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By Nancy Y. Reynolds
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Nancy Y. Reynolds is associate professor of history in the Department of History, and an affiliate faculty member of the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies and of the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies.
Participants and pundits hailed it as the social media revolution. When Egypt’s January 25 uprising followed Tunisia’s start to the Arab Spring in 2011, it seemed to erupt from a new technology of political organizing. The Facebook page “We are all Khaled Said” chronicled a fatal police beating in Alexandria in June 2010, drew over 473,000 members by January 2011, and initiated the call for demonstrations on January 25. Its creator, Google’s Wael Ghonim, titled his 2012 memoir