Tuesday, February 8

Tahrir Square Inspiration (4#) -

SandMonkey, Sawiris, and Syria . . .

I was surprised the other evening to see Brian Williams, the anchor of NBC's Nightly News, chatting with Egyptian blogger SandMonkey. I couldn't quite believe my eyes. I've never met SandMonkey in person, although I've been reading his blog for a number of years.

:: Egyptian Blogger goes public ::

# An interview with Egyptian tycoon Naguib Sawiris, who is a Coptic Christian supporter of the protesters and the need for demoocratic reform.

:: businessman ::

# Syria has unblocked BlogSpot and some Social Media venues, according to Anas Qtiesh at GVO and other sources. Welcome back, folks!

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