Dream With Me

From Tahrir:


Mona tells how she was contacted by a young man Wael Ghonem, before Jan 25, and how she and many others tried to find out what happened to him after he was kidnapped by the police and held for 12 days, blindfolded. The police denied that they had him. Today, he was released, and came straight to the studio to tell everyone what had happened, so that they could see that he is alive.
His interview on Dream TV in Egypt, is now circulating with with English subtitles. After he was released He was kidnapped by the security forces, two days after Jan 25 uprising began, and has spent the last 12 days blindfolded, while nobody knew for sure where he was. Here, thanks to the volunteer translators of Alive in Egypt, using Universal Subtitles, we can understand the words behind his urgent voice, his tears for those who have been killed in the last two weeks. Wael Ghonem is a young Google excective, who was the administrator of the Facebook page that served as the gathering place and call to action for those who turned out on Jan 25.

You can see all three parts of the interview, with closed-caption translations, on YouTube now. Part 1 , Part 2: and Part 3:

Al-Jazeera special program on background to events in Egypt

via maryannbatlle on Tumblr, I found this Al-Jazeera special on Egypt, its people and the context of this week's events. (48 minutes), well worth watching!