Today, January 25 2011, is a fascinating moment in the modern history of Egypt.
No one knows how the day’s events will play out, for the moment though, the above video from a Cairo apartment balcony captures a Tiananmen Moment.
I extracted a still image and created the following vertical and horizontal diptychs.
Gadah in Arabic means Brave Man…
. . . “Gadah” doesn’t exactly mean “brave man”, but it’s close.
On the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, we can remind ourselves of the saying from an era before that event which was a “New Beginning” between Mao’s China, the United States, and the rest of the world: “Only Nixon could go to China”.
Twenty years from today in 2029, on the 40th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, we will look back and say, “Only Obama could go to Cairo “; “Only Obama could go to Egypt “.
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