Gabriele Habashi gives a gripping account of her experience during the final days of the protests that toppled former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. It is the story of a people who had detested oppression and decided to liberate themselves.

Gabriele Habashi gives a gripping account of her experience during the early days of the protests that would eventually force President Hosni Mubarak out of power in Egypt. She debunks some myths about how the revolution actually unfolded.

The fire at the Israeli embassy in Cairo on 8 September probably won’t ‘turn into a bushfire’, writes Gabriele Habashi, but it does give the Egyptian military an excuse for clamping down on protests by ordinary people in the eyes of the international community.