Crowd of Tunisians hold vigil and protest in the name of Mohamed Bouazizi. Picture Source: http://goo.gl/xLVTtS Mohamed Bouazizi was a twenty-six-year-old fruit vendor in a rural village of central Tunisia.  His father had died when he was three.  And from the age of 10 he had worked for less than $100 a month [...]

(Part Two) Tamarod petition calling for Morsi’s resignation. Photo Source: http://goo.gl/FSMVaJ On June 30,2012 Muhammad Morsi became the first freely elected leader in Egypt’s six-thousand year history.  Nine months later, a circle of five Egyptian friends began circulating a petition calling for him to resign. Three months later, by the first anniversary of [...]

By the spring of 47 BC, Cleopatra’s rivals to the Egyptian throne, her brothers, Ptolemy XIII, Pothimus, and Achillas were all dead. Roman legions commanded by the Emperor, Julius Caesar, successfully intervened in the civil war occasioned  by Cleopatra’s father’s death and defeated her brothers’ armies. With his usual efficiency, Caesar celebrated his victories by [...]