the story of the revolution

7/29/2019 The Story of the Revolution

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Told by Iman Bibars: A woman

from Egypt

The Story : Revolt on the Nile


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The Story Outline

When and how itstarted

Who participated

The reaction ofthe regime

Life in midan eltahrir

Theentrepreneurialspirit of the

revolutionaries


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When and how it started


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Facebook Group

Khaled Saied


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6th of April Youth Movement

Facebook


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Who participated ?


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MATURE WOMEN

PROTESTERS


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Men of different ages and

walks of life


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YOUNG WOMEN

PROTESTERS


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YOUNG AND FEARLESS WOMEN


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Egyptians from all walks of life


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United : We are all

Egyptians


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All Egyptians were there


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Demonstrating : women of

every age, education and

class


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Demonstrating : women of every age, educationand class


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emons ra ng : women oevery age, education and

class


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class


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class


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class


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every age, education andclass


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every age, education andclass

emons ra ng : women o


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class


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United : We are all

Egyptians


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All Ages all over Egypt


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The lucky generation Children from all

walks and social and

economic

backgrounds joinedin the revolution

They came with their

mothers, fathers or

older siblings They were called the

lucky generation


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Demonstrating: women of

every age


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Women of every age :

familiar


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Slogans in every language

Sl i


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Slogans in every

language Emulating thelyrics of a

famous song :

didnt it occur

to you once to

leave ; you

Mubarak whocaused my

hunger


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Leave : Go in every

language

Signs in every form saying:


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Go Mubarak.. In funny ways

too



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Go Mubarak.. In funny ways

too


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The reaction of the regime


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The reaction of the regime

Denial , arrogance,

disconnect

B t lit b th d


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Brutality by thugs and

police It was common

know ledge that the

old regime used

plain clothed thugswho belonged to the

secu r i ty apparatus

to terr i fy and

terror ize the peop leand the pro testers


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Brutality by thugs and

police


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Bru tal ity : B l ind ing tear

gas


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Their courage:Will not give up


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The failure of the regime : killing itsown defenseless peaceful youth


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MARTYRS BRUTALLY BEATEN AND

KILLED BY RIOT POLICE

We Won: Their blood has not

been wasted


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Life in TahrirSquare

P i t


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Preparing to

sleep

e c y o


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e c y o

tents


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Chess by day and fire

by night


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The real Egyptian

Helping each other

out

Sharing the foodand the bed

regardless of

religious or

economicbackground


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The real Egyptians : Army

and People united


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The Egyptian entrepreneurial spirit


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THE SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS

The square was divided into

corners;

press wall, kindergarten, hospitals,

fun areas, garbage collectioncommittees and much more


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The Egyptian entrepreneurial spirit The hospital where

doctors volunteered

to provide medicine

and checkups

Fellow Hany and hisfriends contributed

medicine

Fellow Tandiar

provided medicalinformation to some

volunteers

Th h it l d di l


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The hospitals and medical

centers


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Medical care by the

volunteers

L ife in Tahrir Square


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L ife in Tahrir Square

The Egyp t ian en trep reneurial

spi r i t

The people built

the bathroom

They called it the

headquarters of

the National

Democratic Party

e gyp an en repreneur a


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e gyp an en repreneur aspirit :

Clean and Green Rubbish Bins

under the

direction of thecleanliness

committee

which was

created by theyouth

The Egyptian entrepreneurial


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spirit :

The wall of Martyrs Many of the youngrevolutionaries did

not know what

was happeningoutside so corners

for news and

newspapers were

established

This was the

martyrs corner

The news


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The news

corner Many of theyoungrevolutionaries

did not knowwhat washappeningoutside so

corners fornews andnewspaperswere

established

e oggers


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e oggers

corner Bloggers inthe Midan al

Tahrir

They followedup what was

being written

and were also

addressing

rumors spread

by the regime


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Kindergarten Kindergarten

for the childrenof the

revolution

Children were

playing but alsohelping in

drawing and

writing slogans

for theprotesters

Mothers were

busy protesting

E i i diff t f


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Expression in different forms

of art

Art in different

forms was used

to express theopinions and

beliefs of the

peaceful

revolutionaries


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Face Painting: our Ranya was

one of the artists also

Business


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BusinessEntrepreneurs

S V d


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Street Vendors

Aly on a wheelchair coming

from a distance

to sell drinks to

the protesters

Street vendors

were usually

harassed by

police before

and he wantedto join the

revolution.

en uc y o e


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en uc y o e

poor Carts withrevolutionary

slogans came in

with the street

vendors

A man selling

Kushari (theKentucky of the

poor as he called it)


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Donuts of the poor Egyptian donuts Sold by young

vendors

Men and womenbought quantities

and distributed it

among protesters

regardless of whothey were

T d B t


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Tea and Barter Tea was shared and

distributed for free

in many cases as

people got the teaand water and the

vendors got the

boilers

In return they wouldbe given food and

blankets


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The Business Center

Mobile phone chargerbusiness center

Whether the prepaid

cards or charging the

phone both weresold with actual cost

While some

merchants outside

the midan increasedtheir prices no

exploitation took

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spirit The barber.. The most

interesting and

entrepreneurial man I

have ever met

Saw many people nearlyliving there and so he got

his tools and came

He gave discounts to

rural protesters and ingeneral very good prices

The Aftermath: cleaning another mess


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The Aftermath: cleaning another mess

after cleaning the Mubarak Mess

We love Egypt: clean


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We love Egypt: clean

the TS

Clean Egypt:


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Clean Egypt:

if you love Egypt

We love Egypt:


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gyp

for the first time we see people that make a revolution

)(CNNand then go back to clean

All E ti


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All Egyptians

We love Egypt:


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We love Egypt:

an inspiration to the world they

deserve the Nobel prizeEgyptians changed

their country and in

doing so changed the

world Obama

To live with dignity or die as

Martyrs the heroes of 25

January

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