Alan Chin on the Tunisia-Libya Border: A Hundred Miles
From the Tunisian border to Tripoli, it is only a hundred miles along the Mediterranean coast highway. At any moment, we journalists gathered here calculate, the revolution will reach this border and we'll be able to enter. But when or how that might happen, we can only speculate.
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Christopher Guess in Wisconsin: "We Love This Type Of Crowd"
Photographer Christopher Guess flies home to Wisconsin to document the sit-in at the State Capitol.
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Alan Chin in Cairo: Getting My Cameras Back
Censorship through confiscating equipment: The corrosion and absurdity of Egypt's bureaucracy, a small window onto how the Mubarek regime kept people under control.
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David Degner in Cairo: The Bridge, Hospital, Metro Stop, Library Formerly Known as "Mubarak"
When people have been "under Mubarak" (like you see in the picture) for as long as they have, it's not something you just change overnight.
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David Degner in Cairo: Strikes Threat to Democracy OR Expression of It?
Consistent with the hand wringing in some Western media, maybe the Generals will just decide to put their feet down and outlaw all strikes, Until they do so, however, perhaps what we're seeing -- in the policemen in Cairo or the rail works in Mansoura -- is the expression...
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Alan Chin in Cairo: "Yesterday I was a Demonstrator. Today I Build Egypt"
As celebration of Mubarek's downfall continues into a second day and night, its a time for exaltation, clean up -- and an eye to what comes next.
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Alan Chin in Cairo: Mubarak No More!!!
Egypt Uprising - Day 18. Tension skyrockets. Mubarak resigns. Joy and celebration reign. Alan Chin: It's a combination of Prague '89 and New Years Eve.
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Alan Chin in Cairo: Extreme Shock and Rage. (It Seems Even the Generals Thought Mubarak Would Resign.)
Day 18 in Cairo: It seems the entire world was expecting that Mubarak would step down. In the early hours, Alan sent just three pictures. In their simplicity they track the story of this profound, stunning and ultimately, crushing evening.
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Tim Fadek: Is Social Media Destroying Public Interaction?
Maybe it's a stretch, but I see irony here -- guests seemed to spend more time with their phones than with each other. This begs the question: Outside of virtual, online sociality, does Social Media make us more or less social in person?
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Alan Chin in Cairo: The Opposition Recharging
Day 16 in Cairo: From outside the Parliament to inside the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters to Tahrir Square where protest organizers are manning the power strips, the uprising is recharging.
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Alan Chin in Cairo: A Crowded Square
Egypt Uprising, Day 15: As the political situation settles into a stalemate, protesters returned in force to Tahrir Square energized by the words of a former Google executive released from detention.
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Alan Chin & David Degner in Cairo: Traffic and Camping
Middle East Uprising, Day 14: The Egyptian government is anxious to let the world know that life is returning to normal. But despite the current calm, the anxiousness is well deserved.
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Alan Chin in Cairo: Power In Flux
BagNews contributing photographer Alan Chin's first dispatch from Cairo. How my cameras were impounded, and the mood on the street.
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David Degner in Cairo: Not Just Will, But Ingenuity
Looking at the hostilities in Egypt between pro- and anti-Mubarak fighters, the means of engagement might be primitive, but it would be a serious mistake to think about the people in same terms.
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David Degner in Cairo: No Longer About Freedom of Speech But Life and Death
Reaching photographer David Degner again in Cairo, he provides BagNews readers this photo and account from Tahrir Square.
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David Degner in Cairo: The End of the Show?
As photographer David Degner explains, his photo in Cairo on Wednesday possibly represents the last instance of the Egyptian government and the police tightly controlling protests, and protest photos, for show.
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BagStravaganza! Raffle Winners and Revelry!
From all of us at BagNews, a BIG thank you to everyone who supported our end-of-year fund-raising drive! See photos and video, and raffle winners announced!
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Alan Chin: Merry Christmas! Bonfires All Along The River
Christmas Eve: Bonfires light the way for Father Christmas along the Mississippi River
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