The conceptualization is built on anthropological fieldwork trips in Egypt since March 2011. Two main Facebook pages were studied: April 6th Youth Movement and We Are All Khaled Said- both in Arabic. Providing in-depth examination of events leading to January 25th, this chapter offers a case study for mobilization, from which generalized theory is extrapolated about online communities' convergence, networking, and coalition building. This chapter argues that "nodes of convergence," defined as shared political and economic grievances, as well as shared virtual and physical spaces, had to be created first before mass mobilization for a collective action of millions on the street could ensue. Before the date, roads to political activism were being incrementally built towards their eventual converging on Tahrir Square. On January 25th 2011, Egyptians revolted, thereby making history. However, this was not during the golden age of ancient Egyptian civilization which was known as "Pyramids builders period" only, but we can see the same case in the New kingdom in the village of workers in "Dier el Madineh", this village which included from the social pyramid all its spectrums, we find in the payroll that the doorkeepers had the highest share than the workers themselves, and it was their responsibility to collect taxes and the supervision of the warehouse property, that's what gave them laudable social status within the village. In addition the listings of the workers which includes the pensions and wages since the Old Kingdom, was the best proof of the position and the value of the doorkeepers that exceeded the position and the value of both workers and servants, where the guards occupied the first places in the payroll, as well as their distinguish in wages and pensions in quantitative term. The opposite was right, there are many Doorkeepers had carried the title "Herald court" and they were closely linked with courts and judges.
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