Eric Hobsbawm on 2011: ‘It reminds me of 1848...’
The renowned historian Eric Hobsbawm has watched the revolutions of 2011 with excitement - and notes that it's now the middle class, not the working class, that is making waves. "It was an enormous joy to discover once again that it's possible for people to get down in the streets, to demonstrate, to overthrow governments," says EJ Hobsbawm at the close of a year of revolutionary upheaval in the A
Velvet Revolution: The Prospects | Timothy Garton Ash
Aleksandr Prokopenko/AFP/Getty Images Yulia Tymoshenko, one of the leaders of the Orange Revolution and current prime minister of Ukraine, at a rally in Independence Square on the revolution’s first anniversary, Kiev, November 22, 2005 In the autumn of 1989, the term “velvet revolution” was coined to describe a peaceful, theatrical, negotiated regime change in a small Central European state that n
Sacrifice - Blog - The Arabist
(This image circulated online. The lion statue is one of a pair that stand on either side of the Kasr El Nil bridge) One of the effects of the police's policy of shooting directly at protesters' heads in the last 3 days has been that many of them have lost an eye. Ahmad Harara, a dentist, lost one eye on January 28 and one three days ago, on November 19. Over 11,000 people were injured (and 800 ki
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The Revolution of the Magic Lantern | Timothy Garton Ash
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