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Egypt: The Vlog before the Revolution

Written byJuliana Rincón Parra

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Posted 11 February 2011 17:14 GMT

The video blog made and shared on Facebook by Asmaa Mahfouz, where she asked Egyptians to join her on January 25th to protest and ask for human rights went viral, and is being called “The Vlog that Helped Spark the Revolution”, according to Iyad El-Baghdadi.

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Written byJuliana Rincón Parra

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