PLACE TAHRIR
This place was redesigned during the time of Nasser, which gave him Tahrir name, which means "liberation." It is much more extensive than the small Ismailieh square which is segregated at the beginning of the rue Talat Harb. At that time, between the Nbts museum and the Qasr el-Nile Bridge, there was precisely the Nineveh el-Nile barracks, where a military garrison protected that part of the city. Today, around this place, the headquarters of the Arab League, the seat of the NDP political party which burned during the revolution of January 2011, the Egyptian museum (behind the Hotel Rameses Hilton, stands at the headquarters of television and radio), the American University in Cairo, the Geographical society (which also burned in 2011!), the mogamma., the mosque Omar Makram, a remnant of the Ismailieh Palace, most of which was destroyed. At the centre of the square is the statue of Sheikh Omar Makram, one of the great figures of Mohammed Ali Pasha, who was realized in 2002 by the sculptor Al Ibrahim in the style of the great sculptors such as Jacquemard and Cordier who delivered monumental statues in Cairo. It was in this place that the greatest demonstrations of the revolution of 2011 took place, using the symbol of liberation, but this time meant to tell President Mubarak that he had to leave; what he did. Since then, Egyptians have been in the habit of demonstrating there to demonstrate their opposition in a very regular way…
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