I'm always behind reading the New Yorker, it's getting better, I used to be years behind as in pre-Monica.
The Feb 28 issue had several articles about the uprising in Egypt. And I'm not sure what's happening there now.
But one scene described seemed like it was from a movie. I can't find any images about this event. It's from a long "Letter from Cairo; On the Square" by Wendell Steavenson. She spoke often to a medic named Sherif. The author was in the square when it was announced that Mubarak was gone and witnessed the celebrations. She mentioned that Sherif was not there but "he saw something ultimately more revealing" outside the Presidential Palace.
At around four 0'clock, a couple of hours before Suleiman's speech, he was outside the palace, dressing a few wounds. Several tanks were stationed there, their cannons pointing in the direction of the crowd, but, as Sherif watched, the tanks turned their turrets - it seemed, he said, to happen in slow motion - so that the cannons were pointing at the place. The the soldiers started waving Egyptian flags and chanting with the crowd, "Egypt! Egypt! The Army and the people are one hand!
This slogan had been repeated throughout the article as solidarity between the Army personnel and the protesters.
This image of the tanks turning the turrets, literally switching sides, could it be true? So evocative.
Picture taken from some news source of the people in the square observing their prayer times.
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