I waited a few days as to make realize that it really happened, as if afraid that improvisation on the site of the Republic did peep the beautiful big face of Nasser decided to return to Cairo to take back the throne.
2 years have passed since my return from Cairo. "This changes nothing, you'll see," he said Ousse the night before I left - "Egypt is like sleeping, and will return as usual, same people, the drunken expat, girls with hijab coordinated with the purse, that I sound Cairo Jazz Club, Pizza Hut, mega cappuccino at Cilantro. " He wanted to be a nice thing to say to someone who was sad to leave the city that was home for almost a year and a half. But the farewell was not the easiest. Among
all pictures of the protest, one in particular struck me, that of a family in Tahrir Square with signs hung around his neck and in line said Mubarak, go away because this is our country. The simple concept as old as democracy gives citizens the right to choose their own representative.
Then, see Ousse. Egypt has woken up. He gave a lecture to his tyrant, has shown the world, live it can be done. I was not there, yet it was like to be there. A shouting slogans from my mangled Arabic hesitant. Something will be changed upon my return to Egypt. Egypt will be a brand new. It will be full of Egyptians who will watch their country with responsibility and hope. And all of us with them.
Photo by Luca Lotti, during a protest in Cairo, evacuated by the Italian Embassy in Cairo following the 'attack of the Egyptian National Police.
Some shots of the days of protest in Cairo on the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/world/middleeast/201101-egypt-protest-gallery/?ref=middleeast
2 years have passed since my return from Cairo. "This changes nothing, you'll see," he said Ousse the night before I left - "Egypt is like sleeping, and will return as usual, same people, the drunken expat, girls with hijab coordinated with the purse, that I sound Cairo Jazz Club, Pizza Hut, mega cappuccino at Cilantro. " He wanted to be a nice thing to say to someone who was sad to leave the city that was home for almost a year and a half. But the farewell was not the easiest. Among
all pictures of the protest, one in particular struck me, that of a family in Tahrir Square with signs hung around his neck and in line said Mubarak, go away because this is our country. The simple concept as old as democracy gives citizens the right to choose their own representative.
Then, see Ousse. Egypt has woken up. He gave a lecture to his tyrant, has shown the world, live it can be done. I was not there, yet it was like to be there. A shouting slogans from my mangled Arabic hesitant. Something will be changed upon my return to Egypt. Egypt will be a brand new. It will be full of Egyptians who will watch their country with responsibility and hope. And all of us with them.
Photo by Luca Lotti, during a protest in Cairo, evacuated by the Italian Embassy in Cairo following the 'attack of the Egyptian National Police.
Some shots of the days of protest in Cairo on the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/world/middleeast/201101-egypt-protest-gallery/?ref=middleeast
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