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Alexis Madrigal - Alexis Madrigal is a senior editor at The Atlantic. He's the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology.
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The New York Observer calls him, "for all intents and purposes, the perfect modern reporter." Madrigal co-founded Longshot magazine, a high-speed media experiment that garnered attention from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the BBC. While at Wired.com, he built Wired Science into one of the most popular blogs in the world. The site was nominated for best magazine blog by the MPA and best science Web site in the 2009 Webby Awards. He also co-founded Haiti ReWired, a groundbreaking community dedicated to the discussion of technology, infrastructure, and the future of Haiti.

He's spoken at Stanford, CalTech, Berkeley, SXSW, E3, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and his writing was anthologized in Best Technology Writing 2010 (Yale University Press).

Madrigal is a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley's Office for the History of Science and Technology. Born in Mexico City, he grew up in the exurbs north of Portland, Oregon, and now lives in Oakland.
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An Egyptian Father and Son Address the Nation

By Alexis Madrigal

Feb 21 2011, 9:45 PM ET Comment

Here we meet Abdalla Eshmawi Nassar and his son, Wesam Nassar outside their home in Southern California. Dressed in a track suit and speaking in Arabic, Abdalla addresses the home country he left in 1970. His speech is compelling from start to finish, immigrant longing and pride mingling with wonder at real change. Just watch it.

For the past three weeks we've been watching the situation unfold in Egypt from our three bedroom home in Southern California. Yesterday my 73 year old father who immigrated here in 1970 from Egypt asked me record a video message for the people of Egypt. This is my father, Abdalla Eshmawi Nassar.
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