2011 

building Revolutions throughout the Middle East 

Ramy Ghaly 
Does Social Media Sets “New World Order” in 

Social media is playing a vital role to make change possible and

give these young rebels a tool that it was unprecedented before
having the ability to bring down dictators and set a new world
order in social digital communications.  

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Does Social Media Sets “New World Order” in building Revolutions throughout the
Middle East?

While the uprising started in Tunisia requesting from a long dictator to step down, Egypt
is following suite of the recent Tunisian’s Jasmine Revolution seeking reform, freedom,
and respect by using social media to organize, communicate, and express their feelings
not only to the world, but to say to their dictators “this is the end of your rule, and now is
our time to make the change weather you like it or not”.

The young catalysts of Twitter, Facebook, and social media are behind the driving force
of the revolution not only in Tunisia and Egypt, but also in Jordan and Yemen where the
role of social media has proven a new world order in digital social communications to
bring down totalitarian regimes all over the Middle East. Non-stop-able young embryonic
youth, the educated elite of the Arab world are speaking out seeking freedom. Yes,
freedom is a high commodity especially in the Arab world where no real democracies
exists, yet decades of totalitarian regimes that took the power of their people and turned
them into modern slaves. Moreover, the blocked elite of Egypt are speaking out after
thirty years of unprecedented selfish rule that stole their dignities by keeping them away
from engaging in decision making, take responsibilities of their future are now fighting
for their pride in setting the road map to gain freedom, the right to speak out, needless to
say, gain respect by re-writing history that makes them proud citizens of their forced
change to set a better example not only to Egypt, but to other dictators in the Middle East
and the world. Now, social media set fear in dictatorships throughout the Arab world
where Egypt’s dictatorships shut down all social networks and communications to put
more pressure on the young youth to stop their uprising, but that not only turned against
the totalitarian regime, instead, it sparked more anger and gave the youth more reason not
to give up that easily, yet embrace the fight for freedom to the end while Mr. Mubarak is
witnessing his last moments of the 30 years old rule.

Going social in the digital world is building a new world order by driving change and
bringing down dictators at least in the Arab world. The young blocked elite of Egypt are
seeking change from regime reform, free elections, and the ability to choose their own
leaders, to requesting their basic civil rights to be heard and respected; yet achieving it is
even more challenging when chaos takes over in the streets and sets a whole new ball
game. Social media is playing a vital role to make change possible and give these young
rebels a tool that it was unprecedented before having the ability to bring down dictators
and set a new world order in social digital
communications.

Important facts about Egypt according to CIA

FactBook’s latest figures: 2010

Population: 80 Million 
Median age: 24 years 
GDP: Approximately $216.8 billion (2009) 
Per capita income: $6,200 (GDP/year‐PPP 2010) 
Unemployment: 9.7% (est.) 
Poverty: 40% 
Strategic interests to the world:
• Israeli/Egyptian Peace Treaty signed in 1979.
• It is estimated that 10 percent of the global crude oil demand passes through the Suez Canal.
• The biggest population in the Middle East
• Egypt receives nearly $2-$3 billion in aid per year from the United States.
• Egypt holds ancient treasures and artifacts.
• The Pyramids are one of the top wonders of the world.
• A global destination for tourists making it one of the top tourist markets in the world.

Popular Hash Tags used for the “uprising in Egypt” on Twitter:

#liberation technology
#social freedom
#twitter revolution
#SM revolution
#Egypt
#jan25
#freedom
#Tahrir
#Cairo
#reform
#protest
#democracy
#support
#liberty
#civil liberty
#uprising
#Mona Altahawy

Latest Sentiment analysis of Egypt’s uprising since it started six days ago on
January 25, 2011

Mentions as of January 31, 2011 at 12:30 PM Cairo local time

Note: This analysis was made possible by using Uberv http://www.ubervu.com

Over All Stats:
 Ramy Ghaly is a Marketing Strategist with more than ten years in
international markets experience. He held professional and managerial positions in
various global markets in various industries ranging from retail, wholesale, consumer
goods, to technology product management with concentration in channel development. In
addition, He holds a degree in International Marketing Management with a minor in
International Relations and Middle Eastern studies from Daytona State College. He is
interested in social media developments, next generation search technologies, semantic
search engines, and text analytics; needless to say, strategies in geopolitics, Middle
Eastern Studies, and Environmental factors that affect global business growth are general
interests that keen to always monitor and encourage writing about.