Ill-behaved women
Every significant act of protest has its iconic image: the barricades in Paris in the 1960s, the Berlin Wall in the ’80s, the roadside war-protest camps leading to George W. Bush’s Texas home in recent years. Today, two images from Egypt linger in my mind.
One is a woman my mother's age placing a very
determined kiss on a
young soldier's cheek. (My teenage daughter noted that he doesn't look
thrilled.)
The other is
an eight-year-old girl named JuJu. Asked, presumably by her father, to give
some advice to Egyptian
president Hosni Mubarak, Juju speaks about counting the cost of his
reign. Then she hops off the couch to approach the camera, her eyes lit with
mischief and her hand held to her mouth, telling a secret: "And by the way,
some of your police officers are removing their jackets, and they're joining
the people." Here's the video:
