Egyptian Social Movement: The Origin

My vision encompasses the definitive origin of the Egyptian Social Movement. As far as I've read, I can tell that the establishment of Egypt's media dates all the way back to 1952, when Egypt abolished its Monarchy system in place of a Republic. Over the last 60 years, Egypt has had three presidents (Nasser, Sadat, and Mubarak) and in all that time, the freedom of press in Egypt has been thrown to the dogs and resuscitated on numerous occasions. Basically, what I got out of the book The Egyptian Press and Coverage of Local and National Events (by Mohamed El-Bendary)is that Egypt has never had a really strong system of support for free media. It hasn't been until Mubarak's rule that the right was even established (and even then, the government eventually found itself mediating the press). This book has given me a lot to base what I want to say about what's happened in Egypt in the past 3 or 4 years. Egypt has shown many ups and downs when dealing with freedom of speech, and that has not changed in these modern times. I hope to read more in depth and find out more history about Egypt's press. The article that I chose is Revolutions Without Revolutionaries? Network Theory, Facebook, and the Egyptian Blogosphere by David Faris. This article, in a nutshell, is the story of the beginning of the Social Revolution in Egypt. It tells of the woman who first created a Facebook group in 2008, and that group grew from just being on Facebook/online, to a physical entity of people gathering to discuss where they are at in terms of freedom. It goes on to tell how this movement created many other movements of blogging, publishing stories, and telling the world about what's wrong with the so-called rights that the Egyptians had. My favorite line from this article describes the kind of power Facebook has when it comes to building relationships among people, "...Facebook takes dormant social ties and makes them active, takes musty acquaintances
and wipes the cobwebs from them, and can potentially plug you into social networks you
never even knew you wanted to be a part of." My vision for the final project is basically to enlighten everyone in the class on how Egypt came to be what it is, whether you see it as torn, dead, or even beginning anew. I plan on creating an "epic" trailer to accompany my vision.