0:00:11 > 0:00:16For a year Tahrir Square has been at the heart of a tumultuous struggle for freedom.
0:00:18 > 0:00:22Last February, people from all over Egypt united in their desire
0:00:22 > 0:00:25to bring down a dictator and build a new country.
0:00:30 > 0:00:34This World has followed three young revolutionaries.
0:00:34 > 0:00:36Ahmed's came from Cairo's backstreets to fight for an Egypt
0:00:36 > 0:00:40where he can find work.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43For Gigi, it is a battle for freedom.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48While Tahir wants to build an Islamic state.
0:00:50 > 0:00:52GUN SHOTS
0:00:52 > 0:00:56Some dreams have been crushed.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59Others have come closer.
0:01:01 > 0:01:05It was a year which has divided families.
0:01:08 > 0:01:12And a year that risked dividing the nation.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19Once just another roundabout in Cairo,
0:01:19 > 0:01:23Tahrir Square became the crucible of the Arab Spring.
0:01:24 > 0:01:28Could Egypt become the model for an Islamic democracy in the Middle East?
0:01:28 > 0:01:33Or would the dreams evaporate into intolerance and another dictatorship?
0:02:07 > 0:02:10The battle begins on Police Day, 25th January, 2011.
0:02:12 > 0:02:16Inspired by the successful uprising in Tunisia,
0:02:16 > 0:02:19unofficial opposition groups called for a demonstration
0:02:19 > 0:02:22against corruption and police brutality.
0:02:22 > 0:02:26The 25th January, I remember that the first thing I did that day,
0:02:26 > 0:02:29I went to get another battery for my BlackBerry.
0:02:31 > 0:02:35At 24, student, Gigi Ibrahim, is a veteran of illegal protest.
0:02:37 > 0:02:42Going into residential areas for people to join us.
0:02:42 > 0:02:48We started being tens, then grew into hundreds and grew into thousands.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51But I didn't realize the impact until I reached Tahrir.
0:02:51 > 0:02:55CHANTING
0:03:01 > 0:03:02I was so happy.
0:03:02 > 0:03:07I have this clip on video, the exact moment
0:03:07 > 0:03:09I knew this was a revolution.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12We were in Tahrir and a huge wave
0:03:12 > 0:03:17of central security officers started to run.
0:03:17 > 0:03:22The people first ran as the normal reaction.
0:03:22 > 0:03:25But then they stopped, some people started attacking.
0:03:25 > 0:03:29And then a wave of protestors ran after the officers.
0:03:29 > 0:03:34And the officers actually ran away.
0:03:34 > 0:03:37SHE SCREAMS
0:03:41 > 0:03:46I'm like, "Let's go! We've waited 30 years for this!"
0:03:46 > 0:03:54This is the moment I physically saw people not being afraid and running after officers.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57SHE SHOUTS
0:04:03 > 0:04:08That night the thousands become tens of thousands who begin
0:04:08 > 0:04:10to camp out in the square.
0:04:22 > 0:04:24Ahmed Hassan joins the demonstration,
0:04:24 > 0:04:29angry after years of suffering every day humiliations at the hands of the state.
0:05:15 > 0:05:19Over the next 17 days, as the confrontation escalates,
0:05:19 > 0:05:21hundreds are killed.
0:05:30 > 0:05:34Instead of leaving, the crowd grows.
0:05:34 > 0:05:39Ahmed is still there on February 10th and watches on an improvised screen
0:05:39 > 0:05:43as President Mubarak appears on TV to calm his people.
0:05:59 > 0:06:05The vast crowd, now made up of every strand of Egyptian society,
0:06:05 > 0:06:08are united in their response, waving their shoes,
0:06:08 > 0:06:11the ultimate sign of disrespect in the Arab world.
0:06:29 > 0:06:34That night, the army, for years a mainstay of the Mubarak regime,
0:06:34 > 0:06:35takes control.
0:06:35 > 0:06:39At 6pm, a general arrives at the state TV building
0:06:39 > 0:06:42with a recorded message from the vice president.
0:06:43 > 0:06:45He orders it to be broadcast immediately.
