Yehia Ghanem

When he was of­fered a role with an in­ter­na­tion­al NGO, jour­nal­ist Yehia Ghanem had no idea it would land him in court.

The fates of Hos­ni Mubarak and Gen­er­al El-Sha­z­ly col­lid­ed in Tahrir, with one ho­n­oured in death and the oth­er dis­graced.

Dur­ing the rev­o­lu­tion, jour­nal­ist Yehia Ghanem found him­self in the mid­dle of crunch meet­ings with the prime min­is­ter.

An Egypt­ian war cor­re­spon­dent re­calls some of the most crit­i­cal mo­ments in the Egypt­ian rev­o­lu­tion, as seen from Tahrir.

From Jeeps run­ning over pro­test­ers to a mu­se­um be­ing set alight, Yehia Ghanem re­calls key mo­ments in Egypt’s rev­o­lu­tion.

Dur­ing the Egypt­ian rev­o­lu­tion, demon­stra­tors marched on Al-Ahram threat­en­ing to burn it down, I knew I had to stop them

Egypt’s rev­o­lu­tion was led by those for whom free­dom was not a giv­en but a dream.

“The rev­o­lu­tion will be­gin and I know you won’t want to miss it,” Mo­hamed whis­pered, urg­ing me to go to Tahrir Square.

How a push for democ­ra­cy in Egypt was rail­road­ed by the dic­ta­tor­ship.

Egypt­ian war cor­re­spon­dent Yehia Ghanem re­flects on po­lit­i­cal re­pres­sion in Egypt.