A Year of Tahrir

Extraordinary pictures of Egypt’s revolutionary ground zero.

JANUARY 21, 2012

Demonstrators gather in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Jan. 25, 2011, to demand the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. The protests marked the first sign of widescale discontent with Mubarak's rule, as activists attempted to replicate the peaceful popular uprising that toppled Tunisian autocrat Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali 11 days earlier.

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