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Brian Higgins: “The shame here is that, in 2011, during the uprising, in the final days in Tahrir Square, you had 8 million people, 10…”

On the recordFebruary 10, 2014
The shame here is that, in 2011, during the uprising, in the final days in Tahrir Square, you had 8 million people, 10 percent of the Nation's population, which really represented the largest pro-democracy movement in the history of world.
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Brian Higgins
Democratic · New York

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Higgins reflects on the significance of the 2011 pro-democracy movement in Egypt.

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