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Students Foster Misconceptions of the Middle Eastern Revolution

A political uprising in Egypt began on January 25, 2011 in Cairo, Alexandria. The protest was organized through social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook. Egyptians protested President Hosni Mubarak’s government and legal and political issues including police brutality, state of emergency, laws, lack of free elections, freedom speech, uncontrollable corruption, as well as economic issues including high unemployment, food price inflation, and low minimum wages.  Mubarak formally resigned from his presidency on February 11, 2011. The government continues to be in chaos as a new leader is being voted upon.

The recent Egyptian revolution, one of the most political and societal events in the history of the middle east, has been

and continues to go on as Americans are ignorant of it.

“I think our peers aren’t really keeping up with it because it doesn’t affect us,” said Senior Samantha Roehl. “We’re also

not well informed because the danger in American reporters covering it.”

The vast amount of media we have access to attempts to keep us well informed while at the same time covering local and other world news. Keeping updated may be easy for some but this topics is also a somewhat difficult one to grasp.

“The media continues to keep us updated on a topic that was organized through media,” said Junior Jonah Menough. “It’s also more difficult to learn about when there are issues like Japan happening at the same time. I’ve stayed more updated on the earthquake in Japan because it’s changing more rapidly and seems more devastating.”

Despite the lack of knowledge on the topic there are easily navigable sources available. CNN, Aljazeera, and Huffington Post are all credible sources that are updated frequently.

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