0:07:06 > 0:07:10THEY ALL SHOUT OUT
0:07:10 > 0:07:13SHE LAUGHS WITH JOY
0:07:13 > 0:07:19- THEY CHANT:- Finish, Mubarak. Finish, Mubarak. Finish, Mubarak!
0:07:21 > 0:07:23Finish, Mubarak!
0:07:30 > 0:07:32The army joins the protesters on the square,
0:07:32 > 0:07:36promising to oversee a transition to a democratic Egypt.
0:07:45 > 0:07:49The morning after, Gigi and fellow revolutionaries celebrate
0:07:49 > 0:07:51by clearing up their mess.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54There is a sense that a new era has begun.
0:07:56 > 0:07:58My dad, my dad. Hello.
0:08:09 > 0:08:13He's asking about what happens next. He's asking me!
0:08:13 > 0:08:16My dad asking me. That never happens!
0:08:16 > 0:08:18Life has to go back to normal.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21Like, people have got to go back to work.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24Now, we fight,
0:08:24 > 0:08:28we fight legitimately for free and fair elections
0:08:28 > 0:08:33where the people are going to choose democratically for the first time ever.
0:08:33 > 0:08:38Now, the real hard work starts. Really. It begins now.
0:08:47 > 0:08:49Across Cairo,
0:08:49 > 0:08:52Ahmed returns home to the slum of Shubra,
0:08:52 > 0:08:54where unemployment runs at over 30%.
0:09:01 > 0:09:05He lives with his widowed mother, Awatef, and younger brother, Amrr.
0:09:08 > 0:09:10They are glued to the new debate shows on TV.
0:09:41 > 0:09:45Ahmed is convinced that his life has changed for the better.
0:09:47 > 0:09:50- TRANSLATION:- God willing I will find work.
0:09:50 > 0:09:53Now, after an employer finds out that I was part of the revolution,
0:09:53 > 0:09:58he will never treat me badly like before. Impossible.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07At his barber shop, Ahmed is the local hero.
0:10:31 > 0:10:36They are conscious the world has been watching.
0:11:03 > 0:11:04Every day at dawn,
0:11:04 > 0:11:08Ahmed's mother Awatef gets up to purchase the vegetables for her market stall.
0:11:10 > 0:11:12Not everyone supports the revolution.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49Under Mubarak, the police were seen as a constant menace.
0:11:49 > 0:11:53Harassment of a market trader had sparked the revolution in Tunisia.
0:11:53 > 0:11:58- TRANSLATION:- That boy set fire to himself. You'd never catch me doing that. Poor kid!
0:12:01 > 0:12:04Government trucks would clear the street by force.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13My friend, the baker, suffered more than any of us.
0:12:13 > 0:12:14Since the day he moved in by my stall,
0:12:14 > 0:12:18he's been dragged to and from police station.
0:12:18 > 0:12:20They wouldn't let him go till they took a £100 bribe.
0:12:22 > 0:12:27No-one dared to speak, or they'd get beaten and get taken to the police station too.
0:12:27 > 0:12:29That's how we used to live.
0:12:34 > 0:12:37This is the Nile River. Smelly.
0:12:37 > 0:12:39SHE LAUGHS
0:12:39 > 0:12:42I wish I had more time to come here more often.
0:12:42 > 0:12:45My dad is here every single week.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47Gigi inhabits a different world.
0:12:47 > 0:12:51She is the American-educated daughter of a wealthy industrialist.
0:12:51 > 0:12:53My dad is a business man, you know.
0:12:53 > 0:12:57He has benefited but, at the same time, in the past few years
0:12:57 > 0:13:00he really has suffered also from the regime.
0:13:08 > 0:13:11SHE LAUGHS AND GREETS HER FAMILY
0:13:14 > 0:13:16- She let me feel I am a failure. - GIGI: No!
0:13:16 > 0:13:19Honest, true. After this revolution, how come we stand?
0:13:19 > 0:13:21I'm 55, 56 years old now.
0:13:21 > 0:13:24I stay with the Mubarak regime for 30 years
0:13:24 > 0:13:28and I didn't even think, think even to change.
0:13:28 > 0:13:32How many generations were useless not to stand and say no?
0:13:32 > 0:13:35This is what I feel. I feel bad.
