Posted by Nabil Echchaibi on Wednesday, February 9, 2011
If you haven't seen Wael Ghonim's famous interview with Egyptian private television network Dream TV, here it is with English subtitles. Ghonim is the Google executive who spent 12 days in police custody and was released late last week. He was most certainly arrested by secret police as seen in this video because he created a Facebook page in June called, "We're all Khaled Said." Said was the young businessman allegedly attacked and killed by Egyptian police as he was filming a video of two police officers sharing the spoils of a drug bust. This interview was a great media event and has been used quite creatively by the protesters to keep the momentum of media attention going. The interview is in 4 parts.
I was born and raised in Morocco. My research focuses on the intersections between Islam, Arab popular culture and the media. I'm currently an assistant professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Colorado-Boulder.