‘My friend, Mahmoud Maher, a doctor, was killed at Tahrir Square’ By Parvez Sharma February 5, 2011 7 At 1:15 am Cairo time on Saturday morning I spoke to my friend Ghassen. His…
‘We are very much in the early stages of our revolution’ By Parvez Sharma February 3, 2011 9 At an estimated nineteen million people, Cairo does remain a very small town. Every single…
‘The chant is يسقط يسقط حسني مبارك – Tell the world he is killing us’ By Parvez Sharma February 2, 2011 36 Listen to Mona Seif (@monasosh) from Tahrir Square. Read a partial transcription on Jillian York’s…
Please help us find missing Egyptian protester Maram Eid, 29 By Parvez Sharma February 1, 2011 1 Below are emails to me from Maram Eid’s relative Neffy, my Facebook friend, since January…
Yousry is now Omar: ‘Tell Mubarak we don’t need his damn Internet for the Peoples Revolution’ By Parvez Sharma January 31, 2011 15 “Please use my real name Omar from now on—we have nothing left to hide anymore”…
‘It’s a revolution of the people, not of the Ikhwan, not of Baradei, not of Soliman, not of Facebook and Twitter, no this is a people’s revolution’ By Parvez Sharma January 30, 2011 11 Video of protesters in Tahrir Square, January 30, 2011 (Video: Justimage) Its lonely and I…
‘Muslims, Christians we are all Egyptians’: Scenes from a revolution as told by one eyewitness By Parvez Sharma January 29, 2011 35 A cross-section of Cairo residents formed a human chain on Saturday to help guard Egyptian…