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<H1 class=eventDate>Friday, April 29, 2011 </H1>
<H1 class=eventTitle>CIS Starr Forum: Egypt's Revolution</H1><!-- begin speaker info -->
Speaker: Ahmed Maher, Waleed Rashed and Jason Pontin<BR><!-- end speaker info --><!-- begin time and location -->
Time: 5:00p–6:30p <BR>
Location: <A href="http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=E14-674&mapsearch=go">E14-674</A> <!-- end time and location --><!-- begin series info --><!-- end series info --><!-- begin event description -->
<P>A conversation with the founders of the April 6 Youth Movement, Ahmed Maher and Waleed Rashed <BR><BR>ABOUT THE SPEAKERS <BR><BR>Ahmed Maher, co-founder of the April 6 Youth Movement, is a civil engineer and a prominent participant in the anti-Mubarak demonstrations in Egypt in 2011. Maher is now one of Egypt's best known youth activists, leading politically mobilized young Egyptians to develop their political consciousness through the skillful deployment of new technologies and social networking platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and Twitter. <BR><BR>Waleed Rashed, co-founder of the April 6 Youth Movement, has a degree in commerce and is continuing his studies in political science. He is the spokesperson for the April 6 Movement and the organizer of the April 6, 2008, Youth Movement protest in Alexandria where he and 14 members of the movement were arrested. He has traveled to Algeria, UAE, Turkey, Bahrain, Qatar and Lebanon as a member of the Kafaya movement, aka the Egyptian Movement for Change. <BR><BR>Moderating the event is Jason Pontin.Pontin is editor in chief of the award-winning magazine, Technology Review and TechnologyReview.com, published by MIT.<BR><!-- end event description --><!-- Begin URL -->
<DIV class=infourl>Web site: <A id=website href="http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_042911_egypt.html">http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_042911_egypt.html</A></DIV>
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Open to: the general public <BR><!-- end open to --><!-- begin cost --><!-- end cost --><!-- begin tickets --><!-- end tickets --><!-- End Venue Information --><!-- begin recurrance information --><!-- End Recurrence Info --><!-- begin sponsor info -->
<!--sponsors-->Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies, Technology Review<BR><!-- end sponsor info --><!--More INformation -->
For more information, contact:<BR>starrforum@mit.edu <BR><BR> </body>
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