Hundreds of American Students Lie Low in Egypt, as Protests Continue
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"Facebook changed Egypt," said Omar Alaa el-Deen, who studies law at Pharos University in Alexandria and has been going regularly to the protests in Tahrir Square.
Regarding communicating with foreign students:
"We are making sure they're all informed and that everybody has the right information," Ms. Roth said on Sunday in New York. "Parents are seeing a lot of terrible things on TV, and want assurance that we are able to provide for their children and are keeping them safe."
"This is evolving, literally, as we speak," she said.
The university's main campus is in a suburb of Cairo, away from the demonstrations downtown, and the university is moving all of its U.S. students, many of whom live off campus, to a dormitory there and to another location on the island of Zamalek, in Cairo.
Rehab Saad, the university's director of news and information in Cairo, said that the government's cancellation of Internet access was a challenge. "Once Internet is back up, we will be able to coordinate with our students better. It's very hard right now. It's very hard to communicate with each other." |
