10 The DePaulia.
February 14, 2011
Nation & World
TIMELINE OF A
REVOLUTION
Power, rage and tears of joy
spill across Egypt
Thousands protest nationwide; governent
shuts down Internet access; organizers
call protests, “the day of revolution
against torture, poverty, corruption, and
unemployment.”
Protesters burn down ruling party's
headquarters; protests turn into riots.
Omar Suleiman named vice president.
Mubarak swears in new cabinet, a gesture
met with scorn by protesters.
Entire leadership of Egypt's ruling party,
including Gamal Mubarak, son of the
president, resign.
Vice President Suleiman agrees to
concessions such as freedom of the press and
to release detained protesters.
Defying expectations, Mubarak says he
will not step down but will hand over some
powers to his vice president now and transfer
all power in September after the election.
President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt resigns
turning over all power to the military; leaves
Cairo for his resort home in Sharm el-Sheik;
hundreds of thousands celebrate outside
Mubarak's main palace chanting, “the people
ousted the regime.”
Compiled by Rachel Metea | Photos courtesy of The Associated Press
JAN. 27, 2011
JAN. 28, 2011
JAN. 29, 2011 An Egyptian mother hugs her child as she watches some thousands of Egyptian protest-
ers gather at Tahrir square in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011, with the ruling National
Democratic party building burned at top right behind the red coloured Egypt museum.
JAN. 31, 2011
FEB. 3, 2011 CHAOS IN EGYPT,
FEB. 5, 2011
FEAR IN CHICAGO
FEB. 8, 2011
By KATHERINE TELLEZ
& KRISTEN AGUIRRE
After weeks of violence, Egypt's historic revolution
pushed President Hosni Mubarak to resign from his
30-year presidency last Friday.
FEB. 9, 2011 Fear has spread to the DePaul community, as some
students have said the protests may affect their future.
Some Egyptians living away from the revolution
have said it is hard to be apart from their country
during a time of chaos.
“When I think of my future, I don’t know what
I’m going to do,” said Egyptian Sayed ElSalamony,
who is studying economics and finance at DePaul.
ElSalamony, who is here on a student visa, said he
is worried what state his country will be in when he
returns home.
FEB. 10, 2011
Mubarak addressed his nation last week in a
televised statement announcing that he would not step
down from his presidency—despite three weeks of
protests calling for his resignation. Expectations that
Mubarak was to resign that night led to more violence
revolts in Cairo. The following day, Vice President
Suleiman announced Mubarak had resigned.
“Psychologically it is affecting me,” said
ElSalamony. “I just can’t see my country fall apart in
front of my eyes and not be there because I’m here
and not there, and that’s really frustrating,” he said.
“I don’t know what’s going to happen. I don’t
know where the country’s going, or where the
economy is going, where the political side is going…
is it going to go into a better state? That’s what we’re
FEB. 11, 2011 trying to figure out,” ElSalamony said.
Prior to Mubarak's resignation, Scott Hibbard said,
“In my personal opinion, the sooner Hosni Mubarak
leaves the better off Egypt will be.” Hibbard, a
political science professor at DePaul, said, “There are
different ways that can unfold, but he’s really become
the face of the old regime and the face of everything
that’s wrong.”
Citizen protests against the old regime erupted on
Photo courtesy of The Associated Press
Jan. 25 when the people demanded Egypt’s economic
situation and government change. Hibbard said that
while getting Mubarak out of power may be the first
step in Egypt’s revolution, addressing the country’s
economic situation needs to come next.
“I really hope to see a more vibrant economy,”
Hibbard said. According to Hibbard, there is an
enormous—but poorly distributed—amount of
wealth in Egypt and in the region. “What you have
is the absence of a free and open market, and that’s
contributing to mass poverty,” Hibbard said.
Egypt’s transition period has been said to be
affecting the Arab population as a whole. Faten
Bushehri, a recent DePaul graduate of Arabic descent
said she believes the Arab community should support
Egypt during this time of distress.
“Arabs usually tend to stick together and support
each other because it’s one region—and what happens
in one country affects the other countries,” Bushehri
said.
As an Arab-American, Bushehri said she feels
that it is only right that she and others in the Arab
community back Egypt’s revolution in hopes to
spread democracy.
“We’re supporting other countries that are fighting
for their freedom,” Bushehri said. “In America it’s all
about democracy and freedom—and that’s something
that we try to promote to people in other countries. It
would only make sense to support Egyptians to fight
for their freedom.” With a president who has been in
power for nearly thirty years, Busheri said it’s about
time.
While Egypt may be on the road to democracy, they
are still only at the beginning stages of their journey,
said Hibbard. But he still has hope for the country’s
transition.
“At this stage the future is yet to be written” he
said. “Some change will happen. The question is
how much change and how significant. There is a
movement for change and I think it is long overdue
for the region,” Hibbard said.

This week in world news
1 NEW DELHI — India and
Pakistan announced Thurs-
day they would resume wide-rang-
ing peace talks that were frozen
after the 2008 terrorist attacks in
the Indian city of Mumbai, which
were blamed on Pakistan-based
militants.
