Monday, January 25, 2016

Cairo’s Tahrir Square was once the symbol of the Arab Spring. Now it’s just a traffic circle again.

Cairo’s Tahrir Square was once the symbol of the Arab Spring. Now it’s just a traffic circle again.
      What a difference five years makes. On Jan. 25, 2011, protests against the entrenched regime of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak broke out in the heart of the capital of the Arab world's most populous nation. The unrest eventually led to Mubarak's departure — an event so seismic that its tremors rippled throughout the Arab world. […]











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