The Egyptian Revolution
Table of Contents
Page 1: Cover Page Page 2: Table of Contents Page 3: Foreword Page 4 & 5:Historical Narrative Page 6:Dedication Page 7 & 8 & 9 &10: Notes Page 11&12: About the Author Page 13: Citations Foreword The Egyptian revolution, locally known as 25th of January revolution, was part of a big series of revolutions called The Arab Spring. The Arab Spring includes Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria. Which are all located in the Middle East or North Africa. Ultimately, the arab spring complained about poverty, corruption, and political repression. The Egyptian revolution complained of poverty, unemployment, corruption and powerful governance of the president who had ruled the country for 30 years.
3 "Don't go"
"I have to go" "Why?" "Because I want my freedom and I am willing to sacrifice anything to get it" "Just stay at home" "I am going anyway" Beep It was Friday February 18th of 2012 and I was on my way to a protest with my kids. We all
went to Sidi Gaber the place where the protests usually are. When we arrived there, we found fewer people than what there normally was. There must be a problem! Why is nobody here? Has the police threatened the protesters. Had they already come to stop the protest. Clearly everybody was thinking the same thing because there was some talk
then someone said that the protest was at the older part of Alexandria. It took us 45 minutes to get to the protest, which was apparently safe ever since the army got involved and the police retreated. Although the army wasn't expected to get involved
especially with the fact that the president is one of them. There was some talk about why they had helped the people not the president. Some people said that they were afraid that the president would pass the power on to his son who isn't part of their own. There was a palpable feeling of anger and frustration at the protest. How come after all we've done he still doesn't step down from presidency! Does he not get it?! Our problem is with him not anybody else. Doesn't he see it. Why is he trying to change This was the protest I had gone to.
the government and the ministers?! We stood at the protest for a while. Then people started running around in happiness dancing and jumping around. "The president had stepped down!" As soon as we heard the news we started going
crazy we started celebrating with the people around us. We celebrated for a while then we got into the car to go home. A journey that would normally take 30-40 minutes took us 4 hours we had never went five meters without stopping! Looking back it was one of my happiest moments in life when the president had stepped down. It gave all the egyptian people hope of having a better country. At the time of the revolution, there was a barrier of fear broken, which always had us under control. 18 days of people power. After the president had stepped down there was a temporary president named Adly Mansour then the elections came and Mohamed Morsi was declared president. Then on June 30 2013 all our hope was drowned. That day when a military coup happened under the command of Abdel Fattah al Sisi who later became the president in 2014. There were major protests after the military coup in a big square in cairo called Rabea. Then disaster struck, the army got involved, this time
against the people emptying Rabaa protest in the morning of August 14th, killing 2000+ people in under 10 hours. Plus they pretty much imprisoned all the members of the muslim brotherhood party who won the elections. From there on, any political activity against the army was harshly stopped and politics became a completely controlled environment. So now Egypt faces more problems then it had before the revolution and is in both political and economical crisis. Therefore Egypt wasn't a great place to live after the military coup happened because now life there is just not safe. So we moved away, six months after the coup. We now hope that our revolution doesn't go to a waste and that life doesn't just go back to the way it was before or worse. Especially with the fact that so many people died and so many sacrifices were made, but I believe that more sacrifices are needed for the egyptians to gain their true freedom. 4
The protest was where the red dot was and our house was in the middle between Flemig and Al Ibrahimiyyah.
This piece is dedicated to my beloved mother, Rania Rashad.
About the Author Yahya Medani is a 7th grade student at IICS. Born on 8th of June 2004 in Nottingham, England and having lived in his home country Egypt for ten years he now he settles in Istanbul with his mom, dad, sister and brother. During his free time you can find him playing basketball, football, video games or dabbing.
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