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MARK LEVINE reports live from Cairo on the day’s events in Tahrir Square, where Tuesday’s demonstrations were the biggest ever, perhaps 200,000 people. Mark, a historian at UC Irvine, is the author of Heavy Metal Islam: Religion, Popular Culture and Resistance in the Middle East. His new piece about Egypt is in the Huffington Post, HERE.
Also: Justice and health for girls in prison: LESLIE OCOCA heads the National Girls Health and Justice Foundation. Today 1 in 5 of the nearly two million youth being held in detention nationally are girls, many of whom have serious physical and mental health needs that are not treated adequately.
Plus: Obama and Egypt: Why won’t our president speak out for democracy when the Egyptians are risking their lives for it? ARI BERMAN comments: he’s an investigative journalism fellow at The Nation Institute and he wrote about Obama and the Egyptians for The Nation HERE.
