Tahrir Square clashes between protesters and police - Cairo
Protesters seen here throwing stones at police. — Cairo was the scene of renewed clashes between police and protesters after a demonstration over the delay in the trial of the former interior minister was delayed. Rubber bullets and tear gas were used causing many injuries. Egypt. 29th June 2011
It is tempting for a nation and for a society to feel overwhelmed by all this. Today’s Egypt should not. These are all surmountable challenges, especially if the country retains its unity, commonality of purpose, and purity of aspiration.
It may also be tempting for some of you here to feel powerless, believing that your own potential contributions pale in comparison to these significant societal challenges. You should not.
Every single one of you has the ability to make a difference in today’s Egypt. Indeed, many of you already do so, day in and day out.
You maintain the momentum for positive change. You work hard to counter the huge disparities in income and wealth, and the extremes in access to education, health and other basic social needs. And you are unwilling — and rightly so — to see millions of your countrymen and countrywomen condemned to a life of poverty, human degradation and despair.
All of you are facilitators of a better tomorrow for Egypt, of the “new Egypt.”
We, protesters, ran towards Tahrir, and clashes between us and them, pigs, never stopped since until couple of hours ago. Many were injured, including Noor Ayman @NoorNoor1, who was shot with khartosh in the head< but he is fine, just couple of stitches. The most disgusting part was the cursing and the words that the CSF pigs were yelling at us while shooting us with tear gas and rock. They were saying, “we will kill you! you deserve death ya awsaakh!” I threw rocks for the first time from the front of the line. I was not afraid. I was ready to die because freedom is not without blood. I got soficated with tear gas like many others including @alaa@Lobna@salmasaid . I left Tahrir to upload the footage that I have and the pictures that I took before my phone, camera, laptop, and flip all batteries went dead. You will find my videos from the night here soon.
Unhappy with the progress of bringing former senior officials to trial, protesters took to Tahrir Square, the center of the Egypt uprising. Protesters and police exchanged fire, using rocks and teargas.
The Things They Carried: The Tahrir Square Irregular
Hazem Marghany, a 25-year-old architect, spent 18 days in Cairo’s Tahrir Square during the revolution and has come back every Friday since. Here’s what he packs in his black Adidas laptop bag.
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12AM, Dec 21 2011
