superb, thank you.

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Do you have anymore you can post.

History is made in the land of history!
The revolution is as magnificent as Egypt. Over 10 million revolutionists peacefully exposing the true terrorist morally and politically bankrupted regime.
Mubarak could not have stayed that long on his seat unless he is well supported by equally magnificent anti-Egyptian forces.

@bailliegillies

Here's a link to Hossam's Flickr page with more photographs.

Protesters detain one of Mubarak's thugs

Looks more like the ones doing the detaining are the thugs.

Good pics. They give a feel for the events.

great pics....but disturbing amounts of males involved and far too much facial hair. i fear that egypt has just revolted itself from the dictatorial frying pan and is headed for the theocratic fire.....

now, how about some articles on what's going on in downtown tehran and about karroubi and moussavi? oh silly me, iran is anti-american and anti-israeli, so there will be no coverage of events there on cif....

@NatalieHanman

Here's a link to Hossam's Flickr page with more photographs.

Thank you.

Guess whose getting lazy in in their old age?

Fantastic photojournalism, thank you!

DrJohnZoidberg - Actually, we'll have a piece about Iran tomorrow...

Really excellent photos that tell a fantastic story. Brilliant idea to do them all in B&W as it lends to the atmosphere and gives more of a feeling than colour ever could.

great pics....but disturbing amounts of males involved and far too much facial hair. i fear that egypt has just revolted itself from the dictatorial frying pan and is headed for the theocratic fire.....

Of course you do, dear. Anyone could have predicted what you would think about it actually.

jessica-

nice one....i almost take back what i said...'actually'....

the cynic in me can't help but think that there will be hints that moussavi and karoubi are shills for the u.s. or 'them zionists', but i look forward to the piece.

and good luck to the egyptians, whatever they want...i just hope that women get a say in the future as well. and not just the urban, middle class, academic ones.

to move forward the egyptians need to look to their proud past and not to the mindset and world view which was later imposed on them.

Superb images - you really get an idea of what Egypt is like. Like so many other countries where women are non-existent.

Ever since this story started, and the various pictures that have whirled around world, they all seem to have one thing in common. Men. However this revolution plays out (and others), I hope it does something positive for equality in the near future. I'm not very optimistic though.

Of course you do, dear. Anyone could have predicted what you would think about it actually.

was there any point to that comment 'actually',or were you just doing a spot on impression of a petulant lefty trying to rubbish an opposing pov?

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protestors shoot, hosni leaps and big-handed ...fingertips ...just
...there is a rebound

...
..But the american linesman was flagging offside anyway
and goodness gracious
the ref has blown had half time too

....some footie match innit?

I noticed photograph number 3.

29 January: Burnt out The headquarters of the ruling NDP party and the Supreme Press Council were set on fire by protesters

Can I assume that those were peaceful protesters?

There is always a new beginning.....
Hope for the best....................

Wonderful news despite the uncertain future

How upset they must be in Tel Aviv and Tehran, one at losing their puppet, the other that their people now see succesfsul revolt in action

But now we in the West must ask some difficult questions: how did we come to champion and support through money, arms, intelligence and diplomacy a vile dictator all these years with almost no comment - as long as the tourist busses kept rolling that is? How much did our great companies pay to get juicy contratcs while brave men and wmoemn were beatend and murdered in the basement of the Interior Ministry in Cairo?

What a price we pay for the US israeli lobby's success in utterly perverting that country's foreign policy. Of course they had to back Mubarak, after all what Arab would supprot israel unless massively corrupted by US funds?

I feel the need to write something.

The corporate mass media and western governments are framing this as:

1) the triumph of popular democracy in the ME

2) the west is both worried (about the possible emergence of Islam), and pleased that democracy will prevail and thrive.

