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Al midan
- Year:
- 2013
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What happened?
The lights went out.
- Why?
This is normal.
The lights are
out all over the world.
The lights are
out all over Egypt.
Everything is like this,
it's not just the electricity.
Electricity is the least
of our problems.
And all the little kids
in the streets say,
"Turn the lights back on, man."
Who is the "man"?
The man who's responsible
for switching the electricity
back on.
The regime.
Are you recording?
- Yes.
Really recording?
Yes.
OK. Do as you like.
- - Let me
tell you how this whole story began.
Egypt was living
without dignity.
Injustice existed
everywhere.
Before the revolution,
I lived from one job
to the next.
I started working
In fifth grade, I used
to pay my school tuition
by selling lemons
in the street.
There was no hope for a
better future in this country.
We were tied down by
its dictator.
Mubarak was the head
of the regime
that forced us to live for
under Mubarak's injustice.
The regime always
worked against the people.
They would torture,
electrocute, beat the
sh*t out of people.
No one dared to speak
about politics.
Politics was for
the regime only.
Oh, my God, people.
We want to go
to Tahrir Square.
If we have any dignity and
want to live as humans
in this country,
then we have to
go to the streets.
We will go down and demand
our fundamental human rights.
I am going down and I will say
"no" to corruption, "no" to
this regime.
I went to the
streets.
felt just as I did.
The people
want to end corruption!
Peaceful!
divide us with all they had.
People got angry...
We were all present.
We were one hand.
One hand!
One hand!
One hand!
We will fill the world
with our poetry.
Our words will
stand in the Square.
And they will be
like bullets in this war.
Revolution until victory!
Revolution on
every street in Egypt!
Leave, Mubarak!
This is when we
realised that people are
the true power.
Every five seconds,
thousands join the sit-in.
We won't leave the Square
until our demands are met.
We've never
had our rights.
Finally, we have this piece
of land to call our own
and to claim
our rights on.
And now, it's ours.
It's not too much
to ask for.
Tahrir Square is nothing
compared to the thousands
of acres they stole.
Tea, anyone?
Tea, anyone?
Magdy.
I told you we'd have
some tea together.
You, too, have some tea.
If I were to talk on behalf
of some of the Islamists...
Who's to say who's
an example of Islam?
The ideas we've
adopted since the start
of the revolution
are beautiful.
The idea that
we're one society.
To imagine that one day I would
in solidarity with all these
- people, I could never have imagined it.
At first, we were just
sleeping on newspapers.
And we didn't have any
blankets, only a few.
And only a few
people slept in.
Now, it's turning into some
community. It's more tents.
Relationships are
becoming very strong.
We're waiting for him
to resign tonight.
Waiting, waiting, waiting.
I don't know,
we're all very nervous.
I don't have any
cigarettes left.
Take this one.
I'm just waiting for the speech.
You don't normally
get so much time
to try and work out where
you're going to be standing
when something
historic happens,
and the bastard
is making us wait.
The protestors I talked to before I left
were very concerned
literally for their lives
if they left that Square.
The Secret Police, - the intelligence
apparatus is still in place,
pick them off one by one
when they return
to their homes.
Khalid, you're
a famous actor.
like you have been?
About being in
with the protestors?
Do you worry that
you could be targeted?
Well, I...
I don't care.
I mean, I know
why I'm here
and I know why
I want to be here.
I mean, I come from...
I come from three generations
- who've been fighting
for social reform and political
freedoms in this country.
And here we have
the discourse of democracy,
of freedom, of social justice,
of political reform
being changed in the
Middle East for all of us.
And I'm extremely proud
to be here for those reasons.
God be with you.
I am telling you,
good things are coming.
Good things.
- - Usually, the
Muslim Brotherhood is our biggest fear.
But everyone inside
the Square now is different.
After the government turned
it into a life or death
situation,
enough, it didn't matter
- who you are and what you are doing.
And everyone knows that you're
here, and if you're here,
you're willing to die.
We are
doing this for our children.
Even if I die,
it's for the future.
So now that Mubarak is gone,
we have to take control.
The main thing is taking the regime down.
Whoever is negotiating
with them...
If you take out people
and put people just like them
from the same circle,
from the same regime,
then you didn't take down the
regime, you took down people.
You're absolutely right.
No one is going to kill you.
I told you before.
The Army will sacrifice
their last drop of blood
before they fire a single
bullet on the people.
Never.
Now, please pack
your things and go home.
When Mubarak
stepped down...
over the country's affairs.
They swore to God to meet
the people's demands.
So people went home.
And nothing happened.
We didn't put the killers on
trial or change the government.
There is no new constitution,
and the Secret Police are still
in power.
The regime is
not just Mubarak.
The regime is all
the country's institutions,
and they all have to change.
So we went back
to the Square.
the place of pride and dignity,
where a tent and a blanket
can solve all your problems.
? We'll keep protesting!?
? We'll keep protesting!?
? We're staying here,
we're not going anywhere!?
? We're staying here,
we're not going anywhere!?
? We'll continue
our revolution!?
? We'll continue
our revolution!?
- - The main way
of communicating is through slogans.
- -? Our
revolution is a people's revolution!?
? Our revolution
is a people's revolution!?
? Not a coalition's
- revolution nor a party's revolution!?
The expectation at first was
that he would go and then we'd - all
move on or find a way of doing things.
Now, if he just goes and someone
comes in his place and we have
the whole same regime underneath
him, then we have a major
problem.
It just becomes, we did all of
this in order to just to remove
him
and put someone exactly
like him in his place.
If we still have a police state,
if we still have emergency law,
if we still have
the constitution
pretty much the
same as it is,
then if we had an election
in six months' time,
the situation would
pretty much be the same
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