The Egypt Project

It was clearly a revolution: millions of protesters; tanks, helicopters, tear gas, and water cannons. It surprised even the experts, who didn’t expect that ordinary people could defeat Egypt’s president of 30 years.

But the media got it wrong. Egypt’s revolution started ten years earlier, and it was anything but spontaneous.

As our film reveals, this human triumph belonged to the brave and determined political leaders, bloggers, reporters, human rights activists, and factory workers who spoke out, went on strike, went to court, monitored elections, and repeatedly endured beatings, arrest, torture, and prison — all in the belief they could defeat Egypt’s modern-day pharaoh without resorting to violence. And they were right. The real story of the January 25th uprising.