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Friday, August 19, 2011

Tahrir Documents

There's a website called Tahrir Documents which strikes me as particularly worth  noting, since it purports to be an attempt to document and archive the history of the Egyptian January 25 Revolution. But I must confess that I have not had the time to read more than a few of their posts, and it may have an ideological or other bias I do not immediately detect. But I call it to your attention.

UPDATE: One of the Editors has posted a detailed comment below for my readers' attention, so I incorporate it here:
I'm one of the editors of Tahrir Documents. I wanted to point out for your readers that your initial assessment is indeed correct, and we have no ideological underpinnings with the project. We translate and post any material we find from in and around Tahrir Square (and other areas of Egypt) that has to do with the events of the past 7 months. Anything sent to us by activists that we post is noted as such. We make no distinctions regarding our translations and have done our best to assemble a catalogue of the political developments occurring in Egypt. It is at times a rather eclectic mix, and I encourage your readers to explore our website by category of interest as we have recently put much time into reorganizing all of our materials. We hope the site can serve as an archive for future students and scholars of Middle Eastern affairs, and we continue to post new translations every day. For updates, readers can follow us on Twitter @TahrirDocuments.

Thanks!

2 comments:

Levi said...

Hi Michael,

I'm one of the editors of Tahrir Documents. I wanted to point out for your readers that your initial assessment is indeed correct, and we have no ideological underpinnings with the project. We translate and post any material we find from in and around Tahrir Square (and other areas of Egypt) that has to do with the events of the past 7 months. Anything sent to us by activists that we post is noted as such. We make no distinctions regarding our translations and have done our best to assemble a catalogue of the political developments occurring in Egypt. It is at times a rather eclectic mix, and I encourage your readers to explore our website by category of interest as we have recently put much time into reorganizing all of our materials. We hope the site can serve as an archive for future students and scholars of Middle Eastern affairs, and we continue to post new translations every day. For updates, readers can follow us on Twitter @TahrirDocuments.

Thanks!

Michael Collins Dunn said...

Levi: Thanks: I'll add this comment to the main post.