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Savaa,

10 years

10 years ago

today

protests broke out in Cairo. What came to be known as the Arab Spring was rapidly gaining momentum.

Eleven days earlier, Egyptians had watched as Tunisia's strong man ruler Ben Ali had fled the country after more than two decades in power,

forced out by a month of protests and unrest. Egypt had been

under the rule of the Mubarak regime for even longer. Could this be their moment to grasp freedom and democracy?

Emboldened, Egyptian protesters took to the streets.

But the upheaval in Egypt didn't end with the Arab Spring of 2011. After democratic elections were held, the Muslim Brotherhood came to power.

Mohammed Morsi is the candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood.

He's the first Islamist head of state to be elected out of these Arab Spring revolutions.

Two years later, there was another murderous bloody revolution

as a military coup seized the country.

A dramatic showdown between Egypt's military and the ousted president.

Once again millions of citizens have taken to the streets in Cairo.

We speak to someone who's been on the front line of the profound political changes of the last decade, the editor

of Egypt's last major independent news site.

It's inevitable to have fear.

It's another thing to also know how to navigate it, to maneuver it.

Park it on the side when you're just about to engage in a risky endeavor.

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