Here is the final installment of Karima Khalil’s photo-history of the Egyptian revolution, Messages from Tahrir. You can read the previous two posts here and here. IMAGE 9: (Photo credit Beshoy Fayze) Protesters protected themselves with whatever came to hand; this man fashioned a makeshift helmet from a cooking pot. He has written “Down with
Here is the second installment of Karima Khalil’s photo-history of the recent Egyptian revolution, Messages from Tahrir. You can find the first post here. IMAGE 5 (Photo credit Sherif el Moghazy) Protesters wrote their messages on whatever they could find, many using on their own bodies to convey their frustration, like this determined young man.
Slide 1 (Photo credit: Karima Khalil) When I walked into the some 800,000 strong crowd that was in Tahrir Square on the morning of Saturday January 29th, one of the first things I saw was a man standing quietly, holding a sign with a simple message in Arabic: “I used to be afraid, I became