0:13:35 > 0:13:39Not everyone buys into the euphoria.
0:13:39 > 0:13:41Gigi's aunt and sister are worried.
0:13:41 > 0:13:44THEY ARGUE
0:14:28 > 0:14:34Before the revolution, religious groups were ruthlessly suppressed.
0:14:34 > 0:14:38The only real opposition to Mubarak was the illegal Muslim Brotherhood.
0:14:38 > 0:14:42Now they are in the open, along with other Islamic groups
0:14:42 > 0:14:44such as the ultra-conservative Salafis.
0:14:46 > 0:14:5024-year-old Tahir Yasin is a Salafi.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52HE SINGS TO HIMSELF
0:14:54 > 0:14:57He has been in prison seven times from the age of 16
0:14:57 > 0:14:59for organising Qu'ran classes.
0:15:04 > 0:15:08For the first time in his life, he is free to preach as he wishes.
0:16:10 > 0:16:14Tahir was held here, in the state security prison at Giza.
0:16:14 > 0:16:19He claims that, like thousands of others, he was routinely tortured.
0:17:06 > 0:17:11Tahir comes from a religious family of teachers and scholars, Salafis,
0:17:11 > 0:17:15inspired by the Saudi Arabian model of Islam.
0:17:46 > 0:17:52For Tahir, his family and friends, the Mubarak regime had sold out to the west.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55They were all imprisoned for their beliefs.
0:18:43 > 0:18:47The fall of Mubarak after 30 years has unsettled the whole country.
0:18:47 > 0:18:52The head of the new military council, General Tantawi, appeals for order.
0:19:12 > 0:19:16Gigi's father owns a clothing factory on the outskirts of Cairo.
0:19:17 > 0:19:20Since the revolution, his workers, like many all over Egypt,
0:19:20 > 0:19:24are demanding more rights and better pay.
0:19:26 > 0:19:29He can't even visit his own factory.
0:19:31 > 0:19:35I don't go to the factory because, if I go,
0:19:35 > 0:19:38maybe 80%, 70% will strike.
0:19:38 > 0:19:42If the workers stop working, it's a disaster.
0:19:42 > 0:19:46Everyone thinks the new revolution, that means, I'm getting a salary now
0:19:46 > 0:19:501,000, I'll get 5,000. This is what you call freedom!
0:19:51 > 0:19:54Gigi went to my factory and she turned the people against me.
0:19:54 > 0:19:58My workers, turning against me because of Gigi. They tell me, "Ask your daughter!"
0:19:58 > 0:20:02I think she's a Communist.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08Gigi and her comrades are using social networking
0:20:08 > 0:20:11to agitate across the country and organise strikes.
0:20:17 > 0:20:21This is how exactly I would have expected our revolution to go.
0:20:21 > 0:20:26There is a striking school at least in every governance,
0:20:26 > 0:20:28doctors are also striking.
0:20:28 > 0:20:32The fall of Mubarak is just the beginning.
0:20:32 > 0:20:35Gigi wants to destroy the old system that made her father.
0:20:35 > 0:20:38This is the disagreement that I've had with my dad.
0:20:38 > 0:20:43It's like, he wanted to engage in the corrupted system
0:20:43 > 0:20:46to make his life and his family's life better.
0:20:46 > 0:20:48Why am I OK with this?
0:21:12 > 0:21:15The revolution has done nothing to help Ahmed.
0:21:15 > 0:21:18Even though he has a diploma in telecommunications,
0:21:18 > 0:21:20he is still looking for work.
0:21:27 > 0:21:31- TRANSLATION:- When I go for jobs that suit my qualifications,
0:21:31 > 0:21:35they only take people who bribe them or who have contacts.
0:21:36 > 0:21:40I think it's high time for me to repay my mother for everything.
0:21:48 > 0:21:53As a widow, Awatef put her sons through college herself.
0:21:54 > 0:22:01- TRANSLATION:- So many times I haven't eaten so I can feed my kids.
0:22:01 > 0:22:04I lay on the bed all night with a stomach ache so painful I couldn't sleep.
0:22:15 > 0:22:19Mubarak did nothing for his people.
