why we need archiving

Egypt’s main national newspaper “Al Ahram”

- That we need to preserve the past to tell a truthfull story and protect it from being altered.

-Al Ahram before the revolution was glorifying ex-president Mubarak and after the revolution they cursed him and requested his trial for corruption.

Faulty news are marked with a big X

26th January 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45341/index.html

Disturbance in Lebanon!

Small limited peaceful protests in Egypt X

27th January 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45342/index.html

4 Dead, 162 policemen injured and 118 civilian injured, arresting 100

28th January 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45343/index.html

(Friday of Anger and Revolt)

The president is making sure civilians are ok and peace is getting into Alexandria

Mubarak asks the government to be concerned more with unemployment and poverty

X

29th January 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45344/index.html

Curfew declared in big cities

The army and police try to maintain safetyX

30th January 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45345/index.html

New vice-president declared and Police are absent

Thugs escaping from prisons

31st January 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45346/index.html

The President meets with the Army

The Police are back in the streetsX

1st February 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45347/index.html

New government with no “businessmen”*

*The regime was composed of businessmen who became richer by influencing the government to their benefit.

X

2nd February 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45348/index.html

A million-member revolution asks for change.

3rd February 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45349/index.html

Millions in the streets supporting Mubarak.

A million-member march in the love of the president in Cairo

A day of loyalty to the president in all Egyptian cities

X

X

X

4th February 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45350/index.html

Protesters are still in the Tahrir square and neither Mubarak nor his son will run for next presidency

5th February 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45351/index.html

Hundreds of thousands in Al Tahrir Square asking for change and the Army protects them

Vice-president: Mubarak can’t leave now as chaos will spread if he did.

6th February 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45352/index.html

Obama: Mubarak is a patriot and he needs to make the right decision

7th February 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45353/index.html

Washington changes its stand and insists the difficulty of Mubarak’s departure prior to the elections

8th February 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45353/index.html

Notes in general talking about corrupts and people asking for their prosecution.

9th February 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45354/index.html

Protests exceed Al Tahrir Square and surround the parliament.

10th February 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45355/index.html

Settling on modifying 6 parts in the constitution.

11th February 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45356/index.html

Mubarak is extending the vice-president’s powers and responsibilities to include the presidential ones.

12th February 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45357/index.html

The people brought down the regime

The youth’s revolution forced Mubarak to leave.

13th February 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45358/index.html

Cleaning Egypt

14th February 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45359/index.html

Suspending the constitution and the Parliament.

The Mubarak's family fortune exceeds 3 Billion dollars

15th February 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45360/index.html

The corrupt are falling

The Police are asking for forgiveness and the people are skeptical.

20th February 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45365/index.html

Every Corrupt will be chased.

A request to prosecute GamalMubarak

In the love of Mubarak

The people brought down

the regime

Chase the corrupt

Why do we need to navigate the web in the past?

1- To tell a better story• Katrina Example.• Japan’s tsunami.• Revolutions in the Middle East.

2- To preserve and maintain history from being altered.• Egypt’s main national newspaper “Al-Ahram”• Articles by writers and Journalists.

Articles by Journalists

A lot of journalists who were supporting the old corrupt regime shifted their opinions and stated they were supporting the revolution from day 1.

-We have articles of before and after for some.-And some were cautious and deleted the traces for pre-revolution articles.

Journalists Before and After

http://www.rosaonline.net/Daily/Author.asp?ID=46http://www.dostor.org/culture/news/11/february/13/36269

Google translation:

"The removal of all Bakri's week editions from the site of the newspaper and he just kept on the editions that followed the revolution Jan. 25 in a move described as an attempt to get rid of the evidence relates to his strong relations with Mubarak and his son Gamal...."

http://www.dostor.org/culture/news/11/march/15/38175

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