The Arab Awakening - Tweets from Tahrir

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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.

Note: The book 'Tweets From Tahrir' by OR Books was the inspiration for this film.