The fact is the western or anglo-american elite has fermented this 'revolution'. This will have the impact of:

1) Possibly giving rise to 'Islamic democracy' (the quotes indicate that a Islam that is supposedly radical will be given power, it will not actually be radical for instance the people behind the Islamic bank are supposedly radical Muslim Brotherhood, yet they integrate Islam into the quasi capitalist system).

2) Many muslims will be fooled into thinking this is the real thing.

3) It will bolster the war on terror, justify spending billions of dollars on defense and keep the anglo american elite in power.

When one man leaves government and another takes over nothing really change. Remember the Euphoria many felt when Tony Blair first won his election? Try watching some old footage of this event. Tony Blair the nut job. And now we have David Cameron!! Democracy is really just a rotten tree which gives bad fruit.

As Nicholas Kristof and others have said, seeing the back of Mubarak is not the end. The essential regime - a military junta in Armani suits - is still in power. There's a hell of a lot of work to do before Egypt is a democracy.

Now all we have to do is get rid of our fake democracy.

Power to the people.

Don't delude yourselves. This is nothing less than a military coup. Wave bye to one military hard man and prepare to welcome his successor. It will take a hard man to zap all the roll-eyed men with smelly beards and bruises on their foreheads

Democracy is really just a rotten tree which gives bad fruit.

Perhaps, but it's a fucking sight better than the alternative

one gone, and now the Egyptians need to rid themselves of the rest of the foreign toadies.

Just got in from work, checked out Channel 4 News - and now I'm weeping tears of joys for the people of Egypt.

We are all Egyptian now!!!

What rubbish about a "peaceful revolution", as if this can be portrayed as the same as Czechoslovakia in 1989 - over 300 people killed, and even deaths yesterday (but not in Cairo where the media focuses all its cameras). Police stations burnt and violent attacks on bourgeois property have been an essentiam part of this movement. But it's so convenient to portray it as peaceful because that way the "new" rulers can impose an idea that any of the poor who try to continue this movement is a violent enemy of the "people" (which people?) and deserves to be put down by "the friend of the people" - the army.

The real struggles (against poverty and its world) will continue, but let's not pretend this is in any way over.

@Novocastrian13

Perhaps, but it's a fucking sight better than the alternative/blockquote>

This is a common refrain. Lets look at the facts. Both the US and UK are supposedly democratic, they impose their will on other countries, topple governments and generally cause mayhem. This means democratic governments have hostile relations with other countries.

Lets look at the UK at home. Supposedly these law makers that we the people elected have the power to increase taxes (steal our property through coercion), they can bailout billionaire bankers when they fail with tax payers money. And once we agree to give a bunch of people the power to make laws for us, it means they can take away our liberty whenever they deem it right and make it perfectly legal. Under British Common Law, we have very few laws, and they cannot be changed on a whim, and the golden rule is everything is allowed so long as no other individual is harmed, in his/her person, reputation, property or life, and do whatever you have contracted or agreed to do or pay the penalty. No one is exempt from this, not even government. The democratic government takes our property in taxes and is therefore against common law.

Spain next please.

NatalieHanman 1:47PM

Here's a link to Hossam's Flickr page with more photographs

Thank you.

These are great photographs.

The corrupt foreign policy of the US finally being trounced in the Middle -East.
Good news, not before time.

DrJohnZoidberg 2:07PM

great pics....but disturbing amounts of males involved and far too much facial hair. i fear that egypt has just revolted itself from the dictatorial frying pan and is headed for the theocratic fire.....

Which might possibly be because most of his photographs were taken when the protesters were confronting Mubarek's thugs and had moved their women to safety.
He describes one of his photographs:

The police kept firing continuous rounds of live ammunition, rubber bullets, birdshots. I don't know how many died. I saw at least one. Many were injured.

Here is one of his photos.
I can't make out much facial hair there. Can you?

Ozymandias

by Percy Bysshe Shelley
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

DrJohnZoidberg 2:07PM
Are these people female enough for you?

No facial hair here, either.

Or here./

Some facial hair in this one, but not on the three young ladies

disturbing amounts of females involved, dont you think, Dr Zoidberg?

