Friday, April 22, 2011

Time: Egyptian blogger on the most influential of 2011

It 's the manager of Google and Egyptian blogger Wael Ghonim, symbol of the revolt in Tahrir square against former President Hosni Mubarak, who led the ranking of the most influential people of 2011 according to the magazine "Time". Ghonim passed the economist and Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, the CEO of Netflix and Reed Hastings.

Mark Zuckerberg is only sixth. Julian Assange, already undermined by the young founder of Facebook to appoint a "person of the year, finishing ninth behind Angela Merkel, in the eighth. Motivations. "Wael helped start a peaceful revolution, enfatizando the fact that the scheme would have listened to citizens who have exercised their right to demonstrate peacefully," said the leader of the Egyptian Mohamed El Baradei.

"This is a miracle: a movement that began with thousands of people on January 25 has grown to 12 million for the expulsion of Mubarak - said El Baradei - What Wael and young Egyptians have made it a popular spot then oil all over the Arab world. 

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