Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Ahdaf Soueif on Egypt’s Revolution: “People Were Rediscovering Themselves”



"Egyptian writer Ahdaf Soueif took part in Egypt’s revolution and was in Cairo’s Tahrir Square nearly every day of 18-day uprising. She joins us in our studio to discuss the revolution and its significance. “Almost overnight a civic space was created in Tahrir Square that was the ideal space that one imagined, that everyone imagined, how the country should be or any country should be,” Soueif says “Everyone was finding the best in themselves and putting it forward.”....."

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