0:22:19 > 0:22:21He never felt anything for the suffering of the people.
0:22:21 > 0:22:25There are so many much poorer than me.
0:22:29 > 0:22:34Despite his diploma, the only work Ahmed has been offered is in a clothing factory.
0:23:04 > 0:23:07- TRANSLATION:- He's scared of me
0:23:07 > 0:23:11because I was part of the revolution that toppled the Mubarak regime.
0:23:13 > 0:23:16The revolutionaries are the bravest men in Egypt.
0:23:19 > 0:23:23Ahmed decides to rejoin the revolutionaries on Tahrir Square.
0:24:23 > 0:24:26MAN SPEAKS THROUGH MEGAPHONE
0:24:32 > 0:24:34For so long driven underground,
0:24:34 > 0:24:39politics is now on the streets all over the country.
0:24:39 > 0:24:45Tahir has joined the new Party of Light, born out of his conservative Salafi movement.
0:25:13 > 0:25:17Under Mubarak the Salafis operated as a secret charity.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28Now they work from district to district,
0:25:28 > 0:25:32openly using donations to win over possible supporters.
0:25:40 > 0:25:45Accompanied by one of his party leaders, the purpose is to get noticed.
0:26:09 > 0:26:14Tahir relishes the competition with more established groups like the Muslim Brotherhood.
0:26:44 > 0:26:47MAN LEADS CHANTING WITH LOUDSPEAKER
0:26:50 > 0:26:55On the weekend of July 28th, the Salafis and the Muslim Brotherhood come together
0:26:55 > 0:26:59to put on a show of force and claim the revolution for Islam.
0:27:01 > 0:27:07Ahmed is concerned that the Islamists have a different agenda from the revolutionaries.
0:27:07 > 0:27:11By chance, he runs into Tahir.
0:27:59 > 0:28:03MAN LEADS CROWD IN SHOUTS OF "ALLAHU AKBAR"
0:28:03 > 0:28:07Speakers call on the military to fulfil their promise of elections
0:28:07 > 0:28:09and to try Mubarak.
0:29:01 > 0:29:08The next day, Ahmed's mother, Awatef, sets out to fight.
0:29:12 > 0:29:15The Islamists have taken over the square.
0:29:23 > 0:29:26She discovers that women no longer have a place there.
0:29:35 > 0:29:38As she tries to make her way through, the men object.
0:29:50 > 0:29:52Finally she has to meet Ahmed on the edge of the square,
0:29:52 > 0:29:55but her problems are not over.
0:30:16 > 0:30:18SHE SPEAKS ARABIC
0:30:18 > 0:30:23TRANSLATION: "Why are you sitting on the ground? You look like beggars."
0:30:23 > 0:30:27I was upset when he humiliated me.
0:30:27 > 0:30:31They were like Iranians, not Egyptians.
0:30:31 > 0:30:35To be honest, I don't know anything about Iran, but I hear they're evil.
0:30:35 > 0:30:39They don't act like normal people. I don't like it.
0:30:41 > 0:30:44MUEZZIN CALLS
0:30:44 > 0:30:49If they come to power, will they let women work?
0:30:49 > 0:30:52Will they give me handouts so I can sit at home,
0:30:52 > 0:30:56or are they going to make mincemeat of me for working?
0:31:07 > 0:31:09Within days of the demonstration,
0:31:09 > 0:31:12the military high command fulfil one promise.
0:31:12 > 0:31:17They deliver Hosni Mubarak, their former commander in chief, for trial -
0:31:17 > 0:31:22the man who for 30 years had been seen as crucial for maintaining peace in the Middle East.
0:31:22 > 0:31:27He is accused of ordering the killing of the protesters in January.
0:31:27 > 0:31:30THEY CHANT
0:31:43 > 0:31:48Tahir watches the trial with his mother and brother-in-law,
0:31:48 > 0:31:50along with the whole nation.
0:32:19 > 0:32:24Watching this makes me remember all the chants, all the chants.
0:32:24 > 0:32:28"We will put you in the cage when the revolution will come."
0:32:28 > 0:32:32It's like all of our hard work are finally paying off.
0:32:32 > 0:32:36SHE SPEAKS ARABIC
0:32:40 > 0:32:42It's good.
