Commentary

Hope or Hellfire in Cairo?

By Troy Senik
Wednesday, February 02 2011

According to legend, it was the wayward kick of Mrs. O’Leary’s cow that began the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Two days later, a third of the Windy City’s property value was destroyed and a third of its people were homeless. One wonders if a similar catastrophe will emerge from another seemingly minor combustion: the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year old Tunisian street vendor whose public suicide was a protest against an oppressive government that had confiscated his livelihood and insulted his pride.

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