S S 7W -W 7w 4B /dedy - Sur ,201/ h S~inn Wedesay Fbrar 9 201 / heStteen creens around the globe have tuned into Al ra C =e it , t he nre te o vernm ent pr tests in Astelevis ionan te recedented anti-gcomm punity P azeera or several members of the University Et the last few weeksand conduct- enceytherevolutionf rs tatff and alumni were studyingthe U.S. State Depart Un er ty eorting ar eatdy aff it embers of the Unierstyc uto from Ann Arbor, the protests hep s n c d and his roommate firstheard rotese CairoteUniesp inr s so a f.ilibtes pWard, who graduate rmPrnrP r Aai t td niversity's Arabic Language Flag sti sdprmnsuyA ul participatingve w d through the Near Eastprn t i espant tasummer oruai th seyg am , a m n i ss e s at t e a r . U i yo r d u a et n t yas s n int inclainAe siadbeenlivingi a ame home to havevChr etgs t back toth it hfe y wed o bare su e ak d uan g tre e d tn taaoet. we nahen niersty um athewisr dhiskd.m"e fitheard cmthraartafenty dAeci a d a log etepoetwt teplc n oie p theat afstir t nigb ewr e in texnd rnis inandthe eo Aop-sgdlaeoeffurUoaffwasilinanigs ate m edn the ny y Stls d went in rduthreduste t anogramns.aTe roesterssweaeweo p ticpting nhe thiro te Nears SthtatoiniWt egt teiverIa OOAmenhocyo rutentys pendlsumerad orllc a the poram, dminstisaforwthre years U t thofrexntda wil teachingthclasseseand aademiche y we ta kidata t wng s tthge niversi ow l t re u n n Wardiha evenlivingeaid wenhen teonleti city PEgysid nce Juiueand jotrnng inAlxadri, he hom t hve hrst as etaca- said.it5fe tliehoHe D rs Tnshok addin heds upih i fml heeprine reerie nia cam reive ihn h btt h comfort ndsfty"Al adIa)s Eabyteiafestott hresrheens in,'aserd eh s bakipn Aror-ya a st eek, colywlkarudga nad otve ttl Ths e prote tsw r id er n oepoie an-didt a dti st y potill the r epa ' o an waln~l ansi atrcandsad u o eters were ri "W rrnowatistersc ta , dwweecnf t.nngThe p ie a whlieeweweredtnn stngends S ealtrtdr and ithey sartd s i thew ig to a ntso b d t a i inanai rdy~~pI-Aiang inui tsituto ol unvoet University alum Eim Michalik, also a Flagship Program participant, arrived at Cairo International Airport at about 3 am after g three-hour bus ride traveling south from Alexandria. Michalik had just finished her final exams at the UniverityofAlexandria and was headed home to Husron, Texas to visit her fiaonce Her trip to the airport that Friday morning,she said was nothing out of the ordinary. "Everythingwas veycal at that point," Michalik said. "On the trip there waant anything differenr from any other trip I took to the airport. There weren't manypeople out because it as the middle of the night. The airportwas notvery crowded. The onlydifferent was that there was no Internet this time." - Though H'Mihlk didn't know it at the time, the Internet wasn't working bease the governmentrhad shut offlnernet acess throughour the countrymian ill-fated attempt to preventthe protests from coninuing. The attempt failed, as thousands of protesera again took to rhe streets, but Miyhalik was unaware of any of this until she landed backin the United States. "My flight made it out, and I didn't hear anything until I saw my fiancde at the airport, and he was telling me that there were alot of flights that were cancelled so everyone was worried about me," she said. "That's when I heard about all the protests breaking out." Now at home in Houston, Michalik acknowledges how lucky she was to make it outofthe tounry, but she said she feels abitguiltyknowingher friends and the host family she was staying with are still potentially in danger. Michalik said she's been calling her host family daily to heck on them. They're sfe, she said, but every night the boys and men patrol the streets to protect the neighborhood from looters and criminals. "The first day I called was very traumati- ecause they were telling me that therewere criminals who were released from prison, andtheyweregoinginto the houses and stealing from them and killing people," Michalik said. "So, was very worried about everyone I knew there." While Michalik had returned to the U.S., Ward and his friends in Alexandria weresoping with the protsts that had gripped te city. The miliar had been deployed, butrthe protesters cont'nued to demonstrate. Ward decided to stay hoe and not participate becuse he was worrled aout v olence, but he said some of his friends ventured toth western end of the r4r On Jan 2, Dziadosz was in Suez, a workingclass city on the banks of the Suez Canal. In an article published by Reuters on that day, Dziadosz and YuaniMohamed portrayed scenes of lawless- ness