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Feb 9, 2011

Let me take you to the Tahrir square( The Liberation Square)

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From: cherifo <anegyptian@cherifo.com>
Sent: Wed, Feb 9, 2011 6:20 pm
Subject: Let me take you to the Tahrir square( The Liberation Square)

At last in Tahrir square

Since the 25th of January when the people's revolution took place asking for the departure of Egypt's president Hosni Mubarak. Yesterday the 8th of February 2011, at last, I decided to go and visit the Tahrir square ( The liberation square).

With my camera in my hand, I took some pictures of what was happening.

I will take you with me around that important and famous square.

This is a bird's eye view of the Tahrir square.

At the upper right side you can see a short pink building, this is the Egyptian Museum, behind it, the tall building is the ( Ramses Hilton Hotel).

To the left of the pink Museum you can see a building with a black Facade, this was the building of Mubarak party, that was torched out, by the people who had enough with this party, the party who only two weeks ago forged the elections to its favor with 96%.

To the left of this torched building, was the Nile Hilton hotel overlooking the river Nile, who now have changed to the Nile Ritz hotel

The numbers you see on the Arial view, are the No.of spots from which I have taken the pictures you will see below.

Position No.1

To enter the Tahrir Square , I had to park my car far-away and walk crossing a bridge called Kasr El Nil Bridge

From that bridge, you can see to the right the (Ramses Hilton Hotel, and the torched Building ) I mentioned before.

The second picture is the army controlling the entrance to the Tahrir Square.

After I passed the crowd, I stood shouting " Down wit Mubarak".

Behind me you can see the crowds who still are preparing to enter the Tahrir Square.

You can see the Bridge I mentioned, with the two columns with a Lion sitting at the base of each column

Position No.2

The crowd was very big and intense.

Every meter, you could see someone raising a banner that is self explanatory.

Position No.3

Me again, raising the Egyptian flag, In the middle of all sorts and kinds of huge crowds.

Behind me the ( R.I.P) banner, that means " Rest in Peace" for all the revolutionary youngsters, who were killed on the 20 and 21st of January in cold blood by the police, who turned against the people in a very cruel and irresponsible way.

Position No.4

All kind of chanting, all kind of banners

Position No.5

If you look back to the Arial view picture above, you can see hundred of people holding over their heads a more than 30 meters long Egyptian flag, walking with it around the Tahrir Square.

With some fabrics, The people have made a kind of a wall on which they have displayed hundreds of posters and drawings that caricatured the president with all kind of notes and Jokes.

Amid the crowds, a group of young ladies sticking together, to express their reactions against the actual regime

Position No.6

All kind of crowds, the rich and poor, the old and young, are filling the Tahrir square

Here some ladies and youngsters, are wrapping themselves with the Egyptian flag.

A young girl is leading the crowd to chant slogans that they repeated after her in a very ordered way.

Position No.7

In these pictures you can see at the back ground, the Ex-Hilton Hotel at the left ,and the pink Egyptian Museum and Ramses Hilton at the right.

If you look above to the picture of the Arial view of the Square, you will notice many tents were build in the center of the Tahrir Square were the voluntary doctors, came with all sorts of medicines to help the wounded.

Position No.8