Annika Witzel The 2011 Revolution in Egypt in US Print Media

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Communications - Media and Politics, Politic Communications, grade: 2,0, University of Bonn (Anglistik), language: English, abstract: "Lotus Revolution" (Egypt State Information Service1), "18-Day Revolution"(Armbruster 2011), "Nile Revolution" (Murdock February 8, 2011), "FacebookRevolution" (Herrera February 12, 2011) - what happened in Egypt at the beginning of2011 was given many different titles. Some even call it "the most unexpecteddevelopment in modern Egyptian history" (Sharp 2011b: 2). After 18 days of protestsin Cairo and other cities all over Egypt, the Egyptian people made their PresidentHosni Mubarak resign. He had been ruling the country for almost 30 years and hispeople wanted to get rid of him and his regime. That was their goal and that is whatthey achieved.Of course there were international reactions to the uprisings from all over theworld. "Numerous press reports [...] have recounted feelings of popular empowermentand pride inspired by the exploits of Egypt's young protesters" (Sharp 2011b: 5).During the revolution, European leaders urged "Egypt's transition to a newgovernment" at the beginning of February (Murdock February 4), while China blockedthe word "Egypt" from a twitter-like micro blogging website, according to AssociatedPress (quoted by Al Jazeera 2011).Further, when considering recent developments inLibya and Syria, other Middl...