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Tahrir Square
September 20, 2023
Magazine
Osita Nwanevu
The Mass Disappointment of a Decade of Mass Protest
The demonstrations of the last decade were vast and explosive—and surprisingly ineffective.
January 7, 2014
Eric Trager
Egypt's Heroic Protesters Bear Responsibility for the Mess that Followed
The incoherence of Tahrir Square's activists
October 10, 2013
Linda Kinstler
Syria Offline
These charts should give pause to any dictator considering an Internet blackout
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