January 25 uprising

Riot police walk along Mohamed Mahmoud Street, near Cairo's Tahrir Square, in front of murals representing people killed during Egypt's uprising.

Four years after a ‘revolution,’ Egypt is back to square one

January 30, 2015Conflict

The January 25 uprising in Egypt caught journalist Thanassis Cambanis by surprise with its size and ambition. But, as he describes in his new book about the Egyptian revolution, the moment of changed seems to have passed, and Egypt is back in the hands of yet another strongman.