Revolution 2.0 and Arabic Teaching

Posted by bookncurls on February 10, 2011 · 4 Comments 

“I will call it Revolution 2.0.” Wael Ghonim, the Google rep in Egypt, called his internet driven protest, “Revolution 2.0″ on CNN.

I am of course following closely the events in Egypt, but I’m also listening to Egyptian singers and watching Egyptian movies.  This is a week to be saturated with Egypt.  Ironically it also comes on the week that I resigned from my Arabic teaching job.  The time slot for the Arabic teaching job was cutting deep into my other work.  To keep the job I had to turn down a lot of other work.  It’s hard to explain.

It was a tender last Arabic class with the students.  I love those guys.  Who knows what’s next.  I hope people will learn more about the Middle East.  Many Americans didn’t see this coming because we’ve been misinformed for too long.

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