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Egypt in Photographs: From the Streets of Cairo

· Written by Jillian C. York

Categories: Middle East & North Africa, Egypt, Digital Activism, Human Rights, Protest

Egyptian human rights activist and Global Voices Advocacy contributor [1] Ramy Raoof has been, like many Egyptian protestors, online only sporadically over the past few days.  When online, Raoof has uploaded photos taken on the streets of Cairo: photographs of the demonstrations, of street graffiti, and of soldiers, showing the world the view from the street.

Today, as Raoof was back online briefly, he tweeted [2] a set of new photographs, urging followers to share them with the world:

i uploaded pictures from the demonstration taking place in Downtown Cairo now, view them here http://bit.ly/axeJsg #jan25 #egypt plz spread [3]

Ramy Raoof tweets photos to the world

The following are photographs taken by Ramy Raoof on January 28 and 29 and posted to Flickr [4]. Captions are photographer's own.

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Down with Mubarak..Freedom

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Army Truck and Soldiers in Tahrir Square, Cairo

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Demonstrators on Army Truck in Tahrir Square, Cairo

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28 January Demo in Cairo


All photos by Ramy Raoof [4], made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License [9]