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“...in 2002 and that, in that time actually the environment in
Egypt was very frustrating, because nothing was going on. Just the whole kind of
movement was focusing on supporting Palestine, and after some time, supporting
Iraq, in 2003, when the States invade Iraq. So, just one year after I registered.... Just
one year after, actually few months after I entered university the Iraq war started,
and that was the first engagement, personal engagement, because before that I was
engaged through my mother. But that was the first kind of decision I am taking by
myself. So, 2003, March 2003, I participated in a demonstration in Tahrir Square
against the war in Iraq, and then I started activities in the University itself. Doing
some protesting events against what was happening in Iraq. And I think starting from
this point I started in 2003, until I graduated, I was very much as a movement in the
university. I kept moving from a kind of demands and demonstrations and events in
Cairo University and I...”
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“...So, we just got that
feeling that we can control the streets for the first time, and we were very young, so,
it was very impressive, and I do believe it was a very positive day, that positively
reflected on my generation, as we believed it is the time to start to think about...
expand the movement. So, I started the first thing, I did just right after March 2003,
is something called, "20 March for students and University staff and professors",
staff member, it was focusing on what happened on Iraq but also how it is relevant
to the situation in Egypt especially the Mubarak regime, and then I started to move
more closely to democratization demands. And it was very funny because I
participated in the first demonstration that we said no to Mubarak or the first time
in Egypt, "Let Mubarak fall", that was 2005 I believe, and it was like a dream,
because no one before can imagine that we can say inside the campus, "Let
Mubarak fall", it was very inspiring also, in 2006, I participated in the...”
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