When Egypt said Enough

The History Hour

BBC

History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Under the slogan 'kefaya' which means 'enough' in Arabic, in 2004 Egyptians began protesting in Cairo against the rule of President Hosni Mubarak. The months of demonstrations took place several years before the Arab Spring swept through the region and drew many people onto the streets for the first time in their lives. We get an eye-witness account.

Plus, Ariel Sharon's controversial visit to the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem in 2000, the women who staged strikes against military rule in South Korea, and the landmark 1971 conference on saving the world's wetlands.

PHOTO: Protestors in Egypt in 2004 (AFP/Getty Images)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me
0:09.6	Max Pearson history as told by the people who were there.
0:13.0	Stories coming up this week from the Middle East and Africa,
0:17.0	also the fight to save the world's wetlands,
0:19.0	plus don't miss one woman's harrowing account of being jailed for protesting in South Korea.
0:24.7	Three investigators were assigned to me. They didn't let me sleep and continued their
0:30.8	investigations for a month. I were subject to various tortures.
0:34.6	They told me, this is a place that no one would find out even if you died.
0:38.8	So don't resist.
0:40.0	Tell us everything honestly.
0:41.9	With me this week from the witness history team on the World Service are Mike Lanchin, Claire Bowes and Fajana Haida.
0:48.0	So Mike, what are you bringing to the history table this week?
0:51.0	Hi Max, given the current unrest in the Middle East, in the conflict between Hamas and Israel,
0:57.7	I'm bringing you an important program from the past which you made a couple of years ago,
1:01.9	which shines quite an important light on events for today.
1:05.3	Fajana you're looking at an important moment from the not too distant past in West Africa.
1:09.8	Hello Max yes I am I'm looking at the aftermath of the brutal civil war that took place in
1:15.2	Sierra Leone and the war crimes trials that followed that led to a landmark legal ruling
1:20.6	for women finally what have you been up to, Claire?
1:23.0	Well, this week I have been finding out how Iran played an interesting role in the history of conservation.
1:30.0	Iran played host to what has become known as the Ramsar Convention, which was a meeting in
1:36.5	1971 of 18 countries and several other NGOs to try to draw up a plan to protect the world's wetlands.
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