The document summarizes articles from Egypt's national newspaper Al-Ahram during the 2011 Egyptian revolution. It shows how the newspaper's coverage shifted from supporting then-President Mubarak to criticizing him after the revolution succeeded in ousting him from power. Some journalists are also said to have deleted or altered their pre-revolution articles that showed strong support for Mubarak to hide their past positions.

1. Egypt’s main national newspaper “Al
Ahram”
- That we need to preserve the past to tell a truthfull story
and protect it from being altered.
-Al Ahram before the revolution was glorifying ex-president
Mubarak and after the revolution they cursed him and
requested his trial for corruption.
Faulty news are marked with a big X

2. 26th January 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45341/index.html
Disturbance in
Lebanon!
Small limited
peaceful protests
in Egypt X

3. 27th January 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45342/index.html
4 Dead, 162
policemen
injured and
118 civilian
injured,
arresting 100

4. 28th January 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45343/index.html
(Friday of Anger and Revolt)
The president is
making sure civilians
are ok and peace is
getting into Alexandria
X
Mubarak asks the
government to be
concerned more with
unemployment and poverty

5. 29th January 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45344/index.html
Curfew declared in
big cities
The army and
X police try to
maintain safety

6. 30th January 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45345/index.html
New vice-president
declared and Police
are absent
Thugs escaping
from prisons

7. 31st January 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45346/index.html
The President meets
with the Army
The Police are
back in the streets
X

8. 1st February 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45347/index.html
New government
with no
“businessmen”* X
*The regime was composed of
businessmen who became richer
by influencing the government to
their benefit.

9. 2nd February 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45348/index.html
A million-member
revolution asks for
change.

10. 3rd February 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45349/index.html
Millions in the
streets supporting
Mubarak. X
A million-member
march in the love
of the president
in Cairo X
A day of loyalty to
the president in
all Egyptian cities X

11. 4th February 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45350/index.html
Protesters are still in
the Tahrir square
and neither
Mubarak nor his son
will run for next
presidency

12. 5th February 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45351/index.html
Hundreds of
thousands in Al
Tahrir Square asking
for change and the
Army protects them
Vice-president:
Mubarak can’t
leave now as
chaos will spread
if he did.

13. 6th February 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45352/index.html
Obama: Mubarak
is a patriot and he
needs to make
the right decision

14. 7th February 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45353/index.html
Washington changes
its stand and insists
the difficulty of
Mubarak’s departure
prior to the elections

15. 8th February 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45353/index.html
Notes in general
talking about
corrupts and people
asking for their
prosecution.

16. 9th February 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45354/index.html
Protests exceed Al
Tahrir Square and
surround the
parliament.

17. 10th February 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45355/index.html
Settling on
modifying 6 parts in
the constitution.

18. 11th February 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45356/index.html
Mubarak is
extending the vice-
president’s powers
and responsibilities
to include the
presidential ones.

19. 12th February 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45357/index.html
The people brought
down the regime
The youth’s
revolution forced
Mubarak to leave.

20. 13th February 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45358/index.html
Cleaning Egypt

21. 14th February 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45359/index.html
Suspending the
constitution and the
Parliament.
The Mubarak's
family fortune
exceeds 3 Billion
dollars

22. 15th February 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45360/index.html
The corrupt are
falling
The Police are
asking for
forgiveness and
the people are
skeptical.

23. 20th February 2011 http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45365/index.html
Every Corrupt will be
chased.
A request to
prosecute Gamal
Mubarak

24. In the love of Chase the
Mubarak corrupt
The people
brought down
the regime

25. Why do we need to navigate the web in
the past?
1- To tell a better story
• Katrina Example.
• Japan’s tsunami.
• Revolutions in the Middle East.
2- To preserve and maintain history from being altered.
• Egypt’s main national newspaper “Al-Ahram”
• Articles by writers and Journalists.

26. Articles by Journalists
A lot of journalists who were supporting the old corrupt
regime shifted their opinions and stated they were
supporting the revolution from day 1.
-We have articles of before and after for some.
-And some were cautious and deleted the traces for pre-
revolution articles.

27. Journalists Before and After
http://www.rosaonline.net/Daily/Author.asp?ID=46
http://www.dostor.org/culture/news/11/february/13/36269

28. http://www.dostor.org/culture/news/11/march/15/38175
Google translation:
"The removal of all Bakri's week editions from the site of the
newspaper and he just kept on the editions that followed
the revolution Jan. 25 in a move described as an attempt to get
rid of the evidence relates to his strong relations
with Mubarak and his son Gamal...."

29. URI Memento Timestamp
http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45341/index.html http://www.webcitation.org/5ySw3kfTU 01/25/2011
http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45342/index.html http://www.webcitation.org/5ySw4mpHh 01/26/2011
http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45343/index.html http://www.webcitation.org/5ySw5MaSo 01/27/2011
http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45344/index.html http://www.webcitation.org/5ySw609hw 01/28/2011
http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45345/index.html http://www.webcitation.org/5ySw8LCgd 01/29/2011
http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45346/index.html http://www.webcitation.org/5ySw85OHT 01/30/2011
http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45347/index.html http://www.webcitation.org/5ySw9z9Fk 01/31/2011
http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45348/index.html http://www.webcitation.org/5ySwAeSPJ 02/01/2011
http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45349/index.html http://www.webcitation.org/5ySwDYWWy 02/02/2011
http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45350/index.html http://www.webcitation.org/5ySwFBE8e 02/03/2011
http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45351/index.html http://www.webcitation.org/5ySwGAEBQ 02/04/2011
http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45352/index.html http://www.webcitation.org/5ySwGyy2J 02/05/2011
http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45353/index.html http://www.webcitation.org/5ySwHuu1w 02/06/2011
http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45354/index.html http://www.webcitation.org/5ySwIjZil 02/07/2011
http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45355/index.html http://www.webcitation.org/5ySwJaAUN 02/08/2011
http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45356/index.html http://www.webcitation.org/5ySwKmfhW 02/09/2011
http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45357/index.html http://www.webcitation.org/5ySwLfwax 02/10/2011
http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45358/index.html http://www.webcitation.org/5ySwMU50f 02/11/2011
http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45359/index.html http://www.webcitation.org/5ySwNK3Yr 02/12/2011
http://www.ahram.org.eg/pdf/Zoom_1500/45360/index.html http://www.webcitation.org/5ySwO2loO 02/13/2011