Hey, it worked once . . .
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Do These Remind You of Anything?
I've been cribbing a lot lately from Issandr El Amrani at The Arabist, but he finds a lot of great stuff, especially on Egypt. He's been mining the ElBaradei Facebook sites for political art and has a post called "ElBaradei Fan Art". There's something distinctly familiar about these two:
Hey, it worked once . . .
Hey, it worked once . . .
I'd guess that the desired goal is not only to change the regime but to install effective government.
ReplyDeleteIf so, wouldn't the USA's 2008 election be a warning and not an inspiration?
Political posters in English based on themes from a US political campaign.
ReplyDeleteThat seems to speak volumes about the support that Mr. ElBaradei enjoys among the Egyptian electorate.
A centimeter deep and half a meter wide.
On the same theme Carnegie released an interesting piece today on the one dimensional nature of Egyptian politics. This would seem to support their view.
LJMarczak: I assume you mean Marina Ottaway's piece from, actually, a week or so ago:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=35629
Yes,indeed it was.
ReplyDeleteI'm on the weekly Carnegie email feed.
Luckily the news in the article wasn't a shocking new revelation or otherwise time sensitive.