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Cover of Egypt's Enigma Magazine (photo: Lisa Goldman)

Cairo, day 1: Referendum on constitutional amendments

Today, my first day in Cairo, is an historic one: Egyptians are voting on whether or not they want their constitution – which was suspended during the revolution – to be amended. People are lining up to vote in endless queues at polling stations all over Cairo, and Egyptians I follow on Twitter are updating…

By Lisa Goldman March 19, 2011

Cairo revolutionary graffiti (photo: Sarah Carr/Flickr)

The Arab revolutions will not be tweeted

The revolutions that toppled Tunisia’s Ben Ali and Egypt’s Mubarak were not planned on Facebook, and they did not gather momentum on Twitter. Social media is a useful tool for many things, but critical mass can only be achieved through old-fashioned, face-to-face people power By Maath Musleh As the youth revolutions flourished in the Arab…

By +972 Magazine March 2, 2011