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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Making the Daily Rounds in Cairo's Tahrir Square [Watch (HLS stream): Making the Daily Rounds in Cairo's Tahrir Square](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/kPINlnRU.m3u8) (3:41)  _Published 2011-02-08. Egyptian writer and commentator Nabil Shawkat visits Cairo's Tahrir Square every day, to monitor events and join in the protest and celebration_ --- Jul 27, 2023 3:09 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [An Islamic Crowd Fills Cairo's Tahrir Square](/video/9hcFabll/) ### An Islamic Crowd Fills Cairo's Tahrir Square [Witness to the Violent Struggle for Cairo's Tahrir Square](/video/gkJAmID0/) ### Witness to the Violent Struggle for Cairo's Tahrir Square [Tahrir Square: The Epicenter of Cairo's Protests](/video/LaS22JJt/) ### Tahrir Square: The Epicenter of Cairo's Protests --- ## Transcript >> I'm Nabil Shawkat and I'm a freelance writer who live in Cairo. [ Foreign Language ], I'm asking you if you want an article and titles, I misplaced my [ unk ]-- No one has seen this coming neither me, anyone else. It's totally unprecedented in Egypt. How does the police misplace an Interior Ministry? Compared to the 1952 Revolution, this one is the real deal. I tried to go to Tahrir Square for a few hours every day. -[ Foreign Language ] >> Okay, this is the welcoming committee that received him yesterday. Walking here, people receive you with greetings for stopping again to the revolution and sometimes they kiss you. There are a lot of people selling flags on the way. I've been coming here everyday since last Friday and usually I would take a walk around the square. Because I'm very-- I'm very concerned about how the new regime, because not-- what we have now is the new regime, not just transitional and the Mubarak Regime has collapsed. So, I'm-- I'm concerned as a citizen and as a political commentator on what the new-- how the new regime will treat the people. It's blocked in this side. You cannot enter the square from this side because that's where our complex of ministries are. So the army is protecting this corner which has several ministries and government institutions. They don't want anyone to approach them. It gets dodgy once you're here. The square is the only place that's safe, outside is safe sometimes and not safe in other times. -[ Foreign Language ] >> Says in Arabic, Hitler committed suicide. In English it says, " You can do it ." I actually think that the government splintered right now and then some part-- the parts of it that are trying to restore the old regime are being defeated and that a new era is coming. >> Biladi Lakihubbi wa fuadi. >> How are you? Very good to see you. -[ Foreign Language ] >> Yeah, I got a little bit older. >> Nabil. >> Of course. >> The best bet for what's going to happen now is that the demonstrators will be allowed to stay at Tahrir Square for a period of time, days or weeks until the government offers them a credible answer to their demands. By staying in the Tahrir, actually, they are consolidating the power of the army and Omar Suleiman, the vice president. And I don't that think they have a motivation to remove them from Tahrir Square. So I think they will be allowed to stay at Tahrir Square until at least the preliminary negotiations reach a credible stage. By which time they can leave the square confident that they have already started a new era. 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