And on April 6th 2008 a strike by textile workers in a city north of Cairo was joined by young activists and billowed into a cloud of protests that spread across Egypt.

• 2008年4月6日，开罗北部一座城市的纺织工人罢工，其后青年活跃分子也参与其中，使其发展成为席卷埃及全境的滚滚浪潮。