Plaza
El-Tahrir Square
El-Tahrir Square, Cairo Governorate
Sweeping downtown plaza that became the epicenter of a nation's uprising against decades of rule.
This guide to El-Tahrir Square in Cairo centers on Wael Ghonim, a Google executive who ran an anonymous Facebook page that helped pull hundreds of thousands into this square in early 2011, and his tearful live-television interview after eleven days in secret detention. It follows the square's own history, laid out in 1867 and renamed after an earlier uprising, and the violence that came before Ghonim's release, including men on camels and horses charging into the crowd on the second of February. Three people died in that charge alone, hundreds more were hurt.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.