The protests in Egypt, which started on 25th of January, 2011, toppled down the regime of Hosni Mubarak in 18 days. During the revolution frequent usage of Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and other social networks was noticed. State-owned media and television in Egypt were controlled by the authoritarian regime, and the information given to the public was bogus and favorable for… Read more →
“Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.” Abrahah J. Heschel (Jewish theologian and philosopher, 1907-1972) For a long time before starting this article, I was thinking about how to start it, and at last I have not found anything better than to just take a quote of Abraham Heschel, who… Read more →
After the elections of the new board, our first debate took place. The first topic’s main question was whether a monetary union can exist without a common fiscal policy. The main outcome of this part of the debate was that a monetary union without a fiscal union is like one ship with different steering wheels. The biggest part of the… Read more →
It is time to focus on the Nobel Peace Prize awards and to explain who received the prize and why. Have fun reading! The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was jointly awarded to three women for their struggle for women’s safety and women’s full participation in peace-building work, the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee said. Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, women’s activist… Read more →
For most of the readers of “The AEGEEan” this word combination is unknown, especially for new AEGEE members. Nevertheless, we all know for sure that this is not just an empty and important-sounding word combination which cannot and does not make any difference in our lifes. Yes, there are people in our Network who have turned this word combination into a personal bet… Read more →
