The stones have stopped flying on Tahrir Square. Now, these are the words and images that burst out on the monumental esplanade where focus movement against the regime of President Mubarak, in the heart of Cairo. The first demonstrators gathered here Jan. 25, at the call of Facebook or Twitter. Two weeks later, the movement is too fast to follow as electronics, as in China during the Cultural Revolution, the triumph that dazibao, sometimes enriched with Photoshop.
Time will tell if the Red Guards, guards, green or any color lie in ambush behind the flowering of words, ideas and images, but until further notice, the spontaneity is power. The ongoing revolution has no name recognized by all, not even responsible clearly identified, but it refuses any medium.
The movement of Tahrir Square was swept away by its own vortex, a dam break that freed the words and ideas. At every step, men and women held at arm's length of leaves on which were scribbled just slogans (huge success of "Mubarak get lost") but also more elaborate professions of faith.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they try to break you, and after you have won," a banner prophesy. With image processing software, all assemblies are possible. So random signs, we can see the face of President Mubarak as a prisoner, handcuffed and visibly shaken out of a police station, flanked by police officers.
You can see Hosni Mubarak converted rabbi with twists, discreet sign in passing the anti-Israeli bias of the Cairo streets, accusing its leader of collusion with Israel. The protesters Tahrir Square did not burn American flags and display other priorities than their views on Israeli policy, but still, stars of David were drawn on the presidential symbolic coffin paraded through the crowd.
Finally, big success of the cartoon, you can see Hosni Mubarak in the guise of the Laughing Cow, also produced in Egypt, and became one of the basic elements of the revolution underway. Members of the organization nebulous umbrella so much about the place and both the sweeping rule that the guard towers of the service order, distribute portions of bread and Laughing Cow.
Tahrir Square ("liberation") had not won at this point his name since he was so named in 1952 when the Free Officers Movement, including Gamal Abdel Nasser overthrew King Farouk and tore the complete independence of the country. This time, it is a liberation against another world, one of the secret police, his goons and thugs, who attacked with Molotov cocktails, threw stones at the swarms of protesters.
Since then, those Tahrir have prepared their own pile of stones. This ammunition, ready to use in case of attack, have been torn from the sidewalk with crowbars found in the yard adjacent to a large hotel. And with those stones, inevitably, began to draw slogans on the ground. "Tahrir Square, the heart of Egypt," say the breadcrumbs.
When night falls, the calligraphy is lined by rows of candles. Day by day the place is invaded by a plethora of tables. Here is the latest creation Reda, one of the artists moved here permanently last ten days. "At first, he drew on sheets A4, now it makes more tables and larger, as each day passes," said Toher Racha, his assistant.
This last work of two meters high, painted in an emergency, is kind of allegory. A crowd of small figures in cartridge form therein the people of Egypt, and bystanders just inscribe their names on the web. In the upper half of the table, angels ascending to heaven. These are the martyrs, the young fell in battle with members of the secret police and its henchmen.
Further, huge photos of some of them testify to the violence they have suffered before dying. "I did not recognized when it was necessary to defend the place. Nothing could stop me, I was not afraid of anything. The women brought Coke to wash her face, others brought the stones, says Racha Toher.
Each has its frustrations. Corruption, unemployment, police ... All is left now. " In this gigantic happening, a man, too, a lot of frustration to express. Mahmoud Farghali, for twenty years, multiplied inventions: he has with him plans for a system to prevent the melting of polar ice with an insulating material made from straw, but also an anti-theft device for mobile phone, spring-based, and many more.
"The regime has been neglected as we have all neglected," exclaims Osama, tourist guide currently inactive, which exhibits on the top of the skull a large wound after being struck by a stone during the days fighting for defend the place. "The symbol of this system is corruption. Israel has tried to buy his inventions, but he refused! Patriots, that's us! Long live Egypt!" jpremy @ bbc.
en Jean-Philippe Remy Article published in the edition of 11.02.11 
Time will tell if the Red Guards, guards, green or any color lie in ambush behind the flowering of words, ideas and images, but until further notice, the spontaneity is power. The ongoing revolution has no name recognized by all, not even responsible clearly identified, but it refuses any medium.
The movement of Tahrir Square was swept away by its own vortex, a dam break that freed the words and ideas. At every step, men and women held at arm's length of leaves on which were scribbled just slogans (huge success of "Mubarak get lost") but also more elaborate professions of faith.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they try to break you, and after you have won," a banner prophesy. With image processing software, all assemblies are possible. So random signs, we can see the face of President Mubarak as a prisoner, handcuffed and visibly shaken out of a police station, flanked by police officers.
You can see Hosni Mubarak converted rabbi with twists, discreet sign in passing the anti-Israeli bias of the Cairo streets, accusing its leader of collusion with Israel. The protesters Tahrir Square did not burn American flags and display other priorities than their views on Israeli policy, but still, stars of David were drawn on the presidential symbolic coffin paraded through the crowd.
Finally, big success of the cartoon, you can see Hosni Mubarak in the guise of the Laughing Cow, also produced in Egypt, and became one of the basic elements of the revolution underway. Members of the organization nebulous umbrella so much about the place and both the sweeping rule that the guard towers of the service order, distribute portions of bread and Laughing Cow.
Tahrir Square ("liberation") had not won at this point his name since he was so named in 1952 when the Free Officers Movement, including Gamal Abdel Nasser overthrew King Farouk and tore the complete independence of the country. This time, it is a liberation against another world, one of the secret police, his goons and thugs, who attacked with Molotov cocktails, threw stones at the swarms of protesters.
Since then, those Tahrir have prepared their own pile of stones. This ammunition, ready to use in case of attack, have been torn from the sidewalk with crowbars found in the yard adjacent to a large hotel. And with those stones, inevitably, began to draw slogans on the ground. "Tahrir Square, the heart of Egypt," say the breadcrumbs.
When night falls, the calligraphy is lined by rows of candles. Day by day the place is invaded by a plethora of tables. Here is the latest creation Reda, one of the artists moved here permanently last ten days. "At first, he drew on sheets A4, now it makes more tables and larger, as each day passes," said Toher Racha, his assistant.
This last work of two meters high, painted in an emergency, is kind of allegory. A crowd of small figures in cartridge form therein the people of Egypt, and bystanders just inscribe their names on the web. In the upper half of the table, angels ascending to heaven. These are the martyrs, the young fell in battle with members of the secret police and its henchmen.
Further, huge photos of some of them testify to the violence they have suffered before dying. "I did not recognized when it was necessary to defend the place. Nothing could stop me, I was not afraid of anything. The women brought Coke to wash her face, others brought the stones, says Racha Toher.
Each has its frustrations. Corruption, unemployment, police ... All is left now. " In this gigantic happening, a man, too, a lot of frustration to express. Mahmoud Farghali, for twenty years, multiplied inventions: he has with him plans for a system to prevent the melting of polar ice with an insulating material made from straw, but also an anti-theft device for mobile phone, spring-based, and many more.
"The regime has been neglected as we have all neglected," exclaims Osama, tourist guide currently inactive, which exhibits on the top of the skull a large wound after being struck by a stone during the days fighting for defend the place. "The symbol of this system is corruption. Israel has tried to buy his inventions, but he refused! Patriots, that's us! Long live Egypt!" jpremy @ bbc.
en Jean-Philippe Remy Article published in the edition of 11.02.11
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