Egyptian Revolution Final Blog Post

Throughout the fall of 2013, my group has followed the events that took place in the turbulent nation of Egypt. Our focus remained on the government control and reaction to the news of Morsi’s trail and civil unrest that promptly followed. The unrest in Egypt contributed to the fact that the government was military controlled. Our group explored whether there’s a chance for a democratic ruling in Egypt and followed closely how the citizens reacted to the events that have unfolded. Due to the fact that Morsi’s removal led to military control of the government, many civilian protests sparked to combat the censorship and arrests. During this time, it is difficult to regard Egypt as a democratic state and it is necessary to follow the outcomes in order to fully decide the direction that Egypt will choose.

My main approach for research for the blog entries consisted of thoroughly reading through websites such as CNN, Usatoday, and BBC. Our group would meet as research individually for about 30 minutes whilst making sure we’re not reading the same material. When done with our individual reading, we will start with an introduction that relates to our previous blog and add on a mix of the information we all found. We frequently use websites such as the Al-Jazeera due to concise and accurate synopsis of all the major events. Working with a group influence my approach by opening doors to different methods and emphasis that each of the members possessed. It caused me to look at things in a different perspective and truly learn from each other.

From the start, the issue of the Egyptian revolution always sparked avid interest for me. I would frequently watch the news and read up on the events of the revolution from the very beginning. But the opportunity that this blog presented me with was to really examine the implication in an international lens as well as truly visualizing the events through the eyes of the citizens.