It was on January 25, 2011, that a larger-than-ever protest took over Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Here, 5 years later, are the best Egyptian literary works about it.

The Egyptian youth: the spark of the revolution, famous or anonymous, disappeared from the screens. I keep finding faces that are no more — or are slowly fading away…

Photographer Laura El-Tantawy began documenting the everyday life of Egyptians before the revolution: now, she continues portraying the post-Mubarak era.

The daily demonstrations and clashes between the people in the streets and the army are slowly changing Cairo’s urban geography.

Many Egyptian cultural initiatives thrived in the euphoric energy settling in downtown Cairo since the revolution. Art is rising from the streets.

El Nadeem Centre provides treatment to victims of political violence and torture. Mashallah News met with psychiatrist Mona Hamed to discuss the nature of the psychological trauma engendered by political violence.

Ammar est un des personnages centraux de Génération Tahrir, un webdocumentaire consacré à la jeunesse égyptienne après la révolution.

Ammar is one of the central characters of Tahrir Generation, a web documentary which depicts the Egyptian youth after the revolution.

Situé sur la modeste place Bab al-Louq, à deux pas de la fameuse place Tahrir, le café el-Horreya incarne au quotidien l’esprit rebelle de la capitale.

Located in the modest Bab al-Louq square, just steps away from Tahrir Square, Café el-Horreya embodies the rebellious spirit of the capital.