The U.S. has been pressing the
nuclear-armed rivals to restart their
peace efforts in hopes that reduc-
ing tensions along their border
would free Pakistan to focus on its
fight against Taliban militants — a
key element of U.S. strategy in Af-
ghanistan.
The decision followed talks be-
tween the foreign secretaries of the
two countries, the latest in a year-
long string of meetings intended to
rebuild the nations' shattered trust.
A statement released simultane-
ously in New Delhi and Islamabad
said the new talks would focus on
counterterrorism, humanitarian is-
sues, peace and security, the dis-
puted Kashmir region and other
border issues.
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf
Raza Gilani welcomed the talks
and praised his Indian counterpart,
Manmohan Singh, for the "opening
of a new chapter in the relations be-
tween the two countries."
But there is little expectation of
a rapid agreement to end the six
decade conflict between the bitter
rivals. Even if negotiators man-
aged to bridge the gaps on every-
thing from regional water sharing
to sovereignty over a disputed
creek, there is no guarantee that
the shaky Pakistani government, or
even the more stable Indian admin-
istration, could sell such a deal to
their parliaments and their people.
TOKYO — Fresh off a
6 gambling scandal that deeply
sullied its image, Japan's national
sport of sumo wrestling is now
grappling with allegations that
senior wrestlers and coaches used
cell phones to plan how to fix bouts.
Police have found text messages
on confiscated mobile phones that
implicate as many as 13 wrestlers
in schemes to fix matches, the
Japan Sumo Association and
Japanese media said Wednesday.
One reportedly went into detail
about how he would attack and
how he wanted his opponent to fall.
The text messages, found on the
phones of a wrestler and a coach,
indicate that the wrestlers routinely
fixed bouts and charged hundreds
of thousands of yen (thousands of
dollars) per match to do so.
Sumo has been dogged by
scandals over the past few years
and has seen its popularity
nosedive.
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WASHINGTON — The
3
House on Tuesday failed to
extend the life of three surveillance
tools that are key to the nation's
post-Sept. 11 anti-terror law, a
slipup for the new Republican
leadership that miscalculated the
level of opposition.
The House voted 277-148 to
keep the three provisions of the
USA Patriot Act on the books until
Dec. 8. But Republicans brought up
the bill under a special expedited
procedure requiring a two-thirds
majority, and the vote fell short.
The Republicans, who took
over the House last month, lost
26 of their own members, adding
to the 122 Democrats who
voted against it. Supporters say
the three measures are vital to
preventing another terrorist attack,
CALCUTTA, India — Members and activists of the Socialist Unity Center of India but critics say they infringe on
2 burn effigies of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, left, and President Barack Obama civil liberties. They appealed to
during a solidarity march on Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. the antipathy that newer and more
conservative Republicans hold
for big government invasions of
individual privacy.
Earlier on Tuesday, Republicans
also pulled a bill from the floor
because of dissatisfaction about
extending trade benefits for three
4 South American countries while
continuing a program that helps
3 6 retrain Americans who lose their
1 2 jobs to foreign competition.
The Patriot Act bill would have
5 renewed the authority for court-
approved roving wiretaps that
permit surveillance on multiple
phones. Also addressed was
Section 215, the so-called library
records provision that gives the
FBI court-approved access to
"any tangible thing" relevant to a
terrorism investigation.
4 LONDON — WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange ap-
peared in court Monday for a show-
down with Swedish authorities to
fight an extradition bid over sex
crimes allegations.
Assange is accused of sexual
misconduct by two women he met
during a visit to Stockholm last
year. Defense lawyers will argue
that he should not be extradited
because he has not been charged
with a crime, because of flaws in
Swedish prosecutors' case — and
because a ticket to Sweden could
eventually land him in Guantanamo
5 JUBA, Sudan — The mud-hut town of Juba has earned a promo- Bay or on U.S. death row.
tion to world capital later this year. Only Southern Sudan needs far American officials are trying to
more than its own currency and a national anthem: Most of the roads here build a criminal case against the
are dirt and even aid workers live in shipping containers. secret-spilling site, which has an-
In a little more than five months, Southern Sudan is slated to become gered Washington by publishing a
the world's newest country. Final results from last month's independence trove of leaked diplomatic cables
referendum announced on Monday show that 98.8 percent of the ballots and secret U.S. military files. As-
cast were for secession from Sudan's north. sange's lawyers claim the Swedish
Juba is oil-rich but lacks the embassies and skyscrapers of other world prosecution is linked to the leaks
capitals. There was only a mile or two of pavement here just a year ago, and politically motivated.
and the local archives are stored in a tent. Many, though, see great po-
tential, and are excitedly looking forward to controlling their own destiny.
Entrepreneur Soloman Chaplain Lui, 42, is overseeing the construction
of 160 apartments and hotel rooms on a rocky bluff overlooking Juba. The
country's largest swimming pool sits here, though its water is murky. His
arm points toward empty fields where he hopes to one day build a mall
and a golf course.
"As I talk to you now there are many people flowing here," he said. "A
new country is being born."
Two decades of war between the predominantly Muslim north and reb-
els in the Christian-animist south killed at least 2 million people before a
2005 peace agreement was reached. Residents are jubilant to have their
own country at last, though much work remains.
Compiled by Rachel Metea | Photos and news courtesy of The Associated Press