Here are some photos from the protests from last week taken by Anna Day. More will follow after airport security releases her camera and laptop. In the meantime, multiply the number of protesters by 1000 and you should get a good idea of what's going on.
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| Police tried to block the main Nile crossing. |
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| They were unsuccessful. |
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| I can't make out the whole text but this says "No to the Emergency Law" and "After today we will no longer be enslaved." One of the main grievances of the protesters is that Egypt is still under the Emergency Rule that was established right after Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981. |
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| Like many things in Egypt, this bridge is named after the Egyptian "Victory" during the Yom Kippur War of 1973. |
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| "Tunisian Revolution, a Revolution of Freedom. And Egypt..." (working on the full translation) |
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