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- Many pieces of infrastructure are named after Hosni Mubarak, including the Mubarak metro station is the central station in Cairo. Many of these places are waiting to be renamed and their signs have been vandalized.
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- Protesters and journalists gather outside the Egyptian Press Syndicate. The second day of protests in downtown Cairo started slowly but in the late afternoon a much less organized and more violent protest took place one block away. Police used teargas, guns and rocks to disperse the protesters who regrouped on Al Galaa, under 6th of October Bridge. The set fire to tires and placed a temporary roadblock as the police regrouped. When the police advanced, the protesters dispersed into the many alleyways downtown and were reported to continue small skirmishes with riot police.
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- A protester is dragged away by plain clothed police-men to a waiting van. He was one of at least 8 people plucked out of the crowed and disappeared.
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- A protester in front of the Journalism Syndicate meets hands with one of the specially trained riot police as he pushes back against a cordon.
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- On the edge of Boloq neighborhood near Tahrir young protesters throw burning tires in the middle of the road to set up a blockade as they are being shot at by riot police.
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- Security at a government building stares out from their gates at a growing protest walking through Boloq neighborhood.
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- Swirls of protests around Cairo came together in Midan Tahrir. Protests traded stones, teargas and water canons with riot police until a stalemate lead to many people sitting and waiting in the square.
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- As the rioters flooded the street with burning tires buses and cars went by in different lanes and people watched.
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- On the first Friday of the Egyptian uprising Midan Tahrir was covered in a heavy police presence throughout the morning in preparation for protests after the weekly prayer.
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- Protesters wait inside the cordon at the Journalist Syndicate in the first days of protest in Egypt.
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- After the friday prayer in Cairo Egypt worshipers exited the mosques, including Al-Azhar and started protesting on the street. The protests lasted into the evening as the converged on the central square of Midan Tahrir
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- While protesters exited mosques and moved towards Tahrir they often had discussions with the police about peacefully passing.
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- Protesters flowed through the streets of Downtown Cairo on their way to Tahrir.
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- At midnight on the first day of protests, Jan 25th, the riot police cleared protesters out of Tahrir with bullets and teargas.
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- A burning bush in Egypt smolders with teargas.
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- After being cleared out of Tahrir protesters find refuge in a small pharmacy where they are handed medicine and their wounds are rudimentarily sown up.
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- Many protesters walked with bottles of vinegar to cut the sting of teargas and class coke bottles were also thrown at police as weapons.
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- As night approached the fighting in the street became more desperate near the interior ministry as the police fired with rifles.
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- A dead protester is carried through Tahrir Square on one of the first nights of protests.
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- As the sun set in Cairo, groups of youth tried to advance on the Interior Ministry using cars as shields. While in Tahrir people, including many middle-aged people and professionals, such as engineers and lawyers, settled in to wait through the night.
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- The Army arrived in Tahrir to jubilation and kisses.
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- After a night of rocks and bullets in Tahrir, the anti-Mubarak protesters took the morning to regroup, treat their wounded and re-fortify their barricades.
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- Protesters built a trebuchet to guard one of the entrances to Tahrir.
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- Military personnel walked through Tahrir Square while many people questioned what they would do if ordered to shoot on the protesters.
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- Near Rafa and the border with Israel, the Bedouins of Sinai used the instability in Cairo to continue their long-term dispute with the central government with new fervor. They claimed that almost all of the Interior Ministry police have left their posts and that security throughout the Sinai was provided by Bedouins and an Army presence.
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- Protesters walk through Tahrir with candles to commemorate those who had been killed.
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- After Mubarak stepped down from the presidency families and protesters gathered on the corniche in Alexandria to celebrate.
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- Cars filled with people celebrating slowly inched along the corniche honking their horns.
A protest on January 25th snowballed into the removal of Hosni Mubarak from the presidency of Egypt. This edit of photos shows my interpretation of the events as I worked for The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal during the revolution.
I also published articles analyzing of the uprising on BagNews Notes: The End of the Show / No Longer About Freedom / Not Just Will But Ingenuity / Strikes, A Threat To Democracy? / A Library / Formally Known as Mubarak / A Revolution Continues