This is a music track I put together in 2008 following the April Mahalla uprising, where I mixed Yann Tiersen’s “Summer ’78” piano piece with anti-Mubarak chants I had recorded previously during Kefaya protests.

Finally, the talented photographer/multimedia journalist and friend James Buck added the music track to a slide show of photos, taken by Nasser Nouri and edited into black and white by me, of the uprising.

Photographer Nasser Nouri was at the Cairo University protest:

Yesterday, photographer, activist and dear friend Nasser Nouri won the First Prize for Photo Features for his coverage of the Mahalla Uprising, in the Egypt Press Photo 2008 competition organized by the Photographers’ Association.
He also won the Third Prize for the “Daily Life Picture” for his photo of an Egyptian construction worker. Alf Alf Alf Mabrouk Nasser!

We are racing against deadlines here at El-Badeel to include expanded Gaza coverage… We will be giving it three pages in tomorrow’s issue… Already journalists who finished their stories are now racing to the Press Syndicate to take part in the protests.

There’s no question which side are El-Badeel journalists on… WE ARE ALL GAZANS TODAY…!

UPDATE: 6pm: There are more than one thousand protesters in front of the syndicate. Clashes are taking place.

UPDATE 7pm: Some photos from the protest by Nasser Nouri…

UPDATE: 7:10pm: El-Badeel colleague who is at the demonstration now is saying the Muslim Brothers have left the Syndicate suddenly around 20 mins ago. The MBs withdrawal was coordinated with the police. The number of demonstrators, according to my colleague, has dropped from 2,000 to 1,000 now mostly leftists.

UPDATE: 7:30 More demonstrations are planned tomorrow in Cairo and the provinces.

UPDATE: 7:50pm: Elaf posted a UPI report saying the Egyptian regime has withdrawn its ambassador from Tel Aviv. We checked the state-owned MENA and Reuters, and there’s nothing about that.. The mobile of the spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry, Hossam Zaki, who is quoted in the report, is busy. But if there’s nothing about that on MENA, then the UPI report is bullshit!

Photos by Nasser Nouri.