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mubarak thought he could wreck the revolution by putting egypt on information lockdown. so he literally shut down the internet. nora younis is a reporter for the egypt independent, an online and print news source. on the morning of january 28th, nora and a colleague hear about a hotel in central cairo that still has internet service. they try to get a room with a view of tahrir square. they said they have orders from state security not to sell any rooms overlooking tahrir. so we said okay and we settled for a nile view room. while organizing their coverage of the day s events, nora notices something happening outside their window. she grabs her camera and begins to film a chaotic scene coming into view across the nile river. we heard many bombs. and we couldn t see anything. and the bombs were just going and going and going. and then we saw smoke coming out from the other side of the river. nora s footage shows a massive crowd of protesters ....
Push police into retreat. and then the protesters came onto our side, and it was amazing, their numbers. nora s footage, like so many of the powerful images that are captured during those first weeks of revolution, ends up on youtube and inspires others in egypt and beyond to join the revolution. i think it was really the most documented event in our lives. just 18 days after it begins egypt s revolution succeeds in pushing hosni mubarak from power when on february 11th, 2011 he resigns. thousands of egyptians celebrate the end of his regime. but for many egyptians the situation does not improve. mubarak is merely replaced by a ....