Interpreting Egypt

The H-Net Blog Discussion Post of H-Human Rights has a thread from February 2011 by Kurt Mills entitled Interpreting Egypt.  Mr. Mills requests H-Human Rights subscribers to ‘…enhance attempts to interpret any public policy engagements in which they may be involved.’ He uses the example of the relationship between the United States and Egypt asking, How will the relationship change? What will Egypt’s new government be? What are the best resources in trying to understand what is happening there? Mills asks for information from anyone who is living in Egypt.

The responses were varying scholars. One scholar refers to ECOSOC ( Economic and Social Council of the United Nations). One scholar, an Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo refers Mills to a website, ALMASRYALYOUM, based in Cairo which is translated from Arabic to English.  Another scholar refers to a blog called, ‘Liberty of Egypt’ and The New York Times: Opinionator.

This thread seemed very helpful to the work that Mills is trying to accomplish. It created a surprisingly mild thread of interactive information that generated  little debate despite the subject. 

Meg Singer