Documenting Democracy
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National Geographic
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🗓️ 3 November 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:30.8 | Lots of tear gas, lots of rubber bullets. And I think I lived with garlic and onions in |
| 0:42.1 | my pockets for like several months because that's one common way to kind of get rid of the |
| 0:47.5 | effects of tear gas that people would just hand to you to help you out when you're miserable |
| 0:53.6 | with tear gas in your eyes. |
| 0:55.7 | How did decade ago Andrea Bruce had a front row seat to revolution. She's a photographer |
| 1:01.1 | who covered the Iraq War. And in 2011 Andrea found her way to the heart of the Arab Spring, |
| 1:07.4 | pro-democracy protests in Egypt, Bahrain, and Morocco. |
| 1:12.2 | Andrea wanted to capture the moment when people said, it's our turn to have a voice. But |
| 1:17.6 | in the middle of a protest, there was no telling if it would suddenly turn violent. If the |
| 1:21.8 | police would find a reason to fire into the crowd. And there was no way to tell who |
| 1:26.5 | was the good guy and who wasn't. |
| 1:29.3 | It's really complicated, so complicated that I'd get on the airplane and go back to Iraq |
| 1:34.2 | or go to the United States. And all I'd wanted to was like watch superhero movies because |
| 1:40.8 | in a superhero movie there's like a good guy and there's a bad guy. And usually like |
| 1:48.7 | there's something simple that happens and it's everything's good and that is not what |
| 1:52.9 | happens in the middle of turmoil and revolution and especially war. |
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