The Camels Nose

This Cartoon is called the camels nose. They used this title because the camels nose is a metaphor that means when something small is permitted it will lead to something big/undesirable, or the entire thing.

"If the camel once gets his nose in the tent, his body will soon follow."

In this cartoon the tent represents Egypt and the camel represents democracy.

The camel representing democracy is peeking its nose under the tent, and as the metaphor says once the nose is in the tent, the body will soon follow. The artist is saying that the little bit of democracy peeking through in Egypt led to an entire revolution, ie the entire camel went into the tent.

In class we discussed how the young people empowered with the internet basically started the revolution and ended a 30 year dictatorship.