Opinions

In two short weeks, the world has witnessed, through Egypt, a historical event few were prepared for. What would have been a repressed movement has found strength through new media outlets.

There is a terrible silence that fills the space around me when the voice of Ayman Mohyeldin stops, as i notice that my internet connection has broken and the web streaming of Aljazeera has yet again been interrupted. The constant soundtrack to my January school days in this cold Ohio city.

From the heaviness of an uneventful cold day in the city of Toronto I sit, shifting from my bed to my desk, watching/reading about the revolutions in both Egypt and Tunisia. I n those moments, I cannot but feel the heat of people’s enthusiasm for an honorable life, sometimes through the threat of death and others through death itself.