Ten years on from Egypt's Arab Spring - what has become of the Tahrir Square revolutionaries?
Protests in Cairo in 2011 sparked the downfall of dictator Hosni Mubarak. But did it really change anything?
24 January 2021 • 1:57pm
A woman waves an Egyptian national flag from a balcony overlooking Tahrir Square, Cairo on Feb 18, 2011
Credit: KHALED ELFIQI/KHALED ELFIQI
The last time I spent an afternoon with Mina Naguib, both he and his revolutionary ideals were about to take an unexpected battering. It was the height of Egypt's Arab Spring revolution and, in Cairo's Tahrir Square where he and thousands of others were demanding the downfall of President Hosni Mubarak, we had just survived what became known as the "Battle of the Camels".