The post-Arab Spring class divide Sunday, 11 August 2013 At dawn on the first day of Eid, the Egyptian channel ONTV, owned by famous Egyptian businessman Najib Sawiris who supported Tamarod, the popular campaign against ousted President Mohammad Mursi, aired an episode of the American documentary “Why Poverty?” It played the episode “Park Avenue,” which narrates the vast distance between the richest of the rich, who live in a grand building in York’s Park Avenue, and the poor and the middle-class, whom some call the mob. I highly doubt that the Egyptian channel which led the campaign against Mursi, and which on a daily basis calls for ending the protest of Mursi’s supporters in Rabia al-Adawiya’s Square, aired the series in order to divert the subject from current political disputes, get the Egyptians interested in the country’s economic reality and tax reform, or that it aims to bridge the gap that widens everyday between the haves and the have-nots. I think the channel played the episode only to fill the vacuum. Few people would have watched it if weren’t Eid and we are still used to the Ramadan routine of staying up at night and sleeping during the day. english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2013/08/11/The-upper-class-and-the-mob-in-the-post-Arab-Spring.html
Posted on: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 15:03:07 +0000
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