Voices from Tahrir
Portrait of a Revolution, first-hand eyewitness accounts of the overthrow of a dictator. The protesters and performers who persevered for eighteen days of the 2011 January uprising in Tahrir Square, Cairo, and across Egypt.
Jan 25 2011 Invitation: "Bread, Freedom, Human Dignity"
Interviews gathered by Human Rights Watch and produced by HearingVoices.com
HV131- Voices from Tahrir : HearVox - Hearing Voices17 hours ago ... Eyewitness, first-person accounts of the January 2011 Egyptian uprising."Erhal" means "Go"
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Photos © 2011 Platon, videos The New Yorker:
Platon's Portraits of Egyptian Revolutionaries - The New YorkerJul 27, 2011 ... In April, Human Rights Watch brought our staff photographer Platon to Cairo to photograph revolutionaries in Tahrir Sq...- Muslim-Christian unity youth organizers, left to right: Moaz Abdel Kareem, 28, is from the youth wing of the Muslim Brotherhood and participant in the Tahrir Square protests. Sally Moore, 33, is a psychiatrist, feminist, Coptic Christian youth leader. Mohammed Abbas, 26, is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s youth movement and a leader in Tahrir Square who worked with secular counterparts and the April 6 movement in planning protests. Mohammad Abbas and Sally Moore drafted a “birth certificate of a free Egypt” shortly after Mubarak’s resignation on February 11, 2011.
- Laila Said with Wael Ghonim. Laila is the mother of 28-year old Khaled Said, whose torture and murder by Egyptian police on June 6, 2010, helped to spark the discontent that eventually led to the Tahrir Square protests and President Hosni Mubarak’s downfall. Speaking out about the murder of her son, Laila became known as the “Mother of Egypt” and as an emblem of the consequences of endemic police torture and impunity.Check the full Platon photo gallery of at Hearing Voices.
Timelines
Tahrir Square: At the Center of Egypt's Revolution - Interactive FeatureFeb 12, 2011 ... Tahrir Square, in downtown Cairo, was the epicenter of antigovernment protests that led to the ouster of President Hos...
Timeline of the revolution in Egypt | World | Deutsche Welle | 11.02 ...Feb 11, 2011 ... The timeline of an Arab revolution. DW-WORLD.DE: German and European news, analysis and multimedia from Deutsche Welle...- 2011 Egyptian revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe 2011-2012 Egyptian revolution (Arabic: ثورة 25 يناير thawret 25 yanāyir, Revolution of 25 January) took place following a popular ...
BBC News - Egypt's revolution: Interactive mapFeb 11, 2011 ... Map, timeline and summary of main flashpoints around Egypt.On February 2 and 3, 2011, pro-Mubarak supporters attacked thousands of protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square. For nearly 18 hours straight, I live-tweeted over 1,000 eyewitness reports I collected from my sources participating in the battle. This is an account of how it happened.
We Are All Khaled Said
We are all Khaled Said | FacebookWe are all Khaled Said - Email: alshaheeed@gmail.com Background story: | Facebook.
