Amira Hass
C "was something a little lighter in" air when I arrived in Cairo on February 13. I wondered if it was just my imagination, but the feeling that this great city had been freed from a heavy cloak of lead has grown day by day and was confirmed by the people con cui ho parlato.
“Perfino il Nilo è diventato azzurro”, scherzava la gente dopo le dimissioni di Mubarak. Un azzurro virtuale, perché questo fiume è grigio come prima, e come sempre la sua vastità rima con generosità. Con generosità e pazienza il fiume ha inghiottito molti candelotti di gas lacrimogeno. “Il ponte era il posto migliore per resistere agli attacchi della polizia”, mi hanno raccontato. “Da lì potevamo buttare tutti i candelotti nel fiume”.
Anche gli automobilisti sembrano un po‟ più educati. Non è solo una mia fantasia: lo dicono persone che vivono qui da forever. An "unexpected good education and a new comity arose during the three-week uprising. The day I arrived I discovered that young people committed to cleaning up the square were not there just to look good in front of international TV cameras.
Free and courteous Dozens of men and women were engaged to paint the edges of sidewalks and metal fences at the sides, while others swept the "asphalt course with a broom from home. "It's like they want to offend the regime, saying:" All that there "was bad, negligence, l‟indifferenza, la maleducazione, la sporcizia, la violenza e il teppismo erano colpa tua‟”, mi ha spiegato un amico. E, ancora più sorprendente, per tre settimane centinaia di migliaia di persone si sono riversate in piazza e non c‟è stato nessun problema per le donne. Senza gli ordini, senza le istruzioni di un‟autorità centrale, le persone si sono comportate in modo diverso.
Gli egiziani sembrano nutrire un particolare orgoglio per il carattere pacifico della rivoluzione. Nei primi giorni della rivolta Khaled Fahmy, capo del dipartimento di storia all‟Università americana del Cairo, ha assistito a vari episodi in cui un poliziotto stava per essere lynched. He saw several times the terror in the eyes of the young police officers, two policemen who were by chance in the crowd with their van, two others who had the "order to fire tear gas and that they realized that they can not obey , and another officer, again, found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Whenever he saw an attempt at revenge, with the crowd that began to physically express their hatred of the representatives of this repressive law enforcement. But in all cases, it was enough for one person to say the magic word silmiyeh (peaceful, non-violent) because the attackers left them in peace.
You know the last I discovered that in the last fifteen years the Egyptians did not have invented more jokes. With the revolution, even this national tradition has been reborn. "I wanted to join the revolt, but I could not take my eyes off the jokes," said a friend, referring to the tens or hundreds of people who have written their lines on A4 paper, then performed the cameras and fellow fighters. The "last line, which runs as SMS, is:" Back to Mubarak, it was a joke. "
On 16 February a dust storm has painted gray colors of Cairo. The "air was impregnated with heavy rain ads, but the collective weight was still there. I remember well that breathed like a light in Romania, twenty-one years ago, with the revolt that ended the Ceausescu regime.
Cairo citizens are aware that will also meet with disappointment. C "is nevertheless confident that the results obtained el" experience will help prepare a future worthy of the name.
February 17, 2011
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