What We Saw at the Revolution

摘要

Last Week, After The Egyptian Oppo-rnsition called for a march after prayers, Time's Abigail Hauslohner, based in Cairo, and Time's Rania Abouzeid, who had just returned from covering the Tunisian uprising, walked among the protesters and felt the blunt and brutal response of the regime's antiriot police. To escape club-bearing cops, Hauslohner ran through narrow streets and found refuge in a small courtyard, only to have a tear-gas canister land near where she stood with a small group of protesters. She clambered up a stairway to the roof and saw cops going door to door and opening fire. Abouzeid took a different route: when a tear-gas canister landed right next to her, one of the protesters handed her a can of soda. "Here," he said, "put Pepsi on your eyes. It won't burn as badly."