Cairo's Tahrir Square given facelift decade after Egyptian revolution
Published date: 13 December 2020 12:37 UTC | Last update: 3 months 2 weeks ago Egyptian authorities have finalised an upgrade of downtown Cairo's Tahrir Square, the epicentre of the 2011 uprising against longstanding president Hosni Mubarak. The facelift of an area that bore witness to the political transformations that swept through the country in the past decade has angered the anti-Mubarak revolutionaries and sparked concern among archaeologists. "The square should have remained as it was after the revolution," Essam Raslan, one of the thousand...
Source: middleeasteye.net