Tahir Square

Professors march on Tahrir Square

Street justice Protesters detain a Mubarak supporter

That picture sure looks like a Mullah and the brotherhood have kidnapped a pro Mubarak protester to me.

Good dog, BadDog - but I'm afraid no matter how hard one tries - there just ain't no pleasing some people...

Here's a pic of Mrs Zoidberg.

As A Reporter, NBC Richard Engel is A Hero Now

When NBC’s Richard Engel stands on the tank with the People power, I Knew he reached his career’s high point!
Indeed, he shows his vision, determination, courage and his capacity to truly report what happens on the ground in Cairo!
After the first day, he reported the People power, which generated by Facebook and Twitter; he knew the biggest event would come in Egypt! I am very glad that in the 18th day, he witnesses his life’s biggest moment as a reporter. And the most, he is one of them of the people power that toppled down the former President of Egypt, Mubarak!

The biggest loser is CNN’s Anderson Cooper, he sacred and retreated too early to his safe heaven. No guts, no news! And most regrettable, he missed once lifetime of moment on the ground.

The biggest outsider is Fox channel! I do not know why this Fox exists in America!

The most rubbish is MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, he totally did not know what happens in Egypt. No clue! No point!

The Johnny come lately is NYT’s Richard Cohen; I do know why he came to Egypt.

The notable figure missing is Christiane Amanpour, After she “helps” Mubarak explain his position in interview, she missed at all.

Richard Engel is Hero now!

BadDog

Which might possibly be because most of his photographs were taken when the protesters were confronting Mubarek's thugs and had moved their women to safety. He describes one of his photographs:

Quite the opposite of Hamas then.

Nobel

The biggest outsider is Fox channel! I do not know why this Fox exists in America!

That's simple. There are no longer any real NEWS channels/Media. All of them have an agenda. Americans go sick of listening to radical left drivel presented as 'News' and started watching radical right drivel as presented as news.

It's as simple as that.

SmokinGardener

Ever since this story started, and the various pictures that have whirled around world, they all seem to have one thing in common. Men. However this revolution plays out (and others), I hope it does something positive for equality in the near future. I'm not very optimistic though.

100% yes.

I did hear on the BBC, a person presented as a demonstrator saying that it would be Egypt's own model of democracy. That worries me but if women have complete equality before the law and homosexuality is decriminalized, that will be a great step forward. And independent judiciary, free news services of all types and an armed services subservient to the government of the day would also be welcome.

I do hope that they are not going for the Iranian 'model'.

TripleJarhead

I did hear on the BBC, a person presented as a demonstrator saying that it would be Egypt's own model of democracy.

Part of the BBC's presentation is to pick and choose which 'interviews' are broadcast and it hardly presents a balanced picture of anything it reports on.

4.30 pm Friday was :- Mubarak has a miss guided sense of his own intellect. He has for 30 yrs got away with fiddling the books, sallied at the top table of despots, supped up the greasy pole of the Teflon kings. If G Bush actually got away with it, so can I. (Its a done deal Jeb, we've got pregnant chads) How fast history can change.

Our right-wing friends would support the revolution, but, you see they are amazing feminists - we all know of the year's of activism and self-denial the right have put into womens' rights. It gets almost boring them demanding fairness and equality for women in the UK and all around the world.

Such keen feminists that they simply cannot support getting rid of a murderous dictator who represses all equally without any gender bias - and that is what is important here for these feminist anti-revolutionaries.

Americans go sick of listening to radical left drivel presented as 'News' and started watching radical right drivel as presented as news.

No broadcaster in the USA has ever been a 'radical left' one. That's just a myth spread by the right to justify the fact of incredible rightwing bias.

We get the same here in the UK, where the right controls perhaps 70% of the media. That media shouts with one voice 'the BBC is leftwing biased.'

But these people are only about 30% of the population. They just think they are the only ones who should have a voice.