11:30PM
the Ides of March
Matthew Carrington
Coming up on the anniversary of the liveliest expression of popular dissatisfaction with the Mubarak regime in recent memory--the March 2003 demos--it seems like the moment to wheel out some old photos. I've scanned a (rathered battered) roll of negatives, and strung them together with some captions here.
I think the moral of the story is this: if there's a dozen guys dressed up like little Darth Vaders chasing you, run like hell.
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[...] Mathew uploaded to his flickr account some pictures he took of the violence that engulfed downtown Cairo on 21 March 2003, following the outbreak of the US-led war on Iraq. More than 40,000 took control of downtown, but the scene went down into chaos with the severe police brutality against demonstrators. [...]