Saturday, September 10, 2011

A taste of revolution

Football fans taunt the police in Cairo:



Discussed in detail  and translated at Arabist.net. 

Update:  Chanting, voting, and ancient church councils.

2 comments:

Will McLean said...

Shades of the Byzantine Greens and Blues!

Steve Muhlberger said...

I think of Parisian crowds singing "Ca ira" in the 1790s. Byzantine or French Revolutionary or Cairene, it must be terrifying to be the target of such chants.