alia’s Reviews > Cairo: My City, Our Revolution > Status Update

"As I write, I think of you holding this book and reading my words, weeks, months, into the future, and I wonder what the reality that you are seeing will be. That reality is what we, today, as I write, are working, fighting, dying in order to shape.”

It breaks my heart reading this because shes filled with so much hope and she doesnt know that we will become a dictatorship once again

i keep forgetting i have books to read but this is beautifully written so far

“We run…straight into another cordon of Central Security soldiers. They’re meant to block the way. We are three women, dishevelled, eyes streaming. We run right up to them and they make way. ‘Go!’ they urge us. ‘Quick!’ Eye to eye with one of them, young, brown, Egyptian, I pause. ‘What can we do?’ he shouts into the smoke. ‘If we could take off this uniform we’d join you!”

“…in front of us was Tahrir, and we were doing what we Egyptians do best, and what the regime ruling us had tried so hard to destroy: we had come together, as individuals, millions of us, in a great cooperative effort. And this time our project was to save and to reclaim our country. We stood on the island in the middle of the road and that was the moment I became part of the revolution.”

too good