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Tahrir Square

/ 迟忙藞删颈藧删 /

noun

  1. a large square in central Cairo, in Egypt. The name, meaning 鈥榣iberation鈥, was used informally after the 1919 revolution and then officially after the 1952 revolution. Scene of mass demonstrations in 2011 against the government of president Hosni Mubarak.
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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In his first special in nearly 15 years, Ahmed filmed 鈥淚t Only Takes One of Us鈥 at the American University in Cairo, a former palace in Tahrir Square, site of 2011鈥檚 Arab Spring protests.

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He added: 鈥淚 envision the number of people who would be demonstrating if Trump wins the election, if the Republicans were to win both houses, making Tahrir Square in Egypt 鈥 the 'Arab Spring' demonstrations in 2011 鈥 look small. And those protests succeeded in bringing down the autocratic Mubarak government.鈥

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Some of the tuk-tuk taxis screeching around Tahrir Square in the afternoon sun have pictures of Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the Iranian-backed leader of Hezbollah, the most powerful armed force in Lebanon.

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They compare this with how quickly Washington abandoned Egypt's President Mubarak in 2011 when the crowds came out on Cairo's Tahrir Square.

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In Baghdad on Friday, tens of thousands of Iraqis rallied in central Tahrir Square, waving Palestinian flags and burning the Israeli flag while chanting anti-U.S. and anti-Israeli slogans.

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