Inside Egypt: An Interview with Mohamed Abdelfattah, Alexandria.

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Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:00:26 +0000
Arab spring, Egypt, Miscellaneous, International, Audio, Radio Solidarity, Interview

This is the first of a series of interviews with Egyptians speaking directly of their experiences within the revolution and ongoing struggles. I hope to cover some themes not covered by the traditonal/mainstream press, and allow space for Eygptians themselves to talk about aspects of the recent uprising they feel is important. The bias toward experiential knowledge is a conscious choice, simply because it is often the most neglected form of knowledge in political story telling. Ordinary voices are held as a poor sibling to powerful deterministic political forces and quickly subsumed into an unbending tide of formal history, which cannot speak to the lived experience of people themselves as agents of change and shapers of their own destiny.