{"id":1678,"date":"2011-01-29T12:03:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T16:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2011-01-30T01:18:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T05:18:59","slug":"sharif-kouddous-returns-home-finds-cairo-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2011\/01\/29\/sharif-kouddous-returns-home-finds-cairo-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharif Kouddous returns home; finds Cairo in uproar."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\" target=\"_blank\">Democracy Now!<\/a> Senior Producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous arrived in his native Cairo this morning at about 9:00 AM.\u00a0 He was met by his cousin and went directly to Tahrir Square which was full of protestors.\u00a0 People had gotten up on the tanks, but came down for sunset prayers. You can see it all at<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/sharifkouddous\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/sharifkouddous<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Live From the Eqyptian Revolution<\/h2>\n<p>Sharif has published a longer piece on the main Democracy Now! website:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/blog\/2011\/1\/29\/live_from_the_egyptian_revolution_by_sharif_abdel_kouddous\" target=\"_blank\">Cairo, Egypt\u2014I grew up in Egypt. I spent half my life here. But Saturday, when my plane from JFK airport touched down in Cairo, I arrived in a different country than the one I had known all my life. This is not Hosni Mubarak\u2019s Egypt anymore and, regardless of what happens, it will never be again.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The piece is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/158145\/live-egyptian-revolution\" target=\"_blank\">cross posted on The Nation.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy Now! Senior Producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous arrived in his native Cairo this morning at about 9:00 AM.\u00a0 He was met by his cousin and went directly to Tahrir Square which was full of protestors.\u00a0 People had gotten up on the tanks, but came down for sunset prayers. You can see it all at http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/sharifkouddous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1680,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}