0:32:43 > 0:32:45No, this is too fattening.
0:32:45 > 0:32:51Back at her sister's, Gigi finds that even her aunt has changed her tune.
0:33:01 > 0:33:03Success!
0:33:31 > 0:33:37At the same as putting Mubarak on trial, the military clear Tahrir Square of protesters
0:33:37 > 0:33:39and clamp down on any form of dissent.
0:33:39 > 0:33:42Over 12,000 civilians have been tried in military courts.
0:33:42 > 0:33:46Gigi has been briefly detained by the military for filming at a strike.
0:33:46 > 0:33:51As soon as she's released, she's back in front of the military courts,
0:33:51 > 0:33:53tweeting to her 30,000 followers.
0:33:53 > 0:33:59He was yelling and he was just like, "I'm gonna kill you," and I'm like... I'm looking at him
0:33:59 > 0:34:05and I'm just like, "I wanna know why am I arrested, I need a lawyer, don't touch my stuff."
0:34:05 > 0:34:09If you show them that you are weak or afraid, they really crack on you,
0:34:09 > 0:34:13so I knew that I have to hold it together.
0:34:13 > 0:34:17Filming on her phone, she and a friend confront an army officer.
0:35:13 > 0:35:16Back home, Gigi's father is worried for his daughter.
0:35:29 > 0:35:31Here is a good one.
0:35:31 > 0:35:34You don't know the bad side of the country.
0:35:34 > 0:35:39- You don't know the ugly face of the army...- Luckily...- ..and the ugly face of the government.
0:35:39 > 0:35:43She want it...quick. This is the youth people.
0:35:43 > 0:35:47The youth, they are always...hurry. They are always... They want it fast.
0:35:47 > 0:35:52This democratic, it take time. You have to teach the people how to think.
0:35:52 > 0:35:56He now wants the army to remain in power.
0:35:56 > 0:35:59Something is going on, we don't understand it really.
0:35:59 > 0:36:01It's not clear yet to everybody.
0:36:01 > 0:36:06- But...- It's the army trying to stay in power.- Well...and the army HAVE to stay in power.
0:36:06 > 0:36:08Because we don't know the democracy.
0:36:08 > 0:36:11This is the first to time to feel free, to feel this...
0:36:11 > 0:36:13- SHE SPEAKS ARABIC - "Freedom"!
0:36:19 > 0:36:25Politically we just...arghh!.. completely disagree on everything.
0:36:25 > 0:36:28I mean, you've heard... It's...
0:36:28 > 0:36:31It's very difficult to talk about it with him,
0:36:31 > 0:36:34cos it's very personal to me, and it's my dad...
0:36:34 > 0:36:38'If I look at him in a political way it will be very, very conflicting,
0:36:38 > 0:36:42'to the point that I would have to choose,
0:36:42 > 0:36:45'and I never want to put myself in this position.
0:36:45 > 0:36:51'If at some point I have to choose...like...I might just not choose my dad.'
0:36:58 > 0:37:01On September 26th, the military council
0:37:01 > 0:37:07finally announce parliamentary elections for the end of the year.
0:37:07 > 0:37:15All the polls point to a win for the Muslim Brotherhood, who have a presence all over the country.
0:37:17 > 0:37:23For Tahir's Salafi party, the campaign is an opportunity to spread their more conservative message.
0:37:26 > 0:37:30He is proud of their new election posters.
0:38:02 > 0:38:08The Salafi election advert confronts popular fears of their extremism.
0:38:51 > 0:38:55The message has a strong appeal in the conservative countryside.
0:38:55 > 0:39:00Tahir travels out of Cairo to secure the support of an old friend and village mayor,
0:39:00 > 0:39:03Muhammed Abdul Sumed.
0:39:07 > 0:39:11Tahir invites his friend to his wedding at the end of the year.
0:39:26 > 0:39:27I wait number four!
0:39:30 > 0:39:35Muhammed has been in power for as long as Mubarak.
0:39:53 > 0:39:57This, to Tahir, is Salafi Egypt.
0:40:30 > 0:40:34October 6th is Army Day, Egypt's annual holiday,
0:40:34 > 0:40:39which this year would dissolve into violence that threatened to derail the elections.
