Project on Middle East Democracy

Project on Middle East Democracy
The POMED Wire


Facebook Showdown

July 3rd, 2008 by Sarah

Sherif Mansour reports at Freedom House on the Egyptian government’s attempts to block access to Facebook and the significance of the site as a tool to organize Egyptian dissidents. Unless the international community pressures the Egyptian government to keep Facebook accessible, Mubarak’s “self-fulfilling prophesy as the only alternative to the Muslim Brotherhood will continue to hold Egypt back from the democracy its people deserve.”


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