A Revolution By Any Other Name
By Niv Elis
For the Czech Republic it was Velvet. For Serbia, it was a Bulldozer. For Iran, it was distinctly Islamic. But nobody has yet settled on what the freshly minted Egyptian Revolution will be called. Will it be floral, like Tunisia's Jasmine, Kyrgyzstan's Tulips, Georgia's Roses and Portugal's Carnations? Will it be woody, like Croatia's Log and Lebanon's Cedar Revolutions? Perhaps it will be colorful like Ukraine's Orange and Iran's failed Green one, or maybe, like the bloodless overthrows in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the revolution will be a Singing one.
Some have bandied about Papyrus as a descriptor for the Egyptian popular uprising. Other suggestions might include the Pyramid revolution, the Mummy revolution, the Tahrir (liberation) Revolution, the Facebook Revolution or, in a tribute to the Bangles hit, simply "Revolt Like an Egyptian." Ultimately,...