0:40:46 > 0:40:49As usual, the holiday begins with celebrations
0:40:49 > 0:40:53of the army's victory over Israel in 1973.
0:41:02 > 0:41:06TRANSLATION: I pray that I can join the army.
0:41:06 > 0:41:09Maybe there are people waiting for someone to say no,
0:41:09 > 0:41:12and we can all say no together.
0:41:14 > 0:41:17# Get in, just get in
0:41:17 > 0:41:19# Check out the trouble we're in... #
0:41:19 > 0:41:23HARD ROCK PLAYS
0:41:23 > 0:41:27The holiday gives Gigi the chance of a weekend on the Red Sea.
0:41:56 > 0:41:58Ohhh! Look at that!
0:41:58 > 0:42:01Oh, it's so beautiful.
0:42:01 > 0:42:08Maybe, maybe, maybe, off record, the Salafi guys and all his family won't be happy seeing this part of Gigi!
0:42:08 > 0:42:12That's never gonna happen, they're never gonna ban the bikini.
0:42:12 > 0:42:17This is like...suppression of... you know...freedom of expression!
0:42:19 > 0:42:23- INTERVIEWER: - If the Salafis get power, would you regret the revolution?
0:42:23 > 0:42:27It's not going to happen.
0:42:27 > 0:42:31I really, really, really believe that it will never happen in Egypt.
0:42:31 > 0:42:36We will never be another Iran, where there is an Islamic government,
0:42:36 > 0:42:41or the Salafis would get in power or the Muslim Brotherhood would get in power,
0:42:41 > 0:42:44because... it just does not work in Egypt.
0:42:46 > 0:42:51Back in Cairo, a protest by the Christian minority against discrimination
0:42:51 > 0:42:55is broken up by soldiers guarding the state TV station.
0:42:55 > 0:43:00It turns into the most serious violence since the January revolution.
0:43:17 > 0:43:21The authorities clamp down on reporting.
0:43:21 > 0:43:26Independent TV stations are broadcasting live clashes between the demonstrators and the army
0:43:26 > 0:43:29when soldiers appear in the studio to take them off air.
0:43:39 > 0:43:43State television appeals to the Muslim majority,
0:43:43 > 0:43:48accusing the Christians of setting out to destabilise the country.
0:44:12 > 0:44:16Friends call Ahmed to come down to the demonstration.
0:44:16 > 0:44:19Using his own camera, he decides to take on the role of reporter.
0:44:35 > 0:44:38Gigi is stranded at the beach.
0:44:49 > 0:44:54She is told the army and Islamic groups are forming an alliance to crush protest.
0:44:56 > 0:45:03Something seems to happen and people are chanting, "Islam and the army are one hand."
0:45:03 > 0:45:09From Democracy Now - "Egyptian state TV is completely distorting tonight's events,
0:45:09 > 0:45:14"airing interviews of soldiers saying the Christians began by beating and shooting them."
0:45:16 > 0:45:1927 protesters die.
0:45:19 > 0:45:22The authorities accuse "invisible hands" for the deaths -
0:45:22 > 0:45:27until footage appears online showing army vehicles running over protestors.
0:45:41 > 0:45:45The dead are brought to the morgue of the local hospital.
0:45:45 > 0:45:51Among them is one of Ahmed's fellow fighters from the January revolution.
0:46:18 > 0:46:23Another of his friends is injured. They both feel the army has betrayed them.
0:46:50 > 0:46:52CROWD CHANTS
0:46:58 > 0:47:05The military continue to blame the protesters for the violence that is putting the elections at risk.
0:47:05 > 0:47:10BOY RECITES VERSES
0:47:14 > 0:47:17At his weekly Qu'ran class, Tahir is clear who is at fault.
0:48:16 > 0:48:19The demonstrators are now labelled as enemies.
0:48:19 > 0:48:22When Ahmed returns to the barbers,
0:48:22 > 0:48:26his friend Imad from the Muslim Brotherhood openly challenges him.
0:49:12 > 0:49:14- ALL:- Salaam.
0:49:50 > 0:49:54Find people, prepare the place, get the car,
0:49:54 > 0:49:57get my suit, get her dress, get the...
