About Wael Ghonim: Wael Ghonim is an Internet activist and computer engineer with an interest in social entrepreneurship.
I stressed that I did not want to be treated like a hero. I was only one member of the revolutionary masses who had fulfilled his duty towards his country. It was easy to write, rant, and mobilize people using the internet. The real heroes of this re...
The regime's policies, whether intentionally or unintentionally, had engendered a sharp divide between Muslims and Christians, in spite of the fact that generations of Muslims and Coptic Christians had lived together peacefully in the past. The regim...
Mubarak was so paranoid that anyone he perceived as competent became a threat to him.
The revolution has no leader, I said. It was more like a raging wild horse that would buck anyone who tried to mount it against its will.
The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.
As an Egyptian, I was always frustrated, just like many young Egyptians, of the situation in the country. And to a large extent, we didn't know what could we do. And looking at Khaled's photo after his death; basically I just felt that we are all Kha...
The last thing I would do to this country is to even put my personal interests about the country's interest. I have never done that in my life, and I will never do it because I, you know, I was brought up as a very patriotic Egyptian, and this is not...
I am not a hero, O.K.? I am not a hero. I am a very ordinary person.
I'm married to an American. I work for a company that is, you know, its headquarters in the U.S.
