The Arab Awakening

Tweets from Tahrir (1x9)

Air date: Apr 01, 2011

Cairo's 'Twitterati' tweeted their revolution for 18 days from in and around Tahrir Square. Young, urbane and highly-motivated, their tweets revealed the truth of the scale of the uprising which Egypt's state media sought to hide, and gave a street-level, minute-by-minute account of how the persistence and bravery of the Egyptian people brought down a dictator.