Historic BBC headline reads: the Egyptian infuse their revolution with charm, sarcasm, humor and love of life

As part of a broad and well produced report concerning “Humor in the Egyptian revolution”, Nasser Farghaly has presented a creative work through the British network the BBC. Farghaly has discussed the manners in which the Egyptian revolution was distinct from other revolts in history not only in terms of its importance, but by other means as well.Thus his work has covered all of the peculiarities of the revolution which included the celebrations held at Tahrir, an instance where an exorcism of the president was attempted, a song composed using the shouts of protesters and another which was recorded in the midst of a battle. Other peculiarities also included an instance where a seven year old child led a demonstration, an Indian man chanting for Mubarak to leave, old men caught up in a frenzy and shouting “Mubarak has gone crazy”, and not to forget an instance where horses and camels were used in a manner reminiscent of medieval skirmishes. The list of strange occurrences does not end there but also includes the manner in which the youths utilized facebook to press forward their revolution and other instances which indicate the uniqueness and the greatness of the Egyptian people.It is said that whoever comes to Egypt finds himself Egyptianized and the revolution was no different as it acquired an Egyptian flavor and became characterized by charm, sarcasm, humor and love of life.The BBC report is available at youtube.