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On-the ground interview from Monday Jan. 31st with CLP correspondent Nathaniel Greenberg, currently based in Cairo.
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On-the ground interview from Monday Jan. 31st with CLP correspondent Nathaniel Greenberg, currently based in Cairo.
Broadcast History
Posted to CLPMag.org January 31st.
Transcript
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I mean this is about jobs. it's not about women's rights it's not about religion in society. you don't hear people out there for the most part talking about this or that ideological shift they want, it's jobs and the economy. people were saying before the demonstrations Egypt could never be like Tunisia because Eguypt is too divided. but if you talk to people on the ground i mean they clearly want different things. the activists in the demonstrations want have a very strong agenda and they don't want to see Mubarak, they don't want to see military. but I think outside of the demos most people associate revolution with military. and they associate the military with being a kind of deliverance force. a kind of you know egalitarian--and honest. And what everybody keeps saying about the military is they're honest. they're not corrupt.
for the time being in terms of food a...
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Intro and Outro
INTRO:The Common Language Project produced this short on-the-ground interview with Nathaniel Greenberg, a researcher based in Cairo, after a weekend of growing unrest in Egypt.
OUTRO:Alex Stonehill of the Common Language Project interviewed Nathaniel Greenberg. Visit clpmag.org for more from Egypt.
Additional Credits
Nathaniel Greenberg is a doctoral candidate at the University of Washington studying the relationship between art and political change in twentieth century Egypt and Argentina. He is currently based in Cairo.
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