and destruction. The article desribes Egyptians fed up with the country's crippling ee ofPoverty. Accord eartebrd-c.eWebouts40hpercente l ieddaeys"thn $ 2arday,,, ofEgypt's 79 million people "Imake400Egta eamnau h d r anonymous said i rtyti " Pouns ($7 tar-old mechanic w o wisedoemain d the article. "Ipay 300 pounds for rent, 20 Pounds for electricity, I ap nd fraeIpay Spound for gas. There is nteog leftfrffoo adrikWheeih W here ilathe transport?" notenoughuods yaanndatoo, an drn, hees emeine? According to the article, by mid-aft control o the tre n Prtiuaernoon,p olite and security forces hadlowt as s onro of, the esnrpestscaletthe article describes hn st i burningpo station on a leather thairetr.eTmiddgerroadamne As he sathereethearticlestatesaope of hous gres pto wir said, "this will go onksdceb'ute whatbdoorhi ncud ing chasedrout (of the Dzsiadoezd WroteIpctueo hth hscllpoean nzaozwoeinne-mail that the sources he's talked t h hl r r P u b lic iz e d d e a th o f Kh a lid S a id - a n E g y p i ne n n t e s o y s i h publeiieparliamentary eeaindnumber yptheian eatentodeath by police laolelaterpvryanh ona Democratic Party. Tuneah ofK aiS ad a crushing NDP victory in parliamentaryelcin re th alg d bear- Pbianeovrtealgdexample of The sa ursngPse Egyptians us to takert the streets in numbers uprcedete durcing idMu hak p's e, iaonaz wotie. "any point to the fact that the first prts wa pl ne Da'as an indication of the protesters' aorst. aspane By Saturday, the day after the protests becaeWrdadh ne ewsrayt "I wasn't afraid or anything, but I saw how quickly every thing was deeirtng yadsi "People were setting u illegal checkpoints beaiing epe aigpol' tf;am dmlta started forming I just sawtit deteriorating so' quickly and I ft it ike torin o rain , W tosad le a v e w a s w a n in g , s o Iw a n e d d t irto n g g le a v e ."i g e o l e s otu f ;o Pa r tu nm it a Ward said he didn't vnueott h rtss fl ieorwno fopruiyt saidh frtngh ep rtcp td.I sed he was "glued to te news" following the protests. After the events of the previous day, Ward and oheratudenta from theFasi andria stayed at the paret of the rogrmdrco.Ta ih lx "measnt balcony a oa men fended off looter. h lgsi rogam in " a nabloy n hr eel opeo n ace rmtexprt ndetherbWereoocoo"pi Of ti sawhere people were being chased our (of the nihoho) he said. "There were neighborho o watches and people were cry ing pipes and sticks and just patrolling th neighborhiood There wer a ccoupl of times where people were looting, and they had to chase them our and down the street and our of the neighborhoo."weea oul See EGYPT, Page 813 ti __ 1 ely on a group of three un - who were stunysos se from s the niversity's lint tampus- "t~~jy s3it program with AmericanoUniverswin aroy h AuC hadn't started its new semeterhbtshdpaPOf o ar fcasson Jan. 28. Coupled t polity of notoffrn art of ctrite withaState Department travel 'udy abroad pro asn to cancel its program at AUC this yarning, the University decddtcaelisa eemester. udri h U rogram elected to atY Ultimately, one stuetithAUpg S with her grandparents who live the ean r leenlef classes directly atAC. The other two tudents, enhllf :sEgypt onrcharterflight to Athenson Jan.31about the Flagship Godfrey said the University first learned at29. program students inAeadi nStrday, Jan. veyqucl "We learned everything about t eir prog rStudeOn because Italled the administrts rin us all the information theweekend" -Godfreysaid. They ga those students were on ar versity graduate student aod his wf h eebt tdigi adl group of graduatstudenacultyadtaff on an laocaslas pr gypt- about 30 miles south of Cairo. rts logh thei U arc wre't directly involved in the protta Tho UP t t arcae1lgj5 cfot~w~dgsite - theyde 10pmies south fromt idgh distributi strations were in Luxor, m le Godfreywer "Food was becoming less availablet"odsfre said. "Thedto hu werbresking ow.Commuicton 10jialy theywincTedtyh try wer e hones, for instane t thneawosth Ne srk and NYU decidedroleae anda aawithr(Newsporkull out."wtotss egdt ta Thb ivshfi munityDin.Egyptwastryitg Bu smost of the Uiloluhmd ulformer MithigsDal ogl the country, Universityslma Daszwaheadedrtoward the mayhem. dos sbt iadosz washencylteuteris, As a reporter with the newsgsneOtbe 09 zs~ 2007 and working with Reu-ters ic coe 09 Etgypt toThe MiianDaily. chaeo- c - the nearest demo- tided i ws best to leave. o networks in ationa- tot able to get additional nker down, but it's ajoint hat point the co-directors adethe protestsa sndleave g photo Editor Alexander a living in Cairo since Sept. ,wrote in an e-mail from £