Thousands March in Egyptian Capital Calling for President’s Ouster

[Magda Hassan]

I got an email this morning from Vivienne who is Australian but was in Egypt last year as part of trying to break the siege of Gaza to bring humanitarian supplies. This is an email from her friend there a doctor. I feel so happy and sad for them at the same time. Happy for what they have achieved and sad for what they have yet to achieve.

Comments from a doctor friend of mine in Cairo - all are so ecstatic I hope their hopes for a better life are fully fulfilled. Vivienne

From Dr Taher


thanks vivienne for your participation and your concern
since tuesday 25/1 I have felt like I am a new person. first my tears rolled down my face every time I watched the news on FOREIGN channels (CNN, BCC, al jazeerah) and I felt this was egypt reborn. I helped resuscitate several protesters in the hospital during the friday of wrath and 3 young people died, one of them in my own hands. I couldn't sit and watch the news since that day. I took to Tahrir Square every day since then and have been one in hundreds of thousands of protesters every day. my belonging to the country has been shaken back to life and my respect and love for the egyptians burst in my heart.
tahrir was my utopia althroughout. there I saw the kind of people I want to belong to, the country I want to belong to, the unity I wanted to belong to. everybody was curteous, everybody was civil, everybody was cooperative. against the army of security agents, gangs of thugs or a relentless war of rumours and tarnishing, they stood their grounds. my love and respect for them grew every day, and so did, luckily, their supporters. I saw the crowd growing from a few thousands every day to more than a million. we were united by our common goal, but also by our solidarity and love for another, no matter the social background, religious creed or political conviction.
I lived my best days in Tahrir Square. Now I know I will miss it.
My only consolation is that we achieved our goal, got rid of the corrupt regime and will be looking forward to new democracy.