{"id":16712,"date":"2011-03-07T12:31:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T10:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=16712"},"modified":"2011-03-07T12:31:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T10:31:06","slug":"wael-ghonim-inside-the-egyptian-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=16712","title":{"rendered":"Wael Ghonim: Inside the Egyptian revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"446\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/WaelGhonim_2011X-medium.mp4&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/WaelGhonim-2011.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=432&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=1086&#038;introDuration=15330&#038;adDuration=4000&#038;postAdDuration=830&#038;adKeys=talk=wael_ghonim_inside_the_egyptian_revolution;year=2011;theme=a_taste_of_ted2011;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=war_and_peace;event=TED2011;&#038;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\"   \/><\/object><br \/>\nWael Ghonim is the Google executive who helped jumpstart Egypt\u2019s democratic revolution \u2026 with a Facebook page memorializing a victim of the regime\u2019s violence. Speaking at TEDxCairo, he tells the inside story of the past two months, when everyday Egyptians showed that \u201cthe power of the people is stronger than the people in power.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wael Ghonim is the Google executive who helped jumpstart Egypt\u2019s democratic revolution \u2026 with a Facebook page memorializing a victim of the regime\u2019s violence. Speaking at TEDxCairo, he tells the inside story of the past two months, when everyday Egyptians showed that \u201cthe power of the people is stronger than the people in power.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":79138,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=79138","url_meta":{"origin":16712,"position":0},"title":"Let&#8217;s design social media that drives real change","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"14\/01\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Wael Ghonim helped touch off the Arab Spring in his home of Egypt ... by setting up a simple Facebook page. 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