Cairo, Special Envoy - To monitor and understand political life of Mona Ibrahim Seif and Gigi, you have to spend so much time reading their tweets to discuss with them. Under the names @ @ Gsquare86 monasosh and these two figures of the Egyptian revolution, aged 25 and 24 years, acquired via Twitter a real capacity for mobilization.
In the now vast community activists Net Egypt, the two girls have several common features, which have helped forge a friendship that has nothing virtual. Mona and Gigi do not stay in front of a computer to distribute information or express their feelings: they are always closer to the action.
Defining themselves as both "activist" and as "citizen journalists", they maintain the flame with their thousands of "followers" by testifying in real time, by making available on the Internet photos and video. Mona Seif is already a longtime. "There is that activists in my family. I am an activist by inheritance," she says, laughing.
She has attended demonstrations since childhood. For her, like many young Egyptians, the turning point was the death of Khaled Said, in June 2010. While her blog was formerly very personal, Mona decides to devote his Twitter account to work for change in Egypt. "My account is not a thread of information, I share what I see.
I check my info. I take pictures that accompany my tweets. "During the eighteen days of revolt that led to the fall of Hosni Mubarak, Mona has practiced this" citizen journalism "it, a researcher in biology at the University of Cairo, discovered in recent months. "My instinct is to protest.
So I would have stayed Tahrir Square. But my role now is to testify. I am so often out of the Tahrir Square to go and check what was happening elsewhere in Cairo, and to disseminate my information. "Gigi Ibrahim returned to California two years ago, has begun its side, while completing his studies Political Science, attend labor movements and demonstrations.
It became "revolutionary socialist", and @ Gsquare86 is, since the revolution of January 25, a star on Twitter. Even the Egyptians who do not know tweet after a appearance on Al-Jazeera and a cover of Time Magazine. Gigi sees itself as "militant past year, online and on the street '." Social networks, initially it was used for what? A meeting of lovers, friends ...
And there it toppled dictatorships. They are tools absolutely brilliant. "Very determined, Gigi takes his role very seriously." Before the revolution, I was already in all events. I'm kind of skeptical, so I check my information on the ground, I check every detail, and I take videos and pictures.
"Accustomed to these protest movements, the gathering of 25 January, for which they were launching appeals mobilization, was a surprise. "I thought we'd be a few dozen, as usual," says Gigi. When I saw the crowd, this mammoth crowd, I could not stop crying. When I saw these ordinary people chasing the soldiers, I told myself: 'It is.
The time has arrived. 'It was a dream come true ... "Since the fall of Mubarak, Mona and Gigi continue the fight. They are present at all events, strikes, along with activists and workers, and outside the embassies to support the rebels in Libya, Bahrain, Algeria. "It's not over. Here in Egypt, the path to democracy will be long ", said Mona Seif." Our revolution was spontaneous and disorganized, and we won, but future victories will depend on our ability to organize, politicize us, "believes Gigi Ibrahim.
On Twitter, their activity is now shared between the continuation of what the Egyptian revolution of January 25 began, and solidarity with the demonstrators from other Arab countries. Just as the Tunisians were in Cairo a source of inspiration, the Egyptians are now alongside their "friends" virtual strangers.
On Libya, in the absence of foreign journalists, Mona, Gigi, and their comrades are even Egyptian main relay of information sent by young Libyans. The Arab revolution continues, and they are the heart. Remy Ourdan Article published in the edition of 22.02.11 
In the now vast community activists Net Egypt, the two girls have several common features, which have helped forge a friendship that has nothing virtual. Mona and Gigi do not stay in front of a computer to distribute information or express their feelings: they are always closer to the action.
Defining themselves as both "activist" and as "citizen journalists", they maintain the flame with their thousands of "followers" by testifying in real time, by making available on the Internet photos and video. Mona Seif is already a longtime. "There is that activists in my family. I am an activist by inheritance," she says, laughing.
She has attended demonstrations since childhood. For her, like many young Egyptians, the turning point was the death of Khaled Said, in June 2010. While her blog was formerly very personal, Mona decides to devote his Twitter account to work for change in Egypt. "My account is not a thread of information, I share what I see.
I check my info. I take pictures that accompany my tweets. "During the eighteen days of revolt that led to the fall of Hosni Mubarak, Mona has practiced this" citizen journalism "it, a researcher in biology at the University of Cairo, discovered in recent months. "My instinct is to protest.
So I would have stayed Tahrir Square. But my role now is to testify. I am so often out of the Tahrir Square to go and check what was happening elsewhere in Cairo, and to disseminate my information. "Gigi Ibrahim returned to California two years ago, has begun its side, while completing his studies Political Science, attend labor movements and demonstrations.
It became "revolutionary socialist", and @ Gsquare86 is, since the revolution of January 25, a star on Twitter. Even the Egyptians who do not know tweet after a appearance on Al-Jazeera and a cover of Time Magazine. Gigi sees itself as "militant past year, online and on the street '." Social networks, initially it was used for what? A meeting of lovers, friends ...
And there it toppled dictatorships. They are tools absolutely brilliant. "Very determined, Gigi takes his role very seriously." Before the revolution, I was already in all events. I'm kind of skeptical, so I check my information on the ground, I check every detail, and I take videos and pictures.
"Accustomed to these protest movements, the gathering of 25 January, for which they were launching appeals mobilization, was a surprise. "I thought we'd be a few dozen, as usual," says Gigi. When I saw the crowd, this mammoth crowd, I could not stop crying. When I saw these ordinary people chasing the soldiers, I told myself: 'It is.
The time has arrived. 'It was a dream come true ... "Since the fall of Mubarak, Mona and Gigi continue the fight. They are present at all events, strikes, along with activists and workers, and outside the embassies to support the rebels in Libya, Bahrain, Algeria. "It's not over. Here in Egypt, the path to democracy will be long ", said Mona Seif." Our revolution was spontaneous and disorganized, and we won, but future victories will depend on our ability to organize, politicize us, "believes Gigi Ibrahim.
On Twitter, their activity is now shared between the continuation of what the Egyptian revolution of January 25 began, and solidarity with the demonstrators from other Arab countries. Just as the Tunisians were in Cairo a source of inspiration, the Egyptians are now alongside their "friends" virtual strangers.
On Libya, in the absence of foreign journalists, Mona, Gigi, and their comrades are even Egyptian main relay of information sent by young Libyans. The Arab revolution continues, and they are the heart. Remy Ourdan Article published in the edition of 22.02.11
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