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 .