“Aliaa Elmahdy, the 20-year-old college student was there, chanting with the Tahrir comrades songs of liberty while passionately beholding what she thought the dawn of her freedom.”
20-year old college student Aliaa Elmahdy
20-year old college student Aliaa Elmahdy
(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - Freedom… is the allure of the Tahrir square saga and perhaps the indisputable motto of the Egyptian revolution.
The Tahrir Square was packed with thousands of Egypt’s youths, boys and girls in their teens who witnessed the rare and magical moments of the system bending to their demands and the regime crumbling down before their vigorous and starry eyes.
For them it felt like the world had just been created, the sun and the moon had taken up their positions, the heavens and earth had split, and the center of the earth was right there … at Tahrir square where Horus, the mighty falcon and god of the sky hovered above those teens’ heads and blessed their struggle for freedom.
Aliaa Elmahdy, the 20- year-old college student was there, chanting with the Tahrir comrades songs of liberty while passionately beholding what she thought the dawn of her freedom.
But her freedom was defined by her ability to break loose of what she perceived as dead legends of piety and hypocritical compliance with the society’s so called conservative values.
I’m not talking about some indecent streetwalker here, rather a young and educated Egyptian who grew up as an intellectually independent girl and who won’t yield to the tide of obscurantism that could only see women from behind veil or covered up from head to toes in some long and dark medieval garbs
Sometimes a travesty is actually a Shakespearean sonnet. . .
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20-year old college student Aliaa Elmahdy
(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - Freedom… is the allure of the Tahrir square saga and perhaps the indisputable motto of the Egyptian revolution.
The Tahrir Square was packed with thousands of Egypt’s youths, boys and girls in their teens who witnessed the rare and magical moments of the system bending to their demands and the regime crumbling down before their vigorous and starry eyes.
For them it felt like the world had just been created, the sun and the moon had taken up their positions, the heavens and earth had split, and the center of the earth was right there … at Tahrir square where Horus, the mighty falcon and god of the sky hovered above those teens’ heads and blessed their struggle for freedom.
Aliaa Elmahdy, the 20- year-old college student was there, chanting with the Tahrir comrades songs of liberty while passionately beholding what she thought the dawn of her freedom.
But her freedom was defined by her ability to break loose of what she perceived as dead legends of piety and hypocritical compliance with the society’s so called conservative values.
I’m not talking about some indecent streetwalker here, rather a young and educated Egyptian who grew up as an intellectually independent girl and who won’t yield to the tide of obscurantism that could only see women from behind veil or covered up from head to toes in some long and dark medieval garbs