The political and military chaos in Libya is about to enter its sixth month. As the rebels wage war against Muammar Gaddafi from their capital in Benghazi, and NATO air strikes continue to target his forces, subtler forms of protest that don't make...

Last fall Bruce Ferguson, the influential former dean of Columbia University's School of the Arts, took a job in Egypt — as the dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the American University in Cairo. Kurt Andersen talks with Ferguson about what he saw in Tahrir Square and the important role culture played in softening the ground for the revolution in Egypt.

Even the optimists among us would be hard-pressed to imagine a brighter future for Egypt than Ehaab Abdou does.  Abdou is a youth activist, currently working with the Brookings Institution.  In his spare time, he delivers a message of tolerance and respect for diversity with the pop band Ana Masry.  It translates to the ecumenically flavored “I Am Egyptian.”

The ongoing protests in Egypt are sparking more then just political and social unrest; the events in Tahrir Square are also inspiring new cultural creations. Egyptian poet and Georgetown University Visiting Professor Tamim al-Barghouti wrote a poem about the protests – roughly translated “Oh Egypt, It’s Close."

Amid all the journalist-bloggers on the Cairo streets this week, Ahmed "Danny" Ramadan's posts on the arts news site Hyperallergic stood out to us. Especially the way he noticed how street graffiti had changed since the protests began. When Studio 360 reached Ramadan earlier this week, he told us that the "graffiti started out with simple slogans like: 'We love Egypt' and 'Down with Mubarak.'" But then it got more creative, Ramadan said.