Now just the thrum of traffic, seeping through an open window, filled the silence. But the transformation of Tahrir Square, he said, started long before Egypt’s first case of COVID-19. Tahrir Square — a throbbing tangle of traffic, staging ground for revolutions and, in recent years, a field of broken dreams — has long occupied a special place in Egypt’s culture and history. “Tahrir is sacred land,” says a demonstrator in “The Square,” an Oscar-nominated documentary about the 2011 uprising and its tumultuous aftermath. I ducked into the Egyptian Museum, where I was less likely to be detained.

Source: bd News24 January 24, 2021 05:15 UTC