0:49:57 > 0:50:01Tahir has both an election and a wedding to organise.
0:50:01 > 0:50:03Where are you?
0:50:36 > 0:50:43So many ambulances are going to just pick up the injured... injures from Tahrir Square.
0:50:43 > 0:50:45God be with us.
0:50:45 > 0:50:47SIREN IN DISTANCE
0:51:22 > 0:51:26OK. Who else? Ah, Wael, my cousin Wael.
0:51:26 > 0:51:31For Tahir, the violence is now a conspiracy to subvert the elections.
0:51:45 > 0:51:50With a week to the elections, downtown Cairo is a battleground.
0:51:50 > 0:51:55The revolutionaries, who had inspired the January uprising,
0:51:55 > 0:52:00now see the military council as a brutal continuation of the Mubarak regime.
0:52:00 > 0:52:02They want justice for those killed.
0:52:17 > 0:52:21Just a few streets away, campaigning continues -
0:52:21 > 0:52:27the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis are determined that the elections go ahead.
0:52:27 > 0:52:29So is the military council.
0:52:42 > 0:52:46On 28th November, Egypt's first ever democratic elections are held.
0:52:46 > 0:52:51CAMPAIGN SLOGANS THROUGH SPEAKER
0:52:55 > 0:52:59For so many, this is the triumph of the revolution.
0:53:16 > 0:53:22Just a year ago, Tahir was living under constant threat of imprisonment
0:53:22 > 0:53:24for his religious activities.
0:53:24 > 0:53:26He voted!
0:53:26 > 0:53:30Now he is confident that the elections will bring real change.
0:53:30 > 0:53:35You are not going to get down to the street and find alcohol market.
0:53:35 > 0:53:39You are not going to find that, in Sha'allah.
0:53:39 > 0:53:43The government is not going to support that any more.
0:53:51 > 0:53:54Gigi spends the day filming and tweeting as an unofficial monitor.
0:54:34 > 0:54:35She refuses to vote,
0:54:35 > 0:54:40because of the violence and the continued detention of her fellow protesters.
0:54:40 > 0:54:45Of course what we are living under right now is much worse than Mubarak days,
0:54:45 > 0:54:50but that doesn't mean that we want Mubarak days to be back.
0:54:50 > 0:54:55No, this means that we're that much closer to freedom.
0:54:57 > 0:55:00If Egypt become a Muslim state,
0:55:00 > 0:55:04Gigi might leave or she will fight and she will go to jail.
0:55:04 > 0:55:06She doesn't understand yet.
0:55:06 > 0:55:10She still thinks she can change, she can do more.
0:55:10 > 0:55:12Even if she lose her life.
0:55:12 > 0:55:16This is... For a father, this is very scary for me.
0:55:20 > 0:55:24This is the revolution. Freedom doesn't come easily.
0:55:24 > 0:55:30We have to pay in sacrifices of blood, arrest, injures
0:55:30 > 0:55:34for us to win this battle and at the end win this war.
0:55:42 > 0:55:46Ahmed is back on the square, with no intention of voting.
0:56:39 > 0:56:41When the election results are announced,
0:56:41 > 0:56:46as expected the Muslim Brotherhood end up as the biggest party.
0:56:50 > 0:56:54Tahir's wedding turns into a double celebration.
0:56:56 > 0:57:01His Salafi party have taken almost a quarter of the vote.
0:57:01 > 0:57:05I feel like I am flying in the sky.
0:57:05 > 0:57:08His father wants an end to chaos.
0:57:17 > 0:57:21Tahir's plans for an Islamic Egypt are a step closer
0:57:21 > 0:57:25and if the military attempt to stand in the way
0:57:25 > 0:57:30the Salafis and the Muslim Brotherhood now have the strength to challenge them.
0:57:59 > 0:58:01WOMEN ULULATE
0:58:10 > 0:58:18For the Islamic parties, Egypt's revolution has for the first time brought the chance of real power.
0:58:18 > 0:58:25But for many of those who went to Tahrir Square last January to overthrow a dictatorship,
0:58:25 > 0:58:28the new Egypt has yet to be born.
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