Egypt from the Air is part of the Wings over the Pyramids: Will Egypt's Treasure Survive exhibit designed and curated by Museum Studies graduate students at San Francisco State University, under the guidance of Professor Linda Ellis.

This blog attempts to capture, document, and make accessible some of the hundreds of thousands of videos, articles and photographs relating to the dramatic events that have swept across Egypt since early 2011.

Wings over the Pyramids opens April 4th, 2011.

3/23/11

Mark Lynch Interview on NPR

Fresh Air with Terry Gross at NPR.org has an interesting interview with George Washington University political scientist Marc Lynch online.

The topic, Why Libya matters to the future of the Middle East's future, focuses on recent events in Libya, but he also sheds light on the upheavals in North Africa and Egypt. Fascinating stuff!

Here is an excerpt:

Gross: Now in Egypt everybody was calling it like the Twitter/Facebook revolution. How has the role of Al-Jazeera been changing in terms of its importance in covering these revolutions and uprisings?

Prof. Mark LYNCH: I think you have to look at them altogether because what's happened is that the overall information environment has completely changed. So you have the social media, Facebook, Twitter, all the new media, and those have been really important for building connections among activists, for allowing the uploading onto YouTube, of user-generated videos and all that sort of thing.

Al-Jazeera itself very enthusiastically and aggressively moved into the new media space. And so when they were unable to cover events from the ground in Tunisia or Iraq or, you know, all kinds of places where they were banned by authoritarian regimes, they were able to discover people they could interview, they could find videos and all kinds of content that they could use and bring online.

Listen to the entire interview here or read the transcript here.
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