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.
Protesters staging a sit-in since Friday, in Alexandria’s Saad Zaghloul square, have taken of the electronic billboard, and are using it to disseminate revolutionary propaganda and calls for protests.
Ironically, that commercial billboard is manufactured by Sakr, one of the army’s factories. Nice job shabab!
Aalam Wassef’s videos over the past years have been inspirational to me and many other Egyptians.
I never got to meet him in person till the uprising, and I’m truly honored.