Egyptians celebrate in Cairo as fireworks are set off over Tahrir Square on Feb. 11.
Follow us on Twitter | Visit us on Facebook | Follow us on RSS | Subscribe to Foreign Policy
About FP | Meet the Staff | Foreign Editions | Reprint Permissions | Advertising | Writers’ Guidelines | Press Room | Work at FP
Services:Subscription Services | Academic Program | FP Archive | Reprint Permissions | FP Reports and Merchandise | Special Reports | Buy Back Issues
Privacy Policy | Disclaimer | Contact Us
11 DUPONT CIRCLE NW, SUITE 600 | WASHINGTON, DC 20036 | Phone: 202-728-7300 | Fax: 202-728-7342
FOREIGN POLICY is published by the FP Group, a division of The Washington Post Company
All contents ©2013 The Foreign Policy Group, LLC. All rights reserved.
(4)
HIDE COMMENTS LOGIN OR REGISTER REPORT ABUSE
ROMAINLANGE
3:43 AM ET
February 11, 2011
"raising their shoes, a sign of disrespect in Arab culture"
Come on, you wrote a big bullshit under picture no6: "raising their shoes into the air, a sign of disrespect in Arab culture."
It is in reference to the iraki journalist who throw his shoes to Georges W Bush during a press conference. It has nothing to do with "arab culture".
BLUE LANTERN
2:17 PM ET
February 11, 2011
It is a sign of disrespect in Arab culture
The sole of a shoe is a serious sign of disrespect, and pointing it at someone is offensive.
ETHIX
2:50 PM ET
February 11, 2011
It's not bs. The shoe is the
It's not bs. The shoe is the closest thing to the devil below. This is the basic idea behind all the shoe throwing, hitting, displaying that you see in their culture. When the statue of Saddam was torn down, hundreds of people took their shoes off to slap it around.
PREM NIZAR HAMEED
3:32 PM ET
February 11, 2011
EGYPT
Eruptions of the volcanoes may
Go up and spread to a certain extent
You the Egyptians however proved something else:
People’s movement has no limit
Till the dictator kneels before the public demands