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Wael Ghonim: Inside the Egyptian revolution

Posted by News Source Center on March 11, 2011 at 2:55pm

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governance, dissent, protest, revolution, Egypt

Wael Ghonim is the Google executive who helped jumpstart Egypt's democratic revolution ... with a Facebook page memorializing a victim of the regime's violence. Speaking at TEDxCairo, he tells the inside story of the past two months, when everyday Egyptians showed that "the power of the people is stronger than the people in power."

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