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1 Artists and Liars: Creative Responses in Egyptian Politics Dr. Heather K. Browne Northeastern University

2 We are all Khaled Said

3 Egypt’s First Flash Mob 6/18/10

4 Police vs. Protestors

5 The Official, Alternate Reality

6 The Mysterious Wael Ghonim

7 KharabeeshKharabeesh – Poking fun at Mubarak

8 Hosni & the 40 Thieves

9 Egypt’s Jon Stewart

10 Egypt’s Onion: El Koshary TodayEl Koshary Today Before Authorities announce Egypt's first "transparent" elections Partly leaders declare that elections will be transparently unfair this time. Written by makaronamakarona Thu, 11/18/2010 After "Invisible hands" strike again Initially held responsible for the January uprising by the former regime, "invisible hands" continue to menace a fragile Egypt. Written by makaronamakarona Mon, 10/10/2011

11 RebelRebel: U.S. Egyptian Rap Collaboration Egypt is revolting against the birds of darkness The people want the overthrow of the regime They killed us, slaughtered us, put us behind bars, tortured us, robbed us, scared us, terrorized us and ignored us The Egyptian people won't die The people's will shall conquer My country is your country My money is your money Enslaving us must end We heal our pains Our dreams are peaceful and we should call for them out loud We call for freedom united with the spirit of Abdel Nasser and Saladin We're revolting Egyptian, and we're sure of it Restrained from expressing our feelings, we're soldiers How could you, oh Egyptian, stand as a barrier between your Egyptian brother and your rights and his? This is your Egypt and his!

12 Revolutions of the Arab World

13 MC Amin - The Situation Must Change The Situation Must Change Verse 2: They've spread of sectarian divide, and planted racism Experimental projects to program and erase the Egyptian mentality The first phase, is too kill chivalry and manhood They've poisoned us, and gagged us, as they thought that would silence us, But they found us, defending, counter attacking, fighting, blocking And building a barrier with faith in front of cannons Tear gas thrown at us and nobody runs away And shotguns surrounding us shooting and we still stand our ground The hunger is what drives us and tahrir square is our path Yes, I want the rights of my brethren, regardles of my screams and calls You will never hear me silent even if I was dead My soul is in the square, giving my people power You can bring camels, horses, mules or even 1000 herds, it doesn't even phase me My rights I have to get myself, I wont leave it And if I become a martyr say Verse 1: The generation of give a blind eye to evil and serenade it is over Our generation looks for the evil and f---s it up There's only one solution, with no alternative With evidence in my words of mass destruction We said no to the Field Marshal, and said yes to change With only one demand from Tahrir Square Either get their rights, or die like them, their bloods worth Is not cheap, and either is the tears of their mothers And that’s because our brothers are our children, the children of our country The revolution continues, without a cease fire We will leave our houses until our demands are met I ask my people to hold on together, to defeat their traps From the corrupt politician and in the corrupt media I give it to you straight forward, quick and too the point F@#%!!... HE STILL RULES US EVEN AFTER HE GOT "DETHRONED", "IMPRISONED", AND "STRIPPED OF POWER", AND I’M THE ONE THAT LOST MY VOICE Hook: I don’t represent any form of power nor do I have loyalty to anyone in power Its just an idea that came to my head, that i feel is something important So I cant forget my people or even be hard on them it was written for him

14 Graffiti Warfare: GanzeerGanzeer

15 Removing Walls

16 The Voice of FreedomThe Voice of Freedom: Inspiring Millions I went down to the streets, vowing not to return And wrote with my blood on every street Our voices reached those who could not hear them And we broke through all barriers Our weapon was our dreams And tomorrow is looking bright as it seems For ages we've been waiting Searching for a place for us In every street in my country The sound of freedom is calling we held our head up high to the sky And hunger didn't matter to us anymore The most important thing is our rights And write our history with our blood If you were one of us Don’t blather and tell us to leave and abandon our dream and stop saying the word ‘I’ In every street in my country The sound of freedom is calling

17 Two down and six to go: MosireenMosireen


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