28/02/2013
The 'Harlem Shake' becomes a protest in Egypt and Tunisia
p/pSome students and education officials in North Africa are in an uproar over -- of all things -- the "Harlem Shake."/ppThe viral dance video that has spawned thousands of copycats and plenty of eyerolls around the world is not so popular with authorities in Tunisia, where education minister Abdeltif Abid called it "a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.tunisia-live.net/2013/02/25/harlem-shake-sweeps-tunis-education-minister-launches-investigation/"an insult to the educational message/a" and promised an investigation into a version filmed at a local high school. In Egypt on Feb. 23, police arrested four university students for filming a version of the dance outside in their underwear, reports Lebanon's a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Feb-23/207676-four-arrested-in-egypt-for-harlem-shake.ashx#axzz2M1QkeVZz"Daily Star/a./pa href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/the-harlem-shake-becomes-a-protest-in-egypt-and-tunisia/2013/02/28/cc1f1d1e-81a5-11e2-a671-0307392de8de_blog.html?wprss=rss_world"Read full article #62;#62;/aimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636708/s/290e6428/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/158920146966/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/290e6428/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/158920146966/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/290e6428/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/158920146966/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/290e6428/a2t.img" border="0"/
