Democracy Now - 05 feb 2011 - Uprising in Egypt torrent

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Special report

- SPECIAL: Uprising in Egypt: A Two-Hour Special on the Revolt Against the U.S.-Backed Mubarak Regime

In a special Saturday edition, Democracy Now! airs a two-hour broadcast. Highlights include:

- Live Reports from Cairo with Democracy Now! senior producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Democracy Now! correspondent Anjali Kamat.

- Egyptian novelist Ahdaf Soueif on how life in Tahrir Square \\\"is truly democracy in action.\\\"

- Columbia professor Rashid Khalidi on the impact of the Egyptian and Tunisian uprisings on the Middle East.

- Mohamed Abdel Dayem of the Committee to Protect Journalists on the continued attacks on journalists by supporters of the Mubarak regime.

- Khaled Fahmy, professor at the American University in Cairo, on reports that Hosni Mubarak has resigned as head of the ruling NDP party.

- University of California-Santa Barbara professor Paul Amar on the military’s role in a post-Mubarak Egypt.

- Stanford Professor Joel Beinin on the Egyptian labor movement and the historical roots of the Jan. 25 uprising.

- Egyptian American activist Mostafa Omar on the role of Egyptian youth in the protests.

- And we play the \\\"video that started the revolution\\\"–Asmaa Mahfouz’s Jan. 18th message calling for protests in Tahrir Square on Jan. 25.

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