A view from Cairo

One of my online friends is an American living in Cairo.  She has been keeping a journal for a while now, and comments today on what it's been like living there while many Egyptians have begun demonstrations and are trying to get into the US Embassy.  She also points to an article in the Guardian about the reactions there.  It notes that many of the protesters are students from the American University in Cairo, which is where her husband is a professor.

Essam el-Eryan, a prominent Muslim Brotherhood member among the protesters, said: ``American interests shouldn't feel safe in the Arab region. Iraq should be supported to transform the swift war that the U.S. wants to gang and city fights, to make Iraq a graveyard to the Americans.''