Egypt: Spirits of 1968

Syndicated from Tadamon on Sat, 2008-05-24

Al-Ahram. May 2008.

Photo: Cairo open sky.

In May 1968, student protests in Paris challenged the foundations of the social order in the heart of the industrially advanced West. Al-Ahram Weekly investigates what remains of the wave of student activism that swept the world 40 years ago and recalls events at the time in Egypt…
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