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Tahrir Square was the epicenter of Egypt's 2011 Arab Spring uprising. Egyptian authorities said Saturday they have relocated four ancient sphinxes to Tahrir Square, the congested traffic circle in ...
In Egypt, the central Cairene landmark of Tahrir Square repeatedly was a staging ground for mass protests. But today the scene was rather different, as described by the Wall Street Journal ...
People wave flags in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Jan. 25, 2012, to mark the first anniversary of the popular uprising that led to the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. (Amr Nabil/AP) Ten ...
In 2011 during the Arab Spring uprising, Egyptians believed in the possibility of greater freedom. Today the country is in chaos. CNN explains what happened.
How Arab Spring failed in Egypt By Trudy Rubin Jan 29, 2016 Jan. 25 marked the fifth anniversary of the Tahrir Square revolt — an uprising organized by young Facebook-savvy Egyptians that came ...
How much of this excitement about startups in Egypt is a result of the 2011 “Arab Spring?” For Mai Medhat the 2011 revolution in Tahrir Square, in which she partook in, inspired her to quit ...
CAIRO -- It was a day Ahmed Hassan will never forget. He was in Tahrir Square in the heart of the Egyptian capital, the nexus of the Arab Spring revolution. It was around sunset, and the crowds ...
A 2011 demonstration in Tahrir Square, Egypt during the Arab Spring. The Arab Spring of 2011 in Egypt sent chilling images around the world. The people overthrew their autocratic leader, Hosni Mubarak ...
In terms of damage wrought—lives lost, atrocities committed, social fabric torn—the aftermath of the Arab Spring has been easier on Egypt than it has been on Syria, Yemen, Libya or Iraq. And ...
Host Robin Young talks to brothers Patrick and Daniel Lazour, who created "We Live in Cairo," a musical which follows six revolutionaries as they navigate Arab Spring protests.
The "Arab Spring" has analysts searching for the right historical comparison. Is it like 1848, and the wave of revolution that swept Europe? Or is it 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall? Or ...
Here, Egypt’s pro-Western policies and perceived subservience to the United States figured prominently, including in the defining chant that echoed throughout Tahrir Square the night Mubarak ...