Um artigo interessante de Yasmine El Rashidi na The New York Review of Books: Egypt on the Edge
Imagem de Ahmed Ali/AP Images e reproduzida a partir daqui.
The New York Times reports that as of today, Zahi Hawass has resigned his position as Egypt’s Minister of Antiquities. (...)
Today Hawass updated his blog again, only this time with a long list of damaged and looted sites that Egypt’s authorities have been unable to secure. He includes dire news of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s storage warehouse storing artifacts from the museum team’s excavation in Dahshur. Hawass reports it was attacked twice and that looters were able to overpower and tie up the guards. The news of his resignation followed. Aqui
They had not seen, for ages, such beautiful gifts in Delphi
as these that had been sent by the two brothers,
the rival Ptolemaic kings. After they had received them
however, the priests were uneasy about the oracle. They will need
all their experience to compose it with astuteness,
which of the two, which of such two will be displeased.
And they hold secret councils at night
and discuss the family affairs of the Lagidae.
But see, the envoys have returned. They are bidding farewell.
They are returning to Alexandria, they say. And they do not ask
for any oracle. And the priests hear this with joy
(of course they will keep the marvellous gifts),
but they also are utterly perplexed,
not understanding what this sudden indifference means.
For they are unaware that yesterday the envoys received grave news.
The oracle was given in Rome; the division took place there.
My friend Mark wrote a great Facebook note about this today. He says the internet has replaced violence and guns as the true nexus of power. Mark believes guns belong to yesterday (the army, the police, the dictator) and the internet belongs to tomorrow (transparency, the citizens, democracy). He says the right to the internet should be the true Second Amendment right.
O Norte de África atravessa uma outra mutação que, como é corrente nesta região, ultrapassa as fronteiras políticas dos Estados: foi assim aquando das invasões romanas, árabes e cristãs ou aquando da descolonização. O que acontece num país costuma expandir-se para os vizinhos. Fonte da imagem