Fed Event TONIGHT: Beyond the Classroom presents "Tahrir: Liberation Square" on Monday, February 11 at 7:00 pm!

Beyond the Classroom Living & Learning Program
Critical Conversations on Civic Issues: “People Power” Series
presents the inspiring, new documentary:
“Tahrir: Liberation Square”

Soon after the report came about the occupation of Tahrir Square, filmmaker Stefano Savona headed for Cairo, where he stayed amidst the ever-growing masses in the Square, for weeks. This extraordinary film introduces us to young Egyptians such as Elsayed, Noha and Ahmed, spending all day and night shouting, singing, finally expressing everything they were forbidden to say out loud until now. Together with thousands of other Egyptian citizens, they have been involved in a massive movement of street protest for political freedom. By the end of the first week of urban guerilla and brutal state reprisal, it has become nothing less than a revolution to overcome Mubarak’s regime. Day after day, sleepless night after sleepless night, until the capitulation of the defeated pharaoh, the film follows these young and unexpected heroes along their fierce fight to win liberty. On January 25, 2011, the world was captivated as thousands of protesters flooded Tahrir Square in Cairo, demanding an end to the regime of President Hosni Mubarak. From Facebook thumbs up to the battle of stones, a history of hope, fear, despair, anger, pride and elation, Tahrir is the real-time chronicle of the two most exciting weeks in the history of modern Egypt as lived by their protagonists.

• “A welcome contrast to the Western Media’s bird’s eye view of the seismic January revolution in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the energetic verité documentary dives right into the action.” – Eric Kogn, indieWIRE
•“The sense of urgency never flags; neither does the protestors’ deeply affecting pride in being Egyptian and finally taking control of their destiny. As one woman says, ‘We have our dignity back!’” – Jay Weisberg, Variety.


Monday, February 11, 7:00-9:15 pm
1102 South Campus Commons, Building 1

This series on “People Power: Activism for Social Change” is sponsored by

Beyond the Classroom Living & Learning Program, First Year Book Program, Office of Undergraduate Studies, at the University of Maryland, College Park

WWW.BeyondTheClassroom.umd.edu