Wael Ghonim

Released after 12 days in custody, Egyptian cyber activist Wael Ghonim kissed the soldiers who had kept him blindfolded and given him the occasional beating."I removed my blindfold and I said, 'Hi,' and kissed every one of them," the Google marketing executive for the Middle East said in an interview with CBS's "60 Minutes" aired yesterday. "All of...

"It is no longer the time to negotiate" with the Egyptian government, said Google executive Wael Ghonim, one of the principal organisers of the massive anti-Hosni Mubarak protests for which he is "ready to die".Ghonim described the huge protests against President Mubarak, who has ruled Egypt for nearly 30 years, as an "Internet revolution".He told ...

The television host narrated the pictures of the dead protesters on the screen, young men with sweet smiles whom she compared to roses in a garden."They went out only for the sake of Egypt," said the host, Mona el-Shazly. "They said what the previous generations couldn't do, we can do."Her guest was the newly freed Google executive and activist Wae...

After disappearing in Egypt more than a week ago, leaving an ominous message on his Twitter account, Wael Ghonim, who leads Google's marketing efforts for the Middle East and North Africa, is expected to be released by Egyptian authorities to his family on Monday afternoon, a friend of the Ghonim family said Sunday night."We are not confident, but ...

Released after 12 days in custody, Egyptian cyber activist Wael Ghonim kissed the soldiers who had kept him blindfolded and given him the occasional beating."I removed my blindfold and I said, 'Hi,' and kissed every one of them," the Google marketing executive for the Middle East said in an interview with CBS's "60 Minutes" aired yesterday. "All of...

"It is no longer the time to negotiate" with the Egyptian government, said Google executive Wael Ghonim, one of the principal organisers of the massive anti-Hosni Mubarak protests for which he is "ready to die".Ghonim described the huge protests against President Mubarak, who has ruled Egypt for nearly 30 years, as an "Internet revolution".He told ...

The television host narrated the pictures of the dead protesters on the screen, young men with sweet smiles whom she compared to roses in a garden."They went out only for the sake of Egypt," said the host, Mona el-Shazly. "They said what the previous generations couldn't do, we can do."Her guest was the newly freed Google executive and activist Wae...

After disappearing in Egypt more than a week ago, leaving an ominous message on his Twitter account, Wael Ghonim, who leads Google's marketing efforts for the Middle East and North Africa, is expected to be released by Egyptian authorities to his family on Monday afternoon, a friend of the Ghonim family said Sunday night."We are not confident, but ...