Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Greg Lauren http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Tue, 21 May 2013 10:09:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 From the Arab Spring to the Harlem Shake: Egypt or Absurdistan? http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/from-the-arab-spring-to-the-harlem-shake-egypt-or-absurdistan/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/from-the-arab-spring-to-the-harlem-shake-egypt-or-absurdistan/#comments Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:17:53 +0000 Greg Lauren http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=107324 Unofficially, it began on April 6, 2008. The social media revolution in the Middle-East. When young internet-savvy Egyptians started a Facebook group called The 6 April Youth Movement, in support of a strike in the industrial town of El-Mahalla El-Kubra. Three years later, it morphed from something that went “viral” on a digital scale via [...]

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