What Would Ghada Say?
Yesterday was a remarkable day, wasn’t it?
I mean, I never in my life thought I would watch history in the making, as I did yesterday – and, I suspect, neither did you.
I have practically no connection to Egpyt or her people.
Way back, when I was in junior high, my best friend at the time was Egyptian. Her name was Ghada.
She was an opinionated young girl, never shy of speaking her mind.
I distinctly remember her telling me my toenails were far too long… and this, the first time she was over at my house.
As tends to happen, after we all moved away (we both studied at an international school in Colombo, Sri Lanka, at the time) we lost touch, despite our best intentions to stay in touch.
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The not-so Jasmine Revolution
It’s taken me a while to try to get up to speed with what’s going on in Egypt, because I’ve been mostly offline the last few days.
It’s frightening yet fascinating at the same time.
Interestingly, while the news is all over it, I found very few blog posts that I thought worth sharing – else that’s what yesterday’s weekly roundup would have focused on.
I did find the following:
1. An old friend of mine (and now a fast-rising filmmaker), Parvez Sharma, has been relentlessly live-tweeting the events, as well as conducting interviews with folks in Egypt. Some of his pieces have been featured on the Huffington Post, and he featured prominently in a CNN article a few days ago.
(I found this out through Facebook, where I saw his stream full of Egypt and #Jan25 related tweets. Didn’t even know he was on Twitter before then.)
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After four-plus great years in London with @propellergroup, I have now started a new adventure with Malta’s leading marketing agency, BPC International.
I am certainly enjoying the blue skies and getting to grips with helping the great team here build their digital unit as well as launch our expansion into North Africa.
North Africa has of course been in the news a lot recently as Tunisia struggles to find a way through its political crisis.
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