The protesters in downtown Cairo came under attack around an hour ago, after the start of the army-imposed curfew, from thugs with molotov cocktails and sticks. The protesters, camping out in Tahrir, fought them back.
Muslims and Christians march in Abdel Moneim Riyadh Square, heading to join a protest in Maspero in front of the State TV, denouncing sectarian attacks on Copts in Atfeeh (Helwan, south of Cairo). Note the support coming from drivers, honking. One car that passed right beside me in the video also had this sticker “25 January” on the back window.
Some DC pundits have been repeatedly on satellite TV stations claiming the Egyptian revolution had nothing to do with Israel or the US. Some even go as far as claiming this was “purely an internal affair.”
Those self described “ME experts” tend to neither know a word of Arabic nor visited Tahrir Square during the mass protests. The roots of this Egyptian revolt date back to September 2000, when street activism was revived again following a decade of dirty wary between the regime and the Islamist militants. There is a chain reaction linking those protests which broke out in solidarity with the Palestinian intifada to the current revolt.
Anyways, I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves. Watch a slide show on Flickr…
The Army’s Central Zone Commander, General Hassan el-Ruweini, showed up yesterday in Tahrir trying to assert the military would meet the revolution’s demands. Protesters kept shouting calling for the continuation of protests till the regime falls, and called for shutting down the stock market.
Tahrir Square in the afternoon of 27 February…
Video taken by Gigi, on the Friday of Anger. Following the Friday prayer at Mostafa Mahmoud mosque in Mohandseen, thousands took to the streets demanding the removal of Mubarak’s 30-year-old regime.
Video taken by Gigi, on the Friday of Anger, as Giza demonstrators headed to Galaa Bridge, amid continuous showers of tear gas fired by the police…
Anti-Mubarak stencil drawings on the walls of the Al-Azhar University dorms in Nasr City…
Video taken by Gigi, on the Friday of Anger, as Giza demonstrators took over Galaa Bridge, following a bloody battle with the police. The officers escaped and left the conscripts behind. Some revolutionaries volunteered to form human chains around the CSF trucks, to protect the conscripts from the wrath of the protesters.
Hossam el-Hamalawy is an Egyptian journalist from Cairo
hossam [at] arabawy [dot] org
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