Israel Matzav

Monday, February 14, 2011

Video: 60 Minutes interview with Wael Ghonim

On Sunday night, 60 Minutes interviewed Wael Ghonim, the Google executive who set up the Facebook page that was the starting point for the Egyptian uprising.

Let's go to the videotape.

Labels: Egyptian regime change, Facebook, Google Arabia, Twitter, Wael Ghonim

Friday, February 11, 2011

Video: Interview with Wael Ghonim (Egyptian opposition leader)

This is an interview on Egyptian television with Wael Ghonim, the manager of Google in the Arab countries (from the interview it's clear that he's an Egyptian who is now based in the UAE). It has English subtitles.

Ghonim was arrested, held without charges and tortured for 12 days by the Egyptian authorities until Google got him released last Sunday. After his release, it came out that he was running the website that the people who started the demonstrations used for planning and recruitment purposes.

In the interview, he gets very emotional about all the people who were killed in the riots. In the end, he can't take it anymore, and he gets up and walks out of the interview.

I found myself feeling sorry for him and for his predicament. I can only hope and pray that he's right that the Muslim Brotherhood will not take control of what he and his comrades have started. But I'm very pessimistic on that score.

Let's go to the videotape.

Ouch.

Labels: Egyptian regime change, Google Arabia, Wael Ghonim