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Apr 11, 2011 on 21 april or books, an independent progressive publisher, will release a collection of tweets from the uprising. Tahrir square tweet by tweet the egyptian uprising was reported live on twitter. Mar 07, 2011 tweets from tahrir, a book of egyptian twitter posts, records history in a novel way. Tweets from tahrir edited by nadia idle and alex nunns. This west african proverb and song received worldwide acclaim when quincy jones used it as the african theme song in the soundtrack of roots. Feb 19, 2012 the arab awakening tweets from tahrir as protest and revolution shake the arab world, this series of films document the arab awakening, offering fresh insights into what happened and why. Just click the edit page button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the synopsis submission guide. Twitter was a kind of alternative press, a way of getting the word out to other egyptians and the outside world, and a means of undermining the state controlled media.