Resurrecting the Egyptian Conscience to Say No to Violence

Source:
atlanticcouncil
Date of source:
24 Apr 2014
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A Friday afternoon editing shift at a Cairo-based media outlet is customarily filled with reports detailing the casualties of violent post-Friday-prayer demonstrations. A final update on clashes in Cairo’s Ain Shams on March 28 contained the same terms we have become accustomed to seeing: "clashes turn violent," "tear gas," "supporters of the ousted president," and “casualties.” 
As I worked, almost perfunctory in my approach, I did not pause over the news that 22 year old, Mayada Ashraf, was shot dead while reporting for the independent daily, Dostour. In my subconscious, Mayada was simply one of the many killed since Mohamed Morsi’s ouster on July 3. The fact that she joined the ranks of a 13 year old boy shot dead while observing protests in Beni Suef the week prior, or first year engineering student Mohamed Reda who suffered the same fate last November barely registered.  

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