After Egyptian Sojourn, Former Fulbright Fellow Watches Revolt from Afar

After Egyptian Sojourn, Former Fulbright Fellow Watches Revolt from Afar: When Wendell Hassan Marsh boarded his flight from Cairo back to the U.S. two days before Christmas, he didn’t expect that a month later the friends he left behind would be caught in the middle of a historic protest to topple the 30-year regime of President Hosni Mubarak.

Marsh, a 2009 Morehouse College graduate, spent 15 months at the American University in Cairo on a Fulbright Fellowship studying Arabic and researching Arab-African relations.

“This has been a long time coming. There has been contained popular unrest for a long time and a lot of frustration,” said Marsh, who is now in Washington, D.C., working as a freelance journalist. “But no one expected it to come this soon; everyone seemed to think it would be more related to the elections in the fall.”