In Egypt, I Protested for Freedom

On January 25^th, my fellow Egyptian journalists and I thought we would be covering another failed protest. I ended up in front of the High Court where hundreds of policemen surrounded the protesters. A crowd of people were watching the protest from behind a police barricade on the other side of the street. One of the protesters started to chant “One!.. Two!.. Where are the people of Egypt?!” As the crowd began repeating his chant, something unexpected happened. The people who were watching the demonstration pushed the soldiers and tens of them crossed the street and came to join those of us in the protest. For the first time in decades, demonstrators could break the security siege and stand together in the streets of Cairo. The streets shook with the cry “Freedom, Freedom.”