?Harlem Shake? Protests in

artappraiser — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 01:30:30 +0000

In reply to Police Brutality, Catalyst for Egypt’s Revolution, Continues Under Morsi

‘Harlem Shake’ Protests in Tunisia and Egypt
By Robert Mackey, The Lede @ nytimes.com, Feb. 28, 2013

The rapid evolution of the “Harlem Shake,” from a dance to a song to a viral video craze to a new form of Middle East protest, continued apace on Thursday. Hundreds of protesters danced outside the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo, and students and ultraconservative Islamists known as Salafists clashed in Sidi Bouzid, the Tunisian town where the wave of uprisings in the Arab world began with a very different gesture of defiance [.....]

The protest in Egypt followed the arrest last week in Cairo of four pharmaceutical students. They were charged with violating the country’s decency laws by dancing in their underwear to emulate the Australian “Harlem Shake” video that sparked the craze and has been viewed more than 18 million times in the past four weeks.

Before the arrests, one popular remix of the video in Egypt appeared to show police officers getting in on the act.

Police Harlem Shake - youtube.com/watch?feature=… #Egypt
— Aحmad H. عggour (@Psypherize) February 24, 2013
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Meet the new boss. . .

Bruce Levine — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:26:30 +0000

In reply to I think Mackey's title is

Meet the new boss. . .

I think Mackey's title is

artappraiser — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 07:10:44 +0000

In reply to Police Brutality, Catalyst for Egypt’s Revolution, Continues Under Morsi

I think Mackey's title is quite accurate in stating that police brutality was a catalyst for the revolution. Remember We Are All Khaled Said? And once the Tahrir action started, the preference for the army over the police?

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?Harlem Shake? Protests in

Meet the new boss. . .

I think Mackey's title is