Issues that Caused the Revolution‘, Alaa Al Aswany (AUB Press 2011) David Lynch is currently based in Cairo reporting on post-Mubarak Egypt and the Arab Spring. He…
There Will Be Blood
This blog post was originally published today in David’s blog An Arab Spring in My Step, which he has set up while in Cairo reporting on post-Mubarak Egypt and the Arab Spring. Eid al-Adha in Cairo,…
Egypt and Colombia: Lessons for the Social Movement
Grupo Raíces will be hosting a film screening in Dublin city centre on Thursday April 21st. We will be showing the documentary Toribio: the war in Cauca by Hollman Morris. Hollman is one of the…
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