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Bush believes history will say he contributed to peace, democracy
Popular Egyptian television presenter Mona El-Shazli was granted special permission to interview President Bush at the White House. The interview resulted in some members of the Egyptian state press calling El-Shazli an “American agent” with many suggesting that the US government paid for her and her crew to fly to Washington in order to conduct the interview. President Bush’s popularity in the Arab world — never very high at the best of times — has been further harmed by his visit to Israel on its 60th anniversary. Responding to El-Shazli’s question about whether history will be on George Bush’s side, he said “Yeah, I think people will say, he had a difficult set of circumstances to deal with, and he dealt with them, with a sense of idealism,”
Article: Bush believes history will say he contributed to peace, democracy
Author: Abdel-Rahman Hussein
Publication: Daily News Egypt
The Princess and the Facebook Girl
Pintak contrasts the fate of Egypt’s “Facebook Girl” Esraa Abdel Fattah, and Princess Princess Rym al-Ali. 27-year-old Fattah was imprisoned for 16 days for founding the Facebook group “6 April: A Nationwide Strike”, and allegedly masterminding the 6 April strike against rising food prices in Egypt. Princess Rym is on a quest to build the region’s first Arabic language graduate school of journalism. The article is a little low on background context, especially regarding why exactly Princess Rym’s story is connected to that of Fattah’s imprisonment.
Article: The Princess and the Facebook Girl
Author: Lawrence Pintak
Publication: PostGlobal at WashingtonPost.com